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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of April 1st, 2003. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Summary |
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* Portage 2.1 to adopt RPM format for LSB compliance |
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* Gentoo/PPC team restructuring |
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* Release schedule announced for Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc4 |
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Portage 2.1 to adopt RPM format for LSB compliance |
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In what will likely prove to be a controversial decision, Portage 2.1 will |
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adopt the RPM format for all packages moving forward. The use of ebuilds |
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will be deprecated in favor of the defacto RPM standard. The primary |
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driver for this decision was to ensure compliance with the Linux Standard |
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Base[1] specification, which mandates RPM support for package management. |
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1. http://www.linuxbase.org/ |
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The developers have been hard at work to make this migration as easy as |
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possible. Already a proof-of-concept ebuild2rpm script is in place and |
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being tested by a pilot group of developers. Unfortunately, because of the |
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architectural differences between the two formats, some features will not |
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be supported once Gentoo moves to RPM. USE variables are one such feature; |
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sandbox security is another. However, the added benefit brought about by |
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full LSB compliance should far outweigh the loss of these two minor |
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features. |
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Additionally, because of LSB's required library support[2], the xfree86 |
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package will move to become part of the base Gentoo Linux system, rather |
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than an optional addition. Users interested in learning more about the |
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Linux Standard Base should read the LSB FAQ[3] or the full LSB 1.3 |
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specification[4]. |
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2. |
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http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/rlibraries.html |
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3. http://www.linuxbase.org/modules.php?name=FAQ |
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4. http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ |
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Gentoo/PPC team restructuring |
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As announced in last week's issue[5], Mark Guertin (gerk) recently retired |
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from the Gentoo Linux project. Replacing Mark as the Gentoo/PPC lead will |
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be Pieter Van den Abeele (pvdabeel). Assisting Pieter in the PPC |
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development efforts will be Luca, Graham, and Seth, who have been |
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appointed as second-tier leads for the group. The new structure provides |
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for more distributed leadership on the PPC developer team and offers more |
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flexibility and redundancy. |
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5. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/gwn/20030324-newsletter.xml |
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Release schedule announced for Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc4 |
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Brad Cowan (bcowan) recently announced the release schedule for Gentoo |
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Linux 1.4_rc4: |
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* Sun March 23rd - Package Upgrades Phase Starts - The development team |
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is encouraged to move things from unstable ("~" masked) state to stable |
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for the next 14 days. |
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* Sun March 30th - Build and Test Phase - Generic CPU stage tarballs are |
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made and tested from the current CVS tree for the next 7 days with jhhudso |
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and QA testers reporting any bugs found. |
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* Sun April 6th - End Package Upgrades phase - Start Build and Test Phase |
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with an official CVS snapshot. |
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* Wed April 9th - Official Release Decision - a determination is made as |
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to whether this next release will be an "official release" or release |
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candidate. The Development Lead for each arch, the Release Coordinator, |
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the Development Manager, and the Chief Architect all come to a final |
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unanimous decision in this matter. |
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2. Gentoo Security |
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Summary |
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* GLSA: stunnel |
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* GLSA: mod_ssl |
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* GLSA: glibc |
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* GLSA: openssl |
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* GLSA: mutt |
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* GLSA: bitchx |
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* GLSA: zlib |
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* New Security Bug Reports |
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GLSA: stunnel |
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The stunnel SSL port wrapper is vulnerable to a timing attack against |
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OpenSSL that may expose RSA keys. |
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* Severity: High - Cryptographic exposure. |
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* Packages Affected: net-misc/stunnel versions prior to stunnel-3.22-r2 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge stunnel, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[6] |
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* Advisory[7] |
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6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43711 |
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7. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030317.txt |
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GLSA: mod_SSL |
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The Apache module mod_SSL is vulnerable to a timing attack against OpenSSL |
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that may expose RSA keys. |
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* Severity: High - Cryptographic exposure. |
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* Packages Affected: net-www/mod_ssl versions prior to mod_ssl-2.8.14 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge mod_ssl, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[8] |
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* Advisory[9] |
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8. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43709 |
