Debian Forced to Stop using the name ‘Firefox’, from digg.

The Mozilla Foundation has asked Debian Linux to either use both the ‘Firefox’ name and the Artwork or get rid of both.

Because the Artwork has non-free Copyright License, it seems Debian (and most likely, many other Linux Distros) has no choice but to change the name of the application to something else.

IceWeasel is the number one choice so far!

This is why Ubuntu and Debian both use the “globe logo” only, and my builds MUST choose another branding artwork by JairoB.

Installing Debian GNU/Linux using debootstrap, from Linux.com.

If you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty with the command line when you install Gentoo Linux, you may like to try this alternative method for installing Debian GNU/Linux.

Debootstrap creates a basic Debian installation, and can also be used for creating custom, minimal installations on embedded systems or for replacing a pre-installed Linux distribution with Debian on a co-located server.

This is an update to the CD and DVD images of Debian 3.1 r0 due to a configuration mistake which will not get security updates by default.

If you install Debian GNU/Linux from floppy disks or network servers, they were not affected.

You could try it later at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ and see documents at http://amd64.debian.net/docs/.

• K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE)
• GNOME desktop environment 2.8
• GNUstep desktop
• XFree86 4.3.0
• Mozilla 1.7.8, Firefox 1.0.4, Thunderbird 1.0.2
• PostgreSQL 7.4.7, MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a
• GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5 (GCC)
• Linux kernel versions 2.4.27 and 2.6.8
• Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54
• Samba 3.0.14
• Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1
• Perl 5.8.4

This release includes a *large* number of up-to-date large software packages. It is the closest to unstable in my feeling.