TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf in Japan next year! DebCamp The evening before DebCamp started, we had a nice
Debian 13 has finally been released! One of the biggest and under-hyped features is support for HTTP Boot. This allows you to simply specify a URL (to any d-i or live image iso) in your computer s firmware setup and then
The last two weeks I attended DebConf and DebCamp in Brest, France. Usually, I like to do a more detailed write-up of DebConf, but I was already quite burnt out when I got here, so I ll circle back to a
Tag2upload? The tag2upload service has finally gone live for Debian Developers in an open beta. If you ve never heard of tag2upload before, here is a great primer presented by Ian Jackson and prepared by Ian Jackson and Sean Whitton. In
Beer, cake and ISO testing amidst rugby and jazz band chaos On Saturday, the Debian South Africa team got together in Cape Town to celebrate Debian s 31st birthday and to perform ISO testing for the Debian 11.11 and 12.7 point
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was
I m finishing typing up this blog entry hours before my last 13 hour leg back home, after I spent 2 weeks in Busan, South Korea for DebCamp24 and DebCamp24. I had a rough year and decided to take it easy
I very, very nearly didn t make it to DebConf this year, I had a bad cold/flu for a few days before I left, and after a negative covid-19 test just minutes before my flight, I decided to take the plunge
Inspired by the fine Debian Local Groups all over the world, I ve long since wanted to start one in Cape Town. Unfortunately, there s been many obstacles over the years. Shiny distractions, an epidemic, DPL terms these are just some of
Last month, the Debian project released Debian 12, with the usual low-key fanfare that Debian usually announces a release with. Even though we shipped with some bugs we d rather not have (which are at least fixable over the next point