Debian Weekly News #12 -- March 20th, 2002

Welcome to this year's twelfth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.

CeBIT Trip Report. Even though, the Debian project wasn't able to acquire a booth at this year's CeBIT exhibition, which is the largest computer show in Europe, there have been some interesting activities with regard to Free Software and GNU/Linux. Several Free Software advocates have met at this event and we found out that the only CDs containing GNU/Linux that were handed out to visitors, contained a deriviation of the Debian system: Knoppix, which was distributied by the Agency for IT Security of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany, and a specialized system we're going to report about in our next issue. It seems that the hype is over and GNU/Linux is on the way to become an accepted operating system among others.

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