DEBIAN TALKS NEAR YOU! This year there will be Debian talks at Linux Expo North Carolina, http://www.linuxexpo.org/ , May 28-30, and Debian talks and a table at the Atlanta Linux Showcase, http://www.ale.org/showcase/ , October 23-24. In addition, we've submitted programs and hope to be accepted at the International Linux Kongress, Cologne Germany, June 3-5 http://www.linux-kongress.de/koeln.html, and the SANE conference in Maastricht, November 18-20, http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane98 . Ian Jackson hopes to appear at the Linux Kongress, Bruce Perens will be at all shows where we're accepted.
We'll inform you as more talks are added. DEBIAN STABILITY Debian's "master" system is a Pentium 90 with 64MB graciously provided by our donor Novare, who also donate its site in Texas, its support, and its internet connection. It delivers over 100,000 e-mails daily, runs the CVS server for the GNOME project, is our master FTP server with many mirror systems accessing it every day, hosts our bug reporting system and many project utilities, and is the "home" system of our 200 developers, who compile, upload, and download using that system every day. This is a heavier load than I'd put on a single commercial workstation running anything but Linux. A Microsoft NT system with a Pentium Pro and 128MB RAM would not approach the load this system handles effortlessly every day. The system just ran continuously for three months without a reboot. I thought three months without a reboot was a big deal. When I mentioned it to our developers, one of them showed me details about his system. It was up for 458 days, and was halted to move it to another floor. The network and disk device drivers had handled tens of millions of interrupts in that time. DEBIAN AFFILIATES The Berlin project, a project to make a next-generation window system, has chosen to become part of Software in the Public Interest (Debian's corporation). The project's timeline is about two years long. Debian is discussing collaboration with SEUL, a project to make a simple end-user Linux for less-technical users than we presently support. See their web page at http://www.seul.org/ . Bruce Perens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
