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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. (Place her an "opener"; several tiny news with one sentence each; the headlines of the following news writen as full sentences, or similar.)

ArtistX, based on Debian Live Initiative

[http://www.artistx.org ArtistX] is a free live GNU / Linux DVD which turns a computer into a full multimedia production studio.

ArtistX is based on the [http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org Debian Live Initiative] and includes the 2.6.22 Kernel, Gnome 2.20 , KDE 3.5.7 (both versions ship with both Desktop Environments ) and about 2500 free multimedia software, audio, 2D and 3D graphics, video software, nearly everything that exists for the GNU/Linux environment.

It doesn't need to be installed, and boots directly into a running system without touching hard drives. The files produced with ArtistX can be easily stored on USB devices or CD/DVD medium while it is running.

If you want to install it please take a look to our documentation to the ArtistX Installation Manual (Live DVD section).

Now comes in two flavours (Gnome and KDE) and both include the Powua Client and Powua Tutorials. [http://www.powua.com Powua] is the Super Internet Computer and has been created to speed up CPU-intensive tasks. For example you can realize an animation with Blender and directly from ArtistX upload and render it on Powua (more info on the Powua Wiki and in the DVD).

Powua, a new kind of business enabled using Debian

[http://www.powua.com Powua] is a super computer consisting of many processors that work simultaneously to generate a high computing power, which users can access from wherever they are, directly on their computer, through a simple Internet connection. Powua allows anyone to save time by processing information and realizing their projects more quickly, opening the way to new possibilities.

Debian GNU / Linux [http://www.powua.com/mission/mission enabled] this kind of business, because it has good [http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/massive_installation_management_tools_p_1 massive scale management tools], it is a [http://www.debian.org/intro/free libre Operating System] by its [http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution Constitution] and [http://www.debian.org/social_contract Social Contract], and has 18733+ of [http://qa.debian.org/ officially] maintained [http://packages.debian.org/ prepackaged] applications on [http://www.debian.org/ports 15 hardware platforms].

Xteque s.r.l. , the Italian company behind Powua, also [http://www.powua.com/mission/back contributes back to the communities] with donations of money and computing power. Your institution may apply for the [http://www.debian.org/partners/partners Debian Partner Program] or make various kinds of [http://www.debian.org/donations donations] to the Debian Project.

Import noteworthy articles from http://times.debian.net/ here

Sitebar: centralized bookmarking

[http://sitebar.org/ Sitebar] is an easy way store your bookmarks in one place. It has support for many browsers and platforms. It comes both as a service, or self installed software. The great news is that sitebar comes as [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sitebar&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all a package in Debian]. Read more at the [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/04/20/sitebar-centralized-bookmarking/ Debian Times article].

19 new Debian Developers this week: The Debian Project improves its New Maintainer process

At april 18th 2008, 19 new Debian Developers (DD) accounts were created.

One of the bottlenecks is the Debian Accout Management (DAM), and Sam Hocevar delegated some important tasks to more people, distributing future workload. While the batch of new DD accounts were created, he issued a Debian Project Leader (DPL) announcement just before transferring position to the new elected DPL, Steve ?McIntyre. [http://times.debian.net/1234 Read more].

Planets for Debian Contributors up again, ready for new feeds and languages

[http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-165 Holger Levsen reported] that after a severe hardware failure, now all [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/ local planets for Debian contributors] are up again. Currently there are only [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/en/ English], [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/it/ Italian] and [http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/it/ German planets], but the guys at [http://debian-community.org Debian-community.org] are doing a great job and encourage new contributors to submit their feeds or request new localized planets.

Mention upcoming events here

Import released DSAs here

Point to WNPP-report here

Mention who has contributed here [http://www.techforce.com.br Andre Felipe Machado], Adrian von Bidder, Luca Bruno X, Y and Z contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.

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