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 [...]

HI folks, There will be a BSP on the weekend of the 25th-27th of January at my house in Cambridge.

Dear Project Members, happy new year! Here goes another report of DPL activities, this time for December 2012. This issue of the DPL-monthly is skinnier than usual: during the past month I’ve been struck by the catastrophe also known as “family holiday season”, enjoying a solid 10 day break from computer-related activities.

I’m a big fan of running Debian Linux on the server. To do a lot of administration it requires one to SSH into the machine. The default message displayed to the user contains a bunch of copyright information, which isn’t all that useful. Here’s an example of the default SSH MOTD on my server

The port of Debian GNU/Linux for the Motorola 68000 processors has been revived, which now allows for a working Debian OS to run once again on computers like the Amiga 3000/4000 and Atari.

In this issue: + amd64 most popular architecture according to popcon + Register your media types to the IANA + First release of dput-ng in Unstable + Recent changes on the Debian QA front + Fancy graphs on lintian.d.o

Welcome to this year’s twenty-fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the DPL * Wheezy freeze: reviewers needed for unblock requests * Report from Bug Squashing Party in Mechlin * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming [...]

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

Dear Project Members, here is another (delayed) monthly report of DPL activities, this time for November 2012.

But Debian gets better as it inches toward release. And if you’re running the Stable distribution (Squeeze instead of Wheezy, still in Testing) you can enjoy the goodness for the next two years — or three if you wish, as Stable gets an extra year of security patches as Old Stable after a new Stable [...]

Veteran Debian developer Bdale Garbee will give the third keynote at the Australian national Linux conference next year.

Thanks to the ifupdown, sysvinit, and udev maintainers for their cooperation in getting upstart support in place; to the Debian release team for accomodating the late changes needed for upstart to be supported in wheezy; and to Scott for his past maintenance of upstart in Debian.

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

The AWS Marketplace, which is generally used by software companies to market their commercial appliances and software for use in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), now also lists free basic images of the Debian Linux 6.0.6, CentOS 6.3 and FreeBSD 9.0-Release operating systems.

I just finished to address the awesome debian crowd at the Mini Deb conf in paris. My presentation was about a few challenges we have ahead to bootstrap debian on a new architecture. Johannes Schauer and Wookey did a lot of work in the last few months particularly focusing on Linaro/Ubuntu. After Wheezy I think [...]

Today we are adding support for three new open source operating systems: FreeBSD, CentOS, and Debian. We are also making it easier for you to find software that runs on the operating system of your choice.

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fourth beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy”.

With several other distributions effectively based on the Debian system, it’s fair to say that it’s an important distro. In fact, as Linux distributions go, it’s positively stately; a grandaddy among open source upstarts.

After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of the people behind the German “IT-Zukunft Schule” project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview. Give a warm welcome to Angela Fuß.

If you are a Debian user and you want to contribute to the community, then you have your chance this fall with the Debian BSP Marathon. You might know that the next release of Debian, codenamed “Wheezy”, is in the testing phase and your contribution might be helpful to speed up the release date.

If you have started contributing to the Debian project after January 2010 (within approximately the last 3 years), I would like to kindly request your help. I am interested in hearing from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and who have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences.

Today, I officially got approved by the Debian Account Managers as a Debian Developer (still waiting on keyring-maint and DSA). Over the years, I have seen many people complain about the New Member Process. The most common complaint was with regards to the (usually) long amount of time the process can take to complete. I [...]

Welcome to this year’s twenty-second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Code search engine for Debian * Bits from the DPL * One step closer to “Wheezy” * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release [...]

Debian will no longer be defaulting to the Xfce desktop but they have returned to using the GNOME desktop as the default.

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that in the next few weeks Bug Squashing Parties (“BSPs” [1]) 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 BTS to make other contributions [...]

Hi all, It’s been a while since there’s been an update from the Release team, so please have a look at the below!

Hi everyone, If you have joined the Debian community within the last 3 years, I would like to invite you to complete an online survey. The purpose of the research is to work out how newcomers in Debian and other FOSS communities become valued sustainable contributors. I am interested in hearing from people who are [...]

Hi, I hereby announce a new Debian project: Debian Code Search. Debian Code Search is a search engine for program source code within Debian.

Dear Project Members, another month, another periodic report of DPL-ish activities, this time for October 2012.

Debian, my favorite OS, is frozen and on schedule to make another stable release, Wheezy, within the next few months. I’ve installed Wheezy on my “new” Thinkpad T420 and got some interesting results to report, particularly on idle power consumption (battery life). But let me build up to that.