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Francesca Ciceri | 6 Feb 14:57
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Debian Project News - February 6th, 2012

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February 6th, 2012            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/03/
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Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released
  * Bits from the Release Team
  * Bits from the piuparts maintainers
  * Report from Debian Med sprint
  * Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze
  * Answering Debian users' questions
  * Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party
  * GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective
  * 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?

Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released
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The fourth update for Debian 6.0 (codenamed [1] "Squeeze" ) has been released.
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Francesca Ciceri | 23 Jan 13:05
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Debian Project News - January 23rd, 2012

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January 23rd, 2012            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/02/
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Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

    * Debian ahead on web servers
  * Dummy web server in Debian?
  * Aptitude strikes back
  * About donations to Debian
  * Armhf status in Debian
  * IGMP denial of service in Linux
  * Interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bug statistics for the upcoming release
  * Status of Debian Installer localisation
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian ahead on web servers
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According to a recent W3Techs survey [1], Debian has just surpassed CentOS to
become the most popular GNU/Linux distribution on web servers. The survey is
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Francesca Ciceri | 20 Jan 21:49
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Meet Debian at FOSDEM 2012

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Meet Debian at FOSDEM 2012                        press <at> lists.debian.org
January 20th, 2012              http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120120
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The Debian Project is happy to announce that as in previous years it
will be represented at this year's Free and Open Source Developer's
European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on the 4th-5th February.
Debian will be present with a booth in the K building, ground floor,
members of the project will be available for questions and discussion,
and various Debian-branded items will be on sale.

Two talks in the keynotes track will be given by long-time Debian
Developers, Lars Wirzenius and Bdale Garbee, who will talk about how to
innovate the development process of distributions and the FreedomBox
project, respectively. Other Debian Developers will give talks or hold
discussion groups about specific aspects of the project:

Saturday, February 4th

11:30 Serafeim Zanikolas How to replace a legacy tool with 100k
installations

13:00 Wookey Multiarch — why it's important

13:15 Moritz Muehlnhoff Univention Corporate Server

15:00 Lior Kaplan Debian packaging for beginners
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Francesca Ciceri | 9 Jan 22:50
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Debian Project News - January 9th, 2012

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January 9th, 2012             http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/01/
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Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released
  * Bits from the DPL
  * Forthcoming new release of the X server
  * Scientific article on Debian in PNAS
  * New Debian Infographic
  * New interface for Debtags website
  * apt-get purge defoma
  * Further interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Status of Debian Installer localisation
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released
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Paul Wise | 14 Dec 10:37
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Debian Project News - December 14th, 2011

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December 14th, 2011           http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/15/
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  Welcome to this year's fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Volunteers needed for publicity team
  * Removal of sun-java6 from the archive
  * Debian SDL packaging team revival
  * Bits from the DPL
  * Ubuntu appreciates Debian
  * India mini-DebConf, Mangalore edition
  * New mirror in El Salvador
  * Debexpo maintainers call for contributions
  * Bug Squashing Party marathon started
  * Call for talks: FOSDEM 2012
  * New s390 buildd at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  * Further interviews
  * 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?

Volunteers needed for publicity team
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David Prévot | 7 Nov 20:52
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Debian Project News - November 7th 2011

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November 7th, 2011            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/14/
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Welcome to this year's fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released
  * DebConf12 official dates
  * Debian Installer localisation
  * Feedback after DebConf11
  * Uses of Emdebian
  * Bits from the DPL
  * New Member process
  * Further interviews
  * Other news
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released
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The third update for Debian 6.0 (codename [1] "Squeeze") and the ninth
update for Debian 5.0 (codename [2] "Lenny") have been released. These
updates mainly add corrections for security problems to the stable and
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 2 Nov 12:19
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DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed

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November 2nd, 2011               http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111102
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DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed
DebConf12 to take place in Managua, Nicaragua in July 2012

The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian operating system, has
confirmed the dates and venue for its next annual conference, DebConf12.

The conference will take place from July 8 to July 14 2012, in Managua,
Nicaragua. In DebConf's twelve-year history, this will be the first time
it will be held in Central America.

