-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ Debian Weekly News - July 13th, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer community.
Storm Linux is a new distribution [8]based on Debian. Its motto is "Storm Linux: we make linux look good", and it seems they do -- take a look at these [9]screenshots. The developer of Storm is R Garth Wood, who has been [10]active on debian-devel for a while. There has been little reaction to this development though a report on a test install has been [11]posted. The web site now has a page for the [12]Hurd port. It covers installation, development, etc. Speaking of the web site, it finally uses the new logo. And the [13]results are in for the logo swap vote: the logos have been swapped. Go forth and use the swirl. There's been an increasing amount of discussion about freezing and release plans this week. From [14]talk on the new debian-release list about shortening the release cycle to a discussion about whether a [15]Spetember release is possible (with a freeze very soon), the idea is in the air. Lalo Martins [16]posted about internationalizing Debian's init scripts. It's turning into a more general discussion about init script output, see [17]this proposal for example. Here is a [18]complete system for generating diffs between debian packages and applying those diffs. This could be used to "seriously reduce download times" As usual, we have some [19]news from the Debian-JP project. One thing they're dealing with is translating the copyright of software that is documented only in japanese. Many packages remain broken after the perl update. The [20]next planned step is to file important bugs against these packages and quickly make non maintainer releases of them. Thanks to Christian Meder and Katsura S. Yoshio for [21]contributing. _________________________________________________________________ References 8. http://stormix.com/about/index.html 9. http://stormix.com/about/screen_shots.html 10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9907/msg00632.html 11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9907/msg00685.html 12. http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd 13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9907/msg00005.html 14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-release-9907/msg00016.html 15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9907/msg00907.html 16. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/27/mail#1 17. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/27/mail#2 18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9907/msg00746.html 19. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/27/mail#3 20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9907/msg00007.html 21. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing -- see shy jo ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
