This weeks DWN have arrived with: Debian IRC moving to OFTC, Debian Projects accepted for Summer of Code, Optimising the Boot Time and much more.
—————————————————————————Debian Weekly Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/22/Debian Weekly News – May 29th, 2006—————————————————————————
Welcome to this year's 22nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter forthe Debian community. Joey Hess has produced a [1]detailedexplanation and HOWTO for [...]
Interntnews.com have an article about the upcomming release of Ubuntu and the meaning of the recently announced Solaris support.
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For its part, Sun is encouraged by Ubuntu's support for Niagara and does not see it as competition for its own Solaris operating system.
Fadi Azhari, director of outbound marketing for Sun, explained that, for [...]
Kubuntu and Edubuntu have released newsletters and they are both posted here for your viewing pleasure. Focus is naturally on the release June 1st.
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= Kubuntu Newsletter =
In this newsletter: release candidate, Kubuntu meeting, KOffice 1.5.1,Kubuntu in Rosetta, Adept 2.0, Icecream and the Summer of Code.
== Release Candidate ==
The Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate [...]
Majordomo is a program which automates the management of Internet mailing lists. Commands are sent to Majordomo via electronic mail to handle all aspects of list maintenance.
Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can be performed remotely by email, requiring no intervention upon the postmaster of the list site.
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majordomo – n: [...]
Andreas Barth has posted yet another update on the progress of etch and the release goals – the schedule still seems to allow a December 4th release, but it is getting a bit more difficult to get there in time.
Hi,
another month has passed and DebConf happened, so we have a few morechanges to announce.
Release Goals=============
After [...]
Many speaks about when Linux is ready for the desktop – for Terry Hancock that was in year 2000 when he went from Win 3.1 to Debian Slink
Read his blog entry about it
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I just didnt like the look or smell of Windows 95, which is why I had resisted upgrading for 5 years. I was [...]
It can't go wrong when an article startw with: “Some people like to work in Linux distributions that are at the cutting edge of technology. Other prefers stability at any cost. I want both, and Debian Testing, codenamed Etch, gives me that.”
Read the description here
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Debian is the most truly community-driven distribution, proud of its GNU [...]
Martin Zobel-Helas has announced a Bug Squashing Parties Marathon (or: helping releasing etch in-time) – so see where you can attend and helt Etch.
Hi,
[ Please send follow-ups to -project, headers set accordingly ]
As you should all know, we had some bug squashing parties beforethe release of Debian 3.1 “sarge”. These were quite effective,especially when they [...]
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) will include a dedicated server edition with an extended five-year support period for enterprise users. It is also commented at tectonic.
As originally announced here, it is now official that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), will include a dedicated server edition with an extended five-year support period for enterprise [...]
The first release candidate for Damn Small Linux 3.0 is released.
It is announced that:
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Change Log for DSL-3.0RC1
1. New unionfs as a boot option2. New mountable MyDSL extension type unc with automatic branch management.3. Adjust Getting Started/Dillo screen to support booting 640×4804. Added ACPI modules for newer power managment support5. New FUSE support6. New sshfs support7. [...]
This Distrowatch weekly news contains a brief mentioning of the Debian graphical installer.
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The upcoming release of Debian “etch”, currently scheduled for December 2006, is likely to provide several interesting features, never before seen in the world's largest Linux distribution. One of them is a graphical installer. As reported in the latest issue of [...]
With two “right soon, now”-articles about what the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06 will contain, Canonical is setting the stage for a much anticipated release.
Ubuntu tips June 1 upgrade, server release plans – at desktoplinux
Enterprise-level Ubuntu Linux due this week – at ZDNet
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Enhancements in the new release that are common to all the new versions, according to [...]
Spamcop is pretty much dependant on user input. If no one submits and verifies spam, then they will have no blacklist. However that whole submission and verification process is a bit annoying and can be automated.
Why should I bother to actually submit spam to Spamcop and have it verified? If I just delete it, that [...]
The ROX desktop takes familiar user interface components from the RISC OS desktop, such as drag'n'drop and the filer, to create a more friendlier desktop for users of Unix-like operating systems.
Read it at Drobe launchpad
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The spirit of the RISC OS desktop can now be easily installed on Debian GNU/Linux systems, after the ROX desktop collection [...]
Here you are: Instructions for those who find a raw list of terminal commands intimidating, to demonstrate why remastering CDs is useful, and to partially explain what those console commands are actually doing.
