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Martin Schulze | 4 Oct 2005 21:07
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Debian Weekly News - October 4th, 2005

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Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Donald Feinberg, vice-president of Gartner
[1]predicted the end of Unix in 10-15 years and the rise of
GNU/Linux. Debian GNU/Linux is used as a server [2]running several
open source products for analytics at the Australian Taxation Office.

 1. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1242282.cms
 2. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=861607645

DPL Team Status Issue Tracker. Andreas Schuldei [3]announced a Wiki
[4]page in order to maintain transparency of the scud [5]team since
they did not have formal meetings and minutes for a longer time. The
list includes funding, hardware and hosting requests, communications
issues and more.

 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/09/msg00200.html
 4. http://wiki.debian.org/DPLTeamCurrentIssues
 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00035.html

Release Team Changes. Colin Watson [6]announced his resignation from
the release team due to his time constraints. To let the release team
benefit from his experience, he's going to stay in the team but merely
as an engineer. A new release manager will be added to the team soon
in order to fill the gap.
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Martin Schulze | 4 Oct 2005 21:22
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Debian Security Hosting Modification

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October 4th, 2005               http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20051004
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Debian Security Hosting Modification

The Debian project has split the public frontend of security.debian.org
to a new machine liberally hosted at Telegraaf Media Groep.  By this move
internal and external services of the Debian security infrastructure have
been split which was a major requirement for future improvements of this
service.

After the release of an update to XFree86 (Debian Security Advisory 816)
it became obvious that the old machine was not able to properly serve the
needs of the large number of users anymore.  The outgoing 100MBit/s
connection was totally saturated during 70% of the day and the machine
was throttling.

Restructuring the security infrastructure has been discussed before the
incident last month and will continue until the final setup is installed.
The move of the public frontend to a more powerful machine is the first
step towards a more flexible and failsafe solution that can deal with
high bandwidth peaks better than a single machine only.

About Telegraaf Media Groep

Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. is an independent Dutch media company, best
known for publishing the largest daily newspaper in the Netherlands: De
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Martin Schulze | 11 Oct 2005 21:09
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Debian Weekly News - October 11th, 2005

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Welcome to this year's 41st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. The Georgia Tech Marine Robotics Group has built
an underwater [1]vehicle with Debian as the [2]base operating
system. Matt LaPlante started a [3]series of articles that describe
the set up and configuration of a firewall based on Debian, including
DHCP, DNS, proxy services and dynamic DNS.

 1. http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/underwater/
 2. http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/underwater/software.htm
 3. http://www.cyberdogtech.com/firewalls/

Debian Security Infrastructure. The Debian project [4]announced that
the security network has been improved by splitting off the public
frontend to a new [5]host. This was a required step after an
[6]advisory recently caused the outgoing bandwidth of the old server
to be totally [7]saturated. Two more were [8]added afterward.

 4. http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20051004
 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2005/msg00047.html
 6. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-816
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2005/msg00206.html
 8. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200510050938

Dealing with Wiki Spam. Carlos Parra Camargo [9]noticed that several
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Martin Schulze | 18 Oct 2005 21:12
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Debian Weekly News - October 18th, 2005

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Welcome to this year's 42nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Flavio Villanustre [1]reviewed Elive 0.3, a
live CD based on Debian and Morphix that features Enlightenment 0.17.
Steve Langasek [2]announced that the [3]m68k port is being ignored
for the propagation of packages from unstable into testing.

 1. http://flaviostechnotalk.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/09/04/elive-03-review/
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/10/msg00079.html
 3. http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/

Debian Installer Beta Preparation. Joey Hess [4]reported about his
trial building the [5]debian-installer with the build daemon network.
A few of the [6]issues [7]include building on HPPA, reducing the
size of boot images on sparc and mipsel, and creating CD image builds.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/10/msg00227.html
 5. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
 6. http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianInstallerToday
 7. http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianInstallerEtchBeta1Prep

GNOME 1 Transition. Thomas Bushnell [8]reported on the state of GNOME
1 since libpng10 has been removed and thus a number of GNOME packages
don't build anymore. New core libraries that depend on a newer library
have been uploaded already. Packages that link against those core
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Martin Schulze | 25 Oct 2005 21:08
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Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2005

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Welcome to this year's 43rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Jörg Jaspert [1]noticed that the rate of
package [2]rejections out of the NEW queue is rising, mostly due to
incomplete copyright files and suggested to investigate the included
files before the upload. Debian users in Japan will hold Debian
[3]mini conference in Osaka, Japan at the coming weekend (28th and
29th of October).

 1. http://ganneff.de/blog/2005/10/23
 2. http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
 3. http://www.debian.org/events/2005/1028-jdmc

Etch Release Progress. Steve Langasek [4]thanked those who have spent
large amounts of time on the [5]sarge release and proposed a timeline
for the release of [6]etch. This allows for the first freeze of the
toolchain and kernel in July and a general freeze in October. Meeting
these milestones would then lead to a [7]release of etch in December
2006.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg00004.html
 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/
 6. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
 7. http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
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