On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced the Debian Project to the world. Three decades (and a bit) later, Debian is still going strong, built by a worldwide community of developers, contributors, and users who believe in a free, universal operating...| Debian Project
We are pleased to announce the official release of Debian 13, codenamed trixie! What's New in Debian 13 Official support for RISC-V (64-bit riscv64), a major architecture milestone Enhanced security through ROP and COP/JOP hardening on both amd64...| Debian Project
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Cordell Bloor (cgmb) Enkelena Haxhija (enkelenah) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Karsten Schöke Lorenzo Puliti Nick Rosbrook Nicolas Peugnet Yifei Zhan Glenn Strauss Fab Stz Matheus Polkorny Manuel Elias Guerra Figueroa Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
On Saturday 19 July 2025, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Over 443 attendees representing 50 countries from around the world came together for a combined 169 events (including some which took place during the...| Debian Project
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.| Debian Project
DebConf25, the 25th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Brest, France from 14 to 19 July 2025. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at the Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Brest, to participate and work in a conference exclusively ran by volunteers. As the conference begins on July 14, the French National Day, Debian can make France's motto its own: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", Freedom for Free and Open Source Software, Eq...| Bits from Debian
DebConf25, the 26th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Brest Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, France. We appreciate the organizers for their hard work, and hope this event will be highly beneficial for those who attend in person as well as online. This event would not be possible without the help from our generous sponsors. We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of DebConf 25, and introduce them to you. We have five Platinum sponsors. Our first Platin...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, This is bits from the DPL for June. The Challenge of Mentoring Newcomers In June there was an extended discussion about the ongoing challenges around mentoring newcomers in Debian. As many of you know, this is a topic I’ve cared...| Debian Project
We are pleased to announce that AMD has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. The AMD ROCm platform includes programming models, tools, compilers, libraries, and runtimes for AI and HPC solution development on AMD GPUs. Debian is an...| Debian Project
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected nine contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code. Here is a list of the projects and students, along with details of the tasks to be performed. --- Project: Quality assurance and continuous integration for biological and medical applications inside Debian Intern: Harish Chavre Deliverables of the project: Continuous integration tests for Debian Med applications lacking a test, ...| Bits from Debian
Each year on August the 16th, we celebrate the Debian Project Anniversary. Several communities around the world join us in celebrating "Debian Day" with local events, parties, or gatherings. So, how about celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Debian Project in 2025 in your city? As the 16th of August falls on a Saturday this year, we believe it is great timing to gather people around your event. We invite you and your local community to organize a Debian Day by hosting an event with talks, ...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Moritz Schlarb (moschlar) Sérgio de Almeida Cipriano Júnior (cipriano) Mario Anthony Limonciello (superm1) The following contributor was added as Debian Maintainer in the last two months: Martin-Éric Racine Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that EDF has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. EDF is a leading global utility company focused on low-carbon power generation. The group uses advanced engineering and scientific computing tools to drive...| Debian Project
Dear Debian community, This is bits from the DPL for April. End of 10 I am sure I was speaking in the interest of the whole project when joining the "End of 10" campaign. Here is what I wrote to the initiators: Hi Joseph and all drivers of the...| Debian Project
The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded and the winner is Andreas Tille, who has been elected for the second time. Congratulations! Out of a total of 1,030 developers, 362 voted. As usual in...| Debian Project
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for March (sorry for the delay, I was waiting for some additional input). Conferences In March, I attended two conferences, each with a distinct motivation. I joined FOSSASIA to address the imbalance in geographical developer representation. Encouraging more developers from Asia to contribute to Free Software is an important goal for me, and FOSSASIA provided a valuable opportunity to work towards this. I also attended Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, a conf...| Bits from Debian
The 26th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held in Brest, France, from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 7th to July 13th. We invite everyone interested to register for the event to...| Debian Project
