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Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

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Debian support for Marvell Kirkwood

Martin Michlmayr reported that he is porting Debian to Marvell's new Kirkwood platform. Kirkwood integrates an ARM CPU, Ethernet, SATA, USB, SDIO and other functionality in one chip and can go up to 2 GHz. Work is underway to support QNAP's new TS-119 and TS-219 Turbo NAS devices as well as a very small and fan-less device called the SheevaPlug which Michlmayr calls "a killer replacement for the NSLU2". Offered at under $100, it features a 1.2 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB flash and fits in a hand.

Analysis of the Package Dependency on Debian GNU/Linux

O.Felicio de Sousa, M.A. de Menezes and T.J.P.Penna produced an analysis of the package dependencies on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny.

Abstract: "We build the network of more than 18,000 software packages of Debian GNU/Linux operating system, for your current three releases, along with their dependence interactions. We measured the degree connectivity distribution, modularity and detect some communities. The scale-free nature of the dependency network and the results for the betweenness centrality can con rm the stability of the system to random bugs. Also the communities we have found can be used for determining the packages that could be mantained by teams rather than [individual] developers."

http://profs.if.uff.br/tjpp/_media/blog/entradas/a-rede-dos-pacotes-do-debian-gnu/main.pdf

The Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

A new page at the Debian wiki is being evolved as a simple guide for Debian newcomers help on installing. http://wiki.debian.org/LennyIllustratedInstall

Other news

The Xth issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:

New Developers

X applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Foo, Bar and Baz in our project!

New Maintainers

Jonathan Wiltshire, Felix Zielcke, Olivier Berger, Evgeni Golov, Marcelo Jorge Vieira, and Kęstutis Biliūnas were added as Debian Maintainers.

Please welcome Jonathan Wiltshire, Felix Zielcke, Olivier Berger, Evgeni Golov, Marcelo Jorge Vieira and Kęstutis Biliūnas in our project!

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): gnutls, typo3, phpmyadmin, moodle and websvn. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among others):

Debian Package of the Day featured the packages vnstat (a console-based network traffic monitor), localepurge (automagically remove unnecessary locale data), fontypython (manage your fonts) and bash-completion (the greatest thing since bash completion).

Work-needing packages

Currently 399 packages are orphaned and 113 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the recent reports to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of packages which need your help.

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