Posts Tagged ‘ Debian ’

Debian package state backup and restore

While getting into bundler (which is great, btw), I recalled how often I have longed for a way to do something similar in Debian. What I’d really like to be able to do is something like aptitude backup and get some sort of backup file which contained all of the packages I had asked to [ READ MORE ]

Building shared libraries

Being a Debian user, I don’t make a habit of compiling things by hand and on those occasions when I do need to do so, I usually use apt-build (good article, though a bit old here). However, today I had to get a particularly odd shared library with a very specific version to match a [ READ MORE ]

Can I get a little MapReduce from my Debian people?

Debian is a world-class Linux distribution. It is used on it’s own for so many applications (desktop, laptop, workstation, handeld, server, etc.) as well as the foundation for so many wonderful projects ((U|K|X)buntu, Maemo, etc.). Personally, I run Debian on my laptop as well as my servers.  In fact, when I went to see about [ READ MORE ]

A good Debian package caching system

I’ve got several servers on my network and I’m ok with that. Honestly, I am. The problem I run in to is that I end up wasting bandwidth by keeping them all up to date. In the past, I’ve tried apt-proxy (not the only one who’s had problems) and, most recently, debtorrent but they inevitably [ READ MORE ]

Server breakage and rebirth

Now that I’ve caught up on the work I missed yesterday, now seems like a good time to write about the massively bad server blowout I had yesterday. Since my laptop’s upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze went so well, I got a little cavalier and was sloppy when doing a dist-upgrade on a server [ READ MORE ]

Debian Lenny released!

Debian Lenny 5.0 has been released. Happy day![ READ MORE ]

Finally, Debian Lenny to be released as stable!

Question: Can I have stable Lenny yet? Answer: Yes. Yes, I can. Saw this article (hat tip to Mukidohime)which pointed me to this email telling me that the kernel firmware resolution was finally voted on and Debian Lenny is now free to be released! It’s a good thing and I’m very excited for the goodies [ READ MORE ]

Better late than never: exactly when can we expect Debian Lenny to go stable?

Read a great post by Bastian Venthur, a decidedly thoughtful individual, about the ever-sliding release date for Debian Lenny. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of the Debian release model and support it as a generally-superior way of doing things. That being said, as a user and a Debian evangelist, I would [ READ MORE ]

Saving myself lots of bandwidth with apt-proxy

I have at least 3 machines running Debian on my network at any given time and I’m using Debian testing (currently Lenny) because it’s so close to being stable anyway. Still, there are plenty of updates on a regular basis and keeping my machines up to date is a rather big drain on my network [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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