Debian Today

As Debian 5.0 release gets closer the Debian installer team has been hard at work ironing all the kinks out of the Debian installer. There has been quite a few changes since the Etch and Lenny beta2 installers and the installer team is asking for people in the user world to test the installer.
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It has been a month since Debian Today was “officially released” and the site has done much better than I bargained for. We have received over 170,000 visitors the first month and are growing every day. 170,000 is not amazing by any standards but I believe it to be a great starting point. The search [...]

Welcome to this year’s 11th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

Release Update
Should Security Enhanced Linux be priority “standard”?
Lenny Upgrade advisor
… and much more.

Release update
Luk Claes reported on the progress regarding the release of the new stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny. While there are [...]

Every Debian user should have a good relationship with APT. We use it for all sorts of stuff and it has made our daily computing life so much easier. apt-get is great but there are more apt utilities out there that can make things even better. I introduce to you some great additions to APT.

apt-build
apt-rdepends
netselect-apt

apt-build
apt-build [...]

Continuing yesterdays post…
Package Maintenance
Every Debian package has an assigned maintainer. The maintainer may be a single person or group that is reachable with an email address or commonly a mailing list. Maintainers must be specified in the maintainer control field with their name and email address.
Ubuntu packages usually don’t have a designated maintainer. All packages [...]