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Happy Birthday Debian

Today marks the seventeenth birthday for Debian, a free operating system based on Linux and GNU.

Debian has successfully grown and developed into being one of the strongest Open Source Operating Systems available. For a distribution which is produced by volunteers rather than with commercial backing, this is a great achievement, and a testament to Open Source development,

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian GNU/Linux is the world's most popular free Linux distribution. Our trainers include core team developers who will teach you how Debian GNU/Linux can be deployed and managed in complex, enterprise environments. 

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Linux procurement in a recession

Without getting into too much consumer psychology it's a fact that our impulse to purchase 'desirable' products increases as our ability to buy them decreases.

This much is understood well by marketeers; as we lose something we want it more. To illustrate one aspect of this situation consider the following: as folk stopped gardening (look out of the train window if you don't believe me) the number of gardening shows on TV increased; as home cooking fell so the number of TV celebrity chefs shot through the roof; as our roads get ever more congested and restrictive Top Gear becomes more popular, you get the idea. More on TopGear later.

Debian Lenny, coming Real Soon Now!

With the release of 'Lenny' - the latest stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux - on Saturday (yes, that's Valentine's day - don't forget!), Tom Callway speaks to the head of the Debian project, Steve McIntyre.

Why is the imminent release of Lenny a good thing for the Debian community?

It's the focus of lots of the work we've been doing for the last two years or so, with many new and updated versions of everybody's favourite packages. We've translated more of our packages into more languages, and (as ever!) there are more packages available. That means we can cover more people's needs, from home laptop or desktop system through to universities running massive scientific clusters and businesses depending on a very solid platform for their servers.

Linux provides affordable alternative for Honda car dealership

It's no secret that the UK's car industry is suffering badly in the economic downturn. Whilst giant US car manufacturers face bankrupcy and the UK government considers providing emergency credit to  Jaguar-Landrover, other industry players must look at innovative solutions to remain competitive.

Nestling in the heart of Surrey, Trident Honda first considered Open Source software when they were faced with an eye-watering £75,000 to 'update' their existing Citrix MetaFrame infrastructure.

The Universal School Desktop

or how the future is being 'Windows Proofed'

The one thing that you really need when teaching something to a group of children, students, adults, whoever, is to ensure that they are 'singing from the same hymn sheet'. Put less metaphorically, they all need to be accessing the same text book or work sheet during the lesson. If not chaos is sure to follow. Any teacher who has blithely asked a group to 'turn to page 22' only to find there are two versions of the text book in the class will know what I mean. If in an ICT context for example you are demonstrating the use of formulae in a spreadsheet or mail merge in a word processor/database with the aim of transferring these skills to the class, then this means everyone needs to be able to continue using the same spreadsheet/word processor.

Howto: 100% Search engine friendly URLs in Joomla!

Implementing 100% SEF URLs in Joomla! can be a little tricky so we've written a step-by-step guide that includes how to correctly configure your LAMP server. There are some differences in implementing SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.0.* and 1.5, principally the requirement for third-party plugins. We'll deal with the generic LAMP server configuration issues first and then deal with the different versions of Joomla! in turn.