Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Martin Michlmayr: TODO list for Debian on D-Link DNS-323- August 17, 2008 Someone asked me the other day what it would take to add Debian support for the D-Link DNS-323. Since we support a number of Orion based devices in debian-installer already, adding support for another device is typically fairly easy. I don't have a D-Link DNS-323 myself, but I looked around the useful DNS-323 wiki and this is what I came up. I'm sharing this list in the hope that other people are interested in working on DNS-323 support. The Orion kernel in Debian has support for the..http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/orion/d-link/dns-323/porting-debian Wouter Verhelst: Hardware test- August 17, 2008 So something Bdale came up with this morning at breakfast (and during his talk too, apparently, which I didn't attend) was this idea of a "hardware compatibility test"): a bootable image that hardware vendors could run to see whether their hardware would run Debian. Apparently all the other vendors have it, too, and the lack of it may be one of the main reasons why Debian isn't currently supported by a whole lot of hardware vendors yet. Such a test wouldn't have to do all that much; just boot...http://www.grep.be/blog/en/computer/debian/hardware_test Kartik Mistry: Linux adoption is growing..- August 17, 2008 Auto-rickshaw in Ahmedabad: Powered by pollution free Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Free Linux.http://ftbfs.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/linux-adoption-is-growing/ Holger Levsen: Thanks to the videoteam!- August 17, 2008 So, DebConf8 is over (currently we have three machines left in the network, the video storage server, the video encoding server and my laptop...) and IMO it rocked! I really enjoyed being here, meeting many many known faces and getting to know quite some new ones and learning a bit here and there, even though I was mostly doing videoteam work :-) And this should be the main message of this blog post: many many thanks to all the different members of the videoteam. You have been awesome! The...http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-181 Ond&345;ej &268;ertík: I am switching from Mercurial to git- August 17, 2008 After a long night of debugging and while preparing, reviewing and pushing final patches before a SymPy release, I got this:$ hg qpush applying 1645.diffUnable to read 1645.diff unknown exception encountered, details follow report bug details to http:www.selenic.commercurialbts or mercurialselenic.com Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.0.1)Traceback (most recent call last): File "usrbinhg", line 20, in mercurial.dispatch.run() File "varlibpython-supportpython2.5mercurialdispatch.py",...http://ondrejcertik.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-am-switching-from-mercurial-to-git.html John Goerzen: I Want Something eBay Doesn't Have- August 17, 2008 I always have time to think while mowing the lawn. And today while mowing the lawn, I got the notion that it would be great fun to play Colossal Cave and other early text adventure games on a teletype. And, of course, since Linux has teletype support in its genes, if I played my cards right, I could probably get a login prompt to my workstation with the teletype, too. Now, at this point, I am compelled to take a small diversion and explain just what a teletype is -- for those of you, like...http://changelog.complete.org/posts/740-I-Want-Something-eBay-Doesnt-Have.html Steve Kemp: Didn't I kill you already- August 16, 2008 One of the sites that I no longer use, but have fond memories of is dotfiles.com. It had some pretty coarse catagories and allowed you to view other peoples configuration files. (I have no idea how the upload worked. Probably email submission I'd guess.) I know that my my own dotfiles have benefited from seeing other peoples snippets. Sadly it seems that the last upload to their site was back in 2006. With all the Web2.0 lust around it would seem to be a perfect candidate for reinvention. We..http://blog.steve.org.uk/didn_t_i_kill_you_already_.html Cyril Brulebois: snapshot.debian.org- August 16, 2008 Andrew, as already mentioned in the first comment of Eddys post youre referring to: Ganneff announced that snapshot.d.o will become an official service (ETA: some months). Reference: 20080814211643.GA12330xanadu.blop.infohttp://ikibiki.org//blog/2008/08/16/snapshot.debian.org/ Andrew Pollock: debian On hypothetical alternative freeze policies- August 16, 2008 I, for one, like Lucas' idea.http://blog.andrew.net.au/2008/08/16#alternative_freeze_policies Uwe Hermann: Dear viruswormrootkitbotnet writer...- August 16, 2008 ...next time you write such a piece of malware, how about making it do something useful (instead of nefarious) for a change, say, have your botnet zombies become Tor exit nodes kthxbye.http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/dear-virus-worm-rootkit-botnet-writer |