Offensive Blog PostsOffensive Blog Posts
There has been ongoing debate in the Debian community for a number of years about what standards of behavior should be expected. Matthew Garrett sets a new low by making[...]
Month: April 2008
The Purpose of Planet DebianThe Purpose of Planet Debian
An issue that causes ongoing discussion is what is the purpose of a Planet installation such as Planet Debian [1]. The discussion usually seems to take the less effective form[...]
Planets and ResignationsPlanets and Resignations
Recently a Debian Developer resigned from a position of responsibility in the project by writing a blog post. I won’t name the DD or the position he resigned as I[...]
Preparing for a CollapsePreparing for a Collapse
Rick Falkvinge (leader of the Swedish Pirate Party) has written his predictions about an economic crash in the US [1]. Predicting that the US economy will crash is no great[...]
Bugs and User PracticeBugs and User Practice
Wouter points out a mistake in one of my blog posts which was based on old data [1]. My original post was accurate for older distributions of Linux but since[...]
Solar Powered PCSolar Powered PC
I’ve just read an interesting post on TomsHardware.com about a solar powered PC [1]. It describes all the steps involved in creating a modern high-performance low-power computer. They have a[...]
Making Linux DVDsMaking Linux DVDs
Anthony Towns writes about using an improved version of jigdo to download CD/DVD images [1]. His improvement is basically to pipeline operation for better performance. Jigdo (the Jigsaw download) is[...]
Motivation and PerspectiveMotivation and Perspective
Patrick Winnertz writes about the demotivating effect of unreasonable delays on joining the Debian project [1]. While I agree that things need to be improved in terms of getting people[...]
Resizing the Root FilesystemResizing the Root Filesystem
Uwe Hermann has described how to resize a root filesystem after booting from a live-cd or recovery disk [1]. He makes some good points about resizing an LVM PV (which[...]
Software Development is a Team SportSoftware Development is a Team Sport
Albert writes about software development and how much teamwork is used [1]. He makes an interesting clash of analogies by suggesting that it’s not a “team sport” because “its not[...]