We are pleased to announce that Viridien has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Viridien is an advanced technology, digital and Earth data company that pushes the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and sustainable future. Viridien has been using Debian-based systems to power most of its HPC infrastructure and its cloud platform since 2009 and currently employs two active Debian Project Members. As a Platinum Sponsor, Viridien is contributing to the Debian annual De...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Bo Yu (vimer) Maytham Alsudany (maytham) Rebecca Natalie Palmer (mpalmer) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: NoisyCoil Arif Ali Julien Plissonneau Duquène Maarten Van Geijn Ben Collins Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them available for the Debian distribution. Seven Debian developers...| Debian Project
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for February. Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members In December, Scott Kitterman announced his retirement from the project. I personally regret this, as I vividly remember his invaluable support...| Debian Project
Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to...| Debian Project
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and...| Debian Project
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for January. Sovereign Tech Agency I was recently pointed to Technologies and Projects supported by the Sovereign Tech Agency which is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and...| Debian Project
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Ananthu C V (weepingclown) Andrea Pappacoda (tachi) Athos Coimbra Ribeiro (athos) Gioele Barabucci (gioele) Jongmin Kim (jmkim) Shengqi Chen (harry) Frans Spiesschaert (frans) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Tianyu Chen Emmanuel FARHI наб Nicolas Schodet Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is Switzerland’s leading developer of Web technologies. With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland, the company designs and manages its own data centers powered by 100% renewable energy, and develops all its solutions locally, without outsourcing. With millions of users and the trust of public and private organizations across Europe - such as RTBF, the Un...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for December. Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year. Strict ownership of packages I'm glad my last bits sparked discussions about barriers between packages and contributors, summarized temporarily in some post on the debian-devel list. As one participant aptly put it, we need a way to visibly say, "I'll do the job until someone else steps up". Based on my experience with the B...| Bits from Debian
The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used theme called "futurePrototype" by Alex Makas. After the Debian Desktop Team made the call for proposing themes, a total of six choices were submitted. The desktop artwork poll was open to the public, and we received 2817 responses ranking the different choices, of whic...| Bits from Debian
This is bits from DPL for November. MiniDebConf Toulouse I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent MiniDebConf in Cambridge. Both events were preceded by a DebCamp, which provided a valuable opportunity for focused work and collaboration. DebCamp During these events, I participated in numerous technical discussions on topics such as maintaining long-neglected packages, team-based maintenance, FTP ...| Bits from Debian
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz. Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator, mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin Siby and Thomas Lange. --- Congratulations and welcome Patrick Noblet ...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Alberto Bertogli Alexis Murzeau David Heilderberg Xiyue Deng Kathara Sasikumar Philippe Swartvagher Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
You may have seen this toot announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure. 🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap#Debian 🤓 We spoke with Grant Slater, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Grant shares: Why did you choose Debi...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this is Bits from DPL for October. In addition to a summary of my recent activities, I aim to include newsworthy developments within Debian that might be of interest to the broader community. I believe this provides valuable insights and foster a sense of connection across our diverse projects. Also, I welcome your feedback on the format and focus of these Bits, as community input helps shape their value. Ada Lovelace Day 2024 As outlined in my platform, I'm committed t...| Bits from Debian
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and concerns with the hope of inspiring more women to become part of the Sciences, and of course, to work inside of Debian. This article was simulcasted to the debian-women mail list. Beatrice Torracca 1. Who are you? I am Beatrice, I am Italian. Internet...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for September. New lintian maintainer I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian maintainer now". I remain confident that we can, and should, continue modernizing our policy checker, and I see this as one important step toward that goal. SPDX name / license tools There was a discussion about deprecating the unique names for DEP-5 and m...| Bits from Debian
