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"When one's computer becomes unstable, it's natural to think first of a particular app or the desktop. After that, one may tend to suspect the operating system. Finally one may find it turns out to be hardware at fault. This is what happened to me recently, and at the operating system phase, Debian became a last resort.

"At first I blamed Sabayon and tried Linux Mint. When Linux Mint seemed to also be crashy, I resorted to the newly released Debian 6.0. I thought if anything was going to be stable, it'd be Debian. Although I finally found and replaced faulty hardware, I've learned a bit about Debian on the desktop. I've used Debian on my X-less server for years, but never thought of it much as a desktop system. So, here is a summary of my Debian desktop adventure."

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"Once upon a time, a new Debian Linux release was a big deal in Linux circles. It still is, but its child, Ubuntu Linux, is the Linux distribution that gets all the headlines. There?s a reason for that. Over the years, Debian has become more and more a Linux just for Linux fanatics while the rest of the Linux family has become more end-user friendly.

"As I look over the features in the latest Debian, I can see why Debian, while still popular as a building block for other Linux distributions, is no longer as important as it once was. For example, the default Debian distributions won?t include any proprietary firmware binary files. While that will be popular with die-hard free software fans, users who just want to use their Wi-Fi hardware and to get the most from their graphics cards won?t be happy."

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Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released in Linux, FreeBSD flavors
Feb 7, 2011, 13 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1065 reads)
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"Here's some good news for all you Debian fans: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) has now been released.

"And it's not just Linux users who should take note. For the first time, alongside Debian GNU/Linux (that's right, that's Debian's official name, and they get the "GNU"), Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced as a "technology preview."

"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD will port both a 32- and 64-bit PC version of the FreeBSD kernel into the Debian userspace, making them the first Debian release without a Linux kernel. The Debian Project is serious about the technology preview label, though: these FreeBSD-based versions will have limited advanced desktop features.

"Whether it's Linux or FreeBSD inside, Debian 6.0 will include the usual range of desktop environments: KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments will all be on board."

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Each piece has written software bugs. The insignificant, the showstopper are bugs despite the Herculean efforts of the developers. But thanks to a new Debian project, many previously unidentified error can get squashed.

Raphael Geissert, multi-talented Debian developer, has new automated code analysis from recent Debian project. Geissert describes DACA as that.

Automated code analysis helps identify and resolve bugs and other problems in the source code. The project aims to draw users easily distributed access to a variety of tools for improving software quality to give Debian, while the tool developer, a test bed, more visibility and more feedback. This is achieved by running this tool on the entire Debian archive.

It seems to wait for the often delayed publications that is Debian's main goal, stability and error correction, and this impression many outsiders not inaccurate. Debian has worked hard to its reputation as to earn one of the most stable Linux distributions. Get through but even many bugs; many more as some developers can accept. DACA will be from a batch of tool to run tests on the source code Debian packages then reports offer to developers.

The project is just started when the there are only two tools in the box, but many more are planned. The tool is Cppcheck. Cppcheck audits C/C++ code for the actual functionality bugs instead of syntax errors. These are the kind of errors that typically go through compiling process without errors, leading developers to believe everything is fine. Although it is far from complete and new and more comprehensive measures are planned in the coming months and years, it does quite a few controls. Some are out of bounds checking, automatic variables, and memory leaks.

The other available tool is Checkbashisms. As the name implies, it looks for Bashisms, the bash extensions that are not only POSIX compatible. The first round of the reports is available online.

Although the list is now short, grow the number of tools at over twenty. Geissert says the major limitation is, "most are tools CPU-bound, to limit the number of tools, and it takes time to review by the entire Debian archive." He called for bug check reporting false positives, tool evaluation and hardware donations. See his full post for more information.

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"The next release of Debian GNU/Linux, Squeeze, will include support for ZFS using the official installer.

"This means that Debian will become one of the first GNU/Linux distributions to support the filesystem, according to developer Robert Millan.

"ZFS is a combined filesystem and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. It is now owned by Oracle."

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