FootNotes - Debian

Debian/GNOME Bug Weekend Approaches

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:43:33 -0500

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!

Indian schools to use homebrew Debian distro with GNOME Desktop

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:45:18 -0400

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

GNOME 2.4 is in sarge

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:43:29 -0500

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.

Synaptic: Point-n-Click Software Management

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:04:08 -0400

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.

Read the rest

GNOME 2 in Sid this Sunday

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:08:36 -0400

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.

GNOME2 for Woody

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:02:32 -0400

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

Read the rest

GNOME 2.0 for Debian

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:40:55 -0400

Hadess has posted some instructions for getting GNOME 2.0 running on Debian unstable.

OpenOffice packages for Debian

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:24:29 -0400

It is done. We have packages for OpenOffice.org 641d for debian. You can run them on i386 and powerpc arches.

More info

GNOME 2 Myths Debunked

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 23:44:54 -0500

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

Nautilus now in Woody.

Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:03:49 -0500

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.