DEBIAN News and Articles

A fairly long list of projects will take part in this year's Google Summer of Code, the fifth since 2005. Students will be working in grand style to improve products from these popular open source projects.

Along with Munich, Vienna is regarded as a forerunner in the field of open source projects in the German-speaking region of Europe. Now it seems, the Capital of Austria is having second thoughts.

San Mateo CA company Untangle has released version 6.1 of its Untangle Gateway Linux distro. Its base package is open source, but its extension applications are commercially priced.

An update for the new, stabler version of Debian 5.0 has appeared over Easter.

Debian developers have decided: Steve McIntyre has been re-elected as Debian leader for the next legislative period.

Debian users can soon decide whether to install on Linux or FreeBSD kernels.

XScreenSaver is one of the most widely-used screensaver applications for Linux systems. The Debian project is seeking new maintainers to help keep the software running.

Debian developer Ana Guerrero, as spokesperson for the KDE team, has announced that KDE4 will appear during the first week of April 2009.

Nixstaller is conceived as an installation kit for Unix systems and conducts dependency tests and supports UTF-8.