weekly news - 20040319

[maintainer at lunar-linux.org]

Hi!

Here's the latest weekly news edition!

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First of all, sorry for not posting a weekly report last week. There was 
so much that happened last week that this slipped between the rest.

Fortunately most of you will have noticed most of it. Yes, we release a 
new ISO (1.4.0) an that marks a good point in time to say we've accomplished
quite some things since the 1.3 ISO series. Many thanks to all the people
who made it possible (I'll skip the oscar-like crying part here).

Nonetheless this wasn't the only thing we did. Behind the scenes a few of
us were also working hard on XFce's 4.0.4 (bugfix) release. Of course,
Olivier decided to release it on the exact same day as our ISO release,
leaving our server, well, a bit sweating. Thanks to a few people however
we have now got 2 major mirrors and up to 4 others available, and we were
able to distribute the load quickly.

Those of you who haven't found our torrents yet should really do so. Our iso's
are *all* available, and download speeds are often much faster than over
plain http. Please us our torrents. To give you an idea of bandwith usage,
our server served 50gb of data on the release date (24h), of which about
40gb was lunar-related. Only 35 people however have downloaded the ISO
using BitTorrent up to today, which is not even 5% of what was downloaded
on that first day (700 ISO's).






Meanwhile in #lunar:

<Moe> aww Ratler .. you screwed my afternoon
<Moe> Now I have to play Zac again

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New modules:
  MPlayer-essentials-1: MPlayer is a movie and animation player.
           fsv-0.9: fsv is a nice 3D filesystem visualizer
  kde3-i18n-bn-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-is-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-ja-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-lt-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-nds-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-sr at Latn-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
  kde3-i18n-tg-3.2.1: kde-i18n-* contains translated KDE messages.
    openobex-1.0.1: The overall goal of this project is to make an open 
source implementation of the Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol
        qemu-0.5.2: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator.

Removed modules:
  kde3-i18n-ss
  kde3-i18n-th
  kde3-i18n-zu

New versions:
  BitTorrent              :             3.4 ->          3.4.1a
  DBI                     :            1.41 ->            1.42
  TORCS                   :           1.2.1 ->           1.2.2
  abs-guide               :             2.5 ->             2.6
  alsa-lib                :          1.0.3a ->          1.0.3b
  apmd                    :           3.0.2 ->           3.2.1
  aspell-cs               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-0
  aspell-en               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-1
  aspell-fo               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-0
  aspell-it               :          0.50-2 ->          0.52-0
  aspell-pl               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-0
  aspell-sk               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-1
  aspell-sv               :          0.50-2 ->          0.51-0
  aspell-uk               :          0.50-3 ->          0.51-0
  bdb                     :           0.3.2 ->           0.5.0
  bochs                   :           2.0.2 ->           2.1.1
  cabextract              :             0.6 ->             1.0
  coreutils               :           5.2.0 ->           5.2.1
  devhelp                 :           0.8.1 ->             0.9
  dialog                  :   0.9b-20031207 ->   0.9b-20040316
  esound                  :          0.2.33 ->          0.2.34
  evolution               :           1.4.5 ->           1.4.6
  expect                  :            5.40 ->          5.40.0
  gal2                    :         1.99.10 ->         1.99.11
  gnome-vfs2              :           2.4.1 ->           2.4.3
  gnumeric                :           1.2.6 ->           1.2.8
  gtk-sharp               :            0.15 ->            0.17
  gtkhtml                 :           3.0.9 ->          3.0.10
  kde3-i18n-nl            :                 ->           3.2.1
  librsvg                 :           2.5.0 ->           2.6.1
  libsoup                 :         1.99.26 ->         1.99.28
  libxklavier             :            0.97 ->            1.00
  linux-beta              :           2.6.4 ->       2.6.5-rc1
  linux-beta-mm           :   2.6.4-rc1-mm2 ->   2.6.5-rc1-mm2
  lsof                    :            4.70 ->            4.71
  mcs                     :            0.30 ->          0.30.2
  mono                    :            0.30 ->          0.30.2
  ntfsprogs               :           1.8.5 ->           1.9.0
  openssl                 :          0.9.7c ->          0.9.7d
  ruby-gnome2             :           0.9.0 ->           0.9.1
  scummvm                 :           0.5.1 ->           0.6.0
  shorewall               :         1.4.10c ->           2.0.0
  udev                    :             021 ->             022
  webmin                  :           1.121 ->           1.130
  xine-lib                :          1-rc3a ->          1-rc3b
  xtraceroute             :           0.9.0 ->           0.9.1

Moved modules:
  bochs                   :           utils ->           devel


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The Lunar-Linux team