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 [...]
The Debian Project is to dedicate Debian 5.0 “Lenny” to Thiemo Seufer who died in a car accident on December 26th. Seufer was an active contributor to the Debian project; a member of the kernel and installer teams and main supporter of the Debian port to MIPS architectures, he also worked on the MIPS port [...]
Newly appointed CTO of the Linux Foundation and kernel developer Ted Ts’o is appealing to the Debian project to adopt a more pragmatic attitude about its Linux distro. The provocation for his advice is the current controversy over Debian’s next 5.0 “Lenny” release.
The debate over the free and proprietary aspects of the Debian GNU/Linux has [...]
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.
Debian organization’s secretary Manoj Srivastava tendered his resignation in an email with the words, “I concede that [...]
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated [...]
Free Linux distro Debian has been working steadily on its next version 5.0 of the OS, known as Lenny. Now developers have been called in for a vote to determine the course of its general release.
The Lenny Release General Resolution that brings the issue to a vote among Debian developers solicits responses in one of [...]
From the “Freedom is about more than just code” files:
Debian is on the verge of its next major release codenamed “Lenny” - but before it gets released, Debian developers will have to vote on it. Debian developers have until 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, December 21st, 2008 to vote on six key issues collectively titled the [...]
The FTP team at the Debian project have decided that the Affero GPL version 3 licensing (AGPLv3) is consistent enough with the guidelines of the Linux distro that software with the licensing can go into Debian’s main archive.
FTP master Joerg Jaspert reported in the Debian news mailing list that a working group met in Spain [...]
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Debian Project News
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Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008
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Welcome to this year’s 16th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:
* “Etch-and-a-half” installation images updated
* GNU Affero General Public License suitable for Debian “main”
* Security Teams Meeting in Essen
* … and much more.
Etch-and-a-half installation images [...]
Last month we wrote about how Debian was having some problems with its latest release, Lenny. Which, perhaps predictably, was met with much discussion.
The good news now is that Lenny is now inching forward with the Debian team announcing the first release candidate of the installer on which much of Debian 5.0, or Lenny, is [...]
Hi everybody,
a picture is worth a thousand words. And thanks to
screenshots.debian.net[0] this finally comes true for Debian packages.
Several people have proposed a service to provide screenshots for them. So
after getting other developers’ opinions and suggestions I sat down and
crafted a web application that allows to upload and provide screenshots.
Unless you are busy helping to fix [...]
The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny.
Improvements in this release of the installer
Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases);
Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell’s ARM-compatible Orion chip:
QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409;
HP Media Vault mv2120;
Buffalo Kurobox [...]
The Debian Project has announced “Debian Pure Blends” - essentially a rebranding of the concept formerly known as “custom Debian distributions.” “We realised that the old name Custom Debian Distributions just sended the wrong message to outsiders: The conclusion that CDDs are something else than Debian was too ‘obvious’ if people did not read the [...]
Members of the Debian community are up in arms following a surprise announcement over the way project participants are vetted and organized.
The announcement, posted by Debian developer and administrator Joerg Jaspert, proposed - among other things - that a new class of non-technical Debian contributor be introduced. This person would have a lower status than [...]
The Debian Art team is seeking a slogan for the next stable release, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny”.
The poll, can be found at: http://www.debianart.org/contest/lenny-slogan.html so go there and vote for your favorite one.
The choices are:
* The Spiral Strikes Back!
* The Universal Operating System
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated [...]
The upcoming version 5.0 of Debian GNU/Linux, codenamed Lenny, provides for the first time not only image downloads for CD and DVD, but also for Blu-ray disks, along with live images.
Debian project leader Steve McIntyre, on the developer mailing list, describes the version as including the “biggest change” in recent history. Because a standard Blu-ray [...]
The Debian project will be present again at this year’s Systems expo which takes place from October 21-24 in Munich, Germany. The Debian booth will be located in the “Prospects for Open Source” area together with other Debian-related projects like Skolelinux/Debian-Edu as well as other Free Software projects in Area B2, Booth 315.
At the booth, [...]
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Debian Project News
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Debian Project News - October 20th, 2008
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Welcome to this year’s 12th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:
* Bits from the Debian CD team
* Debian, software patents and archive layout
* Statistics about packages.debian.org usage
Bits from the Debian CD team
Steve McIntyre posted [...]
The Debian 5.0 release missed its intended deadline of September and the project has been silent as yet about any news of an update. The latest guess from developers’ circles is that “Lenny” will not be ready until June of 2009.
Tuesday of this week, Debian spokesperson Alexander Reichle-Schmehl made a renewed appeal to developers and [...]