Debian Weekly News - August 22nd, 2006

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Debian Weekly News - August 22nd, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 34th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Jörg Jaspert [1]announced that the
[2]backports archive also understands the tilde character in version
strings and that packages are set to NotAutomatic so that they
shouldn't be updated automatically anymore. [3]HP recently
[4]announced that they support Debian GNU/Linux on its ProLiant,
BladeSystem servers, and the new HP t5725 Thin Client server.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/08/msg00118.html
 2. http://www.backports.org/
 3. http://www.hp.com/
 4. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;311998848;fp;2;fpid;1

Event Coordination in the German-speaking Area. Meike Reichle
[5]announced a new Wiki [6]page for coordinating public events in
the German-speaking area such as fairs, exhibitions and conferences in
which the Debian projects participates. This is one result of a
[7]meeting of Debian event organisers last weekend. Alexander Schmehl
[8]added that the events [9]section on the Debian website will be
overhauled in the near future.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2006/08/msg00019.html
 6. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEventsDe
 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2006/08/msg00031.html