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9. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030317.txt |
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GLSA: glibc |
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An integer overflow vulnerability in the xdrmem_getbytes() function |
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provided as part of glibc could permit a remote exploit attack. |
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* Severity: High - Remote exploit possible. |
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* Packages Affected: sys-libs/glibc versions prior to glibc-2.3.1-r4 |
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(glibc-2.2.5-r8 on ARM systems). |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge glibc, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[10] |
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* Advisory[11] |
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10. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43687 |
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11. http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20030318.html |
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GLSA: openssl |
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It has been discovered that OpenSSL is vulnerable to a sophisticated |
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attack involving opening millions of SSL/TLS connections to a server in |
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order to perform a private-key operation using the server's RSA key. The |
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key itself is not compromised. |
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* Severity: High - Cryptographic exposure. |
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* Packages Affected: dev-libs/openssl versions prior to openssl-0.9.6i-r2 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge openssl, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[12] |
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* Advisory[13] |
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12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43402 |
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13. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030319.txt |
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GLSA: mutt |
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The mutt mail client contains a vulnerability in its IMAP support that |
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could permit a malicious IMAP server operator to crash the reader or |
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potentially execute commands on the vulnerable system. |
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* Severity: High - Remote code execution. |
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* Packages Affected: net-mail/mutt versions prior to mutt-1.4.1 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge mutt, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[14] |
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* Advisory[15] |
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14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43401 |
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15. http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=310/&idxseccion=10 |
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GLSA: bitchx |
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The bitchx IRC client is vulnerable to buffer-overflows, permitting |
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malicious server operators or man-in-the-middle attackers to perform DoS |
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attacks. |
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* Severity: Moderate - remote DoS. |
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* Packages Affected: net-irc/bitchx versions prior to bitchx-1.0.19-r5 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge bitchx, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[16] |
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* Advisory[17] |
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16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43403 |
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17. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq/&m=104766521328322&w=2 |
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GLSA: zlib |
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The zlib system library contains a buffer-overflow vulnerability in its |
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gzprintf() function. This vulnerability could be used to corrupt the call |
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stack. |
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* Severity: Moderate - local DoS. |
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* Packages Affected: sys-libs/zlib versions prior to zlib-1.1.4-r1 |
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* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge zlib, emerge clean. |
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* GLSA Announcement[18] |
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* Advisory[19] |
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18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=44382 |
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19. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/312869/2003-02-18/2003-02-24/0 |
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New Security Bug Reports |
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The following new security bugs were posted this week: |
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* dev-libs/dietlibc[20] |
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* app-crypt/heimdal[21] |
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* dev-php/php[22] |
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20. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18358 |
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21. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18359 |
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22. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18360 |
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3. Featured Developer of the Week |
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg |
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg[23] maintains dev-lisp and dev-java with a few other |
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developers, as well as several other languages and compilers and the |
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eminently useful gentoolkit. This mostly entails fixing ebuild bugs and |
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verifying new submissions; Karl also spends much time arguing with the |
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other developers about how to improve Gentoo Linux's development process, |
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a goal for which he has crafted tools like lintool and munchie. A Gentoo |
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developer since summer 2001, Karl has worked on many other OSS projects, |
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including the Savage3D driver for the Utah-GLX project[24], the Linux port |
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to the Sega Dreamcast[25], a multi-language documentation system[26], the |
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Norwegian translations of AbiWord[27] and the Gimp[28] (the first to |
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Bokmål, the latter to Nynorks, two different dialects of Norwegian), and |
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some other projects you can see listed on his personal page[29] at |
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SourceForge, but most of these projects, as well as his involvement with |
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Gentoo were preempted by his Master's thesis: transformations for the |
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CodeBoost transformation system[30] which he presented on the 21st of |
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March at the University of Bergen[31]. Now he's back in all of his |
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capacities, including that of comic relief for the Gentoo development |
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team. |
