Debian News, Tips, Tricks & More
Now that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is an official part of Debian, it is time to play around with the new toy. But in order to do such feat there are several issues that have to be resolved on the path to success. Assuming you use Debian GNU/Linux with GRUB2 (as seen in testing and unstable these days) and have a spare partition or two you can try it out on live hardware instead of an emulator.
Google Chrome Beta has been released for Linux and Mac users. This version is said to have support of Flash and other plugins, unlike the previous version available. This is still a Beta version of the Google Chrome Browser, but it’s much closer to the real thing than Linux and Mac users have been able to get for some time.
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Debian Squeeze (testing) has been slated to be frozen in March. A freeze means that no new packages will be entered into Squeeze and bug reports will start to be worked on. This will be the first idea of what Squeeze might be like.
For more information, and a more detailed article, check out this page. Debian Squeeze freeze and Ubuntu Dev Syncing
Improve ‘apt-get install’ And ‘upgrade’ Speed [How-to] ~ Web Upd8.
Axel is a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file. For example, some FTP sites limit the speed of each connection, therefore opening more than one connection at a time multiplies the allowable bandwidth.
Since today for kfreebsd-amd64, and probably tomorrow for kfreebsd-i386 too, the gnome metapackage is installable on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. In the end, this should hopefully give a fully functional desktop for these brand new architectures (to be included in the Squeeze release), with a few notable exceptions:
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