PHP 5.5 introduces new features and improves several existing ones but to make use of them in distributions such as Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora we should compile it because at the moment in which I write this article PHP 5.5 has not been included in official repositories today LibreByte will show how to compile PHP 5.5 on Debian GNU/Linux.
Some months ago when I replaced my Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Merkat) by Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) XFCE, on my work computer, it happened that the font rendering were very ugly, the desktop in general looked ugly then I found some interesting trick at the Arch Linux wiki, after reading: Font Configuration, I execute the following steps:
Iceweasel is a completely free web browser based on Mozilla Firefox, but differs from it in that the logo and the brand can be distributed as free software
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