Mathias' Blog

Occasional musings and technical posts…

04 Jul 2025

Open Source Activities for June 2025

We’re well into trixie’s hard freeze, which means significantly less packaging activity in June. That’...
02 Jun 2025

Open Source Activities for May 2025

The trixie hard freeze began on May 15, and most of my work last month focused on making sure the packages I help mainta...
04 May 2025

Open Source Activities for April 2025

The first half of April was focused on the new LTS releases of lxc and incus, as well as making the final significant up...
26 Apr 2025

Google doesn't like IPv6?

For the past week or so, when trying to search Google I’ve encountered the following message several times a day: ...
05 Apr 2025

Open Source Activities for March 2025

March 15th marked the first of the trixie freeze milestones. I updated several packages and performed various cleanup an...
02 Mar 2025

Open Source Activities for February 2025

February was a bit of a lighter month, due to travel and other activities. I spent some time polishing up LXD to help en...
05 Feb 2025

Open Source Activities for January 2025

The trixie freeze dates were announced earlier this month, which means we’re getting closer to the release. The ne...
03 Jan 2025

Wireguard's minimum MTU for IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels

Recently while traveling, I went to activate my wireguard VPN connection, but it failed with the error RTNETLINK answers...
02 Jan 2025

Open Source Activities for December 2024

Even though the trixie freeze dates haven’t yet been announced, this past month my focus began to shift to prepari...
01 Dec 2024

Open Source Activities for November 2024

In addition to the work below, I’ve been testing the KDE Plasma 6 packages from experimental, and at the end of No...