Debian
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Debian suffers from community pains
News Developers attempting to join the Debian community have criticized the management of the Linux operating system, and questioned the platform's future.
Tags: Linux, Open source, software company, Debian, software programmer, Linux Kernel, software, system administrator, managing director, GNU
Debian not looking for commercial fortune
Insight Newly elected project leader for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system explains why the project is not planning to ape commercial approach by Red Hat and Novell.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Security, Project, Developer, Novell Inc., Business Process, Debian, software, Linux
No thanks, Google--we've got Ubuntu
Insight perspective If there is one problem the open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's fragmentation. Google is about to make it worse.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Ubuntu, Linux Community, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Distribution, Linux
Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support
News The open source Debian operating system has gained support for the FreeBSD kernel, allowing users to run the same OS on two different software cores.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Gentoo, AMD64, kFreeBSD, Kernel, operating system, Debian, Linux Kernel, BSD, Hardware
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News GNU project founder urge developers to drop use of the open source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft.
Tags: Open source, Lawsuits, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Business applications, Apple Mac OS, Debian, C#, photograph
Get started with the yum package manager
Techguide In this introduction to the yum package manager, you can find out about its basic configuration and some common commands.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Data Management, Gentoo, Fedora Project, Package, Red Hat Inc., Yum, Debian, Grep
Xandros to return Freespire to Debian roots
News The company, which acquired Linspire in July, has said it will jettison a previous deal that would have based Freespire on Ubuntu.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Operating systems, Open source, Xandros, Mobile, Ubuntu, Linspire, Debian, ASUS, software
Expanding text with Snippits
Techguide Find out the basics on Snippits, a Linux-based text-expanding tool similar to Typinator or TextExpander for Mac.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Ruby, Gem, Hotkey, GNOME, Tool, Apple Macintosh, Debian, Mandriva
Ubuntu planning move to the cloud
News Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, next month will announce its entry into the cloud-computing marketplace.
Tags: Cloud computing, Open source, Storage, Ubuntu, Umbrella Term, computer operating system, operating system, Debian, Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud computing
Create an OpenVZ container
Techguide OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualization system that allows you to virtualize Linux-on-Linux, but it works on the principle of containers, not virtual machines. Here's how to create an OpenVZ container.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Virtualization, Gentoo, Fedora Project, CPU, Debian, Grep, DNS, Canada
Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News Cloud Server, which went live on Monday, provides users with server instances, or on-demand virtual servers, that can be scaled up or down according to demand.
Tags: Virtualization, Server platforms, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Storage, On-demand, Debian, computer, Server, Amazon.com Inc.
Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux
News A new chapter in browser history begins as Google starts taking Chrome beyond Windows. Watch out for the missing features and 424 bugs, though.
Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari
Security the focus as Debian upgrades
News The released update contains fixes for 172 pieces of software, including ones for Mozilla Firefox, Apache and antivirus software ClamAV.
Tags: Security, Linux, Open source
The smallest threat to open source in 2009
Techguide How much of a problem is security updating for open source software going to be in 2009?
Tags: Open source, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Data security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Open-source Software, Software Management System, Unix
Debian attacker may have used new exploit
News An as-yet-unknown security hole allowed the recent hack attack on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system project.
