gmane.linux.debian.user.news

Debian participates in the 2008 Google "Summer of Code"

Alexander Schmehl — 2008-04-27T21:05:04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian participates in the 2008 Google Summer of Code press< at >debian.org April 27th, 2008 http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080427 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted by Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme. We have been allocated twelve tasks for this year. Google will fund the students mentioned here to work full time on those tasks during their summer vacation, from May 26th to August 18th. They will be guided and evaluated during this time by a team of Debian developers. Several tasks cover communication between software authors, users and Debian developers. A number of tasks target quality assurance and improved testing, while others will result in n

Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008

Alexander Schmehl — 2008-04-21T20:10:05

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/01/ Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the first issue of the Debian Project News, the newsletter for the Debian community! From now on we'll keep you informed about recent events and interesting developments in and around the Debian Community on a biweekly basis. But we could still use some help, so feel free to take a look at our [1]wiki. 1. http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/ New Debian Project Leader elected --------------------------------- After 12 years of working on Debian as a developer [2]Steve McIntyre was elected as the new Debian project leader. Within short hours of taking the job Steve had his first [3]interview with iTWire where he plans to focus his energy during his term. The interview highlights Steve's hopes to improve communication between the core teams, get

Debian Weekly News - July 3rd, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-07-03T20:19:59

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/06/ Debian Weekly News - July 3rd, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Ulrich Hansen created a set of nice looking CD and DVD [1]covers for the just released [2]Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. Roland Mas [3]announced that [4]Alioth has been upgrade to [5]etch. Kurt Gramlich [6]announced a Skolelinux Youngster Meeting on July 20th to 26th in Chemnitz, Germany. 1. http://www.ulrich-hansen.de/etch/ 2. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/05/msg00001.html 4. http://alioth.debian.org/ 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2007/06/msg00015.html Call for Papers for LVEE-2007. Vlad Shakhov [7]called for papers and speakers for the upcoming [8]Linux Vacation/Easte

Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-04-24T19:06:42

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/05/ Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Roland Mas [1]announced that [2]Alioth users can use [3]Mercurial for version control. Robert Millan [4]announced version 0.4.0 of the Debian [5]loader for Windows operating systems including Vista. Joey Schulze [6]reported that [7]security updates are available via IPv6 from official servers as well. The new release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is [8]celebrated all over the world. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00011.html 2. http://alioth.debian.org/ 3. http://packages.debian.org/mercurial 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/03/msg01168.html 5. http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ 6. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200703292005 7. http://www.d

Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

Joey Schulze — 2007-04-25T13:58:34

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian participates in Google's Summer of Code press< at >debian.org April 25th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070425 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code The Debian project is proud that it has been accepted by Google as a mentor organisation for this year's Summer of Code program, with nine tasks in total. Google will fund the students mentioned below to work full time on these tasks during their summer vacation, from May 28th to August 20th. They will be guided and evaluated during this time by active Debian developers. The main focus of all the student tasks is to create or improve utilities that assist developers working on Debian packages and the Debian release. Several tasks cover communication between software authors, users and Debian

Debian Weekly News - March 13th, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-03-13T20:06:14

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/04/ Debian Weekly News - March 13th, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. The Debian listmaster [1]determined as part of the spring cleaning effort several unused and obsolete lists that will be closed down. Tony Mobily [2]noted that the last [3]GIF patent has finally expired. Gustavo Franco [4]reported that Second Life [5]runs on Debian servers because it is suited to scaling massively with a small IT staff. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/01/msg00046.html 2. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1772 3. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html 4. http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com/2007/03/debian-get-life.html 5. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800179 Directory for Web Applications. Paul Ca

Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-02-13T20:27:45

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/03/ Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In light of recent [1]attacks on SHA-1, the [2]National Institute of Standards and Technology is preparing for a [3]competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard. Rick Lehrbaum [4]reported that the installation of Debian etch on an old ThinkPad notebook went pretty well and added a number of screenshots. 1. http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/20/1936257.shtml 2. http://www.nist.gov/ 3. http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/nist_hash.html 4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8143350649.html Supporting Package Downgrade? Justin Pryzby [5]listed a couple of reasons for not supporting package downgrades. They often work nevertheless, except when pa

