Debian Weekly News - October 31st, 2006

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Debian Weekly News - October 31st, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. This [1]DebianHelp site contains a lot of
information for Debian beginners. Since DWN is not [2]published
weekly anymore Joey Hess [3]started to write weekly summaries to fill
the gap. Parts have been included in this issue already. Jorge
Salamero Sanz [4]set up a [5]repository with ported applications for
the [6]Nokia 770 web tablet.

 1. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/
 2. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200610250942
 3. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/DWN_items_1.html
 4. http://bencer.cauterized.net/blog/index.php?blog/show/44
 5. http://pulsar.unizar.es/nokia770
 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet

Source-less Binary Objects in the Debian Linux 2.6 Packages. Frederik
Schüler [7]announced packages for Linux 2.6.18 and noted that this
release contains all firmware blobs shipped upstream, even those that
used to be pruned. He explained that the kernel team initially wanted
to wait for a positive general resolution vote outcome but anticipates
this to be delayed indefinitely and decided that this was not
acceptable from a release point of view.

 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/09/msg00215.html