Debian GNU/Linux

[Posted November 6, 2002 by ris]

The Debian Weekly News for November 5 is out. It looks at the Debian potato security survey, Debian as an anarchist organization, the beginnings of the first Woody update, and numerous other topics.

Silicon Breeze has announced the new Debian Collection, featuring over 30 Debian swirls individually sculpted in gold, silver, turquoise and amber. This could be the first serious exhibition of a traditional art form available exclusively over the Internet, and inspired entirely by an Open Source project.

Linux Orbit has a HOWTO article on getting Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (a.k.a. ALSA) sound modules set up properly. The HOWTO shows you how to compile and install the ALSA kernel modules, and then setup things using the ALSA Debian script so that modules are automatically loaded and unloaded, and your mixer levels are saved and restored on boot up.

Here is a report on the first revision of the current stable Debian distribution (woody).

If you still have a Debian 2.2 (potato) system in service, please respond to the potato survey on now from the Debian Security Team.

In a nibble from the DDTP you can find out about the progress being made by the Debian Description Translation Project (DDTP).