Archive for July, 2009
Challenging times for Debian
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009So, the release team announced yesterday that squeeze will freeze in december 2009. This decision was motivated by several things (TTBOMK): while time-based releases are not a good idea for Debian (“We release when it’s ready”), time-based freezes make a lot of sense, and gives every team the opportunity to do its own scheduling freeze [...]
Debconf TODO List (help needed and welcomed!)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009So, here are the things I plan to work on during Debconf. If you are interested in one of those topics, don’t hesitate to talk to me and help (even if you are not at Debconf). I’ve always dreamed of people squashing items on my TODO list. Ultimate Debian Database: make all the example scripts [...]
Slides from RMLL (and much more)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009So, I’m back from the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, which took place in Nantes this year. It was great to see all those people from the french Free Software community again, and I look forward to seeing them again next year in Bordeaux (too bad the Toulouse bid wasn’t chosen). The Debian booth, mainly [...]
LDLC: plus jamais !
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Je viens de vivre une expérience intéressante, qui m’a décidé à ne plus jamais commander de matériel chez LDLC. Je voulais acheter un adaptateur USB vers série (DB9) pour pouvoir continuer à utiliser Suuntux avec mon nouveau PC portable, qui n’a pas de port série. samedi 7 mars: je vais sur LDLC, et commande un [...]