http://blog.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/366 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/15/ Debian Project News - November 19th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 15th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * First release candidate of Debian Installer for Lenny * Debian screenshot service started * "Open Use Logo" relicensed First Release Candidate for the new Debian Installer Otavio Salvador [1]announced the first release candidate for the installer to be shipped with Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00002.html Improvements since the last beta release include: * Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases); * Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip (QNAP TS-10 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-11-19T20:47:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/365 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/14/ Debian Project News - November 3rd, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 14th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated * Debian membership * First Lenny Bug Sprint finished successfully Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename "Etch"). This update mainly corrects security problems in the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. New CD and DVD images containing updated packages are available at the regular locati Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-11-03T20:53:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/364 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/13/ Debian Project News - October 20th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the Debian CD team * Debian, software patents and archive layout * Statistics about packages.debian.org usage Bits from the Debian CD team Steve McIntyre posted some [1]bits from the Debian CD team. With the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", Blu-ray Disc images will be available as well as CD and DVD images. For the first time in several years, users should be able to fit all of the packages for one architecture on a single disc. But due to the increased size of the Debian archive and considerations of storage and network bandwidth (especially on our mirrors) only a limited number of version Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-10-20T21:16:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/363 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/12/ Debian Project News - October 8th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the DPL * What you can do for Lenny * 500,000th bug reported * ... and much more. Bits from the DPL Steve McIntyre sent out another [1]"Bits from the DPL" mail. His first topic was the recently finished eighth Debian Conference in Argentina. Even though many developers and contributors could not travel there he considered it to be a successful conference. He especially thanked the video team, who "did an [2]amazing job this year making most of the sessions available via stream as well as forwarding questions via Internet Relay Chat." Steve is already looking forward to next year's Debian Conference, which Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-10-08T04:46:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/362 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/11/ Debian Project News - September 15th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 11th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Release Update * Should Security Enhanced Linux be priority "standard"? * Lenny Upgrade advisor * ... and much more. Release update Luk Claes [1]reported on the progress regarding the release of the new stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". While there are still a lot of release critical bugs to be fixed, Lenny is in good enough shape to call for upgrade tests and work on the release notes. Regarding the upgrade tests, he especially asks to test the Linux 2.6.26 kernel. Regarding the release notes, he asks that any issues that should be documented should be reported as bug against the [2]release-notes pseud Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-09-15T20:47:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/361 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/10/ Debian Project News - September 1st, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 10th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Live Lenny Beta1 released * Debian Translations for French and German Reach 100% * Policy for web apps session storage? * ... and much more. Debian Live Lenny Beta1 The Debian Live team [1]announced the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. This is the first official release of Debian Live CDs. The main features are, that these Live images are build 100% with packages in Debians main section and different flavours (GNOME, KDE and Xfce as well as a small image without graphical environment. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00013.html Future releases should also contain an i Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-09-02T05:17:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/360 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/09/ Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * Debian turns 15 * 8th annual Debian Conference finished * Freespire 5 to be based on Debian * ... and much more. Debian turns 15 On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock [1]announced a new Linux distribution named "Debian". 15 years later the project started by him is the biggest Linux distribution worldwide, offering more than 20 000 software packages maintained by over 1'000 volunteers, supporting more hardware architectures than any other Linux distribution, and providing a base for more than twenty active derivatives, like [2]Knoppix, [3]Skolelinux or [4]Ubuntu. 1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.developmen Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-08-19T19:22:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/359 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Mar Del Plata to host 9th Debian conference press< at >debconf.org August 8th, 2008 http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080808 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mar Del Plata to host 9th Debian conference * 250 developers from 37 countries to come together at Hotel Dorá, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 10-16 August 2008. * 100 talks and tutorial sessions scheduled. * Attendance is free of charge, on-site registration required. * Debian Project to turn 15 years of age. Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 8 August 2008 - The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, is inviting members of the public and the press to its annual conference, DebConf 8, which takes place from 10 August to 16 August at the Hotel Dorá in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. Over 100 events have been schedu Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-08-08T20:11:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/358 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/08/ Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: * "Lenny" frozen * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware * Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced * Debian Days around the world * ... and much more. "Lenny" frozen Marc Brockschmidt, a Release Manager, announced that "Lenny", the upcoming new stable release, has been [1]frozen as [2]planned. The automatic transition of new versions of packages from the development branch ("sid" or "unstable") to the current testing branch ("lenny") has been stopped and new versions of packages need manual approval. New versions which fix release critical bugs, other important bugs, add document Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-08-04T23:07:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/357 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/ Debian Project News - July 21st, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 7th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue: * Updates to the Lenny release process * Debian-installer to support loading of external firmwares * Best practice for debug packages * ... and much more. Updates to the Lenny release process Luk Claes sent a [1]release update regarding the upcoming stable release Debian 5.0 "Lenny". An important part is, that starting with next week, the transition of packages from the unstable to the testing branch will be frozen to concentrate on: fixing the remaining bugs. He further reports on the different release goals, which he sees in good shape, but is a bit worried about the architecture qualification pages on wiki.debian.org, which still mis Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2008-07-21T22:40:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/356 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/06/ Debian Project News - July 7th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue: * DebianDay 2008 * DPL-initiated teams survey finished * Bits from the testing security team * ... and much more. Debian Day 2008 around the Globe 16 August 2008 will mark the 15th birthday of the Debian project since its [1]first announcement by founder Ian Murdock on comp.os.linux.development on 16 August 1993. A coordination page for local Debian User Groups organizing and announcing birthday events is [2]already available at the Debian Wiki. 1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6 2: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2008 DPL-initiated teams survey finished Debian Project Leader S Joerg Jaspert 2008-07-07T20:29:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/355 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/05/ Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue: * Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers * Backports.org keyring package? * Debian powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer * ... and much more. Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers Marc Brockschmidt, member of the New Maintainer Frontdesk, [1]sent a call for Application Managers taking care of New Maintainers. Application Managers should have a broad experience in sponsoring and mentoring of prospective developers, a firm knowledge of the Debian Policy and Developer's Reference and at least a rough understanding of the current New Maintainer process. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel- Alexander Schmehl 2008-06-24T08:24:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/354 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Project News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/04/ Debian Project News - June 9th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue: * Release Update * Beta-2 of the Lenny Debian Installer released * Report from LinuxTag 2008 * Call for help by the german translation team * ... and much more. Release Update Marc Brockschmidt reported[1] about the status of the upcoming stable release. After some major transitions, like the ocaml transition[2][3] "Lenny" is in good shape, but still a lot of work needs to be done. Since the armel architecture made great improvements the release team decided to upgrade it to a proper release architecture. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00000.html 2: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/05/debi Alexander Schmehl 2008-06-09T23:33:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/353 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/03/ Debian Weekly News - May 26th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Steve McIntyre sent a new "Bits from the DPL" mail. A serious issue in Debians OpenSSL package has been fixed recently. Debian is discussing about an archive strucure for huge packages. Bits from the Debian Project Leader ----------------------------------- Steve McIntyre sent a new release of his "Bits from the DPL"[1] reporting his recent activities as elected Project Leader. He starts by pointing to several interviews he gave recently[2][3][4][5][6] and continues by informing about personal changes in core teams. Jonathan McDowell has been added as keyring maintainer, and is already working together with James Troup on easier integration of keyring maintenance and our ldap sy Alexander Schmehl 2008-05-26T23:07:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/352 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/02/ Debian Weekly News - May 9th, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. We would like to thank everyone for his feedback on the last issue of the Debian Project News! We didn't reckoned a tiny newsletter would cause such an sensation - we where even mentioned in some print magazines! So many, many thanks! We'll try our very best to come up and exceed your expectations! While visiting Stefano Zacchiroli the www 2008 conference[1] in china Sir Tim Berners-Lee[2] offered Debian kudos[3] for its well thought-out encapsulation/packaging of libraries. Paul Wise will close[4] his Debian user[5] and Debian new contributor[6] surveys on June 1st so that analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you haven't done so, yet. 1. http://www2008.org/ Alexander Schmehl 2008-05-16T20:45:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/351 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Alexander Schmehl 2008-04-27T21:05:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/350 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Alexander Schmehl 2008-04-21T20:10:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/348 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Martin Schulze 2007-07-03T20:19:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/347 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Martin Schulze 2007-04-24T19:06:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Joey Schulze 2007-04-25T13:58:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/345 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Martin Schulze 2007-03-13T20:06:14 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.user.news