February 9th, 2012 Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 terminated on February 6th ——————————————————————– One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 alias “Squeeze” and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias “Lenny” the security support for the old distribution (5.0 alias “Lenny”) came to an end a few days [...]

Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Report from Debian Med sprint * Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze * [...]

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename “squeeze” ). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. Please note that this update [...]

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 [...]

There’s nothing like a popularity contest to elicit a wide array of opinions — particularly those of the opposing kind — but recently an example appeared in the Linux blogosphere that seems to be something of an exception. “Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers,” proclaimed W3Techs in a blog post [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to this year’s fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Volunteers needed for publicity team * Removal of sun-java6 from the archive * Debian SDL packaging team revival * Bits from the DPL * Ubuntu appreciates Debian * India mini-DebConf, Mangalore edition * New [...]

In a post on its security announce mailing list, the Debian Project development team has reminded users that version 5.0 of its Debian Linux distribution, also known as “Lenny”, will reach its end of life (EOL) on 6 February 2012. From that date, no further updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be released. [...]

Welcome to this year’s fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released * DebConf12 official dates * Debian Installer localisation * Feedback after DebConf11 * Uses of Emdebian * Bits from the DPL * New Member process * Further interviews [...]

Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.3 released The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename “Squeeze”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. Please [...]

———————————————————————— The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.9 released press@debian.org October 1st, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111001 ———————————————————————— Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.9 released The Debian project is pleased to announce the ninth update of its oldstable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a [...]

Welcome to this year’s thirteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian’s 18th birthday * Bits from the DPL * Debian Bug Squashing Party at MIT * Squeeze backports for Xorg * Debian feeds on Identi.ca and Twitter * Debian in Myanmar * Further interviews [...]

Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch’s founding announcement [1]. Quoting from the official project history [2]: “The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a ‘distribution’ of Linux was new. [...]

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian named “Best Linux Distribution of 2011″ and “Top Production Server Distro” * Bits from the Release Team * Recent improvements with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD * FreedomBox activities at DebConf11 * New website for mentors.debian.net [...]

DebConf11 ends as another success for the Debian Project The annual Debian Conference ended today after being held for the previous week in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been a great success for the Debian Project. “DebConf is a vital event for Debian, both as a Free Software distribution and as [...]

Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’ to introduce multiarch support During this years annual Debian Conference DebConf11 made the introduction of “multiarch support” a release goal for the coming Debian release 7 “Wheezy” to be released in 2013. Multiarch is a radical rethinking of the filesystem hierarchy with respect to library and header paths, to make programs and [...]

DebConf 11 started DebConf 11, the annual Debian conference opened its doors today in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As with previous conferences streams of most sessions will be made available, allowing contributors who couldn’t attend the conference to still participate and send in questions and comments via specific IRC channels. The easiest [...]

Welcome to this year’s eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Happy Birthday, Linux! * Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ * Bits from the DPL * Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters * Call for DebConf13 bids * 33094 spam messages removed from Debian Mailing [...]

Debian invites you to Debian Day The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian operating system, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Day which will take place on July 24 2011 at Banski Dvor, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the first day of the annual [...]

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ, a document meant to educate Free Software developers, and especially distribution editors, about software patent risks. The FAQ has been prepared by lawyers at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) at the request of and with input from the Debian [...]