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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  • ... and much more.

TODO:

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:

New Stable SuiteTelecentro 2.0

Now [http://sourceforge.net/projects/suitetelecentro available for download] is the new stable version of ?SuiteTelecentro.

?SuiteTelecentro is a customisation of Debian and is built at the Free Software Laboratory of the IT Board of Banco do Brasil, the largest and oldest public bank in Brazil.

As [http://times.debian.net/?category=success-stories#1242 already covered] at Debian Times, ?SuiteTelecentro is a GNU/Linux solution which allows the use of low performance CPU and memory computers as affordable thin clients at telecentres. Over 4 million users now have affordable access to an Internet enabled computer thanks to this Free Software project.

?SuiteTelecentro is based on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Etch and LTSP 4.2. The new 2.0 version features easy installation, uses the Gnome graphical environment and includes: the OpenOffice suite, MySQL, PHP, Apache, MediaWiki and the Ocara telecentre management software.

New Developers

1 applicant has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/11/msg00071.html accepted] as Debian Maintainer since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Jörg Sommer in our project!

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667 python2.4], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 xulrunner], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 iceweasel] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 wireshark]. 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.

New and noteworthy packages

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

Debian Package of the Day featured the package [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/30// apticron] (a cron-script to mail impending apt updates).

Work-needing packages

Currently 488 packages are orphaned and 117 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00595.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00455.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].

Want to continue reading DPN?

Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the [http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute contributing page] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org.

[http://www.techforce.com.br Andre Felipe Machado], X, Y and Z contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.


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