Every year, DebConf allows new and existing Debian project participants
from around the world to assemble, share knowledge, make collaborative
contributions to Debian, and build tighter community bonds. Conference
costs are largely funded by corporate sponsors who find significant value
in enabling Debian's success. 

"The members of the Debian community in Nicaragua, working together with
their fellow communities in Central America, are very excited to be
hosting this event, and are happy to welcome our colleagues from around
the world to join us in Managua at this very important and productive
conference" says Leandro G&oacute;mez, leader of the local team for
DebConf12. "This conference will boost the local Debian and Free Software
communities and help to bring awareness for the Debian Project, with new
contributors and enthusiasts from our country and the surrounding region
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Francesca Ciceri | 20 Sep 08:12
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Debian Project News - September 19th, 2011

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September 19th, 2011          http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/13/
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Welcome to this year's thirteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian's 18th birthday
  * Bits from the DPL
  * Debian Bug Squashing Party at MIT
  * Squeeze backports for Xorg
  * Debian feeds on Identi.ca and Twitter
  * Debian in Myanmar
  * Further interviews
  * Other news
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian's 18th birthday
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On August 16 the Debian Project turned 18 [1]: for that occasion, across
the world there were various parties [2] organised by Debian Developers,
Maintainers, Contributors and Users. Pictures of these parties can be
viewed at the Debian Birthday website [3], where the project has
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 20 Sep 08:24
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Upcoming point releases and call for test

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September 18th, 2011             http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110919
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Upcoming point releases and call for test

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that the upcoming point
releases for Debian 5 "Lenny" and Debian 6 "Squeeze" are scheduled for
October 1st and October 8th respectively.

Debian "Squeeze" 6.0.3 will ship updated Linux kernel packages, including
bug fixes from the Linux "longterm" series up to 2.6.32.46, plus updated
drivers supporting new gigabit Ethernet chips from Broadcom, Intel and
Realtek.  New packages for 32-bit PC, 64-bit PC and PowerPC are already
available for installation from the "stable-proposed-updates" suite [1].

  1: http://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates

The Debian Project invites interested users to test these packages before
their release, especially on systems that use the updated drivers.

The drivers being updated are:

 * e1000e (http://bugs.debian.org/627700)
   * Add support for i82567V-4 and i82579
   * Fix support for i82577, i82578 and i82583
 * igb, igbvf (http://bugs.debian.org/627702)
   * Add support for i82576-ET2, i82580, DH89xxCC, i340 and i350
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 16 Aug 11:05
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Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday

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July 29th, 2011                  http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110730
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Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday

The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian
Murdoch's founding announcement [1].  Quoting from the official project
history [2]:  "The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock
on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a 'distribution'
of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be
made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU."

 1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6
 2: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html

A lot has happened to the project and its community in the past eighteen
years.  There have been eleven releases - most recently Debian 6.0
"Squeeze" [3] in February 2011 - and a huge amount of free software
packaged.  The current "unstable" branch consists of more than 35,000
binary packages for the amd64 architecture alone - over 44GB of
Free/Libre Software!  Throughout this history Debian has maintained its
goals of technical excellence, accountability, and above all freedom.

 3: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a

Of course that wouldn't be possible without the strong community which
has developed around Debian.  Besides more than 1,000 Debian Developers
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 15 Aug 20:37
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Debian Project News - August 15th, 2011

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August 15th, 2011             http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/12/
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Welcome to this year's twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian named "Best Linux Distribution of 2011" and "Top Production Server Distro" 
  * Bits from the Release Team
  * Recent improvements with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
  * FreedomBox activities at DebConf11
  * New website for mentors.debian.net
  * Debian s390x port
  * Integrating Emdebian Grip into Debian
  * Further interviews
  * Other news
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian named "Best Linux Distribution of 2011" and "Top Production Server Distro" 
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TuxRadar [1] recently compared the six most popular Linux distributions
[2] in different categories. It's our pleasure to announce that Debian
not only won the categories"Customization", "Community" and
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