Archive for the tag 'debian'

Firefox 2.0 on Debian

As everybody knows the mozilla team just released the latest version of Firefox (ver: 2.0). This will take a little time until, it will fall in the Debian. But you can find an optimized build for here called Swiftfox in debian package. So let’s go ;)
And last, but not least the optimized version, go quite [...]

admin October 29th, 2006

Grub install on Debian Howto

By default Debian install Lilo on i386 arch. I really like lilo, but after a couple of broken config file and severall other hitch. I decided to install grub. Grub is a bit hard if you never install it before. But mainly because the apt-get install grub doesn’t install a default file. So
apt-get install grub
grub-install [...]

admin August 3rd, 2004

Twisted in EndUserLand

As nobody notice that, the new apt-proxy use python (not perl as the old one). This is really a good news because i love Python and the new apt-proxy has some better performance than the oldest perlish one. The key value here is the Twisted Matrix framework, now apt-proxy can download multiple .deb at the [...]

admin July 14th, 2004

Security

Last week, Debian server has been hacked. Ok but take a look at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ you will learn how they try avoid this in the future. Mainly by avoiding lkm in linux.

admin November 29th, 2003