Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

No more Debian 5.0 “Lenny” support after february 2012

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

The Debian project has announced in a security advisory (DSA-2360-1) that the security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" will be terminated in february 2012 : This is an advance notice that security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (code name "lenny") will be terminated in two months. The Debian project released Debian ...

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” has been released

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Today is a great day for the Debian community : Debian Squeeze has been released. 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. Alongside ...

Dotdeb packages are now signed!

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

After many requests from several users and after many months of promise, the Dotdeb repositories are GPG-signed. Yes, you can now get rid of the annoying "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!" message! Waiting for a dotdeb-keyring package, you just have to get the key and add it to your trusted ...

Etch security support discontinued by Debian on Feb. 15th…

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

The Debian security team announced that Debian 4.0 "Etch" security support  will be ended on February 15th, 2010 : Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be discontinued on February 15th One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias 'lenny' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' ...

Dotdeb interviewed by PHP TV

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Just for fun : I've been interviewed about Dotdeb by PHP TV, a french-speaking webTV.

Dotdeb on Twitter

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Dotdeb has now its own Twitter account. Feel free to follow...

Dotdeb : Debian 5.0 “Lenny” support in progress…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" has been published on last Valentine's day. Although most of the Dotdeb packages for the previous release, "Etch", are compatible with Lenny, it is now time for Dotdeb to have dedicated packages for this new distribution. I'm actually kind of busy at work, but I managed to ...

Website problem

Monday, October 6th, 2008

On the previous week-end, Dotdeb's website went down due to configuation problems. Sorry for that, it is now fixed.

Today is…

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

...World Day Against Software Patents   You can :  read the press announce sign or comment the petition spread the word so many other things to fight those absurd patents...