Test af Debian’s Lenny KDE beta

Gad vide om ikke "GNU/Linux-desktoppen" er ved at være så moden, at Debian stable faktisk seriøst kan overvejes som desktopsystem uden at være håbløst forældet i løbet af få mdr...

Der står såmænd også en del Oldstable-bokse rundt omkring og agerer servere. Ikke så længe siden jeg stødte på en Woody-server, endda.
Jeg synes så i øvrigt, at anmelderen tog en neutral, men sympatisk default-desktop og fik den til at se rædselsfuld ud. Men okay, smag.

@miksi
Jamen nu er min kæreste allergiker så pollental er bestemt ikke uinterressante når det kommer til hvordan dagen/ugen skal planlægges.

Men til det mere seriøse..

Skulle man have lyst så findes der sider som http://www.debian.org/News/2008/ og man har også mulighed for at melde sig på diverse maillister hvor det er muligt at følge med i mere end to tal og et punktum!

God fornøjelse

(og iøvrigt... jeg anvender alt fra stable til experimental men ville på intet tidspunkt undvære min stable installation! Og er en nyhed om ubuntu/suse/mandriva X.XX alpha 7 mere interessant end pollental?)

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Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008
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Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

* "Lenny" frozen
* Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware
* Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced
* Debian Days around the world
* ... and much more.


"Lenny" frozen

Marc Brockschmidt, a Release Manager, announced that "Lenny", the
upcoming new stable release, has been [1]frozen as [2]planned. The
automatic transition of new versions of packages from the development
branch ("sid" or "unstable") to the current testing branch ("lenny") has
been stopped and new versions of packages need manual approval. New
versions which fix release critical bugs, other important bugs, add
documentation, or include translation fixes can be approved by the
release team upon request.

1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00002.html
2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html

Lenny is still scheduled to be released in September 2008.



Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware

The Debian project [3]released an updated version of its current stable
release Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "etch" called "etch and a half". While
this update mainly includes security fixes and fixes for severe bugs,
the Debian project has for the first time also added support for newer
hardware by adding new drivers with updated Linux kernel and X.org
packages. The new drivers are optional and the old versions will still
be supported.

3: http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080726

Detailed upgrade instructions are available in the respective
[4]announcement, the [5]etch and a half release notes and the [6]etch
and a half installation guide.

4: http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080726
5: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf
6: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf


Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced

Jörg Jaspert [7]announced the [8]schedule for the 8th annual Debian
Conference which will be held from August 10th to August 16th, 2008 in
Mar del Plata, Argentina. As usual the schedule should considered a
"work in progress" as session slots will be filled during the conference
with spontaneous sessions, including so called BoF ("Birds of a
feather") sessions.

7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00001.html
8: https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/

For those who can't attend the conference physically, the DebConf video
team will try to stream all sessions, so interested people can point
their media player (e.g. [9]xine or [10]totem) to
[11]http://video.debconf.org:8000/microcine.ogv.m3u and
[12]http://video.debconf.org:8000/salon_del_mar.ogv.m3u. Users in North
America, Europe and Australia should use
http://video.eu.debconf.org:8000, http://video.na.debconf.org:8000 and
http://video.au.debconf.org:8000, respectively, with the corresponding
filename.

9: http://packages.debian.org/xine-ui
10: http://packages.debian.org/totem
11: http://video.debconf.org:8000/microcine.ogv.m3u
12: http://video.debconf.org:8000/salon_del_mar.ogv.m3u

IRC channels which can be used to participate in discussion sessions
will be announced separately; a schedule with times in UTC is in
preparation. After DebConf8 the sessions will also be available as
videos at [13]http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/,
where you can also find older DebConf videos.

13: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/

In related news, the organizers of the Debian Conference are
[14]soliciting location proposals for the 10th annual Debian Conference
to be held in 2010. Groups interested in hosting the 10th DebConf
conference should prepare their proposal according to [15]this
checklist and send it to [16]debconf-team@lists.debconf.org.

14: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00000.html
15: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/LocationCheckList
16: mailto:debconf-team@lists.debconf.org


Debian Days around the world

Debian users around the world are preparing to celebrate the [17]15th
anniversary of the Debian project on August 16th 2008. Currently Debian
Days are planned in Nicaragua, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Chile,
Argentina and eight different locations in Brazil. Apart from general
celebration, the Debian Days will feature install fests, talks,
discussion panels, LAN parties, Debian merchandise, software
demonstrations, advanced installation workshops, knowledge exchange,
and much more.

