Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News July 6, 2004 is available with news about a Debian Trivia Quiz, GNOME 2.6 in testing, the future of Debian's X11 packages, and several other topics.

An unofficial announcement has gone out: the Debian Project has voted to postpone its recent social contract changes until after the next major release ("Sarge") goes out. The changes in question force the removal of all documentation, data, and other materials seen by Debian as not being free; they had threatened to delay the (already tardy) Sarge release. This vote should pave the way for a faster release. Note that the project adopted the resolution wording which defers the changes indefinitely, rather than the version which put a September deadline on the release. The full results are available for the curious; the full text of the several variants of the resolution is available over here. The announcement from the project Secretary is here.

Chris Cheney reports that the Debian AMD64 port is the second most complete port behind i386. Chris's post contains more details about the status of this port.

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