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Remastering might become a something of a lost art over the next few years, with the decreasing cost [...]
Okay, this is interesting…or weird. Someone at knightwise.com had his fiancé's grandmother use Ubuntu and noted the results.
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I have been toying around with Linux since 1999, Seen the first desktop versions evolve and have seen the Linux OS grow in strength on the desktop. Last year I found out about Ubuntu Linux and [...]
MEPIS has released beta 4 of SimplyMEPIS 6.0.
Read the release announcement here
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Beta 4 includes some new and/or updated applications including amarok 1.4, xaralx 0.5, and ksudoku. Digikam plugins were added to make Digikam and showFoto much more powerful and fun to use. To make room for xaralx, it was necessary to remove tvtime and the [...]
Tuxmachines have had a look at the recent release candidate of Ubuntu – schreenshots included. And reallylinux.com has a small article about starting services in Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu
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I downloaded the i386 pc version last night and it came in fairly quickly. The md5sums matched and I burnt it to a cd. This [...]
Recently Mark Shuttleworth spoke with The 451 Group at length about Dapper, Ubuntu, and the trends and development of the open source and free software movements. Here we will present Shuttleworths comments along with insight and commentary from 451 Group analysts.
Read the first part here
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Ubuntu 6.06, the Dapper Drake, is scheduled to launch officially on [...]
The cpio command is one of the most commonly used Linux back up tools and Debianhelp have written a guide to it.
The cpio command has two unusual features
Unlike tar , in which the files to back up are typed in as part of the command, cpio reads the files to work with from the standard [...]
I don't usually post news from the Debian bloggers, but this entry from Joey Hess seems to have made the headlines, as he comments his fears that Ubuntu is reducing Debian to a supermarket of components.
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At DebConf I whined at Mark Shuttleworth about my fears that Ubuntu is reducing Debian to a supermarket [...]
The Ubuntu team announces the Release Candidate for version 6.06 LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu – codenamed “Dapper Drake”. Screenshots at OSDir too.
Enjoy the screenshots
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 6.06LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu – codenamed “Dapper Drake”. The ReleaseCandidated includes installable live Desktop CDs, [...]
Ubuntu users and Local Teams around the world have already started to plan the worldwide celebration of the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Read about the parties at The Fridge or see where they are happening in the wiki
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Once Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) is out, there will be plenty to celebrate, whether you were directly involved [...]
Our friends at DebCentral has made a nice tutorial of perl6 in ubuntu dapper.
See it in action here
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I will present an small howto compile and install perl6 and parrotvm on an ubuntu dapper
machine. I followed this howto with small corrections when the build/install went astrayhttp://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBloodEnglish
This tutorial shows how to build a modified Kubuntu live CD, using the latest “Kubuntu 6.04 Flight3″ (to use a 2.6.15 kernel).
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This tutorial reflects a work I had to do in the last days: I had to build a modified Kubuntu live CD, using the latest “Kubuntu 6.04 Flight3″ (to use a 2.6.15 kernel). [...]
The latest DWN have hit the streets. Compiled by Sebastian Feltel, Thomas Bliesener and Martin 'Joey' Schulze it covers Graphical Debian Installer Images, Sun Java distributed by Debian and DebConf6 successfully finished.
—————————————————————————Debian Weekly Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/21/Debian Weekly News – May 23rd, 2006—————————————————————————
Welcome to this year's 21st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter forthe Debian community. Julien Danjou [...]
Carla Schroder has written the second and last part of the guide to use pre-seeding on Debian.
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Plugging a new PC into your network, going out for a healthy walk, and returning to a completed operating system installation is one of life's little pleasures. Remember, laziness is a virtue in network administration. Hamsters spend [...]
Despite its world-saving image, open source software has not made much real revolution. But Becky Hogge at OpenDemocracy.net finds hope in new software “for human beings”, designed to bridge the digital divide.
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So maybe Ubuntu wasn't such an altruistic endeavour after all. But is the fact Shuttleworth might make a profit bad news for [...]
The Server Edition of the June 1st 2006 release of Ubuntu will include a mechanism to set up a standardised, certified and supported LAMP server with a single command.
Read the rest of the press release here
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The term “LAMP” refers to “Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP”, four components of the world's most widely used framework for [...]
In this comment, Microbabble investigates whether Ubuntu really is as easy to go to as we usually say and think.
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Let me tell you about Grandma and vi. Back in the early days of Ubuntu, I sat Grandma down and explained that in order to really become productive with Linux, you need to learn [...]
