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Martin Schulze | 5 Nov 2002 20:14
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Debian Weekly News - November 5th, 2002

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Welcome to this year's 43rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. This week we are pleased to include items by
Matt Black and David Kimdon. A [1]survey about trends in the
information technology of the German computer magazine iX shows Debian
as an outperformer among the GNU/Linux distributions with a growth
from 6 % to 20 % compared with the last survey.

 1. http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2002/11/012

Debian Security Survey. A member of the security team sent [2]letter
trying to gather information about what users and organisations think
about and expect from the Debian Security Team. Since the security
team naturally cannot support potato endlessly, security updates for
potato will end some day. However, there are still organisations that
cannot simply upgrade their potato environment to woody, hence, some
negotiation is required.

 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0211/msg00001.html

Is Debian an Anarchist Organization? Jonathan Walther [3]heard some
people saying that the Debian project is a good example of anarchy in
action. He wanted to know what to tell people who ask if Debian is
anarchic? Sean Perry [4]wondered how a group of people numbering
around a thousand and at any one point in time having at least a
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Martin Schulze | 12 Nov 2002 20:27
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Debian Weekly News - November 12th, 2002

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Welcome to this year's 44th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Starting with this issue, the people who
thankfully contributed important items to DWN will be listed in the
issue footer of the web version, which is a more logical place than
the editorial. Some of our German readers may be interested in a
[1]pan labelled with a special Tux logo containing the unique number
of the pan.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-commercial-02/msg00001.html

APT Development requires Help. Jason Gunthorpe, author of APT,
[2]asked for help since he is no longer able to spend enough time to
effectively maintain and advance Debian's central package management
system. The current CVS version fixes some of the open bugs but has
some problems and needs testing and bugfixing.

 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0211/msg00352.html

Public Debian Machines for Software Authors. [3]Hewlett-Packard
recently expanded their [4]Test Drive Program to support Debian
GNU/Linux as well. This program is intended for users who want to
sample the 32- and 64-bit servers running a variety of HP and
third-party operating systems and applications. This looks like an
excellent resource Debian can point upstream package authors to when
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Martin Schulze | 19 Nov 2002 19:02
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Debian Weekly News - November 19th, 2002

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Welcome to this year's 45th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. If you don't know yet what to give for
Christmas, check out this [1]Debian art collection. There's more good
news, since Drew Scott Daniels [2]reported that the LZW patent runs
out in the U.S. on December 20th, 2002. LZW is used as compression
method in several data formats, such as TIFF.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-commercial-02/msg00002.html
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0211/msg00160.html

Draft W3C Patent Policy. Attorney Larry Rosen [3]reports that the
[4]World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) needs feedback on their
[5]last-call draft of a new patent policy. The good news is that this
latest draft calls for all W3C specifications to be freely
implementable. Larry says "The community now needs to be heard
supporting this policy so that it is not undone during the public
input and W3C Advisory Council phase." Comments are being accepted
until December 31st, 2002, at [6]www-patentpolicy-comment <at> w3.org.

 3. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/14/2012210.shtml?tid=17
 4. http://www.w3c.org/
 5. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20021114/
 6. mailto:www-patentpolicy-comment <at> w3.org
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Martin Schulze | 26 Nov 2002 20:28
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Debian Weekly News - November 26th, 2002

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Welcome to this year's 46th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Is Free Software suited for governmental use?
Can it replace the systems currently used? To examine this, Japan will
[1]study the possibility of using open-source software such as Linux
at the government level.

 1. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021120S0002

Debian User Worldmap. Gürkan Sengün [2]started to create a world map
of Debian users, similar to the one of Debian developers. Within only
two days he received about 150 coordinates and there should be about
1000 by the release of DWN. The world map is available in three sizes,
768x384, 2000x1000 and 4000x1000. If you want to be added, please send
in your coordinates to [3]gurkan <at> linuks.mine.nu.

 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0211/msg03293.html
 3. mailto:gurkan <at> linuks.mine.nu

Debian Server burnt down. Wichert Akkerman [4]reported that a fire
started in the computing facilities of [5]Twente University.
According to the fire department, everything in the building and the
entire building was burnt to the ground. The Debian server "satie"
that served as security and non-US archive was hosted there. Two days
later, the Security Team [6]reported that the security service was
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