Debian Weekly News - January 30th, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-01-30T20:31:21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/02/ Debian Weekly News - January 30th, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Anthony Towns was [1]interviewed by Liz Tay on whether [2]Dunc Tank was a failure or success. Joey Schulze [3]reported that the [4]alpha port has caught up and is fitter than before since it now has two working build daemon. 1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;189708751;pp;1 2. http://www.dunc-tank.org/ 3. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200701291912 4. http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/ Dealing with personal Configuration and Data. Aigars Mahinovs [5]proposed a standard for applications to organise data and configuration files stored in the user's home directory as an extension to the [6]Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. It should first implemented in

Debian Weekly News - January 23rd, 2007

Martin Schulze — 2007-01-23T21:24:55

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/01/ Debian Weekly News - January 23rd, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. [1]Erinn Clark, co-founder and leader of [2]Debian Women is [3]selected one of the top 10 girl geeks who are influential in Open Source. Linux-Watch posted Chris Fearnley's [4]rebuttal to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argument that Debian is in trouble. 1. http://erinn.org/about/ 2. http://women.debian.org/ 3. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/top-10-girl-geeks-13100 4. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9097794891.html Debian and the one Laptop per Child Project. Michael Voigt [5]wondered if Debian is supporting the [6]One Laptop per Child project. It has been founded by the [7]MIT Media Laboratory and is about creating an cheap and affordable laptop for chi

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 archived

Martin Schulze — 2007-01-10T20:29:24

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 archived press< at >debian.org January 10th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 archived The old stable release Debian GNU/Linux (codename 'woody') has been archived. The official source for this distribution is the dedicated archive host called archive.debian.org. It is no longer available on regular Debian mirror servers. After four and a half years this marks the final end of life for GNU/Linux 3.0. This distribution has been superseded by Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'sarge') which the Debian project has released on June 6th, 2005. Security support for woody has therefore ended already in June 2006, one year after the release of sarge. The Debian security team is able to support up to two distr

Debian Weekly News - December 26th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-12-26T20:24:09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/42/ Debian Weekly News - December 26th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 42nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. DWN is currently not being published weekly but when authors have contributed enough items because its editor can't ignore other duties while the Debian project is indirectly paying some developers. In the meantime Christian Perrier has opened the [1]400,000th bug report. Jonathan Oxer [2]called for participation in the sixth Debian [3]mini conference which will be part of [4]Linux Conference Australia in Sydney. 1. http://bugs.debian.org/400000 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00008.html 3. http://miniconf6.debconf.org/ 4. http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ 20.000 Submitters for Popularity Contest. Petter Reinholdsen [5]reported that Debian'

Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-11-28T20:05:03

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/41/ Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 41st issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Due to unfortunate [1]circumstances the weekly newsletter stopped being released weekly and will only be [2]finalised when enough people have contributed. Thanks to Sebastian Feltel for nearly writing this issue alone. Bill Allombert [3]began to evaluate package set upgrades from [4]sarge to [5]etch to find out how smooth the upgrade goes. 1. http://www.dunc-tank.org/ 2. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200610250942 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/11/msg00337.html 4. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/ 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ GNOME 2.14 in Etch. Jordi Mallach [6]announced that the [7]Debian GNOME team has decided to ship [8]GNOME 2.14

Debian Weekly News - October 31st, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-10-31T20:06:55

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/40/ Debian Weekly News - October 31st, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. This [1]DebianHelp site contains a lot of information for Debian beginners. Since DWN is not [2]published weekly anymore Joey Hess [3]started to write weekly summaries to fill the gap. Parts have been included in this issue already. Jorge Salamero Sanz [4]set up a [5]repository with ported applications for the [6]Nokia 770 web tablet. 1. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ 2. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200610250942 3. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/DWN_items_1.html 4. http://bencer.cauterized.net/blog/index.php?blog/show/44 5. http://pulsar.unizar.es/nokia770 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet Source-less Binary Objects in the Debian Linux

Debian Weekly News - September 26th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-09-26T19:18:00

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/39/ Debian Weekly News - September 26th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 39th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Jeroen van Wolffelaar [1]announced a bug squashing party to be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from September 29th to October 1st. Manoj Srivastava [2]announced that the general resolution on asset handling has passed. As Debian [3]experiments with funding, the author of DWN is going to experiment with spending less time on Debian. Please understand that due to this there may be no future issues of DWN in the current form or that they will only be released less frequently. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00013.html 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/09/msg00439.html 3. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1964607233;f

Debian Weekly News - September 19th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-09-19T19:44:42

