Debian

• 15 Aug 2024

  Open Source Activities for July 2024

  Last month was busier than normal, as I attended DebConf24 and was therefore able to spend quite a bit of focused time o...
• 12 Jan 2024

  The Path to Incus in Debian

  A Brief Recap It’s been an interesting six months or so in the Linux Containers world. Just a month after the Debi...
• 16 Aug 2023

  Happy 30th Birthday, Debian!

  Today marks Debian’s thirtieth anniversary! Happy birthday, Debian, and many more to come!
• 10 Jun 2023

  Debian bookworm released!

  Debian bookworm has been released! 🎉 Some highlights of the work I performed during the bookworm release cycle include: ...
• 09 Jun 2023

  A new laptop

  After about 14 years, it’s time to say goodnight to my trusty T61 ThinkPad. It’s quite a testament to the qu...
• 07 Jan 2023

  OpenRCT2 Available in bullseye-backports

  This week openrct2 was accepted into bullseye-backports; as such, I will no longer be hosting/providing openrct2 package...
• 03 Dec 2022

  A Debian Developer

  It’s been a bit over a month since becoming official, but I’m now a full-fledged Debian Developer! Greetings...
• 11 Sep 2022

  LXD accepted into Debian

  Earlier today, LXD was accepted into Debian unstable! This completes the saga of getting LXD into Debian, and barring an...
• 04 Aug 2022

  lxd_5.0.0-1_amd64.changes is NEW

  LXD has finally been uploaded to the NEW queue! It’s been about nine months since I seriously started looking at g...
• 22 Jul 2022

  Some apt Repo Statistics

  I host a small, personal apt repo, primarily for my own use and convenience as I work on preparing packages for inclusio...
• 01 Apr 2022

  LXD Packaging Report, 5.0 LTS edition

  Progress on getting LXD packaged for Debian continues, although at a bit slower rate the past couple of months due to re...
• 25 Jan 2022

  A new Debian Maintainer

  As of today, it’s official – I’m now a Debian Maintainer! The following changes to the debian-maintain...
• 01 Jan 2022

  LXD Packaging Report, New Year's edition

  Happy 2022 everyone! This will be the year that LXD finally, properly lands in Debian. The packaging work for LXD is fai...
• 03 Dec 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, 32bit edition

  We’ll start today with a PSA: 32bit architectures still exist. Similar to C, golang has an int variable type whose...
• 02 Dec 2021

  OpenRCT2 Accepted into Debian

  Today, after 252 days in the NEW queue, OpenRCT2 was finally accepted into Debian! openrct2_0.3.4.1+ds-1_amd64.changes A...
• 21 Nov 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, Wild West edition

  Well, I’m calling this the “Wild West” edition of my LXD packaging report, as I have been reminded onc...
• 11 Nov 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, Nov 11

  A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian. NEW packages pending ftpmaster review...
• 31 Oct 2021

  Marching on to LXD in Debian: First report

  Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian. I’d really like i...
• 13 Aug 2021

  LXD 4.0 LTS Properly Packaged for Debian bullseye

  In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...
• 14 Jan 2021

  OpenRCT2 Packaged for Debian

  I’m happy to announce that OpenRCT2 is coming to Debian as a proper package – and the first that I’ve ...
• 03 Jan 2020

  Concerning LXD, snaps, and Debian

  I’ve been a long-time user of LXC, going all the way back to 2014. It’s come a long way and is a great conta...
• 29 Dec 2019

  OpenRCT2 on Debian

  Update 2021-01-14 I have packaged OpenRCT2 for inclusion in Debian; visit that post for more information. Manually build...