Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

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bits from the release team: bookworm in soft freeze —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 Dear all, Soft Freeze =========== Following our release calendar, we have frozen bookworm a bit [1]. That means that from this week on we expect … Read more

Debian Privacy Issues

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debian-privacy-issues

Some of the detection tools can also block access There are environment variables that disable telemetry: Phone home There are some common categories of phoning home: These packages either don’t fit those categories or do lots of them and more: … Read more

Debian and firmware

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debian-and-firmware

    About Steve’s blog, The Words of the [email protected] Subscribe Subscribe to the RSS feed. Links Home Debian PlanetDebian Search PlanetDebian Friends Matthew Garrett Jonathan McDowell Jo McIntyre Martin Michlmayr Andrew Mobbs Mike Pitt Daniel Silverstone Andy Simpkins Neil … Read more

Debian decides to allow secret votes

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debian-decides-to-allow-secret-votes

[Posted March 28, 2022 by corbet] The Debian project has been voting on a general resolution that would allow secret voting on future issues. The results have been posted in unofficial form, and the winner was “proposal B”: “Hide identities … Read more

CI for the Debian Linux kernel team

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Starting just after Christmas, I have been working on CI for all the kernel team’s packages on Salsa. The salsa-ci-team has done great work on producing a common pipeline that is usable for most packages with minimal configuration. However, for … Read more

How Debian cron handles DST transitions

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When the Daylight saving time starts, and the computer’s clock jumps forward, what does cron do? If the clock jumps from 1AM to 2AM, and there is a job scheduled for 1:30AM, will cron run this job? If yes, when? … Read more

Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released

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August 14th, 2021 After 2 years, 1 month, and 9 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 11 (code name bullseye), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the … Read more

Debian 11

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This document is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will … Read more

DUR: The Debian User Repository

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aurweb v5.0.0 – Modified for use by the DUR. Copyright © 2004-2021 aurweb Development Team. DUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk. The DUR is not endorsed by the Debian … Read more