Hi, As the attached message says, it looks like Debian 1.2 is close. You might be mostly interested in the items about: 1. Easier bootstrap installation (according to the Debian home page, it will take two diskettes) 2. Support for installation of RPM (YES! You can install RedHat packages under Debian!) Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL amos@dsi.co.il | -- Anonymous
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You are getting this message because you subscribed to the debian-announce@lists.debian.org mailing list. There will be more messages to this list in the next month as Debian 1.2 comes closer to release. If you do not want to see these announcements any longer, please follow these instructions exactly: 1. Do not reply to this message. 2. Send a message with a blank line for the subject, and the word "unsubscribe" and nothing else in the message body to debian-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . DEBIAN GNU/LINUX NEWS Code Freeze The Code Freeze for Debian 1.2 happened on Monday. Many people are already testing the system. Prospective testers should subscribe to the debian-user mailing list (by sending the word "subscribe" to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org). We will issue a call for additional testers to that list in a few days. When the release of 1.2 happens, we will announce it to debian-announce@lists.debian.org, the mailing list you are now reading. Lots of New Packages! See http://www.debian.org/FTP for a list of them all! With the release of 1.2, Debian may have the largest number of ready-to-run packages of any Linux distribution - we haven't studied this thoroughly enough to say so for sure. We also think we may have the largest development staff of any Linux distribution. 150 developers can get a lot done! Surprising New Features! Christoph Lameter has demonstrated the capability to install Red Hat and Slackware packages on a Debian system. His "alien" program actually converts these package formats into to a Debian package (so that our auto-removal and other features are supported), applies a package-specific "patch" if necessary to tweak the package into complete conformance with Debian standards, and then installs the package. We don't plan to support this feature for every package on the net, however it will be tremendously useful for commercial programs that are not available directly for Debian. "Alien" arose from Christoph's work on "debmake", a program that automates the task of building a Debian package from source code. Using "debmake", most programs can be packaged for Debian in ten to thirty minutes. We hope that other Linux distribution makers will copy these concepts so that they can provide compatibility for Debian packages on their systems. New Architectures! Most of Debian 1.2 has been built for the DIGITAL ALPHA and some Motorola 68030-compatible platforms. This software is available for testing. The easy bootstrap installation system used on our i386 architecture is _not_ yet running on the other architectures, but this is expected shortly after the release of 1.2 on the i386 architecture. Mailing Lists User-to-User support is available on the debian-user mailing list. To subscribe, send "subscribe" to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . The debian-changes mailing list is for changes to released software in the "stable" directory of our FTP archive. Send "subscribe" to debian-changes-REQUEST@lists.debian.org to see changes to released software. Changes to unreleased software (which we keep in the "unstable" or "codefreeze" directory), including announcements of programs that have just been packaged to Debian, will now be sent to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org . To subscribe, send "subscribe" to debian-devel-changes-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Announcements about the Debian system are sent to this list, debian-announce@lists.debian.org . To subscribe, send "subscribe" to debian-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
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