Developers of the popular Debian Linux distribution are ramping up coding efforts as they plan to release the next version of their operating system in December this year. The schedule was today ...

Rust is already a hard requirement on all Debian release architectures and ports except for alpha, hppa, m68k, and sh4 (which ...

Things have been anything but quiet on the Debian front lately. Between updating 5.0, naming 7.0, and officially approving backports this has been a busy week for Debian. In other related news, a ...

All our machines (laptops, servers), sans few, run Debian. But Debian isn't free anymore and the FSF is no longer recommending it. The latest technical article by Daniel Pocock is entitled "Bad faith: ...

The Debian GNU/Linux project was begun by Ian Murdock in 1993 to create a community-supported distribution. It has close to 1000 developers and supports more architectures than any other distribution.

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Debian, which dates back to 1993 and the efforts of Ian Murdock, is now up to date. Nowhere does that show more than with its controversial move to the systemd system and service manager. While ...