Bug#708158: base: Desktop slows to be unusable when power cord is removed for a while, then plugged in again. kworker

Package: base Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? New Debian 7 install yesterday, Dell lattitude E5420 laptop, serial number 19640672489. No ...

Message posted on the May 13th, 2013 - 12:00 PM ET

Android and iOS Combine for 92.3% of All Smartphone Operating System Shipments in the First Quarter While Windows Phone Leapfrogs BlackBerry, According to IDC

Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as Windows Phone crept past ...

Press published on the May 16th, 2013 - 5:00 AM ET

Bug#706620: tracker: Please update tiff build-depends

Package: tracker Version: 0.16.1-1 Severity: minor User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring Ubuntu has switched to libtiff5 by default. Please update your build-depends to use either libtiff-dev or libtiff5-dev instead of ...

Message posted on the May 2nd, 2013 - 11:10 AM ET

Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

Hi Bill and Debian Developers, while doing work on GD Library 2.1.0 it was discovered there's encoding incompatibility introduced by libjpeg8/9 [1]. While doing further research I have found that Fedora has switched to libjpeg-turbo[2] (for ...

Message posted on the April 24th, 2013 - 5:30 AM ET

Converting Non-Technical Users

I've been reading the comments to the Slashdot article "The 'Linux Inside' Stigma" (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/05/1834240/the-linux-inside-stigma). As with so many Slashdot Linux discussions there are many tales of non-technical ...

Message posted on the April 6th, 2013 - 9:45 AM ET

Introduction Dirk

Hi! I met Axel and Salvatore on the Swiss Perl Workshop [1] last Friday. Axel had a speech about maintaining Perl modules as Debian packages [2] and he said that the Debian-Perl team is constantly looking for new contributors. So, since I was ...

Message posted on the March 25th, 2013 - 2:30 AM ET

Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

Dear release team, I report this problem as we have switched our package management stack in wheezy from update-manager and other components to PackageKit. Those old components are still in wheezy however, and especially update-manager can be ...

Message posted on the March 11th, 2013 - 6:50 PM ET

choosing a web browser

I need a "sane" webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2013 - 8:10 PM ET

The secret origins of Google's Chrome OS

http://www.zdnet.com/the-secret-origins-of-googles-chrome-os-7000012215/ Google's Chrome OS, thanks to the growing popularity of Chromebooks, is being used by more and more people. Many people know that Chrome OS has a Linux foundation. But how ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2013 - 9:11 AM ET

upstart vs systemd

Have anyone experience with systemd? Ubuntu uses upstart but recently many distros (eg arch) switched to systemd? What is main selling point of systemd? Are boot times faster (eg)?

Message posted on the March 1st, 2013 - 8:32 PM ET

Google admits it: they don't use the word 'Linux' because of the behavior of Linux loons... LMFAO!

"Happy Sitting at the Kid's Table? I'm not. I'm not happy at all sitting at the kid's table. But that's where I am. And if you are a Linux user, you are too. Bet you didn't know that didja? Neither did I. Until two weeks ago. That's how ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2013 - 10:50 AM ET

Bug#700065: mpfr4: please update config.guess and config.sub for arm64

Package: mpfr4 Version: 3.1.0-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Usertags: arm64 Please update config.guess and config.sub to a current version from autotools-dev to support the arm64 architecture (aarch64-linux-gnu). ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2013 - 8:30 PM ET

Automatic update of dns with nsupdate ubuntu 12:05 LTS

I have a nsudate script that I have installed in /etc/network/dns_update.sh this is called from /etc/network/interfaces: # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp post-up /etc/network/dns_update.sh since upgrading from the ...

Message posted on the February 6th, 2013 - 5:50 AM ET

How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

"Motherboard DEATH alert. Suddenly Windows 8 doesn't look so bad By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Posted in Applications, 31st January 2013 12:16 GMT Linux users accidentally bricked their new Samsung laptops by booting ...

Message posted on the February 1st, 2013 - 3:06 PM ET

switched ubuntu