Free debian software for linux

debian-updates is a simple script that sends an email or displays console messages if any relevant Debian security updates become available. debian-updates is ideal for running from cron.

Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software.

It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free.

Debian GNU/Linux Etch comes with thousands of packages.

Make-Debian-X11 is an add-on which makes a template with the necessary replacement files for gBootRoots Yard Method.

The root filesystem created from the template is user-mode-linux ready and includes X11, making it possible to run gBootRoot from within its own creation.

Debian Operating System is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel.
Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software.
Debian comes with over 8000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) - all of it free. Its a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of that are all the basic tools.
Next is all the software that you run on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian -- carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.
Among versions of Linux, Debian is fairly unique, unlike most distributions it isnt backed by any for profit venture and instead is an all volunteer organization. There is no for profit company, or business plan behind Debian, it is a wide ranging project along the lines of GNU. Debian also provides the basis for a number of other Linux distributions, such as Lindows, Xandros, Libranet, and Knoppix.
The linchpin of Debian is a combination package management system and distribution network called forth by the mighty apt-get command. What makes this network so exceptional is that the dpkg-deb files which make up Debian packages contain information on their underlying dependencies so installing a package from the Debian network will call up all of its dependent packages.
As an example, installing a KDE application would make sure that KDE, X windows, and everything underneath was already installed on the system, and if the prerequisite packages werent already installed than the packages would automatically be downloaded and installed from the Debian network.
Enhancements:
- The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename Sarge). This update mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. In preparation for the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch), Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 will be moved to the oldstable part of the archive. Users who would like to continue using Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 are advised to update their sources.list network sources to refer to sarge instead of stable. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 but only updates some of the packages included.

debian-builder is a simple Perl script which is designed to rebuild a Debian package from its source. Some distributions such as Gentoo are focussed upon building packages from source code to give speed benefits, but that is not the aim of this program.
Ive been experimenting with a version of GCC which is patched to include stack smashing (buffer overflow) protection. One common approach to this problem is to use a modified compiler which will perform some kind of safety checking in potentially vulnerable source code - this usually involves applying a patch to the GCC compiler.
Usage:
Usage is fairly straight-forward and obvious simply run "debian-builder foo" to rebuild package foo.
If all goes well you will see some progress reports (more with --verbose) and a .deb file should eventually appear in /var/cache/debian-builder/deb.
The script will take care of installing all the packages which are required to build the named package, and then removing anything it installed afterwards.
Installation:
Simply download the tarball and run make install, alternatively you may download it from my apt-getable repository.
Enhancements:
- The handling of build dependencies is now much improved, allowing a greater number of Debian packages, including complex ones such as GNU Emacs and Mozilla Firefox.

Debian Live Etch is a Live Linux distribution based on Debian 4.0. Although Debian Live is about creating your own customized Live system, we offer some prebuilt images.

Currently, builds for the three desktop environments GNOME, KDE and Xfce as well as the standard system are available. Builds based on testing are created every week and the ones based on unstable are build daily.