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23. karltk@g.o |
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24. http://utah-glx.sf.net |
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25. http://linuxdc.sf.net |
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26. http://sds.sf.net |
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27. http://www.abisource.com |
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28. http://www.gimp.org |
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29. http://sourceforge.net/users/karltk/ |
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30. http://www.codeboost.org |
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31. http://www.uib.no |
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Karl has a nice dual Athlon 2000+ box with a Kyro II video card and an IDE |
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RAID, but as of late he only visits it through ssh. He's currently |
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borrowing an Athlon 1800+ running Redhat (his excuse: it's nice to know |
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what the other distros look like once in a while), and is waiting for a |
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replacement for his iBook, which he bought in January and which has broken |
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down twice (Karl says that Apple's customer support is the worst service |
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he's come across, including the tax authorities, but will gladly use an |
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iBook if Apple decides to send him a working one). He uses Fluxbox and KDE |
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depending on the occasion, with Galeon and Sylpheed for browsing and mail. |
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Karl's other favorite apps include zsh, most, irssi, and ssh, and he |
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suffers from withdrawal symptoms whenevr he tries to ditch the bloated, |
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horrible, emacs, which is nevertheless home. |
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Karl used to design computer languages until the company he worked for |
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caved in last summer, and afterwards he worked at a very cool ISP[32]. Now |
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unwittingly applying for a PhD position in computer science, he continues |
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to study medicine at the Norwegian university of Technology and |
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Science[33] as a break from all the CS. Also, he enjoys various forms of |
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roleplaying, generally Ars Magica interspersed with some happy-go-lucky |
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Sci Fi stints. Believe it or not, his girlfriend's name is Tilde; the fact |
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that she works for an evil cell phone company[34] is offset by her |
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understanding of obscure Unix jokes[35], and she lives with him in |
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Trondheim, Norway[36]. Karl was born in the coastal town of Haugesund but |
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escaped to Bergen when he discovered that not all city halls were supposed |
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to be pink[37]. The city hall in Bergen[38] was nondistinct, and there he |
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was subjeced to Solaris and IRIX before he accidentally installed Linux |
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and was not able to get it off. |
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Karl left the link between Bergen and Trodheim in a shroud of mystery, as |
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to appear inscrutable. |
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32. http://www.prosalg.no |
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33. http://www.ntnu.no |
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34. http://www.netcom.no |
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35. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~laura/humor/unix.html |
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37. http://www.haugesund.net/bilder/raadhus.jpg |
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38. http://www.bergencablecar.no/panorama_juli_b.jpg |
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4. Heard In The Community |
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Web Forums |
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CFLAGS Central Revival |
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Floating point conversion functions in GCC, the standard C compiler suite, |
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are susceptible of creating bugs when compiling with -march=pentium4. Some |
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people circumvent this by "downgrading" to -march=pentium3, some deny |
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bugginess altogether. Say hello to a renewed discussion of compiler |
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optimizations: |
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* gcc 3.2.2 and Pentium4[39] |
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* -march=pentium4 issue[40] |
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* -fomit-frame-pointer[41] |
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* Making full use of cpu registers in CFLAGS[42] |
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* CFLAGS Central[43] |
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39. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=39202 |
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40. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43373 |
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41. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=44263 |
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42. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43648 |
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43. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5717 |
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Finally: Gentoo on the Xbox |
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A fresh post by Forum newbie, ShALLaX[44], sent shivers of relief +down |
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many a Gentooist's spine: You can do a stage1 installation and run Gentoo |
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Linux on your Xbox! |
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* Gentoo on the Xbox[45] |
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45. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=44518 |
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44. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17401 |
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gentoo-user |
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Gentoo Migration Strategies |
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Matt Garman asked about migration strategies[46] for moving from Debian to |
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Gentoo. The resulting thread[47] gave Matt some helpful hints and also |
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touched upon the "requirement" of having a separate, 100MB boot partition. |
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* Gentoo Migration Strategy[48] |
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46. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104882423606515&w=2 |
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47. |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&w=2&r=1&s=gentoo+migration+stra |
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gety&q=b |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&w=2&r=1&s=gentoo+migration+stra |
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gety&q=b |
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Money Dance is Not Dead |
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Alex Combas inquired[49] about running Money Dance[50] on Gentoo. There |
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was some confusion about whether or not Money Dance was still an |
