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What is debian?
June 27th, 2008 No Comments Posted in Linux
What is Debian?
- Debian as a Universal Operating System
- 15,490 precompiled software with Sarge (3.1)
- 12 officially supported architectures
- IA-32, IA-64, AMD64, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC,
- ARM, m68k, MIPS (mips and mipsel), HP PA-RISC, S/390
- GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, GNU/NetBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD
What is Debian?
- Debian as a Mother Distribution
- Base for a number of popular distributions
- Ubuntu, Knoppix, Libranet
- Base for a number of popular distributions
- Base for internal custom distributions
- Debian Jr., Debian-Med, Debian-Edu, Debian Desktop, Debian-Lex, Debian-NP, Debian Accessibility, Debian Enterprise, Demudi
What is Debian?
- Debian as a Community
- 1,682 project participants
- 1,618 independent package maintainers
- 64 package maintenance teams
- 1,682 project participants
- Collaboration through mailing lists and IRC
- 28,588 subscribers of debian-announce
- 4,772 subscribers of debian-devel-announce
- Developers all over the world (see map)
[Linux Tips] Download using wget
June 23rd, 2008 No Comments Posted in Linux
Download using wget is as simple as:
$wget [options] url
[options] has many switches. For example, you can continue from previously broken download with switches ‘-c’. Ex: $wget -c url
If you’re want to download from premium rapidshare account, you can also pass your username and password with switches ‘–http-user=USER’ and ‘–http-password=PASS’.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix
June 8th, 2008 No Comments Posted in Linux, Software
Since eeePC arrived, there’s so many variant that wants to beat the eeePC. Canonical see this as a chance to make an netbook version of Ubuntu. Than you see this ubuntu-netbook-remix.
If you want to see the screenshot of netboox-remix, go here.
