http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/516 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project mourns the loss of Ray Dassen press&lt; at &gt;debian.org May 23rd, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130523 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Ray Dassen (jdassen) died on May 18th. Ray was a Debian Developer for an incredible 19 years. He joined the project in 1994, and continued to be an active contributor until recently. He was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, particularly Gnumeric, and was a driving force behind the creation of the Debian Gnome team. The Debian Project honours Ray's great work and his strong dedication to Debian and Free Software. His technical knowledge and his ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. His contributions will not be forgotten, and the high standards of hi</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-05-23T18:00:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/515 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org May 13th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/10/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released * What's new in Debian "Wheezy" ? * DebConf11 and 12 videos * Debian beyond the cloud * Debian in Google Compute Engine * Bits from the DPL * "Coding Freedom" : a closer look at Debian contributors * Other news * Upcoming events * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released ---------------------------- 27 months after the release of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", a new sta</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-05-13T11:02:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/512 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 29th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/09/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Release date for Wheezy announced * First Qt 5 packages in experimental * Debian Edu Wheezy alpha release * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Release date for Wheezy announced --------------------------------- Neil McGovern, on behalf of the Release Team, announced that the next stable version of Deb</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-29T09:47:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/511 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 15th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/08/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * New DPL elected * Debian accepted for Google Summer of Code * Debian participates in Outreach Program for Women * Other news * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? New DPL elected --------------- Lucas Nussbaum has just been elected with a small majority [1] ahead of his main opponent Moray Allan by the Debian Developers to represent the project. Stefano Zacchi</pre> Cédric Boutillier 2013-04-15T17:28:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/510 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure press&lt; at &gt;debian.org April 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Earlier this week, Debian started deploying machines for its core infrastructure services which will be hosted in a new data centre in York, UK. The hardware, generously donated and hosted by Bytemark Hosting [1], consists of a fully-populated HP BladeSystem (containing 16 server blades) and several HP Modular Storage Arrays (providing a total of 57 TB). 1: http://bytemark.co.uk "Bytemark's servers have relied on Debian since the day we started the company in 2002, and it was always an embarassingly good deal. We've tried to repay it through sponsorship of the annual DebC</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-04T16:55:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/509 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 1st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's seventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the DSA team * DebConf13 matching fund * New Maintainer process * Editorial changes to the constitution * Interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from the Release Team -------------------------- Julien Cristau sent an update on Release Team activities [1], anno</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-01T13:23:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/508 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Eaton donates hardware to Debian press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 21st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130321 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eaton [1], a global technology leader in electrical products and long time Debian partner, has donated several large-capacity uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) for Debian's core infrastructure located in Darmstadt, Germany and Vienna, Austria. 1: http://www.eaton.com "Not only do we, at Eaton, strongly back the principle of freely available open source software, we are also finding that our customers increasingly prefer to work with open source packages, especially with Linux and related systems," said Arnaud Quette, Eaton Opensource Solutions Lead and Debian Developer. "Most Debian porter</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-21T13:34:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/507 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 18th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/06/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's sixth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Edu Squeeze updated * DPL election campaign * A deeper look inside the freeze * Kali Linux: a new Debian derivative for penetration tests * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Edu Squeeze updated -------------------------- Holger Levsen announced the first update of Debian Edu Squeeze s</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-18T09:51:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/506 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released * Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2013 * Wheezy release progress * Debian at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring * arm64 image available * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released ------------------------------</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-04T10:22:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/505 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them to promote Debian press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 1st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project is pleased to announce that, according to the terms of the new trademark policy [1], Debian logos and marks may now be used freely [2] for both non-commercial and commercial purposes. The Debian Project encourages wide use of its marks in all ways that promote Debian and free software. 1: http://www.debian.org/trademark#policy 2: http://www.debian.org/intro/free Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader and one of the main promoters of the new trademark policy, said "Software freedoms and trademarks are a difficult match. We all want to see well-known project names used to promote free soft</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-01T17:09:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/504 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Installer 7.0 Release Candidate1 published press&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 19th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130219 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". This new version of the installer ships several changes, including better speech synthesis support, various improvements for GNU/kFreeBSD and fixes for the grub2 package, as well as the addition of many Linux kernel drivers to the installer. More details are available in the Debian Installer team's announcement [1] to the Debian community. 1 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2013/20130217 There are some known issues [2] with the installer that do not need to be reported, but the Debian Installer team do n</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-19T19:04:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/503 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 18th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 released * 700,000th bug reported * Bits from the DPL * Reports from FOSDEM * Update on Clang and Debian * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 released --------------------------------- The first release candidate of the installer for Debian Wheezy was released on 17 February [1</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-18T12:30:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/502 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/03/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * DebConf13 venue and dates * Automating Debian bootstrapping * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? DebConf13 venue and dates ------------------------- Moray Allan and Didier Raboud gave some updates on the upcoming DebConf13 [1] to be held at Le Camp in Vaumarcus, Switzerland [2]. In the </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-04T14:51:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/501 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 21st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/02/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from Debian Med * A look into the Linux kernel of Debian "Wheezy" * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from Debian Med -------------------- Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team [1], reporting some recent initiatives of the team, such as the Mentoring of the Month [2] effort</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-01-21T17:09:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/500 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 7th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * wiki.debian.org security breach: global passwords reset * Bits from the DPL * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? wiki.debian.org security breach: global passwords reset ------------------------------------------------------- Steve McIntyre, administrator of the Debian wiki, announced that due to a security breach, all wiki.debian.org account passwords ar</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-01-07T20:43:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/499 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org December 24th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/25/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twenty-fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the DPL * Wheezy freeze: reviewers needed for unblock requests * Report from Bug Squashing Party in Mechlin * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for November [1]: among other things, he described recent prog</pre> Cédric Boutillier 2012-12-24T17:09:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/498 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org December 10th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/24/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twentyfourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Record number of participants for Mini DebConf Paris * Debian on smartphones: a feasibility analysis * Official Debian images on Amazon Web Services * Reports from latest BSPs * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Record number of participants for Mini DebConf Paris ---------------------------------------------------</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-12-10T14:24:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/497 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org November 26th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/23/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twentythird issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Help your language reach 100% support in the Debian Installer * Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 released * Debian newcomer experience survey * Interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Help your language reach 100% support in the Debian Installer ------------------------------------------------------------- Chri</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-11-26T17:55:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/496 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org November 12th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/22/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twenty-second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Code search engine for Debian * Bits from the DPL * One step closer to "Wheezy" * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Code search engine for Debian ----------------------------- Michael Stapelberg announced the birth of Debian Code Search [1], a search engine for source code within Debian. "It allows you to search all ≈ 17</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-11-12T13:40:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/495 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ press&lt; at &gt;debian.org November 10th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20121110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help us to release "Wheezy": participate to our BSP marathon The Debian Project is pleased to announce that in the next few weeks Bug Squashing Parties ("BSPs" [1]) will take place in several countries. The main focus of a Bug Squashing Party is to triage and fix bugs, but it is also an opportunity for users less familiar with the BTS to make other contributions to the Debian project, such as translating package descriptions or improving the wiki. Debian developers will be present to help contributors understand how the project works and to help get fixes into Debian. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP Below is a list of upcoming Bug Squashing Part</pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-11-10T09:59:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/494 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org October 29th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/21/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twenty-first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 released * Reports from the latest BSPs * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 released ----------------------------------- Cyril Brulebois announced the third beta release of the Debian Installer 7.0 [1]. One of the major improvements in this </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-10-29T12:46:21 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.user.news