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Debian Suffers From Community Growing Pains
News Frustrated software programmers unable to sign up to the voluntarily run community of developers behind the Debian GNU/Linux operating system have criticised the management of the project. Voicing their frustration on discussion forums, including...
[April 22, 2008, 17:03]
Debian Start-up Wants More Funding
News Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialise the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed. Ian Murdock, chief strategy officer and a co-founder of both Debian and Progeny, said his company has...
[August 15, 2005, 9:15]
Debian Group Encourages Women Developers
News The Debian Women group, which was set up in March this year to encourage the participation of women in Debian's future development, is already making progress in encouraging women to apply to be Debian developers, it says.
[December 14, 2004, 12:55]
Debian Attacker May Have Used New Exploit
News An as-yet-unknown security exploit in Linux may have been responsible for a recent compromise of Debian.org's servers, according to a system administrator with the Debian operating system project. Initial investigations of the security breach...
[November 28, 2003, 14:05]
Debian Attacker May Have Used New Exploit
Talkback > The exploit was carried out on Debian software running on Intel-based hardware, while a system using Sun hardware was not affected, leading some to guess that Sun software is not affected by the possible exploit.
[December 2, 2003, 12:28]
Debian Upgrade Hones Security
News The Debian Project has released an update to its popular GNU/Linux distribution, with security-related bug fixes a key feature. This is the first update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (code name "Sarge") which mainly adds security updates to the stable...
[December 21, 2005, 14:55]
Debian Sarge Focuses On Easy Installation
News Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge. The update, due around the New Year, is the first major release of Debian since July 2002 when the current version...
[November 11, 2004, 16:45]
Debian Team Prepares For Imminent Release
News Developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution are frantically squashing software bugs in an effort to get version 3.1 out by the scheduled 6 June release date. The Debian project has not released a major upgrade of its operating system since July...
[May 31, 2005, 14:25]
Debian Developers Trim Platform Support
News Debian Etch, the next major version of the Linux distribution, will only be available on eight architectures, with four getting the boot. Steve Langasek, a release manager at Debian, said in a mailing list posting last week that the official...
[January 4, 2006, 15:30]
Debian Founder Joins Sun
News Sun has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open source operating system. He founded one of the earlier versions of Linux, Debian. He tried to commercialise Debian with a start-up...
[March 20, 2007, 8:40]
Debian Team Confirm Linux Flaw Allowed Attack
News The Debian Project warned on Monday that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open-source software project's development servers. The latest version of the kernel, 2.4.23, was released Friday, eight days after the...
[December 2, 2003, 10:15]
Debian Struggling With Security
News Debian is facing difficulties getting timely security updates to users of its Linux distribution due to lack of manpower and software problems. The issues recently surfaced when Debian released the latest version of its Linux distribution early in...
[July 5, 2005, 9:40]
Debian Developers Call For More Releases
News The lack of a new stable release of Debian GNU/Linux since July 2002 is fuelling the campaigns of many candidates for the project's leadership position, with many pushing for a shorter and more regular release cycle to arrest user departures.
[March 18, 2005, 14:50]
Debian Released Without Security Update Feature
News A configuration mistake in the new Debian Linux distribution has forced a fix less than 24 hours after the software was released. New installations [of Debian 3.1 from CD and DVD] will not get security updates by default," said Debian developer...
[June 8, 2005, 9:50]
Debian Rejects Sender ID
News Developers responsible for the Debian Linux distribution announced on Saturday that they will not implement Sender ID due to Microsoft's insistence on licensing the anti-spam standard. The Debian project said in a statement that Microsoft's licence...
[September 6, 2004, 13:00]
Debian Developers Locked Out After Server Hack
News The Debian GNU/Linux project has locked a number of its developers out of their system accounts following a security scare in which the hack of a key internal server was discovered this week. The lockout took place due to the fact a compromised...
[July 14, 2006, 15:25]
Debian Sarge Focuses On Easy Installation
Talkback I just have to say, Debian Sarge is King!
[November 13, 2004, 11:45]
Debian Tipped For February Release
News The long-awaited next version of the Debian open-source operating system is most likely to be released in February, according to members of the Debian community. In a Debian Administration web poll, nearly half of those predicting a release date...
[January 26, 2007, 11:22]
Debian Sarge Focuses On Easy Installation
Talkback Last week , I tried debian with the Sarge installer, except for a minor sound issuse, everything went great. Neddless to say Debian is now my main OS. After using Red Hat for years, I have been alittle dissapointed with Fedora.
[November 12, 2004, 19:45]
Debian Sarge Focuses On Easy Installation
Talkback Sarge Installer supports automation by allowing you to pre-seed a configuration with all the options managed by the debian configuration system DebConf. Go Debian! We use Sarge as our platform for palm-top device development and have fully...
[November 11, 2004, 21:52]