We are excited to announce and welcome Freexian into Debian Partners. Freexian specializes in Free Software with a particular focus on Debian GNU/Linux. Freexian can assist with consulting, training, technical support, packaging, or software development on projects involving use or development of Free software. All of Freexian's employees and partners are well-known contributors in the Free Software community, a choice that is integral to Freexian's business model. About the Debian Partners P...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) Joenio Marques da Costa (joenio) Blair Noctis (ncts) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Taihsiang Ho Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for August. Happy Birthday Debian On 16th of August Debian celebrated its 31th birthday. Since I'm unable to write a better text than our great publicity team I'm simply linking to their article for those who might have missed it: https://bits.debian.org/2024/08/debian-turns-31.html Removing more packages from unstable Helmut Grohne argued for more aggressive package removal and sought consensus on a way forward. He provided six examples of pro...| Bits from Debian
As the expression goes, "Time flies when you are having fun", meaning you do not normally account for the passage of time when you are distracted and enjoying yourself. The expression is a well established English idiom, though today for a moment the Debian Project pauses to reflect on that expression. It has been 31 years now that we have been around. It has been 31 amazing years of fun and amazement in watching the world around us grow and ourselves grow into the world. Let us tell you, we ...| Bits from Debian
On Saturday 3 August 2024, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Over 339 attendees representing 48 countries from around the world came together for a combined 108 events made up of more than 50 Talks and Discussions, 37 Birds of a Feather (BoF – informal meeting between developers and users) sessions, 12 workshops, and activities in support of furthering our distribution and free software (25 patches submitted to the Linux kernel), learning from our men...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL written at my last day at another great DebConf. DebConf attendance At the beginning of July, there was some discussion with the bursary and content team about sponsoring attendees. The discussion continued at DebConf. I do not have much experience with these discussions. My summary is that while there is an honest attempt to be fair to everyone, it did not seem to work for all, and some critical points for future discussion remained. In any ca...| Bits from Debian
DebConf24, the 25th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Busan, Republic of Korea from July 28th to August 4th, 2024. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Pukyong National University, Busan, to participate and work in a conference exclusively ran by volunteers. Today the main conference starts with around 340 expected attendants and over 100 scheduled activities, including 45-minute and 20-minute talks, Bird of a Feather ("BoF") team meetings, wo...| Bits from Debian
DebConf24, the 25th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Pukyong National University at Busan, Republic of Korea. Thanks to the hard work of its organizers, it again will be an interesting and fruitful event for attendees. We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of DebConf24, and introduce them to you. We have three Platinum sponsors. Proxmox is the first Platinum sponsor. Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly Open Source server software. Enterprises of all sizes and...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Dennis van Dok (dvandok) Peter Wienemann (wiene) Quentin Lejard (valde) Sven Geuer (sge) Taavi Väänänen (taavi) Hilmar Preusse (hille42) Matthias Geiger (werdahias) Yogeswaran Umasankar (yogu) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Bernhard Miklautz Felix Moessbauer Maytham Alsudany Aquila Macedo David Lamparter Tim Theisen Stefano Brivio Shengqi Chen Congratu...| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Wind River has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. For nearly 20 years, Wind River has led in commercial open source Linux solutions for mission-critical enterprise edge computing. With expertise across aerospace, automotive, industrial, telecom, more, the company is committed to open source through initiatives like eLxr, Yocto, Zephyr, and StarlingX. With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Wind River is contributing to make possible our ann...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community, Statement on Daniel Pocock The Debian project has successfully taken action to secure its trademarks and interests worldwide, as detailed in our press statement. I would like to personally thank everyone in the community who was involved in this process. I would have loved for you all to have spent your volunteer time on more fruitful things. Debian Boot team might need help I think I've identified the issue that finally motivated me to contact our teams: for a long tim...| Bits from Debian
