Re: Sysadmin Skills and University Degrees
Russell Coker wrote about Sysadmin Skills and University Degrees. I couldn’t agree more that a major deficiency in Computer Science degrees is the lack of sysadmin training. It seems like most...
View ArticleThe Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management anti-pattern
There’s a pattern that comes up from time to time in the release management of free software projects. To allow for big, disruptive changes, a new development branch is created. Most of the developers’...
View ArticleImplementing “right to disconnect” by delaying outgoing email?
France passed a law about “right to disconnect” (more info here or here). The idea of not sending professional emails when people are not supposed to read them in order to protect their private lifes,...
View Articlesystemd services, and queue management?
I’ve been increasingly using systemd timers as a replacement for cron jobs. The fact that you get free logging is great, and also the fact that you don’t have to care about multiple instances running...
View ArticleSending mail from mutt with queueing and multiple accounts/profiles?
I’m looking into upgrading my email setup. I use mutt, and need two features: Local queueing of emails, so that I can write emails when offline, queue them, and send them later when I’m online. Routing...
View ArticleOn Debian frustrations
Michael Stapelberg writes about his frustrations with Debian, resulting in him reducing his involvement in the project. That’s sad: over the years, Michael has made a lot of great contributions to...
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Call for help: graphing Debian trends
It has been raised in various discussions how much it’s difficult to make large-scale changes in Debian. I think that one part of the problem is that we are not very good at tracking those large-scale...
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Removal of jessie-updates and jessie-backports from Debian mirrors
If you are still running jessie you probably noticed that the jessie-updates and jessie-backports suites have been removed from mirrors, because you got those error messages: W: Failed to fetch...
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Introducing Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging...
This is a slightly edited copy of the mail sent to debian-devel@. TL;DR: see https://trends.debian.net and https://trends.debian.net/#smells. Following this blog post I did some work on setting up a...
View Articleinit systems GR vote
My vote: > [ 1 ] Choice 1: F: Focus on systemd > [ 2 ] Choice 2: B: Systemd but we support exploring alternatives > [ 3 ] Choice 3: A: Support for multiple init systems is Important > [ 4 ]...
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