Debian Weekly News - August 29th, 2006

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Debian Weekly News - August 29th, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 35th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Bug squashing parties have been announced for
September 8th to 10th in [1]Vienna and for September 15th to 17th in
[2]Jülich, Germany. OSDir has taken [3]screenshots of the new
graphical [4]Debian installer. Petr Stehlik [5]reported that the
installation of [6]sarge and [7]etch worked flawlessly in the
recently [8]fixed version of [9]ARAnyM, a 32bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon
virtual machine.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00012.html
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00013.html
 3. http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=724&slide=2
 4. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2006/08/msg00234.html
 6. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/
 7. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2006/08/msg00226.html
 9. http://packages.debian.org/aranym

General Resolution: Handling Firmware. Steve Langasek [10]proposed a
general resolution to establish how DFSG#2 should be understood to
apply to firmware, especially when distributed with the Linux kernel.
When accepted firmware will be considered as data without the
requirement of matching source code. It would also clarify the