Each release of Debian has a shiny new theme, which is visible on the boot screen, the login screen and, most prominently, on the desktop wallpaper. Debian plans to release Trixie, the next release, next year. As ever, we need your help in creating its theme! You have the opportunity to design a theme that will inspire thousands of people while working in their Debian systems. For the most up to date details, please refer to the wiki. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Julie...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Patrick Winnertz (winnie) Fabian Gruenbichler (fabiang) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Juri Grabowski Tobias Heider Jean Charles Delépine Guilherme Puida Moreira Antoine Le Gonidec Arthur Barbosa Diniz Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Hi, Keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first ten days as DPL. Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left less room for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expense approval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made a visible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie <smcv> from the list, whose term has ended , I'm committed to learning from this mistake. In future I'll prioritize thorough proofr...| Bits from Debian
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code. Here are the list of the projects, students, and details of the tasks to be performed. --- Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian Student: anuragxone Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives. --- Project: Benchmarking Parallel...| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is an independent cloud service provider recognised throughout Europe for its commitment to privacy, the local economy and the environment. Recording growth of 18% in 2023, the company is developing a suite of online collaborative tools and cloud hosting, streaming, marketing and events solutions. Infomaniak uses exclusively renewable energy, builds its own data centers and develops...| Bits from Debian
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on 2024-04-21. 369 of 1,010 Debian Developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2024 page. Many thanks all of our Developers for voting.| Bits from Debian
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances. The DPL is also responsible for the selection of Delegates, defining areas of responsibility within the project, the coordination of Developers, and making decisions required for the project. Our outgoing and present DPL Jonathan Carter served 4 te...| Bits from Debian
The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances. The DPL is also responsible for the selection of Delegates, defining areas of responsibility within the project, the coordination of Developers, and making decisions required for the project. Our outgoing and present DPL Jonathan Carter serv...| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of all sizes and industries use Proxmox solutions to deploy efficient and simplified IT infrastructures, minimize total cost of ownership, and avoid vendor lock-in. Proxmox also offers commercial support, training services, and an extensive partner ecosystem to ensure business continuity for its customers. Proxmo...| Bits from Debian
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain any critical information, so if you're not in the mood, don't feel compelled to read it! Get ready for a new DPL! Soon, the voting period will start to elect our next DPL, and my time as DPL will come to an end. Reading the questions posted to the new candid...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Carles Pina i Estany (cpina) Dave Hibberd (hibby) Soren Stoutner (soren) Daniel Gröber (dxld) Jeremy Sowden (azazel) Ricardo Ribalda Delgado (ribalda) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Joachim Bauch Ananthu C V Francesco Ballarin Yogeswaran Umasankar Kienan Stewart Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Earlier this month the DebConf team announced the DebConf24 Logo Contest asking aspiring artists, designers, and contributors to submit an image that would represent the host city of Busan, the host nation of South Korea, and promote the next Debian Developer Conference. The logo contest for DebConf24 received 10 submissions and garnered 354 responses with 3 proposals in particular getting very close to first place. The winning logo received 88 votes, the 2nd favored logo received 87 votes, a...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Alexandre Detiste (tchet) Amin Bandali (bandali) Jean-Pierre Giraud (jipege) Timthy Pearson (tpearson) The following contributor was added as Debian Maintainer in the last two months: Safir Secerovic Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: François Mazen (mzf) Andrew Ruthven (puck) Christopher Obbard (obbardc) Salvo Tomaselli (ltworf) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Bo YU Athos Coimbra Ribeiro Marc Leeman Filip Strömbäck Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
The proposed and previously announced changes to the rsync service have become effective with the rsync://archive.debian.org address now being discontinued. The worldwide Debian mirrors network has served archive.debian.org via both HTTP and rsync. As part of improving the reliability of the service for users, the Debian mirrors team is separating the access methods to different host names: http://archive.debian.org/ will remain the entry point for HTTP clients such as APT rsync://rsync.archi...| Bits from Debian
