Debian Weekly News - January 30th, 2007

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Debian Weekly News - January 30th, 2007
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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. Anthony Towns was [1]interviewed by Liz Tay on
whether [2]Dunc Tank was a failure or success. Joey Schulze
[3]reported that the [4]alpha port has caught up and is fitter than
before since it now has two working build daemon.

 1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;189708751;pp;1
 2. http://www.dunc-tank.org/
 3. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200701291912
 4. http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/

Dealing with personal Configuration and Data. Aigars Mahinovs
[5]proposed a standard for applications to organise data and
configuration files stored in the user's home directory as an
extension to the [6]Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. It should first
implemented in Debian and then passed upstream. Mark Hymers
[7]pointed out that the [8]XDG Base Directory Specification from
Waldo Bastian addresses configuration files already.

 5. http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/
 6. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
 7. http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/#comment-20060
 8. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html