* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday
>| that he will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new
>| stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's checklist for September
>| 2008: "Release lenny!"
> `----
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2868263273.html

Cool! Almost time to install sid!

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email
> | Saturday that he will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in
> | preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's
> | checklist for September 2008: "Release lenny!"
> `----
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2868263273.html
>
> Debian maintainer calls for embedded input
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | With the next version of Debian frozen for release in September, eight
> | of its 12 architectures risk exclusion.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7...37.html?kc=rss
>
>
> Recent:
>
> Debian celebrates 15-year legacy
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to
> | celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16.
> |
> | While a respected and widely-used Linux distribution in its own right,
> | Debian has, over the 15 years, also been widely used as the base for
> | numerous other Linux distributions, including the popular Ubuntu
> | distribution created by South African entrepreneur, Mark Shuttleworth.
> `----
>
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2662
>
>
> Deploying KDE [on Debian GNU/Linux] to 52 million young people
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students
> | will be fully deployed and in active use.
> |
> | By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000
> | labs serving some 52,000,000 students.
> `----
>
> http://aseigo.blogsp
>
>
> Debian packages for KDE 4.1, KOffice alpha9 and more
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In the beginning of this week, KDE 4.1 RC 1 was released and, of course,
> | there are Debian packages since the release day. The instructions I
> | blogged about how to install the beta1 (and downgrade) still mostly
> | apply, although the version of the KDE 4 RC1 is 4.0.98.
> | The Debian KDE Team website has finally been updated, so you have even
> | more useful information about how to install KDE 4.1 packages from
> | experimental, specially the bits about Apt Pinning.
> `----
>
Bye Lenny. It was great but on to the next testing whatever it will be
called.
Attila
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