Debian Weekly News - April 19th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - April 19th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
Voting on the license for the Debian logo has begun. The vote also
encompasses the number of logos that will be used, either one or two.
For details on the options, see the [8]call for votes and then [9]cast
your ballot. Of course, only developers can vote.
Corel is going to release a Debian variant, according to a
[10]news.com article. "Corel will base a Linux product [..] on the
version of Linux from Debian." Corel appears to be interested in
improving Debian's ease of installation and use and bundling it with
WordPerfect and other Corel software. They plan to release a beta by
August. Debian has made no official announcement about this yet.
An interesting development in the past couple of weeks has been more
mainstream online press stories referencing and linking to items that
originate on the Debian mailing lists. For example, [11]here's a Salon
Magazine story with a link buried in the middle to the "clueless
users" post from 3 weeks ago. And [12]here's an article on the
Perens/Raymond mess with links to postings on our mailing lists.
Unfortunately, none of these links cast Debian in a very positive
light. Other more positive references to Debian in the press this week
include a few mentions in Linux Journal issue #61, where Debian is
revealed as the distribution of choice for one author's PPP servers,
and for another's remotely upgradable secure Internet gateways.
Work is beginning on a Chinese translation project. Some of Debian's
web pages have been [13]translated to Chinese. The debian-chinese
mailing list has been created. The Chinese translation effort is being
coordinated by Anthony Wong. If you would like to help out with the
project, subscribe to the debian-chinese mailing list.
New packages for this week:
* [14]arpwatch: Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor
* [15]gtkglarea4: Gimp Toolkit OpenGL area widget shared library
* [16]kernel-image-2.2.5: Linux kernel 2.2.5 image (there are also
[17]headers, [18]source and [19]PCMCIA module packages for it)
* [20]mp3blaster: Full-screen console mp3 player
* [21]newplayer: Ncurses-based mp3 player
* [22]satan: Security Auditing Tool for Analyzing Networks
* [23]xfce: Lightweight window manager using XForms
* apt-dialog is a simple dialog-based front end to apt. It's not yet
available as a .deb.
(Pine.LNX.4.10.9904122148080.27897-100000@valinor.ssd.k12.wa.us)
Thanks to our [24]contributors, Mike Renfro and Randolph Chung. This
issue of Debian weekly news came up a bit short; the only way to make
it longer and better is with your help.
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[26]Back issues of this newsletter are available.
Debian Weekly News is edited by [27]Joey Hess.
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References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9904/msg00021.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9904/msg00023.html
10. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35166,00.html
11. http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/04/15/linux_help/index.html
12. http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=archive99/now0409.txt
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-www-9904/msg00036.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/arpwatch.html
15. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/gtkglarea4.html
16. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/kernel-image-2.2.5.html
17. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-headers-2.2.5.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.2.5.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/pcmcia-modules-2.2.5.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/mp3blaster.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/newplayer.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/satan.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/xfce.html
24. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing.html
26. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
27. mailto:joeyh@debian.org
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