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Debian Conference Reconfirmation

Posted over 3 years ago

Jörg Jaspert asked all potential attendants of this year's Debian conference to reconfirm their
participation until May 3rd. Only confirmed attendants are considered for
sponsored accommodation and food if asked for. Guests paying for everything
on their own are welcome as well, of course.

Interview with Ian Murdock

Posted over 3 years ago

Debian founder Ian Murdock was interviewed by
LinuxFormat. He said that he is happy how Debian has developed, but that it
is a pity that the project failed to release etch on time and how this
happened. Ian opposes the democratic ... [More] structures in Debian because no leader
feels empowered to make decisions unless everyone agrees with him and
mentioned Ubuntu as a better example. In respect to the latter he expressed
his concern about compatibility with Debian. [Less]

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

Posted over 3 years ago

The Debian project announced the release of Debian
GNU/Linux 4.0, codenamed etch. It
includes a new textual and graphical installer that supports 58
languages and encrypted partitions, packages and repository verification, and
a lot ... [More] of new and updated software
packages. It is strongly recommended to read the release notes before upgrading.
After nearly two years of development, this release marks another milestone in
the history of Debian. [Less]

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

Posted over 3 years ago

Alexander Schmehl announced that sarge, the
old stable distribution, has been updated for the sixth time to incorporate
security updates and minor corrections. With the release
of etch as the new stable distribution
sarge has been ... [More] moved to oldstable. Users who want to stick with sarge
have to take special care before upgrading to 3.1r6. [Less]

Sam Hocevar elected as Debian Project Leader

Posted over 3 years ago

Manoj Srivastava announced
Sam Hocevar as the winner of this years' project leader election whose term starts on April 17th. A total of
482 developers casted their vote. The Debian project would like to wish
Sam all the best for his ... [More] upcoming tasks and decisions. We also want to
thank Anthony Towns for his past term as Debian project leader. [Less]

New GNU/kFreeBSD CD Image

Posted over 3 years ago

Aurelien Jarno announced that a new installation CD image is available for Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD. This port is based upon the GNU C library
and the FreeBSD kernel. The CD image uses
kernel version 6.2 which supports more recent hardware than previous
versions and is available for the i386 and amd64 platforms.

Debian participates in Google's Summer of Code

Posted over 3 years ago

Steve
McIntyre announced that the Debian project has been accepted for this year's Google
Summer of Code. During this
Google sponsors the creation and future development of Free
Software. A Wiki page has been set up to coordinate ... [More] the participation and to collect ideas
and proposals for possible projects. The list of accepted student
applications was published on April 9th. [Less]

Saving Money with Debian GNU/Linux

Posted over 3 years ago

The leader of the IT
department of Germany's Federal
Foreign Office, Rolf Schuster, reported that they
have seriously cut their IT costs by consequently using Free Software. Driven
by the urge to save money on license fees and to ... [More] escape from update cycles the
office started the move in 2002 and has since then connected 230 embassies with
the secure intranet gateways.
More than 300 laptops of diplomats also run a specialised distribution based
on Debian GNU/Linux. [Less]

Debian Weekly News 2007/05

Posted over 3 years ago

Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Roland Mas announced that Alioth users can
use Mercurial for version
control. Robert Millan announced
version 0.4.0 of the Debian loader
for ... [More] Windows operating systems including Vista. Joey Schulze reported that security updates are available via IPv6 from
official servers as well. The new release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is celebrated all over the
world. [Less]

BTS subscription fixed

Posted over 3 years ago

The mechanism that allows to subscribe to bug reports in the Debian BTS
has been broken for some time (how long exactly is unknown).

The problem only affected bug reports for which no "mailing list" existed
yet. Basically what this ... [More] means that if you subscribed to a bug report but
never received a mail asking to confirm the subscription, you were not
subscribed and will have missed any mails sent to that bug report.

Note that if you did receive a confirmation for your subscription
to a bug report, you will not have missed any mails for that bug
report due to this issue.

The system works again now. You will need to subscribe again for any
subscriptions that were lost. You may also want to review the bug history
in the BTS for those bug reports.

We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Frans Pop
Debian Listmaster [Less]