Well, some Debian folks have participated in Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring, at Meisei Univ

Lucas Nussbaum has been crunching some numbers that lead him to conclude that “Debian is (still) changing.” Over the years a few trends have emerged as Nussbaum demonstrates using snapshot.debian.org and a data mining script.

So what do you do when you want to game in Linux and you’re using something a little less popular — at least, on the desktop? If you’re GhostSquad57, you rewrite the installer for Debian and upload it to Github. GhostSquad57 uploaded his efforts to Github yesterday, and has since reached out to the Linux [...]

Welcome to this year’s fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released * Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2013 * Wheezy release progress * Debian at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring * arm64 image available * Other [...]

Hi, According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin “six weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.”

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that, according to the terms of the new trademark policy [1], Debian logos and marks may now be used freely [2] for both non-commercial and commercial purposes. The Debian Project encourages wide use of its marks in all ways that promote Debian and free software.

One of the coolest aspects of Linux is its ability to support hardware long before other OSes – and even well before consumers can even get their hands on the hardware. Take USB 3.0, for example, which hit the kernel months before the first products hit the market, in September of 2009. And then there’s [...]

With the recent release of Debian 7.0 Installer Release Candidate, the final release of Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” is effectively on approach. For those not up to speed on this major Linux distribution update, here’s a list of some of the top features.

Fellow Debian contributors, As we did in previous years, the Debian Project is applying [0] to become a mentoring organization during the 2013 edition of the Google Summer of Code program [1].

The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh 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 for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Welcome to this year’s fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 released * 700,000th bug reported * Bits from the DPL * Reports from FOSDEM * Update on Clang and Debian * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors [...]

Dear project members, Google Summer of Code program (GSoC) has now been announced for its 9th edition [1,2]. Debian is going to apply for participation like we did in the past. I’m happy to inform you that we have again volunteers as (co-)admins for Debian participation: David Bremner, Nicolas Dandrimont, Paul Tagliamonte, and Sukhbir Singh.

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy”.

Debian developers are still working on making the operating system compiler agnostic so that its packages can be built with LLVM/Clang and other compilers rather than continuing in a monogamist relationship with GCC.

[ insert here: "I've been to FOSDEM", "I got a nasty flu", and other $lame_excuses for the delay in sending out this report ] Dear Project Members, here’s the monthly DPL activity report, this time for January 2013.

Dear Project Members, it’s that time of the year again, Project Secretary appointment is about to expire, on February 19th. But fear no more, because we have a volunteer.

The Debian PTS now speaks the Turtle representation format for the export of RDF meta-data about Debian source packages. Alongside HTML pages for humans, and the RDF/XML that had already been added to it this means that a new flavour of RDF is now available.

Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * DebConf13 venue and dates * Automating Debian bootstrapping * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * [...]

When Bdale Garbee talks about the future of the Linux desktop, it is not so much a visionary view as a view of how he would like computing to evolve.

This post is about the port bootstrap build ordering tool (naming suggestions welcome) which was started as a Debian Google Summer of Code project in 2012 and continued to be developed afterwards. Sources are available through gitorious.

I picked a bad time to rebuild my laptop this week. I’ve been tracking Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) since it was frozen and using Enlightenment 0.17 (E17) for yonks. When I rebuilt my laptop, E17 was no longer available. The reason for the removal is essentially a result of the good news that a stable version [...]

Hi, 1. If you are interested in putting forward a bid for DebConf14, please tell us now by a message to the DebConf team list,

Hi all, New team member: Firstly, we would like to thank the various people who are helping with the release, filing appropriate unblocks, and reviewing diffs. We are also pleased to announce that Jonathan Wiltshire (jmw) has joined the team as a Release Assistant.

This report shows the usage statistics and market share data of Linux on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Debian is used by 32.8% of all the websites who use Linux.

Welcome to this year’s second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from Debian Med * A look into the Linux kernel of Debian “Wheezy” * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important [...]

The Debian Security Team recently issued Debian Security Announcement 2593-1 [1] regarding the ‘moin’ package [2] and a remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the twikidraw / anywikidraw components. Debian’s wiki [3] is implemented using ‘moin’ and includes support for the twikidraw component.

There are plenty of Linux users out there who are using distributions such as Ubuntu or one of the many distributions which are based from Ubuntu, including Linux Mint. However, no matter what you’re using, as long as it uses .deb packages, there’s one main distribution where it all comes from – Debian.

Another Debian developer! Miriam has a low-drama setup. She simply uses Debian to do what she needs to do. I find it interesting that she desktop hops a bit (she’s now working with GNOME), but at the same time, it’s very cool that she’s open to trying new desktop environments. In general, her setup seems [...]

Hi, this are the new years bits from Debian Med team. We try to make the wishes for a healthy new year becoming true with Free Software.

Welcome to this year’s first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * wiki.debian.org security breach: global passwords reset * Bits from the DPL * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages [...]