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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
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by lping
I've installed Debian servers in all the organizations I was working for, for the past 10 years. Debian is not just like RedHat or SLES. Debian is the only Linux distribution with which I was able to provide four 9 availability (99.99%) on standalone servers (no clusters).
This is not only a Kernel problem, it is also related to the way the packages are maintained. Most of the updates are running moothly without services interruption.
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Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge,
a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially
insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitary files on the
local system.
The recently announced vulnerability in Debian's openssl package
(DSA-1571-1, CVE-2008-0166) indirectly affects OpenSSH. As a result,
all user and host keys generated using broken versions of the openssl
package must be considered untrustworthy, even after the openssl update
has been applied.
Lior Kaplan reported,
that he finished triage of over 300 bugs reported
against the iceweasel / firefox packages. Of those 300 bugs only 70 are still valid
for a version of firefox shipped in a Debian release.
debimg is a software designed to replace debian-cd. Its current feature set is
very limited, but building single disks for i386 and amd64 is possible (netinst
disks build in about 5 seconds. It still misses many features like disk sets
and multi-arch.
In two recently published interviews of the new elected Debian Project
Leader, Steve McIntyre presented a bit more about the Debian Project.
The interviews can be found on ZDNet, and
ComputerWorld UK.
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