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= Open Source study conducted by Heise Open =

The German open source portal Heise Open conducted a survey on the use of
open source software in German businesses. 1312 companies participated;
30 percent were from companies with less than ten employees, 51 percent
were small and medium-sized business and 19 percent had more than 500
employees.

Debian was ranked as the leading server distribution used by 47 percent
of all companies and as the second-most used distribution on the desktop
with 29.9 percent (for companies with more than 500 employees the adoption
rate was higher; at about 37 percent). The full survey (German language only) can be found at:
http://www.heise.de/open/Trendstudie-Open-Source--/artikel/126682

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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  • ... and much more.

TODO:

Debian Summer of Code '08: where are they now (parts 1, 2, 2.5, 3)

This year, twelve projects were selected. That’s twelve students working full time on a Debian-related project during the summer. I am going to give a talk about this at FOSDEM (go to FOSDEM!) so I’m giving you a little preview. I need your help to collect information for my talk. As you know, information is always hard to come by with these kinds of projects so anything can be useful. Let’s have a look at [http://www.milliways.fr/2009/01/20/debian-2008-where-now-1/ part 1], [http://www.milliways.fr/2009/01/28/debian-2008-where-now-2/ part 2], [http://www.milliways.fr/2009/02/01/debian-2008-where-now-2-5/ part 2.5], [http://www.milliways.fr/2009/02/02/debian-2008-where-now-3/ part 3] at the cast of the Debian Google Summer of Code 2008.

Open Source study conducted by Heise Open

The German open source portal Heise Open conducted a survey on the use of open source software in German businesses. 1312 companies participated; 30 percent were from companies with less than ten employees, 51 percent were small and medium-sized business and 19 percent had more than 500 employees.

Debian was ranked as the leading server distribution used by 47 percent of all companies and as the second-most used distribution on the desktop with 29.9 percent (for companies with more than 500 employees the adoption rate was higher; at about 37 percent). The full survey (German language only) can be found at: http://www.heise.de/open/Trendstudie-Open-Source--/artikel/126682

Google portable devices running Debian

A group of people set out to install Debian on their T-Mobile G1 Android phone. They have succeeded in running a full fledged Debian OS on their G1 Android cellphone, while retaining all the features which allow it to function as a cellphone such as receiving and making calls. [http://technologyheaven.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-portable-devices-runs-debian.html Read more] about how to install Debian on a TMobile G1 Phone.

Bits from the Policy Team, call for volunteers

Policy 3.8.1 is in preparation and already includes 12 bug fixes, 7 normative (affecting the requirements set by Policy rather than the wording, presentation, or supporting documentation). The current plan is to release Policy 3.8.1 very shortly after the Lenny release.

More people working on Policy in general are needed, including simply participating in discussions on the mailing lists and evaluating proposals, but we also need experienced Debian developers who have the time and background required to be full Policy delegates. [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00006.html Read more].

Enrico Zini interview with FSFE

Enrico Zini, a Debian Developer, gave an interview to FSFE, talking about Debian, women in FLOSS and Debian, FLOSS at schools, and social groups, among other subjects. [http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/fellowship_interviews/fellowship_interview_with_enrico_zini Read more].

Jeremy Malcolm interview at Debian Times

Jeremy Malcolm described how he became a Debian Developer, his present involvement, how he is using Debian, and his interests outside the Debian Project. [http://times.debian.net/?category=interviews#1300 Read more].

Lars Steinke interview at Debian Times

Lars Steinke described how he became a Debian Developer, his present involvement, how he is using Debian, and his interests outside the Debian Project. [http://times.debian.net/?category=interviews#1297 Read more].

Pleasant Linux surprises: Debian on Alpha

J. A. Watson was pleasantly surprised by his experience installing Debian on Alpha machines. "The obvious choice was Debian, as it is well known as a good server distribution, and they still have Alpha distributions and installation instructions." "Less than an hour, and it was up and running like a charm." [http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009012302335OSHW Read more].

A conversation with Bdale Garbee at IT Wire

Bdale Garbee, a former DPL and current Project secretary and Technical Committee chairman, gave a detailed and very interesting interview for IT Wire, talking about things those outside the Debian Project are not usually aware of. [http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22859/1090/ Read more].

Other news

The Xth issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/... miscellaneous news for developers] has been released and covers the following topics:

New Developers

Michael Hanke and Jan Hauke Rahm were [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/01/msg00130.html added] as Debian Maintainers.

X applicants have been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/... accepted] as Debian Developers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News.

Please welcome Michael Hanke and Jan Hauke Rahm in our project!

Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release

According to the [http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php unofficial RC-bugs count], the upcoming release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" is currently affected by AA release critical bugs. BB of them have already been fixed in Debian's "unstable" branch. Of the remaining CC release critical bugs, DD already have a patch (which might need testing) and 7 are marked as pending.

Ignoring these bugs as well as release critical bugs for packages in contrib or non-free, EE release critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1701 Openssl], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1702 ntp], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1703 bind9], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 xulrunner], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1706 amarok], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 iceweasel], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1708 git], [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1709 shadow] and. [http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1711 typo3] 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/2009/01/18/atop-an-ascii-full-screen-performance-monitor/ atop ] (an ASCII full-screen performance monitor), [http://debaday.debian.net/2009/01/25/iftop-display-bandwidth-usage-on-an-interface-by-host/ iftop] (display bandwidth usage on an interface by host) and [http://debaday.debian.net/2009/02/01/wip-rtpg-www-please-your-dearest-with-rtorrents-power/ rtpg-www ] (Please your dearest with rtorrent's power).

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/... 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], Moritz Muehlenhoff and Z contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.


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