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Today, during Blackhat Europe, Offensive Security announced the availability of Kali Linux 1.0, which aims to be the most advanced, robust, and stable penetration testing distribution to date. It...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2013/03/13/kali-linux-1-0-a-new-debian-derivative/

This is my monthly summary of my Debian related activities. If you’re among the people who made a donation to support my work (130.30 €, thanks everybody!), then you can learn how I spent you...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/11/01/my-debian-activities-in-october-2011/

Volker Theile is well known for his work on FreeNAS. But at one point, he decided to give up on it and to restart from scratch but this time based on Debian (instead of FreeBSD). OpenMediaVault i...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/10/31/the-promising-openmediavault-failed-its-debut-as-free-software-project/

Lately I have been working on the triggers feature of dpkg. I would like to share my plan and what I have done so far. I’ll first explain what triggers are, the current problems, and the work I...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/05/30/trying-to-make-dpkg-triggers-more-useful-and-less-painful/

In its “Fast distributions and slow servers” article, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier explains the difficulties that Fedora has to use its own distribution on their infrastructure. I give a look at D...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/01/24/debian-is-eating-its-own-dog-food-more-than-ever/

Discover 16 Debian developers that you can support either with Flattr or through various other ways.

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/01/03/16-debian-contributors-that-you-can-thank/

The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu has been the subject of many vigorous debates over the years, ever since Ubuntu's launch in 2004. Six years later, the situation has changed and this ar...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/06/state-of-the-debian-ubuntu-relationship/

Debian's "testing" distribution is where Debian developers prepare the next stable distribution. While this is still its main purpose, many users have adopted this version of Debian because it of...

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/04/can-debian-offer-a-constantly-usable-testing-distribution/