Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for June 3, 2003 is out. This week Petter Reinholdtsen announced a new Skolelinux CD image a while ago that fixes many bugs and uses the debian-installer already. Mario Lang urgently needs help fixing bugs in the speakup kernel packages, otherwise the package will be abandoned. All that and more in this week's edition.

Look for the Debian Project at conferences in Austria and Brazil. June 5th to 7th - 2nd LinuxWochen - Vienna, Austria and June 5th to 7th - International Free Software Convention - Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The DDTP team and the Debian-BR project have announced the second public release of APT featuring support for translated package descriptions.

Branden Robinson reports that Debian's XFree86 packages are becoming team-maintained. "In practice they have always been to some extent, thanks to contributions large and small from many people (grep the xfree86 package changelog for "thanks" sometime)."

Jason Boxman has written a detailed HOWTO for configuring Exim and Courier IMAP under Debian GNU/Linux. Found on DebianPlanet.

Also from DebianPlanet, we found orth's kde cvs debian packages. "If you think you noticed a difference between KDE 3.0 and 3.1, you'll find the same exponential improvement in these packages."

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