Debian GNU/Linux [LWN.net]

The Debian Weekly News for June 10, 2003 is available. Topics include Debian X Strike Force Subversion Repository; Freedesktop Menu System; Status of Sarge Release Issues; Version Control for Packages File; Problems Linking to OpenSSL; Debian's 10th Birthday; Recommendations for Knoppix DVD; a Call For Votes; and much more.

Registration for Debconf 3 and Debcamp will close June 16. "People who want to participate in deb{conf,camp} but prefer not to register by the 16th of june are welcome anyway, but should not expect accommodation, food, tshirts, books, nametags, printed conference materials, cars or personal conference hostesses."

Linmagau has an article on Compiling Kernels The Debian Way, with a step by step walk through the process of getting kernel source, configuring, compiling and building a custom kernel package that can be installed using dpkg. (Found on DebianPlanet)

DebianPlanet reports that significant progress has been made using the GNU C library as a base instead of FreeBSD's libc. The result has been a great improvement in portability.

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Debian GNU/Linux

Posted Jun 12, 2003 3:35 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]

> DebianPlanet reports that significant progress has been made using the
> GNU C library as a base instead of FreeBSD's libc.

This is a rather confusing summary; the important context not given in this sentence is that this is a report from the Debian GNU/FreeBSD subproject, not Debian GNU/Linux.

BBspot quiz

Posted Jun 12, 2003 17:06 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

The BBspot quiz is worth taking just to see the "all possible results" page.

http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php

My favorites: "people are apt to love you" for Debian and "your life seems incomplete" for GNU/HURD. :-)

I didn't see Debian Weekly News posted on the daily updates page this week, but maybe I just missed it. Here's my vote to continue the Posting. FWIW, I miss the Kernel Traffic posting too.

BBspot quiz

Posted Jun 12, 2003 18:46 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

> FWIW, I miss the Kernel Traffic posting too.

Me too... maybe LWN doesn't want to promote the competition for its own
standout kernel summary.

Though for a while now kernel traffic's updates have been slightly sporadic
anyway.

Kernel Traffic

Posted Jun 12, 2003 18:49 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Zack's a good guy, and I really don't feel a whole lot of competition from KT. We cover things in different ways. It's more a matter of fitting it into the new format; I used to put a KT pointer into the "patches and updates" section, but the site code needs a bit of hacking to support external resources there. It's on the list and overdue.