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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 9 Feb 23:36
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Debian Project News - February 2nd, 2009

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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:

  * Release update
  * Debian Summer of Code 08: Where are they now?
  * Dedicating Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo "ths" Seufer
  * Open Source study conducted by Heise Open
  * ... and much more.

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Adeodato Simó, on behalf of the release team, sent a release update [1]
about the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", which might
be released during the weekend of 14 February 2009.

   1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/02/msg00000.html

With the recent second release candidate [2] of the debian-installer for
lenny, the archive has now gone into "deep freeze", which means that only
packages fixing release critical bugs will be allowed to enter "Lenny".
People wanting to help can fix these bugs, test the debian-installer, or
help with therelease notes [3].
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 12 Jan 22:58
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Debian Project News - January 12th, 2009

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Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. This issue is dedicated to [1]Thiemo Seufer, who died on 26
December 2008 in a tragic car accident.

  1: http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081229

Topics covered in this issue include:

 * Bits from the Debian CD team
 * Bits from the Debian Installer team
 * Results from the "Lenny release GR"

Bits from the Debian CD team

Frans Pop sent [2]Bits from the Debian CD team, summarizing various
changes affecting the installation media for the upcoming release of
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny".
The most notable change is the replacement of the Xfce installation
disc with a "light desktop" installation disc for installing Xfce or
LXDE. Furthermore, all four major desktop environments (GNOME, KDE,
Xfce and LXDE) are directly installable from the first DVD image; the
desktop environment to be installed can now be chosen via the boot
menu.
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 30 Dec 00:36
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Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer

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Debian Project mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer

The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community.  Thiemo
Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.

Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways.  He has maintained several
packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS
architectures.  He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a
member of the Debian Installer team.  His contributions reached far
beyond the Debian project.  He also worked on the MIPS port of the
Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller
projects to be named here.

Thiemo's work, dedication, broad technical knowledge and ability to
share this with others will be missed. The contributions of Thiemo will
not be forgotten.  The high standards of Thiemos work make it hard to
pick up.

To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate
the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo.

The funeral service will be held on Monday January 5th 2009, 13:30 at
the Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen.  If you want to express your
condolences please send mail to <ths-condolence <at> linutronix.de>. It will
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 17 Dec 21:45
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Debian Project News - December 17th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 17th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:
 * Release Update
 * General Resolution: Project membership procedures
 * Better backports.org Support
 * ... and much more.

Release Update

Luk Claes [1]reported about the state of the upcoming stable release
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". While there are still a lot of release
critical bugs open, he explained that there is only "a `short list' of
bugs that must absolutely be fixed for Lenny". At the moment the most
important blocking issue is the missing second release candidate for
the debian-installer, which is still [2]being worked on. Christian
Perrier [3]pointed out, that the best way to help the debian-installer
team is to test the so called "daily" builds of the installation
images, which are available from the [4]debian-installer website.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg00006.html
  2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00209.html
  3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00228.html
  4: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 2 Dec 17:19
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Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

 * "Etch-and-a-half" installation images updated
 * GNU Affero General Public License suitable for Debian "main"
 * Security Teams Meeting in Essen
 * ... and much more.

Etch-and-a-half installation images updated

As a result of the release of the first release candidate for Lenny of
Debian Installer (D-I RC1) on November 12th, the installer images for
[1]Etch-and-a-half have also been updated. A consequence of this
update is that during installation of Etch-and-a-half using the
currently available images, a newer kernel version (2.6.26) will be
used. However, the kernel used for the installed system remains
unchanged at version 2.6.24. In some cases this can mean that hardware
which is supported during the installation does not work after the
reboot into the installed system because support for it was added after
the 2.6.24 version.

  1: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf

Old Etch-and-a-half businesscard and netinst CD images remain usable.
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 19 Nov 21:45
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Debian Project News - November 19th, 2008

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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-109/TS-209 and TS-409, HP Media Vault mv2120,
   Buffalo Kurobox Pro);
 * Installer images for Netwinder have been added again;
 * Installer images for i386 Xen guests;
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 3 Nov 21:50
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Debian Project News - November 3rd, 2008

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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 locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the
aptitude (or apt-get) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual
page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list
of mirrors is available [1]online.
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 20 Oct 23:15
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Debian Project News - October 20th, 2008

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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 versions of each
image will be available for direct download on our mirrors.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00003.html

All images will be available via Jigdo (a tool which creates images by
downloading individual .deb files and assembling them into one .iso
file), and most images for the popular architectures will be available
as torrents, too.
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 8 Oct 06:45
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Debian Project News - October 8th, 2008

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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 will take place in the Junta Extremadura in
Spain.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00009.html
  2: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Videoteam/Thanks
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 15 Sep 22:43
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Debian Project News - September 15th, 2008

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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
pseudo package. Further discussion will happen on the [3]debian-doc
mailing list.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00000.html
  2: http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes
  3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 2 Sep 07:15
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Debian Project News - September 1st, 2008

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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 installation system, which is
not part of this beta1 version, since it still contains some minor
bugs. The images are created using [2]live-helper, a collection of
scripts helping to create these CD images. There is also a
[3]graphical front end for these script.
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