Debian Weekly News - 1999 Index

Here are the back issues of Debian Weekly News for 1999. Also, see the timeline summary for all of 1999.

27 Dec 1999 Linux Journal award; release plans; quake concerns
14 Dec 1999 Debian 2.1r4 released; a two week summary
30 Nov 1999 Corel goofup; Enhances field debate; an editorial on bug severities.
23 Nov 1999 Boot floppies development on schedule; Debian Freebsd and package pools discussed again.
17 Nov 1999 The Debian Machine Usage Policy; Y2K fixes for Slink; Corel Linux; 50 thousand bugs
09 Nov 1999 Freeze postponed for months; a new version of policy; OpenSSH arrives.
02 Nov 1999 Freeze postponed a week; build dependencies; Corel copyright problems; BIND is back.
20 Oct 1999 Report from ALS; bloat problems; proposals.
12 Oct 1999 New maintainer closed; Debian in a box.
06 Oct 1999 Free ssh; crippling bugs in unstable.
28 Sep 1999 Developer database online; boot floppies leader wanted.
21 Sep 1999 Debconf released; Corel closed beta; a crazy idea.
14 Sep 1999 A new BTS; broken packages; metapackages.
07 Sep 1999 FHS decision; BIND problems; adopting GPG.
29 Aug 1999 Developer sponsors; Debian-JP problems; general problems of Debian.
24 Aug 1999 Making Debian less fragile; security updates.
17 Aug 1999 Awards at LinuxWorld; proposed Slink update.
10 Aug 1999 Freeze date set; FHS transition delay; fakeroot problems.
03 Aug 1999 DpkgV2 reaction; another book; new maintainer problems; losing a developer.
20 Jul 1999 Is Bruce Back? DpkgV2 design; server news.
13 Jul 1999 Storm Linux; logos are swapped
06 Jul 1999 Perl update; how to move to FHS; relationships with upstream.
29 Jun 1999 A Debian Book; never ending logo votes
22 Jun 1999 A two week edition; a new server for non-free; apt and menu improvements.
08 Jun 1999 A new logo; Linux Laptops; meeting debianites.
31 May 1999 Configuration management implementations; Debian JP merge.
24 May 1999 Logo vote begins; rewriting dpkg; editor wars
17 May 1999 Dpkg use by Apple; upgrading perl
10 May 1999 Plans for the next release; Corel's plans.
03 May 1999 Logo licence results; new X; debhelper 2.0
26 Apr 1999 BTS downtime; Y2K problems; logfile rotation.
19 Apr 1999 Logo license vote; Corel Debian
12 Apr 1999 Several proposals; maintainer queue delays.
06 Apr 1999 Logo candidates
29 Mar 1999 Belated press releases; are stupid users bad?
22 Mar 1999 Free CDs for developers; a new release manager; configuration management; many questions.
15 Mar 1999 Glibc 2.1; removing base
08 Mar 1999 Release!
01 Mar 1999 Release delay; Debian on Empeg
22 Feb 1999 Italian Debian; meeting developers; Debian FreeBSD?
15 Feb 1999 Release date set
08 Feb 1999 Wichert Akkerman elected DPL; debhelper use hits 50%
01 Feb 1999 Logo contest; gnome-apt released; libtool woes; help wanted.
25 Jan 1999 Logo licence problem; Debian at conferences; the Great X Reorganization; package names.
18 Jan 1999 DPL elections; data bloating Debian; mutt a standard mail reader?
11 Jan 1999 A bug counting mistake; deep freeze soon
04 Jan 1999 The first issue; RMS uses Debian; freeze time blues.


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