Posts Tagged ‘Debian’

How to write a command line Twitter client in C using libcurl on Debian.

I’ve been playing around with Twitter lately, so naturally I took a look at the Twitter api. Several of the examples are done with curl. For those of you who haven’t looked into the Twitter api, it’s just simple HTTP commands.
To do a status update on Twitter,  you do an HTTP post with your username [...]

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Debian and other Linux Distributions

Linux User and Developer spoke exclusively to Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu as part of their exciting relaunch issue. Here’s an excerpt from the new magazine due on sale 30 July.
When did you first become interested in Linux?
That goes back to the 1990s, when getting set up on the internet was a big deal. And [...]

Controversy Erupts Over Squeeze and Tomboy

As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (“Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Gets Second Update

From http://debian.org/News/2009/20090627
June 27th, 2009
The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux [...]

Lenny Target Release Date Announced

Soon the Debian Project will be announcing it’s targeted release date for Debian Lenny. The week of February 14th is going to work best for all of the teams involved in the release. It has also been mentioned that there will be a Lenny and a half release midway through Lenny’s lifespan. I will [...]

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