Last month, Stefano Zacchiroli was re-elected as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for a third term, the first leader to earn such a mandate. Only the founder, Ian Murdock, has headed the project for anything approaching three years. Debian is the biggest volunteer project of all distributions, has the most ports and provides, arguably, the best distribution; its package management tools …
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Debian: The funding campaign was so successful that the book is even published under not one but two free licenses (GPL-2+ and CC-BY-SA-3).
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Using SPDY on Your Web Server

Google's SPDY protocol offers several advantages over serving traffic via HTTP/HTTPS . But, if you want to use SPDY, you're going to have to take a few additional steps to set it up. The good thing is that if you happen to be using Apache on recent Debian or RPM-based systems, installing and using SPDY is a simple matter. Installing SPDY Packages Right now, Google is providing binary packages …
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The next version of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, version 7 or Wheezy, will include software that allows users to easily set up their own cloud offerings using free software.
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Debian: These days, more and more computing is being moved away from user computers to the so-called'cloud' a vague term often used to refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
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