Tag Archives: Debian

Spain: Extremadura to migrate 40,000 public sector desktops to Debian

Posted on 23/01/2012 by woodsy

Spain’s Publico recently reported (Spanish) that the autonomous regional government of Extremadura is planning to move all 40,000 of its desktops to Debian Linux. In taking this step, Extremadura would be the leading Spanish public sector organisation for the use … Continue reading →

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Doudoulinux – the right start for children in IT

Posted on 12/07/2011 by woodsy

The other day we heard about Doudoulinux. Leaving aside the rather scatological name of the distro (in English, anyhow. Ed.), it looks rather good at what it’s trying to achieve. Based on Debian – like lots of other fine general-purpose … Continue reading →

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A heartening open source story

Posted on 12/05/2011 by woodsy

Yesterday the chief scribe was scrolling through his Twitter feed when up popped the following tweet from Mark Taylor, CEO of Sirius IT: Our newest recruit, Linda, in Admin and Finance, had never used an Open Source desktop before yesterday. … Continue reading →

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Debian Women & OpenHatch package rebuilding tutorials on IRC

Posted on 02/05/2011 by woodsy

Are you enthusiastic about Debian and thinking about contributing? If yes, then the Debian Women project and the OpenHatch project want to teach you the basics. They’ll be will be holding an IRC event on Saturday 7th May to help … Continue reading →

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Another lab report

Posted on 18/03/2011 by woodsy

It’s a busy day in the lab, with volunteers Michael, Jim, Rich, Acesabe and yours truly present and it’s a real hive of activity, the silence punctuated by the gentle tapping of keyboards. Acesabe is up to something to do … Continue reading →

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Debian says: it’s (release) party time!

Posted on 28/01/2011 by woodsy

Debian News announces that next weekend, Debian developers and users from all over the world are organizing release parties for the release of Debian squeeze, which is due on the weekend of the 5th-6th February. For those interested in organising … Continue reading →

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Welcome volunteers old and new

Posted on 09/12/2010 by woodsy

A pleasant surprise awaited your scribe on his arrival at the Lab yesterday: one of the happy smiling faces lurking there was Mark, who had to bring a halt to his volunteering activities last year to find a job to … Continue reading →

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Debian Women offer training

Posted on 18/11/2010 by woodsy

From today’s inbox. The Debian Women project is pleased to announce the forthcoming start of a series of training sessions which will be held on IRC by experienced community members. The main goal of this initiative is to encourage more … Continue reading →

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Debian 6.0 Squeeze release due by the end of the year – maybe

Posted on 20/06/2010 by woodsy

News has arrived via Twitter (cheers ciderpunx), on the status of the next release of Debian, the distribution upon which other popular distros such as Simply Mepis and Ubuntu (and loads of others too. Ed.) are based and which is … Continue reading →

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Repos update

Posted on 16/02/2009 by woodsy

Ben, our server admin, has just announced the update of the Bristol Wireless Debian repositories. As a preface, Ben wrote: Debian 5.0 “Lenny” was released on Valentine’s Day, how sweet. I suspect that this has caused many break-ups as enthusiastic … Continue reading →

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