Archive for the 'Debian/Ubuntu' Category
Slides for my FOSDEM talks about Debian QA
Monday, February 26th, 2007As promised, the slides from my FOSDEM talks about Automated Testing of Debian Packages and Use of Grid Computing for Debian Quality Assurance are available. Automated Testing of Debian Packages Use of Grid Computing for Debian Quality Assurance (paper also available) Don’t hesite to ask questions or post comments. The videos for both talks should [...]
Efficient key signing
Monday, February 26th, 2007I just finished signing all the keys from the FOSDEM KSP. Importing keys I received: Mutt is nice. You can tag all messages with ‘t’, then use ‘;’ (tag-prefix) and ^K (Ctrl + K) to import all signatures. (Thanks Myon + sam for the tip) Signing keys: caff (featured on debaday last week) has some [...]
State of software for Suspend to RAM/Disk ?
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Dear readers, I am the mostly happy owner of a Dell Latitude D610 (the one with the ATI video card), running Debian Etch. I installed the hibernate package to try to get Suspend to RAM and to Disk to work, and Suspend to Disk worked out of the box. But Suspend to RAM didn’t work [...]
Working evince and poppler in Debian Etch
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Evince and poppler (the library used to render PDFs) are quite outdated in etch, and fail to display correctly a number of PDF files (including PDFs generated by latex-beamer). There’s a new poppler version (0.5.x, vs 0.4.5 in etch), but it bumps the soname, so it’s a no-go. Since I was particularly annoyed by this [...]
Running Debian on your Linksys WRT54G* … sort of
Thursday, February 8th, 2007I’m the happy owner of a Linksys WRT54GL. OpenWRT is nice, but … well. Debian is just nicer. And I couldn’t resist the idea of running Debian on this little MIPS system. Since there’s clearly not enough space available on the Linksys, I decided to install etch in a chroot, that I would mount using [...]
Debian Package of the Day is now alive again, and needs your help!
Thursday, December 21st, 2006For those who have missed the previous blog entries: Debian Package of the Day (aka Deb-a-day) is now alive again ! There has already been several entries (published 2 times a week, on wednesdays and sundays, until we make sure that we can sustain an higher rate): scribus-ng: next generation of the desktop publishing program [...]
Of Debian Etch’s quality and release schedule
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006The delay of Debian Etch caught some bad press this week. Some articles compare Debian to Ubuntu (which tries hard to have fixed-time releases), and some bloggers are amused by the fact that the next Debian release was delayed “again”. There are some important points though: Etch wasn’t really scheduled to be released on Dec [...]
Features vs. Freedom
Monday, December 18th, 2006Jono Bacon wrote a long blog entry on Planet Ubuntu about his vision of freedom, and how it applies to the proprietary drivers. This is a good opportunity to write sthing I wanted to write for a long time. Ubuntu’s bug #1 is “Microsoft has a majority market share“. Well, I think that this should [...]
Back from the Debian QA meeting in Extremadura
Sunday, December 17th, 2006I’ve spent the last few days in Badajoz for the Debian QA meeting in Extremadura. It was my first Debian event, and it was really nice to finally meet all those developers I only knew over the Internet until then. The organisation was very good in general, and César Gómez really deserves kudos and some [...]
Resurrecting “Debian package a day” ?
Thursday, November 30th, 2006A long time ago (until Nov 2004), there was this good blog which described one cool Debian package every day. It allowed to discover a lot of interesting software, but it suddenly stopped being updated. It would be nice to resurrect this. A team of editors could work on this, and readers could submit new [...]