(DEBra IAN) A Linux-based operating system developed by Ian Murdock in 1993 and named after his future wife and himself. Running on most major platforms, including x86, Itanium, PowerPC, SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS and IBM mainframes, it is noted for the more than 18,000 applications that accompany the distribution. Version 4 of Debian was released in April 2007. Debian was the inspiration for several derivatives (see Ubuntu, Knoppix and Linspire). For more information, visit www.debian.org.
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down
- Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour
- Another videoThere's another video on a blog at http://chromeos-blog.com that also shows the browser. It's 3 mins.RE: Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video TourWith Google in the fight against MS over MS tyingbundling their browser to their OS, can someone explain to me why its ok for Google to make...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour
- Recently, various outlets, such as TechCrunch, had reported that an early build of Chrome OS has been leaked into the wild. Well, I hate to tell you but those reports weren't exactly accurate. What leaked was in fact was an Alpha/Beta implementation of the Chromium browser that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- HP supporting Oregon State Linux portal
- The idea is that non-commercial Linux distributions running on HP hardware can find support, even though it's not officially coming from HP. We're talking about server versions of Asianux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Intel's Moblin demo looks promising
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
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- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
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- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
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- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
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