In search of material
This is going to be a short post. Yesterday, as I was fixing up the apartment a bit, I set a playlist to play on Spotify (as I usually do)…. Read more »
Author Archives: fmneto
Moving on with the Debian RC Tracker Bot
The Debian RC Tracker, my little bot that tracks the number of RC Bugs in the Debian Testing distribution, has been up and running since August. While it has been… Read more »
Adiós, 2020
And here we go, into the most predictable post in this blog: the year review. It’s probably he only constant here that every year I try and do a balance… Read more »
DebConf 20
This is “Achievement Unlocked” for me. I’ve been using Debian for more than 20 years. During that time, I used it more or less, but ever since first coming into… Read more »
Bugs beware! Return of the Debian Tracker
A little more than a year ago, I published a series of posts talking about Debian’s release cycle, which was followed by an exercise in how a small python script… Read more »
A perspective going “back to action”
Well, here we are again, almost a year after last post. It’s about time we talk about perspective again. At this point, it’s almost a personal tradition to occasionally abandon… Read more »
Buster Release: the Plan
Merely two hours after my last post, Niels Thykier sent an email to debian-devel-announce informing us that Buster’s Release is planned for July 6th (less than a month from now)…. Read more »
Buster Release: the Forecast
In my last post about Buster I explained how I devised a little Python script that tracks the number of RC Bugs in Debian’s current Testing distribution as a rudimentary… Read more »
The end of The Big Bang Theory
After twelve years, The Big Bang Theory has come to an end. It has been a journey, like any other, full of highs and lows. The series had its bad… Read more »
Tracking the Debian Release cycle
In my last post I went over how Debian’s release cycle works. In fact, all we can hope for is a planned release date, but even that depends on how… Read more »
Understanding Debian Releases
The cycle of Debian‘s releases is not an usual one. Most Linux distributions follow two paths. Some of them follow a strict periodicity, and we see a new version being… Read more »
A quick update
It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It… Read more »
Headbanging: GNU versus Linux
One of the oldest flamewars in the non-Windows world is the one between people who call the operating system based on the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”…. Read more »
Wikis and other annoyances
Wikis are cool! I had installed MediaWiki on my server some time ago, but it remained 99% of the time idle because to be honest I had no idea what… Read more »
Mnemonic
This post is not a post. It is more a reminder to myself of stuff I want to write about, and to which I’ve been giving some thought. All I… Read more »