[I liked the #newinwheezy effort for the last Debian release, so I tipped Mika off about it again this time]
A short post about what is #newinjessie, Debian’s new 8.0 Jessie release. See Mika’s debian-devel post for more information.
For this release cycle, I have uploaded two new packages:
dtv-scan-tables - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) initial scan files This is a new package which splits out the DVB initial scan files from linux-dvb-apps (see below).
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If you follow upstream Git development closely, you may have noticed that the Mercurial and Bazaar remote helpers (use git to interact with hg and bzr repos) no longer live in the main Git tree. They have been split out into their own repositories, here and here.
git-remote-bzr had been packaged (as git-bzr) for Debian since March 2013, but was removed in May 2014 when the remote helpers were removed upstream.
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HP recently announced that they are no longer offering free firmware updates for their ProLiant line of servers.
I have a HP ProLiant G7 N36L MicroServer at home (running Debian stable, naturally) which I got back in early 2011. While it has, and continues, to serve me well, I’ll have to reconsider my options when I go looking for a replacement. This is a pity because I really like the MicroServer form factor.
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Just a quick post to say thanks to Valve Corporation for generously offering free Valve game subscriptions to Debian Developers.
Also thanks to Neil, Jo and everyone else at Collabora for making this happen. Much appreciated.
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The Debian Ireland User Group will be meeting for festive drinks this Thursday, 19th Dec 2013, at 20:00 in The Long Stone, Townsend Street, Dublin 2. All welcome.
For more information, please see the mailing list or contact us via IRC.
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Having used GNU/Linux systems for some time now, and having submitted patches to a fair number of open source projects, it is nice to finally get a patch accepted into the biggest open source project of them all, the Linux kernel. While I did submit a kernel patch to OpenWrt back in 2011, it is maintained as a rebased patchset, and was never upstreamed to Linus’ tree.
That changed today though, when a small patch I (had forgotten I had) sent to the linux-media mailinglist back in October 2013, was just pulled by Linus Torvalds into his tree for the Linux 3.
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Given that Debian 7.0 Wheezy will be released in a few hours, I thought it would be a good time to take part in Michael Prokop’s #newinwheezy effort to publicise the new packages that have uploaded to Debian as part of Wheezy. I have introduced two new packages to Debian for this release:
nyancat - nyancat is a program to display an animated poptart cat in your terminal transmission-remote-cli - ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon I’ve also have become (co-)maintainer of the following packages, updating them for this release:
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