The Debian Administrator’s Handbook is available

May 10, 2012 By 12 Comments

The Debian Administrator's Handbook CoverI am so glad that we managed to complete this project. Roland and I have spent countless hours on this book since December, both for the translation itself and also for all the things that we tend to forget: a nice book cover, a great book layout for the print version, coordinating the work of reviewers, registering as an editor to get an ISBN, etc. I think I will come back to this in a future article because some parts of the story are interesting.

In the mean time, enjoy the DFSG-free Debian Administrator’s Handbook:

  • get it from unstable with apt-get install debian-handbook;
  • browse the online version;
  • get the paperback or the ebook (available as PDF, EPUB, MOBI);
  • grab the sources with git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-handbook/debian-handbook.git and contribute a translation :-)

Check out the official announce (there’s a discount for early buyers of the paperback).

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My Debian Activities in April 2012

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is my monthly summary of my Debian related activities. If you’re among the people who made a donation to support my work (186.38 €, thanks everybody!), then you can learn how I spent your money. Otherwise it’s just an interesting status update on my various projects.

Dpkg News

For the first time since several years, there has been a dpkg release (1.16.3) where the changelog doesn’t contain any entry of my own. The 3-4 commits I did were not really worthy of a changelog entry. I must admit that it was easy to put dpkg aside given Guillem’s message and given how busy I have been with my other projects.

Keeping a low-profile for a while certainly doesn’t hurt. But I don’t intend to stop contributing to dpkg. Quite on the contrary in fact, it’s something that I (usually) enjoy doing.

Packaging News

I packaged a new upstream release of SQL-Ledger (3.0.0) and later in the month I sponsored the upload of LedgerSMB, a fork of SQL-Ledger which — unlike the former — is maintained like a typical free software project.

I also uploaded version 0.56 of Zim and updated WordPress to version 3.3.2 with its slew of security fixes.

The Debian Administrator’s Handbook

Like several months now, most of my time has been directed towards the Debian Administrator’s Handbook. The big news is that the liberation fund has been completed… this means that the book will be published under DFSG-free licenses from the start (GPL-2+ / CC-BY-SA 3.0).

We hope to publish the book next week (i.e. between May 7th and May 11th). The PDF output for the printed book is almost ready. There’s some work left for the HTML/EPUB output and we have to prepare for the release of the sources as well…

Hopefully everything will work out like planned. Stay tuned!

Thanks

See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

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People behind Debian: Samuel Thibault, working on accessibility and the Hurd

April 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
Samuel ThibaultSamuel Thibault likes lost causes, he contributes to the Hurd and works on Debian’s accessibility. Checkout his interview to have some update on the status of those projects.[Continue reading…]
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People Behind Debian: Francesca Ciceri, Member of the Debian Press & Publicity Teams

April 6, 2012 By 10 Comments
Francesca Ciceri, photo by Andrew McMillan, CC-BY-SA 2.0Francesca Ciceri is very active in the Debian press and publicity teams, and started as an Italian translator. If you hesitate to join Debian, read this interview to discover Francesca’s experience.[Continue reading…]
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My Debian Activities in March 2012

April 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Debian Administrator's Handbook Front Cover

My monthly summary is always a good way to have the latest news of Debian projects that I am working on.

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People behind Debian: Jörg Jaspert, FTPmaster, Debian Account Manager, and more

March 23, 2012 By 2 Comments
Photo by Wouter VerhelstJörg Jaspert is a prominent Debian developer: as FTPmaster he manages the central archive of packages, and as Debian Account Manager he gets to decide who can become a Debian developer. Learn more about those crucial roles by reading his interview.[Continue reading…]
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