Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre's take on recent events and issues within Debian, including "When will Lenny be releases?"
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Debian Project News - January 12th, 2009
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This year's 1st issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. This issue is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, who died on 26 December 2008 in a tragic car accident.
Topics covered in this issue include: Bits from the Debian CD team. Bits from the Debian Installer team. Results from the "Lenny release GR"
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Is your firewall IPv6 aware?
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"If, like many people, you've started to experiment with enabling, configuring, and using, IPv6 it might not have crossed your mind to update your firewall. This could lead to surprises if you're unlucky. Read on for a simple overview. The standard userspace firewall tool upon Debian GNU/Linux is iptables.
Read more »Debian Etch Gateway/Router/Firewall with Layer7 and IPP2P for P2P Blocking
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If you are in a local area network environment with a host of running Bittorrent or Gnutella, the speed of the network is significantly reduced.
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DebGems announced as Proprietary Platform: Why the GNU Affero GPL is Freedom for Network Services
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"...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs.
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The Debian developers have decided to release the upcoming Debian 5 (Lenny) with proprietary firmware files to expedite the completion of the Linux distributions next release. The vote itself had several options for dealing with proprietary firmware, from a complete elimination of it, even if it meant more delays for Lenny, to an explicit waiver of the source code requirement for firmware files.
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New Year’s proposal: look at your reported bugs!
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"Happy New Year everybody! I have a little New Year’s proposal for you all, users and developers. Take a look to the bugs you have reported in Debian, this can be very easily done by browsing: ..."
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Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer
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"The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident..."
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Debian Seeking New Project Secretary
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Current balloting for Debian Lenny's future has led to strife in the organization. Secretary of the free project, Manoj Srivastava, has resigned his position. A possible consequence is that the next version will undergo further delay in its release.
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githubredir.debian.net - Delivering .tar.gz from Github tags
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"There is quite a bit of software whose upstream authors decide that, as they are already using Git for development, the main distribution channel should be GitHub - This allows, yes, for quite a bit of flexibility, which many authors have taken advantage of. So, I just registered and set up http://githubredir.debian.net/ to make it easier for packagers to take advantage of it..."
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated
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"The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems..."
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Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post
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At least two Debian women developers are reconsidering their participation in the GNU/Linux project following the posting of what they deem to be a sexist message to one of the mailing lists meant for developers.
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A Gentoo User Gives Debian a Go Around
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A few weeks ago, I installed Debian for the first time on the desktop. Once, a friend and I installed a console-only version on another desktop and we connected remotely to his hosted game server which also ran Debian, so I hoped I should be a bit familiar with it.
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DebConf 9 to take place in Extremadura, Spain in July 2009
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"...Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, 12 December 2008 - The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, confirmed the dates and venue for its next annual conference, DebConf 9..."
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HowTo upgrade from Debian Etch to Lenny
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"Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny, maybe even before Lenny is declared stable (at RC1 at this time). Even people that don’t want to upgrade to lenny might find some useful information in this post ;-) ..."
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