Next week the #MiniDebConfCambridge takes place in Cambridge, UK. This event will run from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 November 2023. The 4 days of the MiniDebConf include a Mini-DebCamp and of course the main Conference talks, BoFs, meets, and Sprints. We give thanks to our partners and sponsors for this event Arm - Building the Future of Computing Codethink - Open Source System Software Experts pexip - Powering video everywhere Please see the MiniDebConfCambridge page more for information rega...| Bits from Debian
Due to the current state of affairs in Israel, who were to host DebConf24, the DebConf committee has decided to renew calls for bids to host DebConf24 at another venue and location. The DebConf committee would like to express our sincere appreciation for the DebConf Israeli team, and the work they've done over several years. However, given the uncertainty about the situation, we regret that it will most likely not be possible to hold DebConf in Israel. As we ask for submissions for new host l...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Marius Gripsgard (mariogrip) Mohammed Bilal (rmb) Lukas Märdian (slyon) Robin Gustafsson (rgson) David da Silva Polverari (polverari) Emmanuel Arias (eamanu) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Aymeric Agon-Rambosson Blair Noctis Lena Voytek Philippe Coval John Scott Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
On Sunday 17 September 2023, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Over 474 attendees representing 35 countries from around the world came together for a combined 89 events made up of Talks, Discussons, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings, workshops, and activities in support of furthering our distribution, learning from our mentors and peers, building our community, and having a bit of fun. The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp hacking session ...| Bits from Debian
DebConf23, the 24th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Kochi, India from September 10th to 17th, 2023. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Infopark, Kochi to participate and work in a conference exclusively run by volunteers. Today the main conference starts with over 373 expected attendants and 92 scheduled activities, including 45-minute and 20-minute talks, Bird of a Feather ("BoF") team meetings, workshops, a job fair, as well as a variety...| Bits from Debian
DebConf23, the 24th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Infopark at Kochi, Kerala, India. Thanks to the hard work of its organizers, it will be, this year as well, an interesting and fruitful event for attendees. We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of DebConf23, and introduce them to you. We have three Platinum sponsors. Our first Platinum sponsor is Infomaniak. Infomaniak is a key player in the European cloud market and the leading developer of Web technologies in Sw...| Bits from Debian
Debian Celebrates 30 years! We celebrated our birthday this year and we had a great time with new friends, new members welcomed to the community, and the world. We have collected a few comments, videos, and discussions from around the Internet, and some images from some of the DebianDay2023 events. We hope that you enjoyed the day(s) as much as we did! "Debian 30 years of collective intelligence" -Maqsuel Maqson Brazil Pouso Alegre, Brazil Maceió, Brazil Curitiba, Brazil The cake is there. :...| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Siemens has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as Platinum Sponsor. Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure and transport. From resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation, and advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to...| Bits from Debian
Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian laid out guidelines for how this new release would work, what approach the release would take regarding its size, manner of upgrades, installation procedures; and with great care of consideration for users without Internet connection. Unaware that he had ...| Bits from Debian
Debian Project BitsVolume 1, Issue 1August 05, 2023 Welcome to the inaugural issue of Debian Project Bits! Those remembering the Debian Weekly News (DwN) will recognize some of the sections here which served as our inspiration. Debian Project Bits posts will allow for a faster turnaround of some project news on a monthly basis. The Debian Micronews service will continue to share shorter news items, the Debian Project News remains as our official newsletter which may move to a biannual archive...| Bits from Debian
For DebConf23, we're pleased to announce opening of registration and call for proposal. Following is the info text - --- Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open. The 24th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held from September 10th to September 17th, 2023, in Infopark, Kochi, India. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, which will take place from September 3rd to September 9th, 2023. The registration form can be accessed by creating an account...| Bits from Debian
We're happy to announce the release of Debian 12, codenamed bookworm! Want to install it? Choose your favourite installation media and read the installation manual. You can also use an official cloud image directly on your cloud provider, or try Debian prior to installing it using our "live" images. Already a happy Debian user and you only want to upgrade? You can easily upgrade from your current Debian 11 "bullseye" installation; please read the release notes. Do you want to celebrate the re...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: James Lu (jlu) Hugh McMaster (hmc) Agathe Porte (gagath) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Soren Stoutner Matthijs Kooijman Vinay Keshava Jarrah Gosbell Carlos Henrique Lima Melara Cordell Bloor Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use open-source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and email security, helps companies of any size, sector, or industry to simplify their IT infrastructures. The Proxmox solutions are based on the great Debian platform, and we are happy that we can give back to the community by sponsoring DebConf23. ...| Bits from Debian
