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Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot Debian 13 "Trixie" is coming, closely followed ...
We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away Venerable Linux distribution ...
So not only is Google preparing to make it even easier for developers to create and build apps directly on Android devices, ...
Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, ...
The Year 2038 problem arises from the way Unix-based systems track time – by storing the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, in a signed ...
Debian Linux is 30 years old. Today, it remains one of the most dominant Linux distributions. Here's how it started and where its impact is still felt today.
The Debian Project, created by Ian Murdock, first released Debian on Aug. 16, 1993. The name Debian was inspired by the first name of his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn.
Debian 8 on the server is a different story, though. I've been slowly migrating my sites to Jessie-based servers over the past six months and have had a few hiccups here and there.
The August 1993 announcement of Debian in the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup was very similar to the announcement of Linux a couple of years earlier, and ended with a call for comments and ...