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The cornerstone of the whole Debian community, this contract is a set of
commitments that the Debian agrees to abide by. Incidentally, it was also
used as the basis for the Open
Source Definition
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Slashdot-like website for the Debian community. It is a nice place to obtain
information about the latest Debian news, technical tips, seek help in its
forums, etc.
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Need to know what is going on in the Debian community? Would like to follow
the latest ideas suggested to the debian-devel list? This is your
place.
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Community website more geared towards those who need technical assistance
on Debian-related issues. It also links to programming articles.
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The Debian Universe is an ongoing book that guides the reader through
Debian GNU/Linux. Many of its excellent chapters are being published by
linmagau, the Australian Linux
Magazine.
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Useful manual containing plenty of information about Debian: history of the
project, installation (including specific models), networking, package
administration, booting, audio, CD reading and writing, cameras... It is
obviously aimed at those who plan to use Debian as a desktop system.
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Are you familiar with the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux product? Well, these guys intend to be something
quite similar but based on Debian. In other words, an enterprise-ready but
totally free Linux distribution.
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Find Debian stable too... stable? Need to run Debian on a home desktop or
workstation and would like more up-to-date software? Give Ubuntu a try.
It's Debian based, installs from a single CD, and is tightly coupled with
GNOME. It puts out a release every six months.
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Project to create an embedded version of Debian GNU/Linux that scales from
large to very small systems and supports a wide range of architectures.
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The official repository of tips and information for the Debian project,
unless you are looking for the lengthier
Debian documentation, of course.
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Collection of Debian-related blogs from all over the world. Something similar
to Planet GNOME but for the Debian
community. It gathers blog entries from people involved in Debian, although
the topics range from technology to movies and hobbies.
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Sometimes one needs a deb package that is not available in any of the
official Debian repositories. Where to look for it then? This website is
the answer. It allows you to search unofficial apt-get repositories.
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How many times have we heard that comment? "Sure, Debian is cool but the
stable branch is soo far behind..." Well, this website comes in to fill that
void, allowing you to install newer packages in stable.
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If you run Debian on multiple machines in your network, Apt-Cacher is the
project for you. It's a CGI script that will keep a cache of Debian packages
so you don't need to download them from outside your network all the time.
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Project to add to APT the ability to verify the authenticity of Debian
packages.
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Humongous archive containing all (yes, you read right, all) Debian
packages, so you can use your apt to install any given snapshot of
Debian.
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W. Borgert put together this quick Debian Reference Card to provide new users
with a list of the most important commands that will be needed to administer
a Debian box. Quite useful.
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View the changelog for the latest version of any Debian source package,
although the tool is currently limited only to packages in main.
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Alioth is a free service to Open Source developers offering easy access to the
best in CVS, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, task
management, site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total
web-based administration.
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Detailed online documentation on how to create customer kernel packages using
the make-kpkg command.
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Software to automate Linux installs and software distributions. It is not
specifically written for Debian, but it works fine with it.
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Fully Automated Installation for Debian, originally written to be applied in
Linux clusters but it works fine everywhere else.
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Document written by Rodd Ahrenstorff with directions to perform a customized
installation of Debian GNU/Linux. The document includes scripts that can be
modified to suit any need.
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Paper with information about the philosophy behind the Custom Debian
Distributions as well as technical information used to put them together.
It explains, among other things, the concept of meta-packages and user role
based menus.
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Unofficial repository for Debian stable with the latest PHP and MySQL
packages always available. Simply add them to your sources.list
and you are all set to go.
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Extraordinary collection og Debian system administration tips and resources.
You will find here plenty of documentation on how to configure your Debian
box.
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Build your own sources.list file painlessly by selecting
your preferred set of repositories using this web interface.
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