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Popcon – Are You In Or Out?

Michael Reed — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Those of you who regularly install Debian may have noticed a prompt that asks you if you would like to install Popcon, the Debian Popularity Contest. Popcon gathers statistics about package usage and periodically submits it to Debian. more>>

Spotlight on Linux: ZevenOS-Neptune 1.9.1

Susan Linton — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:07:11 +0000

ZevenOS is a German-born project that offers Debian-based and Ubuntu-based versions of their BeOS-like system. ZevenOS is based on Ubuntu (Xubuntu) and ZevenOS-Neptune is based on Debian Testing. The main purpose is to preserve some of the features of BeOS in a modern, capable operating system. more>>

APTonCD

Michael Reed — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:14:25 +0000

APTonCD is a GUI tool that can extract the .deb packages that you have manually installed on your machine and selectively copy them to an ISO image that can be burned to a CD or DVD. The tool can then be used, on another machine, to restore those packages. more>>

SimplyMepis Celebrates 8th Anniversary with Release

Susan Linton — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS, has announced the release of SimplyMepis 11.0 Alpha 3 just in time to mark the eighth anniversary of MEPIS on November 21. SimplyMepis usually takes quite a while to cook and no final release date has been given. more>>

sidux changes to aptosid by upgrade or ISO

Susan Linton — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:20:40 +0000

A press release dated September 11 came to the community's attention Monday, September 13 of the renaming or, as some reported, a fork of sidux to aptosid. Due to conflicts with the commercial backer of the Debian-based distribution, sidux developers have separated themselves from the Sidux e.V. association to continue developing aptosid on their own. more>>

Linux Mint Debian Edition Released

Gene Liverman — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Linux Mint has just released their new distribution: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It is a rolling distribution based off of Debian Testing instead of Ubuntu. Their goal is to have LMDE look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base. By being a rolling distribution, LMDE constantly receives updates instead of it being on a fixed version with set release dates. Below is the full announcement from their blog, minus links and references: more>>

Alien – Use Any Package On Any Distribution

Michael Reed — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It can get you out of a fix when you can't find a package for your distribution, and it is also useful for package maintainers who want to distribute packages for distributions that they don't run. It can work with Slackware, Debian and RPM packages as input and output types. more>>

Google Adds Phone Calls to Linux Gmail Use

Susan Linton — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Five days after the announcement of Voice and Video Chat service in Gmail for Debian-based Linux distributions, Google unveiled a Gmail phone call service for Windows, Mac, and Linux. more>>

Two Distributions Celebrate Birthdays

Susan Linton — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

The Linux community had two birthdays to celebrate recently. Debian GNU/Linux turned 17 on August 16 and openSUSE has been providing an excellent desktop Linux for five years. more>>

Where do Debian Developers Come From?

Susan Linton — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

In a study not likely to cause controversy, Christian Perrier has published the results of his analysis of the number of Debian developers per country. He ran the analysis last year for the first time, so one can see the progress or recession in the last year. No matter where you call home, the numbers are quite interesting. more>>