Official Debian Multi-Arch DVD now available
My Debian DVD shop is now open for 2 weeks and I got a few requests to offer an official Debian image. Some people like to have a DVD with the official theme and without the firmware. For them I have...
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Debian Cleanup Tip #6: Remove automatically installed packages that are no...
Last week we learned how to identify cruft on your Debian system. This week, for the last article in this series, we’ll learn more about automatically installed packages and how to get rid of them when...
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Free and Open Source Software Projects to Flattr
Flattr recently launched FlattrChattr, a blog featuring news about what’s happening in the Flattr ecosystem. I hear that they might do an article about Flattr FOSS… and it’s not an April fool’s joke...
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Discover New Free Software to Flattr
You’re getting used to it by now, a new month comes with a new set of free software projects that are using Flattr. By the way, the number of free software projects accepting donations via Flattr might...
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Discover 5 free software that you can support with Flattr
Psychosynth (Flattr link) is a modular synthesis framework. I’m not into music but this user interface looks really different from what you could expect from this kind of software. Watch out the video...
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apt-get, aptitude, … pick the right Debian package manager for you
This is a frequently asked question: “What package manager shall I use?”. And my answer is “the one that suits your needs”. In my case, I even use different package managers depending on what I’m...
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Discover 5 free software that you can support with Flattr
The Board (Flattr link) is a sort of digital scrapbook. You can quickly paste and mix notes, pictures, videos, audio recording, … all on virtual pages. The result is very nice and it’s a GNOME...
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How to prepare patches for Debian packages
You want to start contributing to Debian and/or Ubuntu, you decided to help a package maintainer and you’re now looking for how to change a source package and how to submit your changes. 1. Retrieve...
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Understanding dpkg’s file overwrite error
This is probably one of the most common errors. You’re very likely to encounter it, in particular if you tend to mix packages from various origins/distributions, or if you’re using unstable. It looks...
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Discover 5 free software projects that you can support with Flattr
The Free Software community is not only composed of software projects, so this month I’ll include two projects whose goal is not to develop software (at least not directly). Dizzy.js (Flattr link) is a...
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2015
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In November, 114.50 work hours have been dispatched among 8 paid contributors. Their reports...
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My Free Software Activities in December 2015
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2015
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In December, 113.50 work hours have been dispatched among 9 paid contributors. Their reports...
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Working as a paid LTS contributor
While the details about how to join the set of paid contributors have always been public (here) we did not advertise this fact very much outside of the people already interested in LTS (and thus...
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My Free Software Activities in January 2016
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2016
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In December, 113.50 work hours have been dispatched among 9 paid contributors. Their reports...
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2016
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In February, 112.50 work hours have been dispatched among 11 paid contributors. Their reports...
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My Free Software Activities in February and March 2016
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2016
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In February, 111.75 work hours have been dispatched among 10 paid contributors. Their reports...
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My Free Software Activities in April 2016
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
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