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Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

Freespire 5 to be based on Debian

Recently acquired by the Xandrox Corporation, the upcoming release of Freespire will be based on the Debian GNU/Linux Lenny release. The current release of Freespire (2.0.8) is based on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). "A combined Xandros/Linspire development effort will return Freespire to its Debian GNU/Linux roots and put it in sync with Xandros Desktop Pro," [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/freespire-returns-debian-roots/story.aspx?guid={21713CB4-464B-4292-89EB-BE41F67FDD92}&dist=hppr said Andreas Typaldos], Xandros CEO. Freespire 5 is slated to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Debian on the OpenMoko FreeRunner

[http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-standards/2008-August/000232.html Joachim Breitner announces] the start of an offical Debian port to the OpenMoko FreeRunner, a smartphone that was designed and developed in a free and open manner. This enables Debian users to use the distribution of their choice even on their telephone. [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner Installation instructions] can be found on the Debian wiki.

Bits from the X Strike Force

Julien Cristau [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00010.html reports] on the newest developments within the X Strike Force. The X Strik Force is happy to announce that the configuration of the Xorg server has been considerably simplified and it is now also possible to configure video output at runtime. Furthermore new drivers have been packaged, namely the [http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ nouveau driver], a reverse-engineering effort for nVidia cards and [http://www.openchrome.org/ openchrome], which will support via chipsets instead of the unmaintained via driver. At least the nouveau driver does not yet have release-quality but the X Strike Force asks for testing of the experimental build. xorg-server 1.5 and mesa 7.1 are also currently in experimental and are scheduled to advance to sid after the Lenny release. At around the same time, the team plans to enable hotplugging of input devices, and their configuration through hal. The X Strike Force concludes their report with a call for maintainers (DDs and non-DDs). People interested in joining the team can contact them on #debian-x on irc.debian.org, or on debian-x@lists.debian.org.

Request for adoption: The Debian Jr. project

Ben Armstrong [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00004.html is looking for someone] to take over the [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianJr Debian Jr.] project, since he is currently too involved with other Debian-internal projects and can no longer spend the necessary time on it. He recommends several measures to move the project forward and hopes to find a new leader for the project who will tackle these and other tasks and carry on his work on a child-friendly custom Debian distribution.

FAI developer workshop at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany

At weekend from 8th until 10th of August, the FAI (Fully Automatic Installation - an installation and update-management framework for Debian and other distributions) developer team met at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany, to make FAI fit for the Lenny release. In a productive as well as fun meeting, seven people got a lot of things done, but most important, they did a lot of testing of the current FAI functionality in the Lenny context.

Important bugs where discussed and solved. Future development has been discussed also discussed, e.g. integrating tests for classes as well as software regressions, how to deal with copyright issues and how contributors should be mentioned in the Debian copyright files, and, last but not least, how more developers could be attracted to add their code into FAI, make it available for testing by users, and get those patches into mainline FAI - which is currently only written to by the main developer.

A (not totally complete) documentation of what we did can be found in the [http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/DeveloperWorkshopAugust2008#Documentation faiwiki].

The meeting was sponsored the [http://www.linuxhotel.de Linuxhotel] in Essen, the [http://www.linux-ag.de Linux Information Systems AG] and [http://lt-ec.de/ LT-ec].

CD/DVD Image Downloads - A Reminder

[http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2008/08/msg00000.html Josip Rodin noted] that there seems to be a rash of CD/DVD image hoarding happening. Particularly, it seems that many people are not only downloading the first image, but the additional images (CDs 2-20+) as well. The full set of images are posted so that they can be downloaded by those who do not have regular access to a reliable connection. However, for those who do have solid Internet connections, it is more efficient to retrieve packages directly from the repositories.

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Other news

The Xth issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/... miscellaneous news for developers] has been released and covers the following topics:

Joey Schulze [http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/08/msg00002.html announces] the 2008 M68k Linux Porter Meeting, which will take place from August 29th to 31st at the University of Kiel, Germany.

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa- foo], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... bar] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... baz]. 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 [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ security mailing list] for announcements.

Please note that those are only the most important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you would like to be kept up to date about the security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ mailing list for security announcements.]

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently ([http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg among others]):

Work-needing packages

Currently 468 packages are orphaned and 120 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00212.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00372.html reports] to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested packages which need your help].

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