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#use wml::debian::weeklynews::header PUBDATE="2004-11-30" SUMMARY="News, Bandwidth, Workstation, OpenOffice.org, Collaboration, Linux 2.6, BSPs"
<p>Welcome to this year's 47th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Debian flyers have been <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/11/msg00014.html">\
moved</a> to <a href="http://debian-flyers.alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a> for
easier maintenance and contribution. Despite the upcoming release of sarge,
another <a href="http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r4/">update</a> to the
current stable release is being <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/11/msg00219.html">\
prepared</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Debian News RSS Feed.</strong> Greg Stark
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00772.html">wondered</a>
if <a href="$(HOME)/News/weekly/">Debian Weekly News</a> is available via
<acronym title="Rich Site Summary">RSS</acronym>.
Romain Francoise
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00777.html">pointed out</a>
that <a href="http://gmane.org">GMANE</a> provides RSS
feeds for many Free Software lists, including Debian News
<a href="http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news">RSS</a>
and in
<a href="http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news">blog</a> format.
There is currently no official RSS feed provided by the Debian project, though
<a href="$(HOME)/devel/website/">volunteers</a>
are welcome to write the necessary code.
</p>
<p><strong>Saving Download Bandwidth.</strong> Goswin von Brederlow <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00790.html">proposed</a>
to provide sorted <code>Packages</code> files in order to reduce the amount of
data that needs to be retrieved for each update since the
<code>Packages</code> file for sid is already 13 MB (3.5 MB
compressed) large. Adam Heath <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00916.html">added</a>
that the package name alone would not be sufficient and Eduard Bloch <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00812.html">mentioned</a>
<code>apt-dupdate</code> as another means to speed up the download. Several
developers have contributed ideas and code about this to <a
href="https://bugs.debian.org/128818">Bug#128818</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The Workstation OS: Debian.</strong> Hindistan Kivilcim <a
href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/23/1933211">explained</a>
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.</p>
<p><strong>OpenOffice.org 1.9 for Debian.</strong> Chris Halls <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2004/11/msg00216.html">\
announced</a> very rough <a
href="http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/">\
packages</a> 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
<code>/opt/openoffice1.9.62/</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Remote Collaboration.</strong> Don Marti <a
href="http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/business/collaboration.html">wrote</a>
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.</p>
<p><strong>Installing Linux 2.6 on Debian.</strong> Falko Timme wrote a <a
href="http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_kernel2.6_compile/">\
tutorial</a> 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.</p>
<p><strong>Bug Squashing Parties last Weekend.</strong> During the bug
squashing parties last weekend, several <a
href="https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/">release-critical bugs</a> have
been closed. Additionally, a solution for the KDE removal <a
href="https://bugs.debian.org/183702">problem</a> has been discussed and
improvements to the testing scripts prepared. There are some pictures from
the party in <a href="http://www.inittab.de/gallery/2004/bsp_0411/">Frankfurt,
Germany</a>. Corrections for the remaining problems are still
appreciated.</p>
<p><strong>Security Updates.</strong> You know the drill. Please make sure
that you update your systems if you have any of these packages installed.</p>
<ul>
<li>DSA 595: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-595">bnc</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
<li>DSA 596: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-596">sudo</a> --
Privilege escalation.
<li>DSA 597: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-597">cyrus-imapd</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
<li>DSA 598: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-598">yardradius</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
<li>DSA 599: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-599">tetex-bin</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
<li>DSA 601: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-601">libgd1</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
<li>DSA 602: <a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-602">libgd2</a> --
Arbitrary code execution.
</ul>
<p><strong>New or Noteworthy Packages.</strong> The following packages were
added to the unstable Debian archive <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main">recently</a> or contain
important updates.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/acovea">acovea</a>
-- Analysis of compiler options via evolutionary algorithms.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/dstat">dstat</a>
-- Versatile resource statistics tool.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/fceu">fceu</a>
-- FCE Ultra - Nintendo (8-bit) emulator.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gip">gip</a>
-- IP calculator for GNOME desktop environment.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gnulib">gnulib</a>
-- GNU Portability Library.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/hotsmtp">hotsmtp</a>
-- SMTP to Hotmail (HTTPmail) gateway.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/kimdaba">kimdaba</a>
-- KDE tool for indexing, searching and viewing images by keywords.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/mozilla-opensc">mozilla-opensc</a>
-- Mozilla plugin for authentication using OpenSC.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/nip2">nip2</a>
-- Spreadsheet-like graphical image manipulation tool.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/pxlib1">pxlib1</a>
-- Library to read/write Paradox database files.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/slat">slat</a>
-- Tools for information flow analysis of SELinux policies.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/timecode-dev">timecode-dev</a>
-- C++ hierarchy which controls and describes time code.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/unalz">unalz</a>
-- Utility used for decompressing alzip format file.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/wx2.5-common">wx2.5-common</a>
-- wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit 2.5.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/zvbi">zvbi</a>
-- VBI proxy daemon and wrapper.
</ul>
<p><strong>Want to continue reading DWN?</strong> Please help us create this
newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers who watch the Debian
community and report about what is going on. Please see the <a
href="$(HOME)/News/weekly/contributing">contributing page</a> to find out how
to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <a
href="mailto:dwn@debian.org">dwn@debian.org</a>.</p>
#use wml::debian::weeklynews::footer editor="Andre Lehovich, Martin 'Joey' Schulze"
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