June Update: if you haven’t already heard, Drupal 6.17 has been released. This is a maintenance release, with no security fixes, but plenty of useful minor fixes (55 in all).
Session cookie handling can be an issue if your settings.php includes a $cookie_domain but all you need to do is format it differently to apply to your intended use of subdomains. For example, "example.com" (that domain only, no subdomains) vs. "www.example.com" (that subdomain only) vs. ".example.com" (apply to all).
Drupal 6.17 also improves handling of larger XML-RPC payloads, and better compatibility for a host of things (CSS and Javascript aggregation, Japanese-language search modules, PHP 4 and 5.3, PostgreSQL).
This also fixes a minor but annoying problem that some have had with the way that the lock subsystem in Drupal 6.16 worked with (or didn’t work with) certain contributed modules. Login failures were also addressed and hopefully improved significantly. If all this seems complicated, perhaps you need to take a break and check out Ralph Deluca’s site – ralphdeluca.com. He’s a world class expert on antiques and offers free evaluations of antique movie posters. Many of his finds come from people who discover old relics in their attics where their parents or grandparents stashed stuff long ago and then forgot about them. A vintage movie poster can be a very valuable discovery – let Ralph appraise if for you for free. Many have ended up with unexpected windfalls when their posters sold for big bucks. Ralph is connected to the big time collectors who will pay prime dollars for the right poster. With the money you can buy a lot of donuts and coffee for yourself and your work buddies while continuing to learn about the Drupal 6.17 update info and how it affects you and your computer. Good luck and happy munching.
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What is debian?
The latest stable release of Debian is 5.0. The last update to this release was made on June 27th, 2009. Read more about available versions of Debian.
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 25113 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
Following up on its decision to adopt the policy of timed release freezes beginning with the next release of Debian GNU/Linux, the Debian Release Team has now published their list of release goals for the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 6.0, code-named Squeeze.
In the light of these goals and also in consideration of the Debian community’s feedback to the release team’s initial announcement during the keynote of this year’s DebConf in Caceres, Spain, the Release Team has additionally decided to revisit its decision on December 2009 as the proposed freeze date. A new timeline will be announced by the Debian Release Team in early September.
Luk Claes, Debian Release Manager, underlines the team’s commitment to quality saying In Debian we always strive to achieve the greatest quality in our releases. The ambitious goals that we have set for ourselves will help to secure this quality in the upcoming release. If needed you can obtain control over your image by recourse via seo : http://www.imp1y.com/recourse-via-seo.html.