Re: Draft for lenny release announcement
In fact reshuffling a few things on the level of paragraphs makes it
quite a bit more coherent:
--- lenny-announcement.en.wml.svn86 2009-02-11 14:17:12.000000000 +0000
+++ lenny-announcement.en.wml.jbr 2009-02-11 14:32:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -28,22 +28,39 @@
This new port provides a more efficient use of both modern and future ARM
processors. As a result the old ARM port (arm) has now been deprecated.</p>
+<p>This release includes a number of updated software packages, such as
+the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME
+desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE
+0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP
+2.4.7, Iceweasel (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6), Icedove
+(an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19),
+PostgreSQL 8.3.5, MySQL
+5.1.30 and 5.0.51a, GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2, Linux kernel version
+2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0,
+PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, Emacs 22, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen
+Hypervisor 3.2.1, OpenJDK 6b11 and more than 23,000 other packages ready to use
+software packages (build from over 12,000 source packages).</p>
+<!-- FIXME: PostgreSQL might become 8.3.6 -->
+
<p>With the integration of X.org 7.3 the X server autoconfigures itself
with most hardware. Newly introduced packages allow the full support of
NTFS filesystems or the usage of most multimedia keys out of the box.
Support for Adobe® Flash® format files are available via the swfdec
or Gnash plugin.
Overall improvements for notebooks have been introduced, like out of the
-box support of CPU frequency scaling. For leisure time several new games have
-beed added including puzzle games as well as first-person shooters. A notable change
-is the introduction of <q>goplay</q>, a graphical games browser offering filters, search,
-screenshots and descriptions for games in Debian.</p>
-<!-- FIXME: A better wording for "leisure time"? -->
+box support of CPU frequency scaling.</p>
<p>The inclusion of OpenJDK, a free version of Sun's Java technology,
into Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 made it possible to ship Java based
applications in Debian's "main" repository.</p>
+<p>For leisure time many new games have been added, including
+Sauerbraten 20080620, a fast-paced first-person shooter, hex-a-hop
+20070315, a puzzle game, fretsonfire 1.2.512, a Guitar Hero clone,
+and teeworlds 0.4.2, a mixture of quake and Super Mario. Also
+notable is goplay, a graphical browser for games in Debian, with
+descriptions, screenshots, and debtags-based searching.</p>
+
<p>Further improvement regarding the security of the system include the
installation of available security updates before the first reboot by the
installation system, the reduction of setuid root binaries and open ports
@@ -58,15 +75,6 @@
interesting feature introduced in the package management system is the use of
differential updates for package index files.</p>
-<p>Additions to Debian's games since the release of etch include
-Sauerbraten 20080620, a fast-paced first-person shooter, hex-a-hop
-20070315, a puzzle game, fretsonfire 1.2.512, a Guitar Hero clone,
-UltraStar-ng (called Performous since 0.3.0) 0.2.1, a SingStar clone
-and teeworlds 0.4.2, a mixture of quake and Super Mario.
-Most notable is goplay, a graphical games browser by Miriam Ruiz
-offering filters, search, screenshots, descriptions, and Enrico
-Zini's Debtags.</p>
-
<p>Debian GNU/Linux can be installed from various installation media such
as DVDs, CDs, USB sticks and floppies, or from the network. GNOME is the
default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. The K
@@ -100,20 +108,6 @@
on DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Disc from numerous <a href="$(HOME)/CD/vendors">vendors</a>,
too.</p>
-<p>This release includes a number of updated software packages, such as
-the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME
-desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE
-0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP
-2.4.7, Iceweasel (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6), Icedove
-(an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19),
-PostgreSQL 8.3.5, MySQL
-5.1.30 and 5.0.51a, GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2, Linux kernel version
-2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0,
-PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, Emacs 22, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen
-Hypervisor 3.2.1, OpenJDK 6b11 and more than 23,000 other packages ready to use
-software packages (build from over 12,000 source packages).</p>
-<!-- FIXME: PostgreSQL might become 8.3.6 -->
-
<p>Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 from the previous release, Debian
GNU/Linux 4.0 codenamed <q>etch</q>, are automatically handled by the
aptitude package management tool for most configurations, and to a
--
JBR A long time ago this practice was followed, especially in the
upper classes, but today even the children of the lower classes
perform no executions, and this is extreme negligence.
- _Hagakure_, Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1716)
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