DEBIAN News and Articles

Debian developer Joachim Breitner offers up a screensaver which displays random characters from a reserve supplied by Unicode.

The SysUsage monitoring tool is available in a new version 3.0 and provides a completely reworked Web interface.

Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode has reported in his blog about the progress of his APT2 software, an alternative implementation of the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool (APT).

Joachim Breitner wanted to know how much time he was spending on his system, so he wrote Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker, or Arbtt. The program is now installable from the Debian unstable archive.

With Sidux 2009-03, code-named Momos, the Sidux project provides the next version of its distro based on Debian sid.

The latest version of the Austrian pocketknife Linux distribution was released just in time for Halloween.

Future development of the netbook distro Eeebuntu will be based on Debian Unstable instead of the Ubuntu core that has been used until now.

An SSH connection to a not directly linked system frequently makes at least one hop through the DMZ. The Belier tool simplifies this process. The program is now available in Debian's sid repository.

A robotic submarine driven by Debian has won first place in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) competition run at a U.S. Naval facility. The Debian project lauds the participating undergrads from Cornell University.

Christian Perrier (Bubulle) issued statistics in his blog that show which countries of the world have the largest per capita Debian developers. First place goes to Finland.