The current “stable” distribution of Debian GNU/Linux is version 4.0r0, codenamed etch. It was released on April 8th, 2007. Testing is now codenamed lenny. Release notes here.

Have you ever heard of the browser named Iceweasel? Of course not, if you’re not using Debian. One of my machine at home is running a Debian Etch installation (my torrent box), and a few days ago I ran apt-get upgrade to upgrade the packages. I was quite annoyed at first, as it’s trying to [...]

Finally, Skype has released a beta version with alsa support: 1.3.0.30_API Hopefully all the troubles with “Problem with Sound Device” will be history. However for users with very old kernels, and prefer to use OSS, the option is still there. The problem with Skype utilizing OSS on modern systems is that it keeps on failing [...]

I was compiling and installing jabberd2 on a server at office and everything went great except for one thing: no initscript provided. I was baffled to find out that the great software didn’t have any initscript. So I wrote one: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [...]

Be careful when you are feeling like doing an apt-get upgrade today. My whole KDE menu at work went missing after doing an upgrade… LOL! This bug has been reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323747  The buggy version is 3.4.2-1 so for now, downgrade to 3.3.2-6.1

I just spent a few hours trying to find out what the problem is with my Debian. I just replaced Fedora Core 3 to Debian unstable on my notebook. It’s a HP nx9010, equipped with Radeon IGP: 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M There was no video from noatun and xine. [...]

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Final Steps on Server What we did in part 1 was to sync the repository. Now we need to make sure that our APT Server can serve the files for use by client machines. For this purpose, you can either choose to export the filesystem using NFS, or using Samba. I chose NFS. In the [...]

If you have a bunch of Debian machines to be taken care of, you must have been using APT a lot. APT is incredible, but if you use it to update multiple machines, you’ll be bored to death waiting each and individual machine to download packages. What if I tell you there’s a way we [...]

To Debian junkies out there, Debian 3.1 codenamed ‘Sarge’ has been declared stable on 6th of June 2005. Read more about it here: http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606