Yeah, we know. It reads like a premature April Fool’s headline, which is something we’re pretty good at. But this is a real thing. Chocolatey allows users to install applications in the fastest way possible — sort of — by typing a simple command; not entirely unlike apt-get. So, how does it work? Well, Chocolatey [...]
Gamer Rewrites Valve’s Steam Installer For Debian
Gaming on Linux is a very real thing right now, and most of that is thanks to Steam. Initially, Steam committed only to the most popular desktop distribution, Ubuntu but more recently has opened the door to others. So what do you do when you want to game in Linux and you’re using something a [...]
AMD64 Now Debian’s Most Popular Architecture
A Long Time Coming… Bill Allombert announced today via the Debian-devel mailing list that the X86_64 version of Debian has now surpassed all of the other supported architectures by a narrow margin. The most surprising part of this announcement however, and accompanying info-graphics provided on the Debian Popularity Contest page, is that this was not already [...]
Debian: Not Old Enough To Drink, But Old Enough To Smoke
Edit: Slackware predates Debian by one month. Debian is 19 years old today, making it the oldest surviving Linux distribution in the world. In many ways, it is arguably the most important as well. Debian was founded by Ian Murdock, a graduate of one of the most respected colleges in my home state of Indiana, [...]
How To Fix Broken Packages In Ubuntu Or Debian
PPA’s: Silver Sword Or Golden Band-Aid So, you just had to go overboard with your PPA’s, didn’t you? The lure of bleeding-edge software was just to great for you to be able to stick with the tried-and-true software that was already available in your existing repositories. Not even backports could sate your need to run [...]
Awesome Linux Timeline Updated
There is a blog out there on the Internet called Futurist. I am not completely sure what is there because all of the links are basic geometric shapes, and there is obviously a purpose here that i am not aware. Never-the-less, this Futurist person has put together an awesome and gigantic chart showing the history [...]