Encore RTL8139D not working, solved

Today I bought two Encore ENL832-TX-RENT ethernet cards with the RTL8139D chipset in it. I now that this cheap cards tend to work out-of-the-box... but that wasn't my case: root\@luna:/home/lisandro# ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.1.5 eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No existe el dispositivo …



Nueva disposición de metapaquetes en KDE 4

Burda traducción del mail de Ana Guerrero a la lista Debian-KDE: El equipo Debian-Qt-KDE ha transicionado los metapaquetes de KDE a KDE 4. Todos los paquetes kde4-* que se utilizaron en experimental y, por un breve período de tiempo, en inestable, han desaparecido. La disposición actual es ahora: kde-minimal: exactamente …



Debian's NEW queue: a proposal

In a previous post, I ranted about Debian's NEW queue. In that post I said I din't had an idea on how to fix it. Now I do. Please consider this something like a "non-official Debian draft RFC". The queue's restrictions: Debian can not guarantee that packages uploaded to the …



Debian's shame

Got your attention? Good. First of all, the disclaimers: I am not a Debian Developer (DD), just a simple contributor. I may not be accurate in the following, and maybe I will create a flame out of this. Sometimes the land needs to be put on fire to produce better …