Virus Protection With avast! Linux Home Edition On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

March 18th, 2008


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Virus Protection With avast! Linux Home Edition On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

This tutorial shows how you can install and use avast! Linux Home Edition
on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon desktop. Although there aren’t many Linux
viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with
Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses
(that don’t do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. avast!
Linux Home Edition is free for private and non-commercial use.

Read more…

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Asterisk on the Linksys NSLU2 running Debian

March 18th, 2008


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My NSLU2 is running Debian Etch. I’ve installed Asterisk from the Debian repositories (apt-get install asterisk), however it’s a memory hog out of the box. When (re)starting Asterisk, the load average would go up to 10.

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DebConf8 Registration closes soon

March 18th, 2008


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Registration for DebConf8, which will take place in Mar del Plata from Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 August 2008, will soon close, the registration deadline is end of this month, thats only about two weeks left.

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Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

March 18th, 2008


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The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta of
Debian Lenny’s Installer.

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Goodbye, Ubuntu - Hello, Ubuntu

March 18th, 2008


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As half of the news we post here on Debian-news are Ubuntu-related, we have decided to put them in a place for themselves: Welcome to Ubuntu-news.net!

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Update on Knoppix 5.3.1 status

March 18th, 2008


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Here is our TODO list between Cebit and the Knoppix 5.3.1 release for which we have an internal release date of “not later than 22.3.2008″.

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