This is an annoucement that I am moving to my 4096 bit RSA GPG key AA544AA1, henceforth please try and use this ( Read more... )

Yay! one more big step towards being a universal operating system. Please welcome kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 versions of GNU/kFreeBSD to be among the list of official architectures in Debian.

The GNU/kFreeBSD installer is based on FreeBSD sysinstall and is not the regular debian-installer, but efforts are underway to build a native Debian

I have been looking for a free C library that supports common data structures (queues, trees, hashes etc.) and algorithms (sort, bulk search etc.) in external memory backed by regular files. One piece of software that I have been able to find as being closest to what I want was stxxl, a C+++ STL for extra large data sets. Please let me know if ( Read more... )

I am proud to be officially a part of what is quite possibly the largest free software project on the planet. To all the people (few of you don't even use Debian - you know who you are) who have been motivating and helping me, and some that actually spent time working in past few days/weeks towards making this happen: hazaar thanks!

My parents found it strange that I spend considerable time in the night doing "some Linux thing", so the other day I explained to them what Free software is and we talked about copyright and licensing. I was very happy that they were able to appreciate it. I also gave a Debian Installer demo.

While there are a bunch of Indian languages ( Read more... )

I came across a news item in The Hindu business section written by a Corporate Reporter about BOSS GNU/Linux 3.0. The piece said that BOSS is a linux based operating system (OS) in 18 Indian languages, but the main features were described saying The OS is endowed with Bluetooth for short range communications along with salient features such as RSS ( Read more... )

For some reason, I was under the impression that uploading a new upstream release would place the package in the NEW queue. I was proved wrong because I was able to upload ELinks 0.12~20080527-1 to experimental yesterday and I am a DM who can't upload NEW packages ( Read more... )

You've always apt-get installed a whole lot of packages, used them once -- if at all, now want your hard disk space back. So which packages on your machine consume the most of disk space, and can be removed?

The following tell you just that:

$ /usr/bin/grep-status -FStatus -sInstalled-Size,Package -n "install ok installed" | paste -sd " \n" | ( Read more... )

My first Non-maintainer upload (for reportbug. Thanks Thomas Viehmann for uploading the modified package), and the package hit the archive the other day.

On a related note, an excuse people often have when contributing to Debian (or for that matter any free software project) is that all the important stuff is being done by others already. This ( Read more... )

I uploaded ELinks packages to Debian experimental (based on upstream 0.12 GIT snapshot as on 2008-01-27) and sent out a call for testing. Please test the packages and report issues to the Debian BTS in case you find some bugs or if you don't like the way something works ( Read more... )