In Debian Linux's 29-year history, there was one constant: Debian would be made entirely of free software. Debian also defined exactly what free software was in its Open Source Definition. Until now.

Debian 8—nicknamed “Jessie” after the cowgirl character in Toy Story 2 and 3—debuted last week, but it feels overdue. The release was in development within the Testing channel for quite a while, and, ...

In my May 2006 Paranoid Penguin column, I expounded on the virtues of Debian 3.1's excellent support for virtualization environments, including User-Mode Linux. In that same issue, in the article ...

The Debian GNU/Linux project has decided not to support its GNU/kFreeBSD distribution as an official release for the forthcoming version 8.0 which is better known as Jessie. GNU/kFreeBSD is one of the ...