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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

It is [http://sourceforge.net/projects/suitetelecentro available for download] the Suite Telecentro new stable version 2.0.

A customization made at the Free Software Laboratory of the IT Board of Banco do Brasil, the solution allows the use of low performance CPU and memory machines as thin clients at telecentres, as [http://times.debian.net/?category=success-stories#1242 already covered] at Debian Times.

It is based on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Etch and LTSP 4.2. The new 2.0 version, with easy installation, uses the Gnome graphical environment and includes the OpenOffice suite, MySQL, PHP, Apache, MediaWiki and the Ocara telecentre management software, developed by the Free Software Laboratory of the IT Board of Banco do Brasil.

New Developers

X applicants have been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/... accepted] as Debian Developers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Foo, Bar and Baz 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-... 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.

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 packages [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... foo] and [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... bar].

Work-needing packages

Currently x packages are orphaned and y packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/... 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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