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is a key player in the European Cloud and the leading developer of Web technologies in Switzerland. It aims to be an independent European alternative to the web giants and is committed to an ethical and sustainable Web that respects privacy and creates local jobs. Infomaniak develops cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, VPS), productivity tools for online collaboration and video and radio s...| Bits from Debian
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended, with all of the votes tallied we announce the winner is: Jonathan Carter, who has been elected for the forth time. Congratulations! The new term for the project leader started on 2023-04-21. 279 of 997 Developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2023 page. Many thanks all of our Developers for voting.| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Sahil Dhiman (sahil) Jakub Ružička (jru) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva Ileana Dumitrescu Douglas Kosovic Israel Galadima Timothy Pearson Blake Lee Vasyl Gello Joachim Zobel Amin Bandali Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Dennis Braun (snd) Raúl Benencia (rul) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Gioele Barabucci Agathe Porte Braulio Henrique Marques Souto Matthias Geiger Alper Nebi Yasak Fabian Grünbichler Lance Lin Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Abraham Raji (abraham) Phil Morrell (emorrp1) Anupa Ann Joseph (anupa) Mathias Gibbens (gibmat) Arun Kumar Pariyar (arun) Tino Didriksen (tinodidriksen) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Gavin Lai Martin Dosch Taavi Väänänen Daichi Fukui Daniel Gröber Vivek K J William Wilson Ruben Pollan Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Sakirnth Nagarasa (sakirnth) Philip Rinn (rinni) Arnaud Rebillout (arnaudr) Marcos Talau (talau) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Xiao Sheng Wen Andrea Pappacoda Robin Jarry Ben Westover Michel Alexandre Salim Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay, and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations. You can join the party or organise something yourselves too! Today is also an opportunity for you to start or resume your contributions to Debian. For example, you can have a look at our list of Debian Teams, install the how-can-i-help package and see if there is a bug in any of the software that you use that you can help to fix, st...| Bits from Debian
Every year on August 16th, the anniversary of the Debian Project takes place. And several communities around the world celebrate this date by organizing local meetings in an event called "Debian Day". So, how about celebrating the 29th anniversary of the Debian Project in 2022 in your city? We invite you and your local community to organize Debian Day by hosting an event with talks, workshops, bug squashing party, OpenPGP keysigning, etc. Or simply holding a meeting between people who like De...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Geoffroy Berret (kaliko) Arnaud Ferraris (aferraris) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Alec Leanas Christopher Michael Obbard Lance Lin Stefan Kropp Matteo Bini Tino Didriksen Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
On Sunday 24 July 2022, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Hosting 260 attendees from 38 different countries over a combined 91 event talks, discussion sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) gatherings, workshops, and activities, DebConf22 was a large success. The conference was preceded by the annual DebCamp held 10 July to 16 July which focused on individual work and team sprints for in-person collaboration towards developing Debian. In particular, this ye...| Bits from Debian
DebConf22 is taking place in Prizren, Kosovo, from 17th to 24th July, 2022. It is the 23rd edition of the Debian conference and organizers are working hard to create another interesting and fruitful event for attendees. We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of DebConf22, and introduce you to them. We have four Platinum sponsors. Our first Platinum sponsor is Lenovo. As a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs a...| Bits from Debian
DebConf22, the 23rd annual Debian Conference, is taking place in Prizren, Kosovo from July 17th to 24th, 2022. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo, to participate and work in a conference exclusively run by volunteers. Today the main conference starts with over 270 attendants expected and 82 activities scheduled, including 45-minute and 20-minute talks and team meetings ("BoF"), workshops, and a job fair, as w...| Bits from Debian
Three members of the Debian Perl Group met in Hamburg between May 23 and May 30 2022 as part of the Debian Reunion Hamburg to continue perl development work for Bookworm and to work on QA tasks across our 3800+ packages. The participants had a good time and met other Debian friends. The sprint was also productive: pkg-perl-tools and dh-make-perl were improved and extended. More than 50 uploads were done, and more than 30 bugs were fixed or at least triaged. autopkgtests were added to lots of ...| Bits from Debian
