(forw) [joey@infodrom.org: Debian Weekly News - November 30th, 2004]
Kiymetli dostum Kivilcim (aka sundanca) icin yapiyorum bu yonlendirmeyi.
Asagida da goruldugu uzere Debian'i neden sectigini "crystal clear"
olarak anlattigi nefis bir yazisi newsforge'da cikti. Kendisini
kutluyorum.
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From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:16:57 +0100
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Subject: Debian Weekly News - November 30th, 2004
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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/47/
Debian Weekly News - November 30th, 2004
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Welcome to this year's 47th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Debian flyers have been [1]moved to [2]Alioth
for easier maintenance and contribution. Despite the upcoming release
of sarge, another [3]update to the current stable release is being
[4]prepared.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/11/msg00014.html
2. http://debian-flyers.alioth.debian.org/
3. http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r4/
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/11/msg00219.html
Debian News RSS Feed. Greg Stark [5]wondered if [6]Debian Weekly
News is available via RSS. Romain Francoise [7]pointed out that
[8]GMANE provides RSS feeds for many Free Software lists, including
Debian News [9]RSS and in [10]blog" format. There is currently no
official RSS feed provided by the Debian project, though
[11]volunteers are welcome to write the necessary code.
5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00772.html
6. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00777.html
8. http://gmane.org/
9. http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news
10. http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news
11. http://www.debian.org/devel/website/
Saving Download Bandwidth. Goswin von Brederlow [12]proposed to
provide sorted Packages files in order to reduce the amount of data
that needs to be retrieved for each update since the Packages file for
sid is already 13 MB (3.5 MB compressed) large. Adam Heath [13]added
that the package name alone would not be sufficient and Eduard Bloch
[14]mentioned apt-dupdate as another means to speed up the download.
Several developers have contributed ideas and code about this to
[15]Bug#128818.
12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00790.html
13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00916.html
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00812.html
15. http://bugs.debian.org/128818
The Workstation OS: Debian. Hindistan Kivilcim [16]explained the
reasons to make Debian GNU/Linux the operating system (OS) on his
workstation which are crystal clear: "Installing new applications and
configuring old ones in Debian GNU/Linux is a breeze. You do not have
to worry about dependencies, library problems, or even former
configuration files." He also emphasised package dependencies versus
file dependencies.
16. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/23/1933211
OpenOffice.org 1.9 for Debian. Chris Halls [17]announced very rough
[18]packages for OpenOffice.org 1.9.62 as a preview for the upcoming
version 2.0. He warns that these packages are not of the same quality
or caliber as Debian users would normally expect to see. They mostly
lack proper Debian integration as well and the packages will be placed
in /opt/openoffice1.9.62/.
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2004/11/msg00216.html
18. http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/
Remote Collaboration. Don Marti [19]wrote about fostering the
conversations that make a group a team. He mentions that mail can
quickly turn into personal accusations and misunderstandings so that a
short phone call may avoid real trouble. He also emphasised on the
value of online meetings (IRC, IM) and cooperative online resources
(bug tracking system, wikis) and mentioned when they should not be
used.
19. http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/business/collaboration.html
Installing Linux 2.6 on Debian. Falko Timme wrote a [20]tutorial on
running Linux 2.6 together with Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). In order
to have module support some backports need to be installed. One of the
final steps is creating a ramdisk so that the kernel will boot
properly.
20. http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_kernel2.6_compile/
Bug Squashing Parties last Weekend. During the bug squashing parties
last weekend, several [21]release-critical bugs have been closed.
Additionally, a solution for the KDE removal [22]problem has been
discussed and improvements to the testing scripts prepared. There are
some pictures from the party in [23]Frankfurt, Germany. Corrections
for the remaining problems are still appreciated.
21. http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
22. http://bugs.debian.org/183702
23. http://www.inittab.de/gallery/2004/bsp_0411/
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* DSA 595: [24]bnc -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 596: [25]sudo -- Privilege escalation.
* DSA 597: [26]cyrus-impad -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 598: [27]yardradius -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 599: [28]tetex-bin -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 601: [29]libgd1 -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 602: [30]libgd2 -- Arbitrary code execution.
24. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-595
25. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-596
26. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-597
27. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-598
28. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-599
29. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-601
30. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-602
New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [31]recently or contain important updates.
31. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main
* [32]acovea -- Analysis of compiler options via evolutionary
algorithms.
* [33]dstat -- Versatile resource statistics tool.
* [34]fceu -- FCE Ultra - Nintendo (8-bit) emulator.
* [35]gip -- IP calculator for GNOME desktop environment.
* [36]gnulib -- GNU Portability Library.
* [37]hotsmtp -- SMTP to Hotmail (HTTPmail) gateway.
* [38]kimdaba -- KDE tool for indexing, searching and viewing images
by keywords.
* [39]mozilla-opensc -- Mozilla plugin for authentication using
OpenSC.
* [40]nip2 -- Spreadsheet-like graphical image manipulation tool.
* [41]pxlib1 -- Library to read/write Paradox database files.
* [42]slat -- Tools for information flow analysis of SELinux
policies.
* [43]timecode-dev -- C++ hierarchy which controls and describes
time code.
* [44]unalz -- Utility used for decompressing alzip format file.
* [45]wx2.5-common -- wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit 2.5.
* [46]zvbi -- VBI proxy daemon and wrapper.
32. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/acovea
33. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/dstat
34. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/fceu
35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gip
36. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gnulib
37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/hotsmtp
38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/kimdaba
39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/mozilla-opensc
40. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/nip2
41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/pxlib1
42. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/slat
43. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/timecode-dev
44. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/unalz
45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/wx2.5-common
46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/zvbi
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47. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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