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actively-developed program, but it was eventually clarified[51] that Money |
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Dance is, in fact, still an active product. |
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* Money Dance[52] |
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49. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104892664009032&w=2 |
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50. http://moneydance.net |
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51. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104897516312483&w=2 |
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52. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&w=2&r=1&s=money+dance&q=b |
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gentoo-dev |
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Managing Disk Space |
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Andy Arbon posted[53] a script for assisting in the tidying of binary |
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packages built by portage. |
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53. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=104854206807179&w=2 |
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Destroying Dependancies |
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Per Wigren had some troubles with dependancies[54] when mysql was upgraded |
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from 3.23 to 4.0 and proposed a solution to solve the problem going |
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forward. Alain Penders pointed out that reverse dependancy checking in |
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portage[55] would likely solve Per's problem. |
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* Destroying Dependancies[56] |
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54. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=104863973531869&w=2 |
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55. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=104886451814076&w=2 |
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56. |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=destroying+dependancie |
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s&q=b |
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5. Gentoo International |
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Gentoo Hanami |
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Cherry blossom season in Japan. While the weather report of Japanese TV |
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stations still brings daily coverage of the full-bloom-front that is |
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slowly moving towards the north of the country, the usual GentooJP |
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suspects have already fulfilled their traditional "hanami" duty last |
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Friday. For those unfamiliar with the expression: Hanami is a cherry |
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blossom viewing event better described as an annual mass hysteria with the |
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aim of getting seriously drunk in a park with preferrably large numbers of |
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cherry trees and watching the petals float gently to the ground while |
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noisily dancing around on much too blue plastic sheets. Roughly a dozen of |
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GentooJP activists decided on Shinjuku Gyoen as a venue, a particularly |
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nice and fairly central spot in Tokyo, but believe it or not: nobody |
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brought a camera... Hoping for next year then, lads. |
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German Police Runs on Gentoo-ARM |
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Government agencies in Europe are known to be much more open towards Linux |
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and Open Source Software than those of other countries. In their latest |
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move, the BKA[57] (the German equivalent of its more universally known |
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cousins FBI or Scotland Yard) has started deploying Gentoo-ARM-based PDAs |
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for use of its officers in the field. "They will mainly use it for playing |
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MP3s of phone conversations in abduction cases", says Hein Bloed, head of |
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the IT department at BKA's headquarters in Wiesbaden. PDAs have been part |
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of the standard equipment at the BKA for many years, but the sudden |
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decision to replace PocketPC with ARM-based Gentoo Linux came as a |
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surprise. The Gentoo-ARM developer team says there are rumours of a |
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PocketPC virus accidentally spread throughout the organization by their |
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own computer crime department following a raid on illegal software |
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importers in the port of Hamburg two months ago. |
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57. http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20030401_fishb.gif |
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Erratum: Gentoo Presentation in Denmark on 1 April, not 2 April! |
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We apologize to Klavs Klavsen for the misinformation carried in last |
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week's GWN: His presentation to the mixed Danish and Swedish SSLUG is |
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going to take place on 1 April, i.e. Tuesday, at DKUUG/Symbion, |
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Fruebjergvej 3 in Copenhagen East, starting at 19:30 in room M4. |
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6. Portage Watch |
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The following stable packages were added to portage this week |
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* app-admin/envtest : This ebuild display the environment for an ebuild. |
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It's for portage-testing purposes only and will _always_ fail. |
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http://foo.bar.com/ |
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* net-ftp/junkie : Junkie - GTK2 FTP Client |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/junkie |
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* net-www/phoenix-cvs : The Phoenix Web Browser |
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ |
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* net-firewall/kmyfirewall : Graphical KDE iptables configuration tool |
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http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/ |
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Updates to notable packages |
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* sys-apps/portage - portage-2.0.47-r12.ebuild; |
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* sys-devel/gcc - gcc-3.2.2-r2.ebuild; |
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* sys-libs/glibc - glibc-2.2.5-r8.ebuild; glibc-2.3.1-r4.ebuild; |
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* sys-kernel/* - development-sources-2.5.66.ebuild; |
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mips-headers-2.4.21.ebuild; mm-sources-2.5.65-r3.ebuild; |
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mm-sources-2.5.65-r4.ebuild; mm-sources-2.5.66-r1.ebuild; |
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ppc-sources-benh-2.4.20-r9.ebuild; selinux-sources-2.4.20-r2.ebuild; |
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wolk-sources-4.0_rc4.ebuild; |
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* dev-db/mysql - mysql-4.0.12.ebuild; |
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New USE variables |
