Category: GNU/Linux

Stuff about GNU/Linux distro, tips and tricks or information

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Debian Project’s machine has been compromised!

Debian Project machine gluck.debian.org has been compromised yesterday and the machine has been taken offline, meaning that the following services will be unavailable temporarily :
cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports, release

source : Debian mailing list

My thoughts
Debian should audit their software more often. Although it’s clearly hard to maintain a distro that supports many platforms/processor as Debian, but at least they should do regular check on the security of their own machine to prevent this thing from happening again.

Btw, when the last time you heard Debian made a major release?

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Howto create a simple Debian/Ubuntu Repository

So now you know how to create deb package. This time I’m going to point you to some howto that shows you how to create a Debian repository.

Why do you need to create repository? Because it’s convenience to your users, assuming that you’re a developer. Repository helps to automate software installation too in a centralised manner.

Here’s a couple of howto that teaches you to create Debian repositories :

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Google Earth on Ubuntu Dapper Video

For those who are interested in installing Google Earth on their Linux PC (especially Ubuntu Dapper Drake), you can refer to this video.

It might interest you that Google Earth is easy to install despite having to use console to install it.


  

  

  

Google Earth on Ubuntu

Google Earth can be downloaded at the Google earth homepage

The video can be also downloaded as Ogg Theora files. Windows user can use VLC Player to play the file.

google,google earth, ubuntu, linux, debian

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QEMU: Installing Windows XP on Ubuntu Dapper

For some reason, you might want to install Microsoft Windows XP on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, one of the main reason is because you want to be able to do development without booting your pc into other operating system, the other reason is you might want to try out something on the other operating system while you’re using Linux.

Whatever the reason are, you might run into some trouble if you’re trying to install Windows XP on QEMU for the first time and this howto might get you out from messy situations.

Read : How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper

Ubuntu QEMU

ubuntu,debian,qemu,windows,xp,winxp

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Turn your Ubuntu Dapper into Mac OS X

You might not want to buy those pricey MacBook Pro and use non-free operating system, but that can’t stop you to have a Mac OS X look for your Ubuntu.

Lauri Taimila has written a step-by-step tutorial to turn your Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) into Mac OS X look-alike in no time!**

Just take a look at this screenshot before and after :

Visit his website for a simple howto to turn your Ubuntu Dapper into OS X

ubuntu,dapper,themes,drake,mac,osx,linux