Debian
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The Debian Project is seeking a few GNOME lovers to help with a "massive cleanup in the insane amount of bugs submitted against GNOME packages." The Debian/GNOME Bug Weekend will be the last weekend of February, on the #debian-gnome channel on OFTC.
From the email to debian-devel-announce:
You don’t need any special skills. Just join #debian-gnome on the OFTC
IRC network, and we’ll provide all the guidance you need.Ultimately, the goal is to have, at the end of that week-end, all bugs
against GNOME packages in one of those states:
* closed
* forwarded upstream
* having a fix ready to upload
* waiting for more information from the submitter
Again, the Debian/GNOME bug weekend takes place on February 27 and 28. If you have some free time, you can help Debian and GNOME!
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IT@School GNU/Linux is a Debian based, single-CD distribution that includes the applications typically required by a high school student or teacher. Apart from a wide range of typical desktop software, it also contains educational programs such as TuxPaint, Ghemical, Kalzium, DrGeo, and Gcompris. This distribution uses GNOME as its desktop.
complete news at http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8687173118.html
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As seen on Debian Planet...
As of today, meta-gnome2 got into testing, which means "apt-get install gnome" works in sarge; there finally is a consistent set of Gnome 2.4 packages. Congrats to all the folks who made this happen.
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If you're used to running Windows, you can think of Synaptic as a sort of super-dooper, turbocharged, steroid-munching version of the "Add / Remove Software" control panel. Except that it would be rude to even think about comparing them since there's a world more sophistication in Synaptic.
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DebianPlanet Reports:
Christian Marillat and Colin Walters have completed all the steps required to transition GNOME 2 from experimental into sid, and will be doing so on Sunday: announcement here. Note the following bit: "Christian Marillat and I have written transition scripts, and they have been tested by us on some .gnome directories, but no one else I'm aware of has tested them yet. So if you haven't helped us out by testing them already, then you will be forced to anyways this Sunday :)".So, to all GNOME 1.4 sid users out there, you may want to spend some time this weekend to ensure your configurations are going to be safe come this Sunday.
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Gustavo Noronha Silva (aka kov) has backported the experimental GNOME2 packages for Woody. They are mirrored on on gluck. The apropriate sources.list line is
deb http://gluck.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
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Hadess has posted some instructions for getting GNOME 2.0 running on Debian unstable.
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It is done. We have packages for OpenOffice.org 641d for debian. You can run them on i386 and powerpc arches.
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Following the announcement of the Alpha 2 release of the GNOME development platform, many Debian users are interested in GNOME 2 packages. As a participator on the GTK-GNOME list let me clarify a few details and myths.
Read Debian Planet Article
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Debian Planet has a story up about Nautilus making it into Woody. Also talk about getting spell checking in Evolution working as available in sid.
