Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007

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Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007
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Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Roland Mas [1]announced that [2]Alioth users can use
[3]Mercurial for version control. Robert Millan [4]announced version
0.4.0 of the Debian [5]loader for Windows operating systems including
Vista. Joey Schulze [6]reported that [7]security updates are
available via IPv6 from official servers as well. The new release of
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is [8]celebrated all over the world.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00011.html
 2. http://alioth.debian.org/
 3. http://packages.debian.org/mercurial
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/03/msg01168.html
 5. http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
 6. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200703292005
 7. http://www.debian.org/security/
 8. http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch

Saving Money with Debian GNU/Linux. The leader of the IT department of
Germany's [9]Federal Foreign Office, Rolf Schuster, [10]reported that
they have seriously cut their IT costs by consequently using Free
Software. Driven by the urge to save money on license fees and to
escape from update cycles the office started the move in 2002 and has
since then connected 230 embassies with the secure intranet
[11]gateways. More than 300 laptops of diplomats also run a