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Sven Hoexter: Trixie Upgrade and X11 Clipboard Manager Madness

18.04.2025 19:00

Due to my own laziness and a few functionality issues my "for work laptop" is still using a 15+ year old setup with X11 and awesome. Since trixie is now starting its freeze, it's time to update that...

Simon Josefsson: Verified Reproducible Tarballs

17.04.2025 21:24

Remember the XZ Utils backdoor? One factor that enabled the attack was poor auditing of the release tarballs for differences compared to the Git version controlled source code. This proved to be a u...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Applications 25.04 Snaps and Kubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 Released!

17.04.2025 21:00

Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Gearing up OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 release in Trixie

17.04.2025 19:50

Sadly, the interactive application firewall OpenSnitch have in practice been unmaintained in Debian for a while. A few days ago I decided to do something about it, and today I am happy with the res...

Jonathan Dowland: Hledger UI themes

17.04.2025 11:35

Last year I intended to write an update on my use of hledger, but that was waylaid for various reasons and I need to revisit how (if) I'm using it, so that's put off for longer. I do want to menti...

Arturo Borrero González: My experience in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects

17.04.2025 11:00

Last year, I decided to start participating in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects. It was a great opportunity to engage in something new within the Debian community. I had been following these proje...

Otto Kekäläinen: Going Full-Time as an Open Source Developer

16.04.2025 02:00

After careful consideration, I’ve decided to embark on a new chapter in my professional journey. I’ve left my position at AWS to dedicate at least the next six months to developing open source...

Jonathan Dowland: submitted

15.04.2025 17:43

Today I submitted my PhD thesis, 8 years since I started (give or take). Next step, Viva. Normal service may resume shortly… ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: AsioHeaders 1.30.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

15.04.2025 13:05

Another new (stable) release of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN just now. Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost...

Russell Coker: What Desktop PCs Need

15.04.2025 12:19

It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size of 5.25″ floppy drives despite havin...

Russell Coker: Storage Trends 2025

15.04.2025 10:45

It’s been almost 15 months since I blogged about Storage Trends 2024 [1]. There hasn’t been much change in this time (in Australia at least – I’m not tracking prices in other countries). The...

Keith Packard: sanitizer-fun

13.04.2025 23:24

Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc Both GCC and Clang support the -fsanitize=undefined flag which instruments the generated code to detect places where the program wanders into parts of t...

Michael Prokop: OpenSSH penalty behavior in Debian/trixie #newintrixie

13.04.2025 16:05

This topic came up at a customer of mine in September 2024, when working on Debian/trixie support. Since then I wanted to blog about it to make people aware of this new OpenSSH feature and behavio...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in March 2025

13.04.2025 06:38

debian-kernel mailing list: replied to “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-05” posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-26” (and once more i...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2025

13.04.2025 06:30

debian-events-eu mailing list: posted “Debian BSP in Leuven, March/April” debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in January 2025

13.04.2025 06:27

debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-01-15” (and once more in that thread) debian-lts-announce mailing list: post...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in December 2024

13.04.2025 06:25

Debian cdrom bugs: updated #1090340: cdrom: Debian 12 missing drivers for HyperV 2008 R2 debian-kernel mailing list: posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeti...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in November 2024

13.04.2025 06:23

debian-boot mailing list: posted “partman recipes and deprecation of ext2” (and once more in that thread) posted “Moving kernel modules under /usr/lib in installer” ...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2025

12.04.2025 00:00

Welcome to the third report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project. Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

12.04.2025 00:00

Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for March (sorry for the delay, I was waiting for some additional input). Conferences In March, I attended two conferences, each with a distinct motiva...

Gunnar Wolf: Culture as a positive freedom

11.04.2025 16:41

This post is an unpublished review for La cultura libre como libertad positiva Please note: This review is not m...

Bits from Debian: DebConf25 Registration and Call for Proposals are open

11.04.2025 12:00

The 26th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held in Brest, France, from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 7th to July 13th. We i...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 294 released

11.04.2025 02:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 294. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Correct longstanding issue where many ">"-...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2025

11.04.2025 00:42

Debian LTS This was my hundred-twenty-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: ...

John Goerzen: Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

10.04.2025 02:52

From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various pla...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: AsioHeaders 1.28.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

09.04.2025 03:50

A new release of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN earlier today. Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost – but r...

Taavi Väänänen: Writing a custom rsync server to automatically update a static site

09.04.2025 02:00

Inspired by some friends,1 I too wanted to make a tiny website telling which event I am at this exact moment. Thankfully I already had an another toy project with that information easily available, ...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Preparations for Trixie, Updated debvm, DebConf 25 registration website updates and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

09.04.2025 02:00

Debian Contributions: 2025-03 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible ...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Some notes on Linux LUKS cracking

08.04.2025 23:20

A few months ago, I found myself in the unfortunate position that I had to try to recover the password used to encrypt a Linux hard drive. Tonight a few friends of mine asked for details on this eff...

Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snap Updates, Kubuntu Updates, More life updates!

07.04.2025 14:13

Icy morning Witch Wells Az Life: Last week we were enjoying springtime, this week winter has made a comeback! Good news on the broken arm front, the infection is gone, so they can finally deal...

Russell Coker: HP z840

05.04.2025 12:52

Many PCs with DDR4 RAM have started going cheap on ebay recently. I don’t know how much of that is due to Windows 11 hardware requirements and how much is people replacing DDR4 systems with DDR5 s...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Cisco 2504 password extraction

05.04.2025 11:57

I needed this recently, so I took a trip into Ghidra and learned enough to pass it on: If you have an AireOS-based wireless controller (Cisco 2504, vWLC, etc.; basically any of the now-obsolete C...

