Welcome to this year’s sixth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: the candidates * First “Squeeze” -based Debian Edu released * Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.10 released * Reports from recent Bug Squashing Parties * Announcinggobby.debian.org * The Debian Kernel Team [...]

The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu “Squeeze” 6.0.4+r0! Debian Edu (aka “Skolelinux”) is a Debian Pure Blend specifically targeted at schools and educational institutions, and provides a completely configured school network environment out of the box. It covers PXE installation, PXE booting for diskless machines, and setup for [...]

The Debian project is pleased to announce the tenth and final update of its oldstable distribution Debian 5.0 (codename `lenny’). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. The alpha and ia64 [...]

Welcome to this year’s fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang * Debian Peru revival * DebConf11 final report is out * Debian Utsav * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics [...]

Welcome to this year’s fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Goodbye Lenny! * Debian GNU/Hurd on the rails * DPL and legal work * Multiarch-ready dpkg * GPL in Debian: a study * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors [...]

Upcoming Debian Bug Squashing Parties The Debian Project is pleased to announce that in the next few months Bug Squashing Parties ([1] “BSP”s) will take place in several countries. The main focus of a Bug Squashing Party is to triage and fix bugs, but it is also an opportunity for users less familiar with the [...]

“Wheezy” artwork contest: call for proposals An important part of any operating system is its look and feel. Debian is no exception. If you’ve ever wanted to influence the look and feel of an operating system, now is your chance. The Debian Project is calling for contributors to design graphics for the next release of [...]

There are a lot of Linux distributions based on Debian. The most famous of them are Ubuntu, some flavours of Linux Mint and Aptosid. There are many more less known, for example, Kademar. Another Debian derivative which I have already written about is DreamLinux. I cannot say that my previous attempt to run DreamLinux was [...]

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 [...]