La Salle Debain

Slashdot has a story on Guillem Jovers' script to convert in-place a system running any Linux distribution to Debian.

Another upload on behalf of Millis. Fixes a problem with invalid build
depends.

I uploaded this package for Robert Lemmen.

• new pull from upstream cvs with many fixes (closes: #223691 , 218618 )
• included the manual (closes: #220300 )

I uploaded this for Millis Miller.

• New upstream version
• Some fixes to the Makefiles to install files into /var/www/iptotal

Dan Shearer started
[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/49831|a thread
in debian-devel] about this topic. Here is my list.

• Pine Although mutt is probably better, this mail reader solidly
  entrenched in my psyche so I can't switch now. The trouble is it is
  mildly non-free. Actually I think Debian is just being pedantic about
  it because the authors clearly allow the distribution of modified
  packages. But that's not what the text of their license says so out of
  Debian it stays. It's not too bad because I've made my own packages for
  woody and sid which you can get here.
• Sun JDK Java Development Kit I don't much care for the Java
  programming language myself but a lot of software uses it nowadays and
  the free JDKs still have a lot of catching up to do. The
  Blackdown port is available in .deb format so
  again this isn't a huge inconvenience.
• VMWare The VMWare virtual machine emulator
  works well with Debian but it has its own idiosyncratic install. A
  version in .deb format which worked well with kernel-package etc. would
  be very nice.
• Gentoo This is the most innovative Linux
  distribution around these days but they seem to be slowly reinventing
  wheels that Debian dealt with a long time ago. (I'm talking about
  stable releases etc.) If the Gentoo founders had worked with Debian
  rather than going their own way, the Linux community as a whole would be
  better off.
• Knoppix Not only is the Knoppix live CD a
  great way to introduce people to Linux, it also provides a fast and easy
  way to install Debian, It's not a totally smooth upgrade however and it
  doesn't work on the many other platforms Debian supports. If the
  developers of Knoppix (and the many spinoffs it has inspired.) worked
  more closely with us, perhaps one of the biggest irritations people have
  with Debian could be avoided.

Scott Remnant has started Planet Debian to aggregate Debian related blogs. I've sent him an email to get La Salle Debain added there and hopefully wider scrutiny will shame me into keeping it more uptodate this year. I've updated the layout to use CSS and after about half an hour of figuring out how GIMP works, the site now has a logo. Do you like it?

OSNews has some links to reviews of Debian-based distros.

• Knoppix reviewed by OSNews themselves .
• LindowsOS 4.5 reviewed at NewsForge .
• Xandros 2.0 Standard Edition reviewed by Linux Reviews .

Joachim Breitner announced the formation of a group to co-maintain Perl packages. They have established a project on alioth to coordinate their activities.

Once again I'll be organizing a Debian booth at Linuxworld. I have put up a web page for the show . It contains a downloadable version of the entrance pass. Anyone can print it out and get free admission to the show. We still have 5 more exhibitor spots open. So if you would like to volunteer in the booth, contact me privately and I'll send you the registration info.

Uploaded this for Frederic Schutz