Category: Debian
HP Officially Supports Debian
August 14th, 2006, 1 Comment
Yes, it’s true. I have two words for this: Woohoo! Finally.
The SPI election results are in
July 28th, 2006, 1 Comment
The results are in. Bruce was removed from the board, and Josh Berkus, Neil McGovern, and Michael Schultheiss were added. (Neither Mako nor I sought another term.) Congratulations to the winners — I’m sure you will go far. I’m glad to see enthusiastic people around SPI and I’m sure you’ll do a great job.
An additional RedHat Gripe
July 21st, 2006, No Comments
Debian base install: about 150MB RHEL base install: about 1GB df showing 1% of disk used: priceless
How to solve “The following packages cannot be authenticated”
June 15th, 2006, 28 Comments
Users of Debian’s testing or unstable distributions may be noticing messages from apt saying things like: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! foo bar baz Install these packages without verification [y/N]? I noticed today that google doesn’t turn up good hits for the fix. The fix is really simple: apt-get install debian-archive-keyring apt-get update [...]
Debian From Scratch 0.99.0 Is Out
April 20th, 2006, 6 Comments
At long last, I’ve finally updated Debian From Scratch (DFS). For those of you not familiar with DFS, it’s a single, full rescue CD capable of working with all major filesystems, LVM, software RAID, and even compiling a new kernel. The DFS ISO images also contain a small Debian mirror subset that lets you use [...]
Rats, I finally had to make an upload.
September 3rd, 2005, No Comments
From the netmaze package tracking page:
DFS Installation Tutorial
May 27th, 2005, No Comments
Suramya Tomar has written a very nice tutorial on installing Debian from my Debian From Scratch images (or from DFS images you build yourself). Nice and thorough work.
Debian From Scratch
January 17th, 2005, 2 Comments
Newsforge has a nice article about Debian From Scratch, my Debian install-it-yourself CD, rescue CD, and CD builder package. I must say, Bruce Byfield’s instructions are more complete than my own documentation for it. I now use DFS for most of my new Debian installations. Best of all, porting it to new archs is trivial.
ghc6 Hits Testing Today
January 12th, 2005, No Comments
Debian’s Haskell packages have been stuck out of testing for some time. I learned that they’re going in today, though, finally! There are also several other packages that this will push into testing, including my own MissingH.
