Archive for December, 2006
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”, part two.
Thursday, December 7th, 2006After this blog entry, I thought for a while, and decided to take over Debian package a day. I’m well aware that it needs a lot of time, so I’ll try to make this a collaborative work: It should be as easy as possible for readers to submit entries There will be a team of [...]