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I ve had the opportunity to do some democracy lately, for the French 2024 European Parliament elections, the French 2024 legislative elections and the British 2024 General Election. I didn t actually participate in the British election, despite the legal right, for a few reasons: So I didn t vote in the British elections. I ll come back to [ ]
I m full aware of my bad desk work ergonomics. I m pretty good at sitting position back straight, lumbar pillow, lap sloping forward, using my standing desk whenever the cat steals my chair, etc etc etc but I use a normal gamer keyboard and mouse in a cramped position. Late last year I started [ ]
The status quo Back in 2015, I bought an off-the-shelf NAS, a QNAP TS-453mini, to act as my file store and Plex server. I had previously owned a Synology box, and whilst I liked the Synology OS and experience, the hardware was underwhelming. I loaded up the successor QNAP with four 5TB drives in RAID10, [ ]
Apparently it s nearly four years since I last posted to my blog. Which is, to a degree, the point here. My time, and priorities, have changed over the years. And this lead me to the decision that my available time and priorities in 2023 aren t compatible with being a Debian or Ubuntu developer, and realistically, [ ]
After just over three years, my family and I are now Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) of the United States of America. It s been a long journey. Acknowledgements Before anything else, I want to credit those who made it possible to reach this point. My then-manager Duncan Mak, his manager Miguel de Icaza. Amy [ ]
Arming yourself ARM is important for us. It s important for IOT scenarios, and it provides a reasonable proxy for phone platforms when it comes to developing runtime features. We have big beefy ARM systems on-site at Microsoft labs, for building and testing Mono previously 16 Softiron Overdrive 3000 systems with 8-core AMD Opteron A1170 [ ]
Preamble On mono-project.com, we ship packages for Debian 8, Debian 9, Raspbian 8, Raspbian 9, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL/CentOS 6, and RHEL/CentOS 7. Because this is Linux packaging we re talking about, making one or two repositories to serve every need just isn t feasible incompatible versions of libgif, libjpeg, libtiff, OpenSSL, GNUTLS, [ ]
Mono packages will no longer be built for these ancient distribution releases, starting from when we add Ubuntu 18.04 to the build matrix (likely early to mid April 2018). Unless someone with a fat wallet screams, and throws a bunch of money at Azure, anyway.
Once upon a time, mono-project.com had two package repositories one for RPM files, one for Deb files. This, as it turned out, was untenable just building on an old distribution was insufficient to offer works on everything packages, due to dependent library APIs not being necessarily forward-compatible. For example, openSUSE users could not [ ]