Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'debian'

"Jeff had a bunch more ideas in that vein – like not bothering with a central archive, but having users collect the packages they’re interested in from upstream sites all over the place," - jdub and i need to chat more on this subject, methinks

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Why device developers prefer Debian

"LinuxDevices.com's survey results consistently show Debian to be the most popular distribution among device developers." - very interesting

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may 2007 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /life/2007.04.27_moving-in-pieces

wow, this is awful - my best to Martin

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april 2007 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /debian/2007.04.03_zimbra-in-debian

"Please, someone package it alright, if the licence is DFSG-compatible (I have not checked). If it's not, I think we should coerce the developers into making it such. After all, we're Debian." ;)

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Ian Murdock: Debian "missing a big opportunity" :: Linux Format :: The website of the UK's best-selling Linux magazine

i'm assuming this interview is responsible for the bulk of vitriolic comments over on Simon's welcoming blog

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Big Debian Linux Payday For HP

"HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat." - i've been talking Debian for a while now, so this is interesting

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february 2007 by sogrady

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» Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

'The subject of Murdock's "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution.' - Mike is right, this presentation should be *fascinating* - maybe he can drive home just how significant the advantage of package management is

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Og så alligevel… » Blog Archive » Debian as the research library of Free Software

several folks have pointed me at this; i tend to agree

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february 2007 by sogrady

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New servers for WordPress.com « Barry on WordPress

lots of interesting tidbits in here; good read on what scaling means from a hosting perspective

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january 2007 by sogrady

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a bad taste in the mouth detailed ubuntu patch review

Debian maintainers frustrations with Ubuntu patches

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Og så alligevel… » Blog Archive » Why Launchpad isn’t taking off just yet

a critique of Canonical's Launchpad

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january 2007 by sogrady

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WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog

one Debian dev's thoughts on motivation

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog » Red Hat’s mindshare, and my summer internship

"So I think the original comment that James quoted is originally correct." - must respectfully disagree with Luis here; i think the quote would be correct if it was intended in a commercial context - if not, i think Debian+ has *far* more mindshare

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Installing JDK6 on Debian Etch (or Ubuntu) - CentricWare Confluence

used this to setup and configure Sun's Java JDK 6, which permits full screen mode and thus allows JDarkRoom to work

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Debian, MySQL, and why am I working on this bug?

"If you call MySQL and you have support we support you if you are running Debian (the same with Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu and others..)." - Brian responds to the /. assertion that MySQL dropped support for Debian

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Zarro Boogs found. » Firefox and Linux

an excellent stab at a thorny problem; seems like it would have been more authoritative with some Debian/Ubuntu representation - still, progress is progress

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » An invitation, not a conspiracy

wherein Mark clarifies his recent post and email missive courting OpenSuSE developers

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Download ZRM for MySQL and Amanda Network Backup - Pre-packaged and Tested

how about some .deb's, guys? we don't all use RPMs

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november 2006 by sogrady

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ProposedTrademarkPolicy - Debian Wiki

Debian evolving their Trademark Policy to reconcile it with their their Free Software Guidelines

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Firefox and Ubuntu

Mark could have been speaking for me here - he's becoming quite the statesman

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Alexandre Buisse - Post details: Goodbye firefox!

the Mozilla fallout continues

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Labyrinth Mind Mapping Tool

joe's right, Labyrinth is pretty cool; it's definitely pre-alpha, but cool nonetheless

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october 2006 by sogrady

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IT Manager's Journal :: Opening doors to open source for women

more women in open source would be a tremendous development, IMO: go Pia, Hanna, Val, et al

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october 2006 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /geek/2006.10.10_ibm-lenovo-on-site-support

Debian dev's happy w/ Lenovo's customer support; my X40's actually been more or less problem free - or, more accurately, the problems it has were caused by me

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel

IceWeasel? really seems like this should be unnecessary

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Why Debian is wrong. - random particles

this is an oversimplification, IMO; and while i can see both sides of this debate, only one thing is clear to me - they're both losing here

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : How To Create an Ubuntu Image ...

i didn't even understand EC2 enough to get that this would be hard - i couldn't understand why there were no instructions for generating images; thank god for forums - running through this now

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october 2006 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /2006/09/22 22 09 2006

"I consider Ubuntu's change a hack fixing symptoms, not causes." - interesting point from Martin; my only question would be whether or not this is potentially a "perfect is the enemy of good" case

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Having Left Debian

a Canonical dev's thoughts on Debian about a year post exit

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september 2006 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /debian/2006.05.24-ubuntu-and-debian

i thought i'd del.icio.us'd this a while back, but apparently not; anyway, this is exhibit A in explaining why i have so much respect for Martin

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Conflicting goals create tension in communities

i'll need to write this up to, but Mark is as usual very diplomatic and respectful; i fully agree that a lot of the difficulty here is about goals, which is why i've been confused when i've heard Debian folks talk about being more like Ubuntu

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september 2006 by sogrady

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mjg59: I resigned from Debian today.It wasn't a

i'll try and write something up on this soon, but i agree w/ Donnie's comment: this is happening elsewhere, and is becoming more prevalent. i also, frankly, think it's to be expected. the key is goals, i think.