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/38/ Debian Weekly News - September 19th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 38th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. David Barker [1]thanked the project for the well developed [2]etch distribution. Joey Schulze [3]contemplated etch to be ready for release already. From Friday to Sunday a bug squashing [4]party will be organised in [5]Berlin, Germany. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00042.html 2. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ 3. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200609102259 4. http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathon 5. http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/de/Berlin Status of GNOME 2.16 in Debian. Frederic Peters [6]announced a status [7]page that helps tracking packages of [8]GNOME 2.16 which has been released recently. Josselin Mouette [9]added that it is planned

Debian Weekly News - September 12th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-09-12T19:06:02

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/37/ Debian Weekly News - September 12th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 37th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Debian will be [1]present at the [2]Wizards of OS conference next weekend in Berlin, Germany. André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira [3]wondered if there will be special Debian [4]themes available for the desktop environments in [5]etch. Adrian von Bidder [6]discovered a 16 core MIPS [7]server with Debian pre-installed. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2006/09/msg00007.html 2. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0914-wizardsofos 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00510.html 4. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopArtwork 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00900.html 7. http://www.movidis.c

Debian Weekly News - September 5th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-09-05T20:07:45

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/36/ Debian Weekly News - September 5th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 36th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Alexander Sack [1]called for people to test upcoming security updates to the Mozilla packages for sarge. Ben Hutchings has managed to [2]upload the final files for DebConf session videos. Three documentary videos filmed by Biella Coleman fill follow later. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00286.html 2. http://womble2.livejournal.com/57100.html Etch Release Advertisement. Gustavo Franco [3]suggested to ask for donations specific for a release advertisement. Joey Schulze [4]raised some questions to find get a clearer picture. The goal is to publish advertisements in large newspapers and magazines to get a press coverage like the past Firefox [5]camp

Debian Weekly News - August 29th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-08-29T19:08:30

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/35/ Debian Weekly News - August 29th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 35th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bug squashing parties have been announced for September 8th to 10th in [1]Vienna and for September 15th to 17th in [2]Jülich, Germany. OSDir has taken [3]screenshots of the new graphical [4]Debian installer. Petr Stehlik [5]reported that the installation of [6]sarge and [7]etch worked flawlessly in the recently [8]fixed version of [9]ARAnyM, a 32bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon virtual machine. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00012.html 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00013.html 3. http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=724&slide=2 4. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 5. http://lists.debian

Debian Weekly News - August 22nd, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-08-22T19:09:44

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/34/ Debian Weekly News - August 22nd, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 34th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Jörg Jaspert [1]announced that the [2]backports archive also understands the tilde character in version strings and that packages are set to NotAutomatic so that they shouldn't be updated automatically anymore. [3]HP recently [4]announced that they support Debian GNU/Linux on its ProLiant, BladeSystem servers, and the new HP t5725 Thin Client server. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/08/msg00118.html 2. http://www.backports.org/ 3. http://www.hp.com/ 4. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;311998848;fp;2;fpid;1 Event Coordination in the German-speaking Area. Meike Reichle [5]announced a new Wiki [6]page for coordinating public events in the Germa

Debian Weekly News - August 15th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-08-15T19:27:12

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/33/ Debian Weekly News - August 15th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Debian turns 13 this week, so make sure you find a [1]party nearby. With enough time compose a melody before the new release Julien Danjou [2]published his etch song. David Sugar [3]wondered if the Free Software community should learn to write more buggy code and invent reasons to reboot the system all the time after a change has been made in order to be more attractive for the desktop. 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian13th 2. http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/2006/08/01/312-etch-song 3. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1692 Distribution-wide Tracker Tool. Arnaud Fontaine [4]reported about the status of Wotomae, the [5]distribution-wide tracker tool. T

Debian Weekly News - August 8th, 2006

Martin Schulze — 2006-08-08T19:05:09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/32/ Debian Weekly News - August 8th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 32nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Enrico Zini [1]noticed that the description for Pike packages contains a long explanation of Pike which produces erroneous search results, Helmut Wollmersdorfer [2]added that PHP packages have similar issues. Erich Schubert [3]called for artists to design artwork for the [4]etch release that could be used as the desktop background. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00281.html 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00332.html 3. http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/debian/2006072002-debian-etch-artwork 4. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ New SPI Board Officers elected. David Graham, secretary of [5]Software in the Public Interest, I