Russell Coker: More About the HP ML110 Gen9 and z640

05.04.2025 11:13

In May 2021 I bought a ML110 Gen9 to use as a deskside workstation [1]. I started writing this post in April 2022 when it had been my main workstation for almost a year. While this post was in a dra...

Gunnar Wolf: Naming things revisited

04.04.2025 21:17

How long has it been since you last saw a conversation over different blogs syndicated at the same planet? Well, it’s one of the good memories of the early 2010s. And there is an opportunity to ...

Guido Günther: Booting an Android custom kernel on a Pixel 3a for QMI debugging

04.04.2025 18:46

As you might know I'm not much of an Android user (let alone developer) but in order to figure out how something low level works you sometimes need to peek at how vendor kernels handles this. For ...

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: To boldly build what no one has built before

04.04.2025 12:17

Last week, we (Helmut, Jochen, Holger, Gioele and josch) met in Würzburg for a Debian crossbuilding & bootstrap sprint. We would like to thank Angestöpselt e. V. for generously providing us ...

Evgeni Golov: naming things is hard

04.04.2025 09:59

I got a new laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12, more on that later) and as always with new pets, it needed a name. My naming scheme is roughly "short japanese words that somehow relate to ...

Gregor Herrmann: Debian MountainCamp, Innsbruck, 16–18 May 2025

03.04.2025 23:42

the days are getting warmer (in the northern hemisphere), debian is getting colder, & quite a few debian events are taking place. in innsbruck, we are organizing MountainCamp, an event in ...

Junichi Uekawa: I was hoping to go to debconf but the frequent travel is painful for me right now that I probably won't make it.

03.04.2025 03:29

I was hoping to go to debconf but the frequent travel is painful for me right now that I probably won't make it. ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: nanotime 0.3.12 on CRAN: Maintenance

03.04.2025 01:15

Another minor update 0.3.12 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the RcppCCTZ package (as well as the RcppDate package for additional C++ operations) and offers efficient hi...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities March 2025

02.04.2025 03:04

Changes ArchiveBot: dashboard fixes and features hamster: cleanup warnings zygolophodon: support Mastodon redirect pages Debian wiki pages: PortsDocs/New Issues Data ignored in swh-lister gitw...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in March 2025

01.04.2025 14:17

Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay. OpenSSH Changes in dropbear 2025.87 broke OpenSSH’s regression tests....

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities March 2025

01.04.2025 10:05

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Some more ModemManager bits landed, Phosh 0.46 is out, haptic feedback is now better tunable plus some more. See below for detai...

Michael Ablassmeier: qmpbackup 0.46 - add image fleecing

01.04.2025 02:00

I’ve released qmpbackup 0.46 which now utilizes the image fleecing technique for backup. Usually, during backup, Qemu will use a so called copy-before-write filter so that data for new guest writ...

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: NASA has pride across most of the universe

01.04.2025 00:40

In July 2024, NASA posted an article titled “NASA Has Pride Across the Universe” featuring a pride flag by Rachel Lense where each color band is made up of images from across NASA. Today is th...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rblpapi 0.3.15 on CRAN: Several Refinements

01.04.2025 00:00

Version 0.3.16 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.24 on CRAN: Minor Polish

31.03.2025 23:29

A new maintenance release 0.4.24 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library use...

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: TIL: OpenPGP Web Key Directory

31.03.2025 18:07

Today I was looking for a way on how to best publish my OpenPGP key on my webserver. Surely, somebody came up with some sort of standard way for where to place that key, right? Turns out, they did...

Russell Coker: Links March 2025

31.03.2025 13:23

Anarcat’s review of Fish is interesting and shows some benefits I hadn’t previously realised, I’ll have to try it out [1]. Longnow has an insightful article about religion and magic mushrooms ...

Simon Josefsson: On Binary Distribution Rebuilds

31.03.2025 10:21

I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the results a couple of months ago. Since then the Reproduce.Debian.net effort has been launched. Unlike my s...

Russ Allbery: Review: Ghostdrift

31.03.2025 06:21

Review: Ghostdrift, by Suzanne Palmer Series: Finder Chronicles #4 Publisher: DAW Copyright: May 2024 ISBN: 0-7564-1888-7 Format: ...

Steinar H. Gunderson: It's always the best ones that die first

31.03.2025 00:45

Berge Schwebs Bjørlo, aged 40, died on March 4th in an avalanche together with his friend Ulf, while on winter holiday. When writing about someone who recently died, it is common to make lists. ...

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in March 2025

30.03.2025 07:41

Here’s my 66th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 75th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019...

Russ Allbery: Review: Cascade Failure

30.03.2025 06:42

Review: Cascade Failure, by L.M. Sagas Series: Ambit's Run #1 Publisher: Tor Copyright: 2024 ISBN: 1-250-87126-3 Format: Kindle ...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Theora 1.2.0 released

29.03.2025 08:30

Following the 1.2.0beta1 release two weeks ago, a final 1.2.0 release of theora was wrapped up today. This new release is tagged in the Xiph gitlab theora instance and you can fetch it from the Theo...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 293 released

29.03.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 293. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Correct import masking issue. You find out ...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 292 released

29.03.2025 01:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 292. This version includes the following changes: [ Ivan Trubach ] * Ignore st_size entry for directories to avo...

Ian Jackson: Rust is indeed woke

28.03.2025 18:09

Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of ...

John Goerzen: Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible

28.03.2025 03:51

As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was n...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)

28.03.2025 01:00

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In February, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are a...