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Martin Schulze | 3 Jan 21:03
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Debian Weekly News - January 3rd, 2006

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Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Mohammed Adnène Trojette summarised all major Debian
events in 2005 in the [1]timeline for 2005. Philip Charles
[2]reported that he has uploaded the latest [3]CD images for Debian
GNU/Hurd. Manoj Srivastava [4]announced that the debian-private list
is only private for three years after the general resolution on the
[5]declassification procedure has passed.

 1. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/timeline
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/10/msg00033.html
 3. http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/debian-cd/current/
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/12/msg00114.html
 5. http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_002

Reducing the Archive Size. Gürkan Sengün [6]summarised the effect of
different compression algorithms on the total size of the archive.
Raphaël Hertzog [7]noticed that the support of [8]7-zip archives in
[9]dpkg is evaluated in order to reduce Debian's archive overall
size. Steinar H. Gunderson [10]added that CPU power is also a major
point to take in account.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00759.html
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00809.html
 8. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/p7zip
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Martin Schulze | 11 Jan 02:53
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Debian Weekly News - January 10th, 2006

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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Jeroen van Wolffelaar [1]reported that
[2]packages.debian.org has been disabled due to performance issues.
Neil McGovern [3]called for sponsorship requests for active Debian
people for the last time for the upcoming [4]Debian Conference.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00035.html
 2. http://packages.debian.org/
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00000.html
 4. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0514-debconf

Status of non-free Firmware. Sven Luther [5]explained the status of
non-free [6]firmware blobs in the Debian Linux kernel. Some of them
have been relicensed and are redistributable again, others have been
separated from the kernel into userland to be used by the
request_firmware infrastructure. Steve Langasek plans to start a
general resolution to decide whether Debian requires the source code
for firmware blobs.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/01/msg00241.html
 6. http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing

FOSDEM Booth for Debian. Wouter Verhelst is [7]looking for volunteers
to help man the booth at the upcoming [8]FOSDEM conference. He is
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Martin Schulze | 17 Jan 21:06
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Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

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Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Simon Josefsson [1]proposed a license sufficient
for Debian and FreeBSD for the [2]Internet Engineering Task Force
that releases RFC documents. Michael Banck [3]announced the
availability of X.org packages for the Hurd.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00214.html
 2. http://www.ietf.org/
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2006/01/msg00018.html

Status of the m68k Port. Wouter Verhelst [4]announced future plans of
the m68k port team after it lacks too many [5]requirements for
[6]etch. [7]Freescale's m68k successor, the [8]ColdFire variant
with MMU (memory management unit) would boost the buildds' speed by
factor 4 and more compared to the actual buildds. For the purpose of
evaluating the possibilities of such an hybrid port, Freescale offered
Debian five ColdFire boards which are currently on the way to the
Debian m68k port team.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00005.html
 5. http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html
 6. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
 7. http://www.freescale.com/
 8. http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=02VS0lDFTQYTLC
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Martin Schulze | 24 Jan 22:45
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Debian Weekly News - January 24th, 2006

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. The Debian listmasters have decided to [1]revoke
posting permission to a developer centric announce list for a person
[2]pointing out that off-topic [3]mails should be sent elsewhere in
a rather sarcastic and potentially offensive fashion.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00012.html
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00009.html
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00008.html

Helping the Debian GNOME Team. Josselin Mouette [4]asked for help
with bug triage from Debian GNOME users in order to clean up the large
number of bugs that currently clutter the BTS on GNOME Team packages.
Interested parties should find packages needing attention using the
[5]package tracking system. He also noted that those familiar with
GNOME packages are welcome to join the team itself.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/01/msg00037.html
 5. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-gnome-maintainers <at> lists.alioth.debian.org

Debian on LVM2 on RAID. Emidio Planamente wrote a [6]document that
describes how to install Debian [7]sarge on a logical volume (LV)
that resides on a number of disks merged together with RAID. The /boot
directory that contains the initial ram-disk and the kernel needs to
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Martin Schulze | 31 Jan 21:07
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Debian Weekly News - January 31st, 2006

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Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Martin Michlmayr [1]reported about two development
MIPS boards donated to Debian that will be used as build daemon for
the MIPS architectures. Stephen Shankland [2]reported about Eben
Moglen who is explaining the updated [3]version of the [4]GNU GPL
which [5]resulted in [6]discussions on Debian lists.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00063.html
 2. http://news.com.com/Defender+of+the+GPL/2008-1082_3-6028495.html
 3. http://gplv3.fsf.org/
 4. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00394.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00427.html

Call for Papers. Margarita Manterola [7]called for papers for the
upcoming [8]Debian Day which will take place on Saturday, May 13th,
before this years [9]DebConf in Oaxtepec, Mexico. The presentations
should be easy to understand, very clear and concise in their content,
and not require any previous knowledge about Debian from the audience.

 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00014.html
 8. http://www.debconf.org/debianday/
 9. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0514-debconf
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