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* mpi - Adds MPI (Message Passing Interface) layer to the apps that |
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support it |
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* selinux - Adds support for Security Enhanced Linux (to build a more |
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secure set of packages and kernel |
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7. Bugzilla |
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=========== |
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|
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Summary |
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|
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* Statistics |
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* Closed Bug Ranking |
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* New Bug Rankings |
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|
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Statistics |
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|
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[58]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted |
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in: |
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|
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58. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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|
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* 311 new bugs this week |
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* 311 bugs closed or resolved this week |
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* 12 previously closed bugs were reopened this week. |
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* 2349 total bugs currently marked 'new' |
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* 466 total bugs currently assigned to developers |
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|
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There are currently 2880 bugs open in Bugzilla. Of these: 72 are labeled |
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'blocker', 104 are labeled 'critical', and 233 are labeled 'major'. |
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|
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Closed Bug Rankings |
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------------------- |
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|
512 |
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are: |
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|
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* The Documents Team[59], with 14 closed bugs[60] |
515 |
* Martin Schlemmer[61], with 9 closed bugs[62] |
516 |
* The Gnome Team[63], with 9 closed bugs[64] |
517 |
* Seemant Kulleen[65], with 9 closed bugs[66] |
518 |
* Alastair Tse[67], with 8 closed bugs[68] |
519 |
* Martin Holzer[69], with 8 closed bugs[70] |
520 |
|
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59. docs-team@g.o |
522 |
60. |
523 |
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
524 |
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
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&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=docs-team%40gentoo.org |
526 |
61. azarah@g.o |
527 |
62. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
529 |
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
530 |
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
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63. gnome@g.o |
532 |
64. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
534 |
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
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&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome%40gentoo.org |
536 |
65. seemant@g.o |
537 |
66. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
539 |
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
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&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=seemant%40gentoo.org |
541 |
67. liquidx@g.o |
542 |
68. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
544 |
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
545 |
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=liquidx%40gentoo.org |
546 |
69. mholzer@g.o |
547 |
70. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED |
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&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22&chfieldto=Now |
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&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mholzer%40gentoo.org |
551 |
|
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|
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New Bug Rankings |
554 |
---------------- |
555 |
|
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs this |
557 |
week are: |
558 |
|
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* Nick Hadaway[71], with 16 new bugs[72] |
560 |
|
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71. raker@g.o |
562 |
72. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED |
563 |
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22 |
564 |
&chfieldto=Now&=&assigned_to=raker%40gentoo.org |
565 |
|
566 |
* The x86 Kernel Team[73], with 14 new bugs[74] |
567 |
|
568 |
73. x86-kernel@g.o |
569 |
74. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED |
570 |
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22 |
571 |
&chfieldto=Now&=&assigned_to=x86-kernel%40gentoo.org |
572 |
|
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* Martin Schlemmer[75], with 13 new bugs[76] |
574 |
|
575 |
75. azarah@g.o |
576 |
76. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED |
577 |
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22 |
578 |
&chfieldto=Now&=&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org |
579 |
|
580 |
* The KDE Team[77], with 13 new bugs[78] |
581 |
|
582 |
77. kde@g.o |
583 |
78. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED |
584 |
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22 |
585 |
&chfieldto=Now&=&assigned_to=kde%40gentoo.org |
586 |
|
587 |
* Nicholas Jones[79], with 11 new bugs[80] |
588 |
|
589 |
79. carpaski@g.o |
590 |
80. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED |
591 |
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-03-22 |
592 |
&chfieldto=Now&=&assigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org |
593 |
|
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================== |
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8. Tips and Tricks |
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================== |
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|
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Synchronizing System Date/Time with rdate |
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|
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This week's tip shows you how to keep your system's date and time synced |
601 |
without the hassle of NTP. The command rdate allows you to get the time |
602 |
from a server running NTP but doesn't require you to set up your own NTP |
603 |
server. |
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|
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First make sure that you have rdate installed. |
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|
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Code Listing 8.1: | |
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| Installing rdate | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
611 |
| | |
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|# emerge rdate | |
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| | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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|
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To sync your computer clock, run rdate -s. You should probably change |
617 |
which server you use so as not to overload one particular one. Here is a |
618 |
list of public Stratum 2 servers[81] that you can use. |
619 |
|
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81. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html |
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|
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Code Listing 8.2: | |
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| Using rdate | |
625 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
626 |
| | |
627 |
|# rdate -s ntp0.cornell.edu | |
628 |
| | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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|
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To keep your machine automatically synced, you may want to make use of |
632 |
crontab. |
633 |
|
634 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
635 |
| Code Listing 8.3: | |
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| Adding rdate to crontab | |
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
638 |
| | |
639 |
|Add the following to /etc/crontab to sync on the first day of the week. | |
640 |
| | |
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|* * * * 0 rdate -s ntp0.cornell.edu | |
642 |
| | |
643 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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|
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========================== |
646 |
9. Moves, Adds and Changes |
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========================== |
648 |
|
649 |
Moves |
650 |
----- |
651 |
|
652 |
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
653 |
|
654 |
* Nicholas Henke (roughneck) |
655 |
* Maik Schreiber (blizzy) |
656 |
|
657 |
Adds |
658 |
---- |
659 |
|
660 |
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: |
661 |
|
662 |
* Arun Thomas (sindian) -- Gentoo/ARM, gentoo-hardened |
663 |
|
664 |
Changes |
665 |
------- |
666 |
|
667 |
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux |
668 |
project. |
669 |
|
670 |
* none this week |
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|
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===================== |
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10. Contribute to GWN |
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===================== |
675 |
|
676 |
Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an |
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email[82]. |
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|
679 |
82. gwn-feedback@g.o |
680 |
|
681 |
================ |
682 |
11. GWN Feedback |
683 |
================ |
684 |
|
685 |
Please send us your feedback[83] and help make GWN better. |
686 |
|
687 |
83. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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|
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12. Other Languages |
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|
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The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages: |
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|
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* Dutch[84] |
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* English[85] |
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* German[86] |
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* French[87] |
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* Japanese[88] |
700 |
* Italian[89] |
701 |
* Portuguese (Brazil)[90] |
702 |
* Portuguese (Portugal)[91] |
703 |
* Spanish[92] |
704 |
|
705 |
84. http://www.gentoo.org/news/be/gwn/gwn.xml |
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85. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |
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86. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml |
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87. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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88. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml |
710 |
89. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml |
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90. http://www.gentoo.org/news/br/gwn/gwn.xml |
712 |
91. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml |
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92. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml |
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|
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|
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Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> - Editor |
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AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com> - Contributor |
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Brice Burgess <nesta@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Contributor |
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Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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David Narayan <david@×××××××.net> - Contributor |
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Kim Tingkaer <kim@×××××××.dk> - Contributor |
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Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Tom Van Laerhoven <tom.vanlaerhoven@××××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Peter Dijkstra <phj.dijkstra@××××.nl> - Dutch Translation |
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Bernard Bernieke <bernieke@××××××××.com> - Dutch Translation |
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Vincent Verleye <zu@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Jochen Maes <linux@××××.be> - Dutch Translation |
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Ben De Groot <yngwin@××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation |
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Jelmer Jaarsma <j.jaarsma@××××××××××××××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation |
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Nicolas Ledez <nicolas.ledez@××××.fr> - French Translation |
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Guillaume Plessis <gui@×××××××××.com> - French Translation |
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John Berry <anfini@××××.fr> - French Translation |
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Martin Prieto <riverdale@×××××××××.org> - French Translation |
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Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o> - German Translation |
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Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@g.o> - German Translation |
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Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@g.o> - German Translation |
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Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation |
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Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra@×××.de> - German Translation |
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Marco Mascherpa <mush@××××××.net> - Italian Translation |
743 |
Claudio Merloni <paper@×××××××.it> - Italian Translation |
744 |
Daniel Ketel <kage-chan@g.o> - Japanese Translation |
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Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@×××.com> - Japanese Translation |
746 |
Andy Hunne <andy@×××××××××.com> - Japanese Translation |
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Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation |
748 |
Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@××××××××××××××××.uk> - Japanese Translation |
749 |
Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@××××××.br> - Portuguese (Brazil) |
750 |
Translation |
751 |
Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@××××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
752 |
Translation |
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Gustavo Felisberto <gustavo@××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
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Translation |
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Ricardo Jorge Louro <rjlouro@×××××××.org> - Portuguese (Portugal) |
756 |
Translation |
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Lanark <lanark@××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation |
758 |
Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Spanish Translation |
759 |
Julio Castillo <julio@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
760 |
Sergio Gómez <s3r@××××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation |
761 |
Pablo Pita Leira <pablo.leira@×××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
762 |
Carlos Castillo <carlos@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation |
763 |
Tirant <tirant@×××××.net> - Spanish Translation |
764 |
Jaime Freire <jfreire@××.com> - Spanish Translation |
765 |
Lucas Sallovitz <krusty_ar@×××××.com> - Spanish Translation |