Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

For a non-insider (that is, someone who is not an official Debian Developer), getting a package into the Debian distribution and, by proxy, into the Ubuntu distribution requires getting the attention of someone with sufficient interest and privilege to do the actual upload. It’s called finding a sponsor in Debian parlance, and it’s sometimes a [...]

Greetings, It is half a year since the last “Bits from Debian GNU/Hurd porters[1]“, here is an update on the port[2].

Dear Developers, here is another monthly report of what happened in DPL-land, this time for January 2012. There’s quite a bit to report about — including an insane amount of legal-ish stuff — so please bare with me. Or not.

The next version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux will include a new tool sitesummary2ldapdhcp, which can be used to quickly set up all the computers in a school without much manual labour. Here is a short summary on how to use it to set up a new school.

Debian 7.0 ‘wheezy’ will include Linux 3.2. This is currently in unstable and will soon enter testing.

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.

Josselin Mouette is one the leaders of the pkg-gnome team, he takes sound technical decisions and doesn’t fear writing code to work-around upstream issues. He deserves kudos for the work he has put into packaging GNOME over the years.

In this update: – New Blood – The Freeze – Relase Goals – Documentation – Changes in Testing – Semi-automated removal from testing – Help wanted/Bug Squashing Parties

A few days ago Yves-Alexis Perez asked me how many hardware sponsorship request I usually get from Debian Developers, that is how many people ask me to use Debian money to buy material that can improve their work on Debian — and indirectly Debian itself.

Hello, As announced last December, a bug squashing party is organized at IRILL’s office, in Paris. The event will happen from February Friday, 17th. to Sunday 19th.

The CIO of Spanish autonomous region Extremadura says it is planning to move the administration’s 40,000 desktop systems to a Debian distribution. According to a report on the European Commission’s “Joinup”, CIO Teodomiro Cayetano López says that the project is “really advanced” and deployment will begin in the spring and be completed around the end [...]

Hi, I thought it’s been a long time since the last bits from the piuparts maintainers on debian-devel-announce, but actually it’s seems this is a first time! And this pretty good sums up the main news: I’m happy to announce that piuparts is again maintained by a team and thus have closed the RFH #584125.

Welcome to this year’s second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community.

In this issue: + Debian Member Porfolio Service + Release goals bugs displayed in the PTS + Transitions displayed in the PTS + dh_linktree helper tool + Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

PHP 5.4.0 is around the corner, with RC6 released this weekend. With the courtesy of Ondřej Surý it’s already available in experimental.

The Debian Project is happy to announce that as in previous years it will be represented at this year’s Free and Open Source Developer’s European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on the 4th-5th February. Debian will be present with a booth in the K building, ground floor, members of the project will be available for [...]

“For all the grief people have given Debian over time for how ‘outdated’ the packages in Debian stable have been, Debian is certainly my choice for any type of Linux-based server,” said Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. “I flirted with Ubuntu Server for a while, but Ubuntu suffers from an excess of dependencies.”

Time for another installment of my ongoing mission to convert the world to Python 3! This time, a little Debian packaging-fu for modifying an existing Python 2 package to include support for Python 3 from the same source package

I still need CDs and DVDs for some of my older computers that won’t boot from USB. And I’ve done three installations recently on just these kinds of PCs. It was Debian Squeeze for all three, and I used the discs I bought from Debian Developer Raphael Hertzog.

Debian lost that #1 position in June 2010 to CentOS and gained it back now, after a head-to-head race in the last year.

Welcome to this year’s first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

One of the delightful things about Debian is that the project consists of a group of people who are working together to create something that, primarily, we all want to use.

We are happy to announce “Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta2″! Debian Edu aka Skolelinux is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school-network. It contain setup for a school server, PXE booting for diskless machines, setup for installing stationary workstations and setup for workstations that can be [...]

Dear Developers, here is a status update of what has been going on in DPL land during December 2011. It is shorter than usual as I took a couple of vacation periods off during last month, for family reasons.

There are so many distributions out there that it’s become quite ridiculous to a handful of users, while others enjoy the massive variety of how Linux is served. In this case, you really can be picky enough to mimic James Bond with “shaken, not stirred.”

Now it’s possible to install a full-blown Linux operating system on the TouchPad using some of the same tools you would use to install Android. The end result is a tablet that lets you choose whether to run webOS or another operating system when you turn it on.

Have a look at this excellent infographic for Debian – it shows the history, release process and the different user groups.

UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation is working on a credit card size, $25 PC which will redefine computing. The tiny computer runs on Linux. It supports Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux. Initially Ubuntu, as its based on Debian, was supported but it doesn’t at the moment.

In this issue: + Planet Debian Derivatives + win32-loader.exe now eases access to the GNU/Hurd Debian-Installer + Wiki bugstatus extended to Launchpad bugs + dh-exec enters unstable + derivatives patch generation prototype