People Behind Debian: Steve McIntyre, debian-cd maintainer, former Debian Project Leader

Steve McIntyreLearn to know Steve McIntyre, a Debian developer since 1996. He was Debian Project Leaders for 2 years and is the man generating all the ISO images for each Debian release for as long as I remember.[Continue reading…]

My Debian Activities in December 2011

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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300 EUR for Debian

Money

It’s the amount of the wire transfer that I made to ffis e.V., the German association that works together with Software in the Public Interest to hold Debian’s monetary assets. This amount includes the 10% of the benefits of my Debian DVD sales (for a total of 47 USD =~ 36 EUR) and the 15% [...]

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“3.0 (quilt)” is the most widely used Debian source package format

Number of 3.0 (quilt) source packages

2 years after the introduction of the new source package formats “3.0 (quilt)” and “3.0 (native)” in Debian unstable, they are already the most widely used in Debian.

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People behind Debian: Ben Hutchings, member of the kernel team

Ben Hutchings, photo by Andrew Mc Millan, license CC-BY-2.0

Discover Ben Hutchings, a Debian developer working on the Linux kernel, and learn more about the changes that Debian Wheezy will bring at the kernel level.

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My Debian Activities in November 2011

My monthly summary is always a good way to have the latest news of Debian projects that I am working on. This month a dpkg backport, further work on multiarch, bug triaging, various package uploads, a translation of a chapter of my book, and more.

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