17: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2008

The Brazilian Portuguese event will be transmitted on-line by
tv.softwarelivre.org and torrents will be available after. Other
Brazilian Debian User Groups interested in their own event
transmissions may visit the event page for details.


Limited Xen support in Lenny

A recent discussion on the debian-devel list highlighted that due to
the upstream delays in getting Xen support integrated into kernels
beyond 2.6.18, Lenny will need to ship with limited Xen support. Pasi
Kärkkäinen explained [18]the situation and Bastian Blank wrote [19]an
article about the options the Debian Project has. His conclusion is to
support a 2.6.18 kernel in Lenny, until "lenny-and-a-half" adds better
Xen support. However, the release managers have not yet made a final
decision.

18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00475.html
19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00476.html


Screenshots of GUI applications

Roberto Sanchez [20]raised the topic of screenshots for GUI
applications. Since it's often difficult to judge a package based only
on the textual package description, he suggested being able to add
screenshots of specific applications to Debian. This would allow
package search and maintenance tools to show the user what can be
expected from a specific package.

20: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00770.html

During the discussion Raphael Hertzog [21]remarked about a previous
discussion during the 6th Debian Conference and Paul Wise [22]added
that the Debian Package Games Team already creates screenshots for
their games which are available in the [23]games-thumbnails package,
and are used by [24]goplay, a debtags-based browser for game-related
packages. Jon Dowland [25]pointed out that there may be possible legal
issues, since screenshots could be seen as derivative works of the
original application in some legislations.

21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00782.html
22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00774.html
23: http://packages.debian.org/games-thumbnails
24: http://packages.debian.org/goplay
25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00877.html


Bits from the Debian Eee PC team

Ben Armstrong [26]reported on the current activities of the [27]Debian
Eee PC team: Debian's next release Lenny will work with all of the
earliest models of the Eee PC and the Eee PC team hopes to soon realize
its goal of a completely DFSG free system for the earliest models of
the Eee Pc. Newer models are now able to install using the atl1e
ethernet driver from eeepc.debian.net; support for wireless and other
aspects of the new hardware will follow soon. The wireless custom
Debian-installer is also making good progress. There are currently two
Debian-live USB images available: a demo of the [28]LXDE desktop (a
lightweight desktop environment that is made with the Eee PC in mind)
and a minimal console-only image for rescue/backup. The team is also
always looking for new members to contribute to Debian's support for
the Eee Pc.

26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00002.html
27: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
28: http://lxde.org/


SELinux and lenny

Russel Coker [29]gave [30]several [31]updates on security enhanced
Linux in the upcoming stable release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny".

29: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/07/31/installing-se-linux-on-lenny/
30: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/01/selinux-activate/
31: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/04/lenny-se-linux-on-the-desktop/


adept package manager alpha release of version 3.0

Petr Rockai gave a [32]report about his work on a rewritten version of
adept, a package management tool for KDE. He points out that the new
version of adept has improved upon the speed, reliability and user
experience of previous versions. Notable among the new features he
added are full text searching and handling of interactive installation
prompts (for example, debconf prompts and dpkg prompts about changed
configuration files).

32: http://web.mornfall.net/blog/adept_3.0_alpha_5.html


Debian Project at FrOSCon 2008

From Saturday the 23rd of August 2008 to Sunday the 24th of August
2008, the Debian Project will participate with a booth at Free and Open
Source Software Conference 2008 in St. Augustin, Germany. Please see
the respective [33]events page for further details.

33: http://www.debian.org/events/2008/0823-froscon


Other news

Stefano Zacchiroli [34]reminded package maintainers that the old
pseudo-header for upstream Homepages in the package description has
been replaced by a proper header which should now be used instead.

34: zack/blog/posts/2008/07/reminder:_Homepage_pseudo_fields_are_GONE/

Ian Jackson [35]pointed out how to properly rename a package to ease
the transition of other package's dependencies upon the renamed
package.

35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00844.html

Christian von Essen [36]reported about his [37]Google Summer of Code
project the [38]"Ultimate Debian Database", which combines Debian
information from various sources. He's also looking for [39]example
queries to allow for further testing of his database layout.

36: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2008/07/msg00105.html
37: http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080427
38: http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
39: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2008/08/msg00002.html