DEBIAN News and Articles

At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, software that was declared dead was resurrected (Hurd), known combatants sat down at the same table (openSUSE, Fedora and Debian) and almost forgotten entities raised their hands again (openSUSE for PowerPC).

Debian developer Joachim Breitner offers up a screensaver which displays random characters from a reserve supplied by Unicode.

The SysUsage monitoring tool is available in a new version 3.0 and provides a completely reworked Web interface.

Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode has reported in his blog about the progress of his APT2 software, an alternative implementation of the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool (APT).

Joachim Breitner wanted to know how much time he was spending on his system, so he wrote Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker, or Arbtt. The program is now installable from the Debian unstable archive.

With Sidux 2009-03, code-named Momos, the Sidux project provides the next version of its distro based on Debian sid.

The latest version of the Austrian pocketknife Linux distribution was released just in time for Halloween.