Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for January 7, 2003 is out. This week's issue looks at Improving Events Visibility and much more.

Debian is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), which is a non-profit corporation under US law that was created to provide legal and financial existence for projects like Debian. Debian Project Leader Bdale Garbee points out two things happening with SPI. A committee is forming to review the SPI bylaws and an upcoming election for new board members.

Dates have been set for Debconf 3 and a Debcamp hacking session. This year the event will be held at the University of Oslo in Norway. Debcamp will be July 12 to 17, 2003, followed by Debconf 3, July 18 to 20, 2003.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers public access to several machines running Debian GNU/Linux through their Test Drive program. Software authors and prospective users are offered an account on those machines in order to find out more about Debian GNU/Linux and a particular HP hardware. Four architectures are supported (Alpha, PA-RISC, IA-32 and IA-64). Compilers are installed to that software authors can test whether their software compiles on those platforms.

Gcc 3.2 is now the default compiler in unstable. This posting has more information on the C++ transition plan.

SystemImager is an easy way to clone your Debian cluster. The latest release includes many new features, including support for XFS, JFS, reiserfs, ext2, ext3, and FAT.

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