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Martin Schulze | 2 Feb 2004 17:54
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Security Host Downtime

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February 2nd, 2004              http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040202
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Security Host Downtime

Yesterday around 15:00 UTC we the host klecker.debian.org crashed.
Unfortunately, it didn't react on the serial console and to a remotely
issued power-cycle.

The following services are affected by this downtime:

security.debian.org

    The public security archive.  As a temporary solution, please
    switch to <http://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-security/> instead.

nonus.debian.org

    The public non-US archive.  As a temporary solution, please
    switch to <http://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-non-US/> instead.

search.debian.org

    The public search facility for the Debian website.

qa.debian.org
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Martin Schulze | 4 Feb 2004 06:16
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Debian Weekly News - February 3rd, 2004

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Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Most true Unix geeks will recognise just how
nice [1]lpd is as a distributed queueing mechanism for managing all
jobs sent to the printer, but don't realise it can be used for other
things as well. In fact, it can be viewed as a general queueing
mechanism and used as an [2]engine for distributed spooling of audio
files. The January issue of the German [3]LinuxUser magazine shipped
with [4]Knoppix, Debian 3.0 and sarge on two [5]DVDs.

 1. http://packages.debian.org/lpr
 2. http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/archives/000128.html
 3. http://www.linux-user.de/
 4. http://www.knoppix.org/
 5. http://www.linux-user.de/DVD/

Debian Project at European Conferences. The Debian project
[6]announced that its members and affiliates will attend four
exhibitions and conferences that cover Free Software and GNU/Linux in
Europe. From February 3rd to 5th [7]Solutions Linux takes place in
Paris, France. On February 16th and 17th [8]Linux Expo Ulm will take
place in Ulm, Germany. Finally on February 21st and 22nd [9]FOSDEM
will take place in Brussels, Belgium, where the Debian project will
share a developers room with another project and organise a mixed
schedule.
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Martin Schulze | 10 Feb 2004 21:05
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Debian Weekly News - February 10th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's sixth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Since supporting UTF-8 in Free Software takes
quite some time, several people started the [1]project UTF-8 for
evangelisation and documentation of proper Unicode (and most
specifically UTF-8) support in Free Software. The core of the
[2]Jabber protocol, the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol,
has been [3]proposed as an [4]IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
standard.

 1. http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/utf-8
 2. http://www.jabber.org/
 3. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/msg28170.html
 4. http://www.ietf.org/

LILO Support for Device Mapper. Andrés Roldán [5]added preliminary
[6]support for device mapper block devices to [7]lilo. The Linux
kernel device mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management)
Team's implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that
handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying
device layout in user-space.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0401/msg02169.html
 6. http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan/debian
 7. http://packages.debian.org/lilo
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Martin Schulze | 17 Feb 2004 20:09
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Debian Weekly News - February 17th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's seventh issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. The [1]debian-desktop sub-project has
[2]announced an IRC meeting on Wednesday, February 25th. Andrea
Mennucc [3]conducted several Google searches and found out that
Debian is ranked in the middle field of popular distributions. Pablo
Lorenzzoni also [4]announced that [5]registration for this years'
Debian conference has opened.

 1. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0402/msg01029.html
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0402/msg00420.html
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0402/msg00003.html
 5. http://www.debconf.org/debconf4/register/

New ftp-master Machine. James Troup [6]announced that [7]ftp-master
has been moved to a more powerful and better connected machine
(newraff, a HP DL380, donated by [8]HP), which has always been a long
term plan. Therefore access to the host auric is not restricted
anymore, opening an upload queue that is accessible via SSH.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0401/msg00011.html
 7. http://ftp-master.debian.org/
 8. http://www.hp.com/
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Martin Schulze | 24 Feb 2004 20:04
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Debian Weekly News - February 24th, 2004

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Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Finally, we can send mail using [1]morse code,
since the [2]International Telecommunications Union assigned a new
[3]code (. - - . - .) for the " <at> " sign. Andreas Barth [4]reported
that 16 packages were broken by a recently uploaded broken tar
version, that was fixed later.

 1. http://www.npg.si.edu/edu/brush/guide/unit2/morse.html
 2. http://www.itu.int/
 3. http://www.cjonline.com/stories/021704/pag_morsecode.shtml
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0402/msg00591.html

Storing RRD Data and Graph Files. Jean-Michel Kelbert [5]asked where
to store [6]RRD files. Since it is [7]impossible to rebuild RRD
files without data loss due to log rotation, it must not be stored in
/var/cache, he asserts later. However, since the graph files are
generated from the data files, they have to go into /var/cache.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0402/msg00960.html
 6. http://packages.debian.org/rrdtool
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0402/msg01015.html

Investigation of the new XFree86 License. Branden Robinson
[8]inspected the new [9]license for XFree86 4.4 and higher. He
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Martin Schulze | 2 Mar 2004 21:04
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Debian Weekly News - March 2nd, 2004

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Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. On March 13th there's going to be a bug squish
[1]fest at the Sydney University by is local [2]user group. Isaac
Jones [3]described that reporting and fixing bugs in software one
uses frequently is one of the easiest ways to get involved in Free
Software. Bradley Kuhn reminded us of the [4]GIF patent that IBM
holds until 2006, even though the Unisys patent will expire soon.

 1. http://linuxpr.com/releases/6695.html
 2. http://debian.slug.org.au/
 3. http://blog.syntaxpolice.org/isaac/index.cgi/technology/contributingToFS.html
 4. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Debian Project Leader Election. Manoj Srivastava [5]reported that the
nomination period is at an end. Three candidates have nominated
themselves: [6]Martin Michlmayr, [7]Gergely Nagy and [8]Branden
Robinson. The [9]platforms from these candidates shall be published
over the weekend. The three week campaigning period has begun.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00185.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00026.html
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00183.html
 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0402/msg00184.html
 9. http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/
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