Debian Lenny Release Date Confirmed
Lenny was expected to be out in September but there has been a protracted debate going on over whether it should be released with firmware blobs or not.
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Cool Linux Projects that Need More Publicity
Always when a type of application is missing, there is bound to be a version in development. For difficult and complicated programs, the case is not the same but most of the powerful apps have a steep learning curve and although developers are already working hard on user-friendly alternatives, due to the complicated nature of [...]
Enemies of GNU/Linux?
If you have been following the news last week, you may have stumbled upon a quite shocking news item. A teacher from Austin, Texas confiscated a bunch of CDs containing free Linux distributions from a student who was demonstarting GNU/Linux on his laptop and handing out the CDs. After this, the teacher sent an angry [...]
Cool Command Line Apps for GNU/Linux and other Unix Systems
Even though I am a strong advocate of learning as much as you can about using the command line, I admit I like my GUI a lot (and Compiz of course ). The CLI can be really useful for repairing your system or just doing some task that takes far more clicks in the graphical [...]
Advanced Linux Distributions You Should Try
Some people will argue with me in that these GNU/Linux distributions are as advanced as you want them to be. Well, of course Linux is all about choice. I took the user base perspective though and what I have for you today is a few distros which do not hide the manual (or for people [...]
