Today I’ve activated a new VPS on Linode and worked all day to set it up to host linuxaria.com. Why Linode ? First, it’s been suggested by some friends (thanks Guillermo), second I’ve found only good review on the net about them and third there are a lot of useful information on their (now our) [...]
In this article i’ll show you how to select the best mirror for your favorite distribution. Debian Netselect-apt is very helpful to find which Debian mirror is the fastest one to download the latest packages or to install ones very quickly. To install it : root@localhost:~# apt-get install netselect-apt This package needs netselect to work [...]
After all those rich desktop Environment saw in Ubuntu, Chackra or Gnome 3 in general i needed a desktop minimalistic and comfortable, so today I’ve done some test on #! Crunchbang 10, it’s a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution with a lightweight desktop Environments: Openbox and optionally XFCE. I’ve tested it with a virtualmachine on Virtualbox, [...]
The news of the day it’s that finally it’s been released the new stable version of Debian, release 6 code name Squeeze. This is the official news from the Debian site. After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. [...]
Everybody talks about the new baby of the Linux family Debian Mint, and everywhere I read enthusiastic articles of this distribution, and so while I did a test on virtual machine i did a test installation myself; these are my impressions. Find me on Google+