In less than two days we will be in Prizren to start DebCamp and DebConf22 \o/ This C&W is the 18th official DebConf Cheese and Wine party. The first C&W was improvised in Helsinki during DebConf 5, in the so-called "French" room. Cheese and Wine parties are now a tradition for DebConf. The event is very simple: bring good edible stuff from your country. We like cheese and wine, but we love the surprising stuff that people bring from all around the world or regions of Kosovo. So, you can brin...| Bits from Debian
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy May 2022 - August 2022 round. Israel Galadima and Michael Ikwuegbu will work on Improve yarn package manager integration with Debian, mentored by Akshay S Dinesh and Pirate Praveen. --- Congratulations and welcome to Israel Galadima and Michael Ikwuegbu! From the official website: Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally under...| Bits from Debian
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected three interns to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code. Here are the list of the projects, interns, and details of the tasks to be performed. --- Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian Interns: Nkwuda Sunday Cletus and Raman Sarda The deliverables of this project will mostly be finished packages submitted to Debian sid, both for new packages and updated packages. Whenever possible, we shou...| Bits from Debian
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Henry-Nicolas Tourneur (hntourne) Nick Black (dank) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Jan Mojžíš Philip Wyett Thomas Ward Fabio Fantoni Mohammed Bilal Guilherme de Paula Xavier Segundo Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
We are very pleased to announce that Google has committed to support DebConf22 as a Platinum sponsor. This is the third year in a row that Google is sponsoring The Debian Conference with the higher tier! Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google has been supporting Debian by sponsoring DebConf since more than ten yea...| Bits from Debian
If you intend to apply for a DebConf22 bursary and/or submit an event proposal and have not yet done so, please proceed as soon as possible! Bursary applications for DebConf22 will be accepted until May 1st at 23:59 UTC. Applications submitted after this deadline will not be considered. You can apply for a bursary when you register for the conference. Remember that giving a talk or organising an event is considered towards your bursary; if you have a submission to make, submit it even if it i...| Bits from Debian
The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded, and the winner is Jonathan Carter, who has been elected for third time. Congratulations! The new term for the project leader starts on 2022-04-21. 354 of 1,023 Developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2022 page. Many thanks to Felix Lechner, Jonathan Carter and Hideki Yamane for their campaigns...| Bits from Debian
We are very pleased to announce that ITP - Innovation and Training Park Prizren has committed to supporting DebConf22 as a Platinum sponsor. Also, ITP Prizren will host the Conference for all 15 days! The ITP Prizren intends to be a changing and boosting element in the area of ICT, agro-food and creatives industries, through the creation and management of a favourable environment and efficient services for SMEs, exploiting different kinds of innovations that can contribute to Kosovo to improv...| Bits from Debian
We are very pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to support DebConf22 as a Platinum sponsor. This is the fourth year in a row that Infomaniak is sponsoring The Debian Conference with the higher tier! Infomaniak is Switzerland's largest web-hosting company, also offering backup and storage services, solutions for event organizers, live-streaming and video on demand services. It wholly owns its datacenters and all elements critical to the functioning of the services and products pr...| Bits from Debian
We are very pleased to announce that Lenovo has committed to supporting DebConf22 as a Platinum sponsor. This is the fourth year in a row that Lenovo is sponsoring The Debian Conference with the higher tier! As a global technology leader manufacturing a wide portfolio of connected products, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and workstations as well as AR/VR devices, smart home/office and data center solutions, Lenovo understands how critical open systems and platforms are to a connected wor...| Bits from Debian
The following contributor got his Debian Developer account in the last two months: Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro (vilmar) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Lu YaNing Mathias Gibbens Markus Blatt Peter Blackman David da Silva Polverari Congratulations!| Bits from Debian
Registration for DebConf22 is now open. The the 23rd edition of DebConfwill take place from July 17th to 24th, 2022 at the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 10th to 16th. Along with the registration, the DebConf content team announced the call for proposals. Deadline to submit a proposal to be considered in the main schedule is April 15th, 2022 23:59:59 UTC (Friday). DebConf is an event open to everyone, no matter how you identif...| Bits from Debian
