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Anant Narayanan | 30 Sep 20:14
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 September 2008

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Gentoo Monthly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/
This is the ninth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for August 2008 –
September 2008.
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1. Introduction
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This month in the GMN
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Welcome to the September issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter!

As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the
corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you!

   1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5232449.html

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2. Gentoo News
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TeTex deprecated
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The TeX distribution teTeX has been obsoleted as the author has no time to
maintain it anymore. However, there is a complete distribution on top of it,
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Anant Narayanan | 1 Sep 10:46
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 31 August 2008

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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/
This is the eighth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for July 2008 –
August 2008.
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This month in the GMN
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Welcome to the August issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter!

As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the
corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you!

   1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5200246.html

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2. Gentoo News
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PHP4 removed from the Portage tree
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All work on PHP4 was been discontinued by upstream on August 8. No more
security or bug fixes will be released. PHP4 has already been hardmasked in
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Anant Narayanan | 30 Jun 22:22
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 June 2008

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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/
This is the sixth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for May 2008 – June
2008.
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This month in the GMN
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Welcome to the June issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter!

As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the
corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you!

   1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5137714.html

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Trustees Meeting Summary
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The Gentoo Trustees[2] held a meeting on June 22, 2008. The trustees are
currently working on proposed Foundation bylaws.
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Anant Narayanan | 27 May 17:08
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 26 May 2008

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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/
This is the fifth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for April 2008 –
May 2008.
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Welcome to the May issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter!

As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the
corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you!

   1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5104288.html

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Gentoo Foundation reinstated
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Thanks to the efforts of the Gentoo Trustees[2], the Gentoo Foundation is
once again a nonprofit organization[3].
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Anant Narayanan | 24 Apr 08:19
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 24 April 2008

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This is the fourth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for March 2008 –
April 2008.
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This month in the GMN
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Welcome to the April issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter! This month, we
haven't made any significant changes from the previous edition. However, we
have featured an interview, and we hope to include more of them in future
issues. You'll note that we will be interviewing not only Gentoo developers,
but also people involved in the Gentoo community at large.

We also had to delay the publication of this issue by a few days in order to
accommodate the announcement of selected projects for this year's Summer of
Code.

As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the
corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you!

   1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5071942.html

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Anant Narayanan | 17 Mar 05:49
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 17 March 2008

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This is the third issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for February 2008 –
March 2008.
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Hello and welcome to the third issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter. We
would like to thank our readers for their enthusiastic response, and hope
that you will continue to write in. Although it may not be possible to
respond to each and every one of you, we can assure you that every mail we
receive is read and plays a role in shaping future editions of the GMN.
Remember, the GMN is what its readers want it to be – please see the section
on how you can get involved – at the end of the newsletter for more
information.

Last month we ran graphical statistics on an experimental basis. While most
of you think they're a good idea in general, there seemed to be general
dislike for 3D pie-charts. We've replaced two pie-charts with bar-graphs, and
made the remaining pie-chart two dimensional. We've also split the package
addition and removal lists by week, in hopes of improving readability.

You can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the corresponding
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Anant Narayanan | 18 Feb 10:02
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 18 February 2008

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This is the second issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for January 2008 -
February 2008.
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Welcome to the second issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter. To begin with,
we would like to thank the entire community for the overwhelming response to
the GMN's inaugural issue. We received a lot of encouraging feedback and hope
that you will continue to write in. Remember, the GMN is what its readers
want it to be - please see the section on how you can get involved - at the
end of the newsletter for more information.

This month's issue implements some of the interesting suggestions we received
from our readers. The security statistics have been removed, since it seemed
to add a lot of clutter with little value-addition to the newsletter. You can
still monitor GLSAs in a variety of ways though - by using glsa-check (part
of gentoolkit[1]), by subscribing to the feed on the GLSA page[2] or the
gentoo-announcemailing list[3].

   1. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-portage/gentoolkit
   2. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/
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Anant Narayanan | 21 Jan 03:48
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 21 January 2008

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This is the inaugural issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for  
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This month in the GMN
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You are reading the inaugural issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter  
(GMN).
The GMN replaces the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, and hopes to bring you  
more
consistent, high-quality articles on happenings in and around the Gentoo
Community. The format of the GMN will remain more or less the same as  
the
older weekly newsletter, but we are actively seeking volunteers with  
more
ideas on how to improve the content and presentation. The GMN is what  
its
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Anant Narayanan | 19 Jan 03:36
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[gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 19 January 2008

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This is a special edition of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, covering
statistics from 15th October to 21st December 2007.
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1. Heard in the Community
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Last Rites for the GWN
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Gentoo's PR group recently announced that publication of the Gentoo  
Weekly
Newsletter will be stopped in favor of a new Gentoo Monthly Newsletter
(GMN). This will be the last edition of the GWN, and will only cover
statistics for activity during the period between 15th October and 21st
December 2007.

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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
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Chris Gianelloni | 9 May 22:38
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 7 May 2007

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Gentoo 2007.0, code named "Secret Sauce", is released
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The Gentoo Release Engineering[1] project is pleased to announce the
much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named "Secret Sauce". This
release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security
vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer,
secure versions of the packages. There was also a complete re-snapshot done
about half-way through the release period due to the release taking so long
and the packages becoming stale.

   1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng

You can find out more information about the release in the official press
release[2]. To get the new release, grab it from
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml.

   2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2007.0/2007.0-press-release.txt

Recent Coreutils update and shell script issues
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Chris Gianelloni | 7 May 18:43
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 30 April 2007

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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 30 April 2007.
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Ant 1.7.0 going stable
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After months of development and testing, Ant 1.7.0 is going to be
stabilized, starting this weekend. With this version comes a substantial
change in the way Ant is packaged and used in Gentoo. All optional Ant tasks
are now separate packages. This will allow improvements in packaging of
other Java packages, for which Ant is the most commonly used build system.
Users who don't use Ant themselves almost don't need to be aware of this
change. Only during the upgrade, previous versions of dev-java/ant-tasks and
dev-java/ant need to be manually removed first, to allow installation of
dev-java/ant-core-1.7.0. More information for Ant users, ebuild writers and
the whole new setup are available in the new Ant Guide[1].

   1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ant-guide.xml

Apache 1.x removal from the tree
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Apache 2.x is a stable and reliable successor of Apache 1.x and boasts
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