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The Debian Weekly News for February 10, 2004 is out. This week's topics include the project UTF-8; LILO support for device mapper; KDE support in UserLinux; GCC transition status; aging of "experimental" packages; XFree86 license problems; and more.

DebConf4 registration is open. This is the 5th annual Debian Conference, to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 26 to June 2, 2004.


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DebConf number?

Posted Feb 13, 2004 4:30 UTC (Fri) by akumria (subscriber, #7773) [Link]


Just wondering how DebConf4 can be the 5th annual conference. Surely it'd be the fourth?

Counting from zero, of course

Posted Feb 22, 2004 3:16 UTC (Sun) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

IIRC, the first DebConf was a small, informal affair that worked so well it got organized and formalized. After the fact, that first one was named DebConf 0.

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