Debian Project Leader Re-Elected
The Debian Linux team announced today the re-election of Wichert Akkerman as Debian’s Project Leader, and showcased the release of Debian 2.1 r5, which contains security and Y2k updates. Debian developers were also happy to announce that they were "past the second bug horizon" for the next major release of Debian and development is going well.
Those interested can check out Debain’s list and graph of current bugs in the upcoming release here, or visit the full Debian bug Web site at http://bugs.debian.org.
In related news, it was confirmed by Chip Maker Transmeta, that their new ‘Mobile Linux’ will be based on Debian, according to an e-mail from Transmeta’s Scott Simmons. Simmons also noted that Transmeta was looking for Linux developers interested in "working on Mobile Linux and related projects." Transmeta also made a $1000 donation to the Debian Project.