My project to create a presentation for Debian seems to be going really well. While I am using Overleaf for this, I can compile from the command line in the usual way as well as using TeXStudio to create a pdf. Shows the power and flexibility of LaTeX for publishing. I have received lots…
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Debian Promotion
Debian Promotion In an effort to help promote the Debian Operating system, I had a look for some suitable presentations. It seems, that the last one produced was back in 2013, others are not in English. which is understandable as Debian has a world wide development community. I decided to create my own. Started with…
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I have updated an old netbook to Debian 10. This is a full install rather and overwriting the existing Debian9 -> upgrade I had previously. This is running the LXDE Desktop. The install went fine, and I have submitted a possible bug report as the installer seems to have Debian 9 in the banner at…
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Google Summer of Code 2019 and Debian For the Debian team, all the hard work in applying to be part of this years Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has paid off. Info. If you’re not sure what this is please see the main GSoC page. But to quote the GSoC website “Google Summer of Code…
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I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
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