Debian
Coverage of Debian in the Nexus archive.
- History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
CentOS originated as a community-driven Linux project led by Gregory Kurtzer, born from frustration with Red Hat's shift from user-friendly Red Hat Linux to business-focused Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project, initially named Caos, aimed to create a Debian-like alternative for RPM-based Linux distributions using Red Hat's source code and community contributions.
- Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages
Debian 14 aims to ship reproducible packages, ensuring deterministic package compilation and improving security by allowing users to verify binaries. This goal is part of a larger industry trend towards reproducible builds. The Debian project's release team has enabled migration software to block non-reproducible packages.
- Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
The Gtk2-NG project is reviving and modernizing the 24-year-old Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit, which was declared dead by GNOME developers in 2020. The project is gaining interest and followers, with goals to make it compatible with modern systems and hardware. Development is hosted on the Git instance of the Devuan project.
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
Debian must ship reproducible packages, according to a recent announcement. The decision aims to increase transparency and trust in the packaging process. This change will affect the Debian development community.