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Which Linux Mint is Better? Comparing Debian Edition & Standard
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a very interesting distribution to say the least. It looks and acts nearly exactly the same as the standard version of Linux Mint, but LMDE is built on top of Debian instead of Ubuntu. In this video, Jay compares LMDE to the flagship edition of Linux Mint and also gives it an updated review.
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Debian announces switch back to FFmpeg
After a careful review of all the pros and cons we, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries.
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Debian preparing to transition to GCC 5 by the end of the month.
It's time to prepare for GCC 5 as the default compiler in unstable. Compared to earlier version bumps, the switch to GCC 5 is a bit more complicated because libstdc++6 sees a few ABI incompatibilities.
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[Opinion] Canonical's Ubuntu IP policy is garbage
Canonical have a legal policy surrounding reuse of Intellectual Property they own in Ubuntu, and you can find it here. It's recently been modified to handle concerns raised by various people including the Free Software Foundation[1], who have some further opinions on the matter here.
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Debian Installer Releases First Alpha For 9.0 "Stretch"
The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch".
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Why Debian returned to FFmpeg [LWN.net]
Slightly less than one year ago, the Debian community had an extended discussion on whether the FFmpeg multimedia library should return to the distribution. Debian had followed the contentious libav fork when it happened in 2011, but some community members were starting to have second thoughts about that move.
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GNOME Flashback 3.16/3.17 lands in Debian Testing/Ubuntu "Wily Werewolf". Project requests help.
GNOME Flashback 3.16/3.17 packages landed in Debian testing and Ubuntu wily. GNOME Flashback is the project which continues the development of components of classic GNOME session, including the GNOME Panel, the Metacity window manager, and so on. The full changelog can be found in ...
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Debian drops support for SPARC
While Debian supports many CPU architectures, it's working to remove support for the Sun/Oracle SPARC architecture. As of this weekend, Debian has dropped SPARC from their unstable, experimental, and jessie-updates archives.
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Plasma/KF5 issue within Debian Testing
We are aware that the current situation in testing is very unfortunate, with two main issues:1. systemsettings transitioned to testing before the corresponding KDE Control Modules 2. plasmoids such as plasma-nm transitioned to testing before plasma-desktop 5.
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Code Galaxies Visualization: Fly through the Debian package universe
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DebConf15 Schedule Published and Additional Featured Speakers Announced
The DebConf content team is pleased to announce the schedule of DebConf15, the forthcoming Debian Developers Conference. From a total of nearly 100 talk submissions, the team selected 75 talks. Due to the high number of submissions, several talks had to be shortened to 20 minute slots, of which a total of 30 talks have made it to the schedule.
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Porting Qt applications to Wayland
During Akademy I hold a session about porting applications to Wayland. I collected some of the general problems I saw in various KDE projects and want to highlight them in this blog post, too. Star...
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Benchmarking Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 vs. GNU/Linux
Since the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 and GNU Hurd 0.6 this year, I've been meaning to run some new performance benchmarks considering my previous Hurd benchmarks were last done in 2011.
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FFmpeg's leader resigns in hopes to mend split between FFmpeg and Libav developers.
Michael Niedermayer, the leader of the FFmpeg project for the past eleven years, has made a surprise announcement today: he's resigning as its leader. Niedermayer is resigning as he no longer feels he's the best leader for FFmpeg, given the current Libav fork still persisting even after Debian dropped Libav and is returning to FFmpeg.
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KDE's Plasma 5 now completely in Debian Testing
A few days ago, fellow Qt/KDE team member Lisandro gave an update on the situation with migration to Plasma 5 in Debian Testing (AKA Stretch). It's changed again. All of Plasma 5 is now in Testing. The upgrade probably won’t be entirely smooth, which we’ll work on that after the gcc5 transition is done, but it will be much better than the half KDE4 SC half Kf5/Plasma 5 situation we’ve had for the last several days.
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GCC 5 now default in Debian Unstable.
As laid out by the plans last month, GCC 5 has become the default compiler within the Debian "Unstable" archive. Matthias Klose posted the announcement today about GCC 5 being the default and the libstdc++6 ABI changes.
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Debian wants to tackle UEFI issues, but needs your assistance.
Over the weekend the Debian project put out a call, over Twitter, for UEFI horror stories as their developers begin to take a more serious look at Debian & UEFI, with the creation of a UEFI team. As part of their work they have asked for a list of all known broken UEFI implementations so that they can try to find workarounds, or at the very least document their brokenness.
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Canonical Has No Plans to Support DEB-Based Ubuntu Software Center
The future of the Ubuntu Software Center is uncertain, even if some of the Ubuntu developers are thinking about an upgrade for the application or a replacement. The core problem seems to be related to the fact that Ubuntu uses DEB files and it's not longer considered a viable method of providing updates through the Ubuntu Software Center.
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AppStream/DEP-11 support moving along for Kubuntu/Debian
On Debian-based systems, we use a YAML-based implementation of AppStream, called “DEP-11″. DEP-11 exists for historical reasons (the DEP-11 YAML format was a superset of AppStream once) and because YAML, unlike XML, is one accepted file format by the Debian FTPMasters team, who we want to have on board when adding support for AppStream. So I’ve spent the last few days on setting up the DEP-11 generator for Kubuntu
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GNOME Turns 18 this Saturday
Join us in celebrating GNOME's birthday this Saturday, August 15th. This is a great chance to tell the world why you love GNOME, inspire others to give it a try, give back to the community, and just wish GNOME a happy birthday.
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