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Francesca Ciceri | 9 Jan 2012 22:50

Debian Project News - January 9th, 2012

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January 9th, 2012             http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/01/
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Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released
  * Bits from the DPL
  * Forthcoming new release of the X server
  * Scientific article on Debian in PNAS
  * New Debian Infographic
  * New interface for Debtags website
  * apt-get purge defoma
  * Further interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Status of Debian Installer localisation
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released
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Francesca Ciceri | 20 Jan 2012 21:49

Meet Debian at FOSDEM 2012

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January 20th, 2012              http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120120
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The Debian Project is happy to announce that as in previous years it
will be represented at this year's Free and Open Source Developer's
European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on the 4th-5th February.
Debian will be present with a booth in the K building, ground floor,
members of the project will be available for questions and discussion,
and various Debian-branded items will be on sale.

Two talks in the keynotes track will be given by long-time Debian
Developers, Lars Wirzenius and Bdale Garbee, who will talk about how to
innovate the development process of distributions and the FreedomBox
project, respectively. Other Debian Developers will give talks or hold
discussion groups about specific aspects of the project:

Saturday, February 4th

11:30 Serafeim Zanikolas How to replace a legacy tool with 100k
installations

13:00 Wookey Multiarch — why it's important

13:15 Moritz Muehlnhoff Univention Corporate Server

15:00 Lior Kaplan Debian packaging for beginners

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Francesca Ciceri | 23 Jan 2012 13:05

Debian Project News - January 23rd, 2012

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January 23rd, 2012            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/02/
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Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

    * Debian ahead on web servers
  * Dummy web server in Debian?
  * Aptitude strikes back
  * About donations to Debian
  * Armhf status in Debian
  * IGMP denial of service in Linux
  * Interviews
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bug statistics for the upcoming release
  * Status of Debian Installer localisation
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian ahead on web servers
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According to a recent W3Techs survey [1], Debian has just surpassed CentOS to
become the most popular GNU/Linux distribution on web servers. The survey is

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