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NewsForge: Libranet’s Long Goodbye

“‘Basically the operation is shutting down.’ With these words,
Tal Danzig, the owner and technical lead for the Libranet
distribution, quietly announced in his blog on November 25 the news
that users had been dreading ever since his announcement two months
ago that the distribution was ‘restructuring.’

“Danzig did not rule out the possibility of reviving the
distribution after his return in February 2006 from a three-month
trip to Israel. Yet, for now, the announcement seems to mark the
end of one of the oldest and best-loved Debian-based distributions.
On Distrowatch, Libranet’s status is now marked as
‘dormant…'”

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