La Salle Debain

I did an NMU of FOP (Debian package: libfop-java) to bring it up to upstream version 20.4 and fix all the current bugs. It is actually usable now!

Now FOP is working, I rewrote the flyer I had made for Linuxworld with OpenOffice, using DocBook XML and XSL-FO. The results are available here.

Mathew Palmer has some slides from a presentation he did about debconf.

Did you know the Linux distribution for Compaqs' iPAQ uses Debian packages and a stripped down version of dpkg called ipkg?

An Australian Newspaper 'The Age' has an Interview with Joey Schultze about Debian here.

Hurrah!

So Red Hat made an announcement that they were no longer going to support their distribution for Linux on sparcs and alphas. I thought this would be a golden opportunity for us to do some propoganda. After all the number of architectures we support is one of our main distinguishing features. Debian Press Officer Joey Schulze didn't think we should be doing that kind of thing. A flame war erupted as usual. It went off on an unrelated tangent as usual. We discovered I don't understand apostrophes. The press release eventually just fell by the wayside though Joey was kind enough to mention the topic in Debian Weekly News .

Tollef Fog Heen announced plans for DebConf3 in a message to debian-devel-announce. He says:

...there will be a Debconf 3, this time again in
Europe, more exact Oslo, Norway. The University of Oslo has kindly
enough offered to host Debconf 3.

The dates Debconf 3 will take place is July 18th to 20th 2003.
Housing is not ready yet, but I am working on getting a deal with a
mid-price-to-cheap hotel and having a Youth Hostel as an option for
those who want to go even cheaper.

New this year is Debcamp, an invention of Joey Hess. Basically, it is
a few days before the conference itself starts where rooms and network
connectivity will be available, and we will have time to sit around,
discuss, hack, barbecue, go picnicing and have fun.

A preliminary website is online at http://www.debconf.org/debconf3/ ;
I will try to keep it up-to-date with regard to the status of the
conference.

To use the chroot environments set up on the Debian machines run the dchroot program. In each chroot, there is a file /etc/debian_chroot, the contents of which will tell you which chroot you are in (see /etc/profile for an example of how to add this to your prompt).

Someone is looking for sheet music for "Duelling Banjos" again.