Debian GNU/Linux [LWN.net]

The Debian Project has sent out a release describing what is claimed to be a new intercontinental Internet performance record: the first Debian Woody CD was transferred from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in 13 seconds. The systems on both ends were running Debian, of course.

The Debian Weekly News for May 23 is out, with coverage of MPlayer, Nessus, the fair use status of the fortunes file, and more.

Here's the Debian Weekly News for May 29. It looks at the new Debian Flyers, the abortive attempt at packaging WineX, apt preferences, and more.

In this announcement Josip Rodin discusses woody release status. "To reiterate the main point from the April 30th mail by Anthony Towns, the release of woody is being held back because there is no systematic way to build packages in security advisories on all architectures included in woody."