[Dwn-trans-english] Re: Yay! Preview 2004/14

Frank Lichtenheld frank@lichtenheld.de
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:33:29 +0200


> <p><strong>Snapshot Archive is now searchable for Packages.</strong> Fumitoshi
> Ukai (&#40284;&#39164; &#25991;&#25935;)
>  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0403/msg02235.html">\
> announced</a> that he has implemented a new function to <a
> href="http://snapshot.debian.net/">snapshot.debian.net</a> to search for
> packages. This is sure to help people for searching the old versions of

this is sure? What does that mean?

> particular package from the huge archive.  He also prepared a shortcut URL
> like <code>http://snapshot.debian.net/package/&lt;packagename&gt;</code>.
> Domenico Andreoli and Branden Robinson thanked him with this great job as well
> as Martin Schulze who suggested him to implement such this function.</p>

such a function (or perhaps feature?)

> <p><strong>April Fools Pranks.</strong> The community released a couple of
> April fools pranks, of which we're listing some.  Pascal Hakim sent in <a
> href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0403/msg02440.html">document</a>
> covering improvements for Debian releases.  Pablo Lorenzzoni became <a
> href="http://hackers.propus.com.br/~pablo/blog/?id=19">illuminated</a> and
> wanted to switch to a proprietary operating system.  The Internet Society
> determined the <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3751.html">\
> requirements</a> for the Omniscience Protocol (RFC&nbsp;3751).  Symlink <a
> href="http://www.symlink.ch/articles/04/03/31/2154255.shtml">reported</a>
> about a guy who wanted to file a class-action law against the Free Software
> Foundation.  Finally, the <a
> href="http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~schmehl/grsecurity-first-april.png">defacement</a>
> of their own website by the grsecurity people was a bit awkward and scared
> quite some people.</p>

people used two times. Perhaps replace the first one with "members"?

> <p><strong>Probing for Operating Systems.</strong> Joey Hess <a
> href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/os_probing-2004-04-04-04-40.html">\
> reported</a> that he was working together with Josh Kwan to work on probing

Joshua Kwan

> for other operating systems.  This will be used by the <a
> href="$(HOME)/devel/debian-installer/">debian-installer</a> to create the boot
> configuration which should be able to boot the other operating systems as
> well.

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Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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