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Techblogging

Debian's reaction to Donnie's post; interesting

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august 2006 by sogrady

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spyderous: [Gentoo] Democracy: No silver bullet

this definitely demands a read: insightful account of some of the challenges of community, governance and more - will be writing this one up soon

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august 2006 by sogrady

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Lucas’ Blog » Blog Archive » Who is using Debian’s and Ubuntu’s development versions ?

some interesting - if statistically problematical - insights into the difference in spread between usage of development versions

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august 2006 by sogrady

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HP announces support for Debian Linux | InfoWorld | News | 2006-08-14 | By Robert Mullins, IDG News Service

smart move by HP; maybe my prediction will yet come true

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august 2006 by sogrady

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Sun Should Use apt (by Jeremy Zawodny)

given that i've proposed just this in the past, i obviously agree; i still prefer Portage to apt, but in my conversations with Sun i've requested just this

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august 2006 by sogrady

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CLUG Wiki - GPRS Internet over Bluetooth

this would be tremendous - i'd have virtually no need for Windows anymore at home

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july 2006 by sogrady

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test installation Thinkpad X60s

this would explain why sound and suspend aren't working; i think i'll try the 2.6.17 kernel

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july 2006 by sogrady

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Unix Admin Corner: Nexenta makes #15 most popular distro

interesting development; definitely watching Nexenta

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july 2006 by sogrady

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[installation] Ubuntu 6.06 - ruby rubygems - Ubuntu Support Forums

is there seriously not a rubygems package for Debian/Ubuntu yet? Gentoo's had one for a while now, how can they not have it? i know it duplicates the functionality to a certain extent, but still

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june 2006 by sogrady

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NewsForge | DebConf6: Hot, spicy, and working hard to satisfy Debian users

a detailed look at DebConf from roblimo; see especially the commentary on Ubuntu - personally, i'd like to see more thoughts from the Debian community on their community, and its approachability

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial?

i've already posted on this, so it shouldn't be any surprise to learn that i believe they can

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may 2006 by sogrady

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package metrics from Debian

some interesting numbers in here

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may 2006 by sogrady

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» GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

wherein James has some very kind things to say about my package management blogs - much appreciated, sir; Berlind, for my money, is right when he asks the "how long?" do we need to wait question

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may 2006 by sogrady

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SunMink : SunMink

it will be interesting to see what impact this has on demand for open sourcing Java; this was my major problem with it

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Translated version of http://meneame.net/story.php?id=16968

cool - i got picked up by a Spanish version of Digg

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Ian Skerrett: Linux Distros Working Group

this is pretty interesting; i need to follow up with these folks to see what approach they'll be taking, as it could have wider significance

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Should Oracle get into the Linux business?

an older piece on Oracle's Linux plans; some additional commentary on Debian

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Yahoo! 360° - Mark de Visser's Blog

"I think the answer is mostly inertia, but that over time commoditization will drive the revenues out of the Linux layer of the stack." - sounds like Debian/Ubuntu to me

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april 2006 by sogrady

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Oracle's Linux Push Is a No-Brainer

apparently i'm not the only one who thinks that Ubuntu/Debian's a distro rapidly gaining in importance

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april 2006 by sogrady

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OpenSolaris Forums: Project proposal: Nevada Companion ...

"The alternative is to nuke /opt from the system and just install everything under /usr..." - still don't get /opt myself - seems like a problem waiting to happen; either way, the Solaris community needs to resolve this

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april 2006 by sogrady

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All about Linux: A Concise apt-get / dpkg primer for new Debian users

good apt-get / dpkg primer for those new to the system - good brush up for me as i go the Nexenta route

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march 2006 by sogrady

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Untitled Document

gotta love seeing Asterisk available on the 770 - cool stuff indeed - who cares that it doesn't have cell access?

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december 2005 by sogrady

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Matusow's Blog : Dynamic...Static...hmmm

Jason weighs in on Ian's Debian/Nexenta GPL/CDDL post