Christian Kastner
The Radxa Orion O6 seems to be the arm64 device I've always wanted. Finally! Because it supports UEFI boot, Debian can be installed with the vanilla installation media. Neither custom images, nor additional firmware, nor any other tricks were required on my end. In fact, the entire process was indistinguishable from the amd64 installations I've been accustomed to for two decades: just plug in a…
Today, the Debusine developers launched Debusine repositories , a beta implementation of PPAs. In the announcement, Colin remarks that "[d]iscussions about this have been happening for long enough that people started referring to PPAs for Debian as 'bikesheds'" ; a characterization that I'm sure most will agree with. So it is with great amusement that on this same day, I launch a second PPA…
TL;DR With GLIBC 2.33+, you can build a shared library multiple times targeting various optimization levels, and the dynamic linker/loader will pick the highest version supported by the current CPU. For example, with the layout below, on a Ryzen 9 5900X, x86-64-v3/libfoo0.so would be loaded: /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v4/libfoo0.so /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libfoo0.so…
Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted . Debian had replaced Windows as my primary OS in 2005, but it was only when I saw that package zd1211-firmware had been orphaned that I thought of becoming a contributor. I owned a Zyxel G-202 USB WiFi fob that needed said firmware, and as is so often is with open-source software, I was going to scratch my…