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Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released

[02 Nov 2011] DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed [08 Oct 2011] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.3 released [01 Oct 2011] Updated Debian GNU/Linux 5.0: 5.0.9 released [18 Sep 2011] Upcoming point releases and call for test [16 Aug 2011] Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday [30 Jul 2011] DebConf11 ends as another…

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Taking a month off from OSS volunteering

On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I spent absolutely zero time helping any project outside of work (so no evenings, no weekends). This was the first

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Bootstrap 4

It's literally taken us years to do it, but Bootstrap 4 has finally arrived! Words cannot begin to describe the elation the entire team and I have for this…

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The Bevy Foundation

It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …

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Arch Linux turns 10

If you follow Arch Planet , you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch…

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Vue in 2016

It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…

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Why Oxide Chose Illumos

Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…

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Debian 9.4 released

[10 Nov 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.6 released [05 Aug 2018] DebConf18 closes in Hsinchu and DebConf19 dates announced [14 Jul 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.5 released [23 Jun 2018] Updated Debian 8: 8.11 released [01 Jun 2018] Debian 7 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [10 Mar 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.4 released

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Ghost 1.0

About four years ago we launched Ghost on Kickstarter as a tiny little prototype of an idea to create the web's next great open source blogging platform. In the early days we really just focused on just making everything work. Ghost was one of the very first open source

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Haiku booting in UEFI mode

As some may have noticed, my UEFI branch got merged in November, purely by accident too! However, until now, we still haven't been able to boot to the desktop. Whilst still in development, the addition of a simple framebuffer driver and a crucial fix …