Anthony Towns Withdraws from Debian Projects
May 09, 2008Long-standing Debian developer and former Project Leader Anthony Towns has said that he is withdrawing from current projects. The reasons seem to be a disagreement on distribution of tasks within the free Linux distribution.
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more »Opensuse 11: Into the Home Straights with Beta 2
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more »Update: Virtual Distro Sampler DVD
May 05, 2008Unfortunately, there are two bugs contained in the Ubuntu version included on the Linux Magazine Issue #90 DVD Virtual Distro Sampler. For more information and suggested workaround, please visit the Issue 90 DVD page.
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