There has been a flurry of activity on the Debian mailing lists ever since Steve McIntyre raised the issue of including non-free firmware as part of official Debian installation images. Firstly I should point out that I am in complete agreement with Steve’s proposal to include non-free firmware as part of an installation image. Likewise […]
Category: Debian
September 20, 2021
andy
Nearly 4 weeks after contracting COVID-19 I am finally able to return to work… Yes I have had both Jabs (my 2nd dose was back in June), and this knocked me for six. I spent most of the time in bed, and only started to get up and about 10 days ago. I passed this […]
August 14, 2021
andy
Wow. It is 21:49 in the evening here (I am with isy and sledge in Cambridge) and image testing has completed! The images are being signed, and sledge is running through the final steps to push them out to our servers, and from there out onto the mirror and torrent networks to be available for […]
August 14, 2021
andy
And so it begins…Release of Debian 11 Bullseye is in progress. Building install media is underway, and we’ll be downloading and smoke testing these images just as soon as they become available. Want to help test some images? see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Bullseye_r0 We expect to be at this until the small hours of Sunday morning…
July 17, 2021
andy
Installing a new laptop ‘New’ is a 2nd hand Thinkpad T470p laptop that I intend to duel boot with windows.I have been a Debian user for over 20 years, I use windows at work for the proprietary EDA ‘Altium’, but I have never had a windows installation on my laptop. This machine will to be […]
September 20, 2020
andy
My webcam has broken, something that I have been using a lot during the last few months for some reason. A friend of mine suggested that I use the mic and camera on my mobile phone instead. There is a simple app ‘droidcam’ that makes the phone behave as a simple webcam, it also has […]
June 3, 2020
andy
At work we have a wonderful pyhon tool that we are able to send CoAP messages to and from our products. Perfect for development work. However recently I needed to install a copy of the tools onto my personal laptop because the only work laptops I have access to have completely dead batteries and so […]
August 3, 2019
andy
I write this on Monday whilst sat in the airport in São Paulo awaiting my onward flight back to the UK and the fun of the change of personnel in Downing street that has been something I have fortunately been able to ignore whilst at DebConf. [Edit: and finishing writing the Saturday after getting home […]
July 8, 2019
andy
With the release of Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” completing in the small hours of yesterday morning (0200hrs UTC or thereabouts) most of the ‘release parties’ had already been and gone…. Not so for the Cambridge contingent who had scheduled a get together for the Sunday [0], knowing that various attendees would have been working on […]
July 7, 2019
andy
I spent all day smoke testing the install images for yesterday’s (this mornings – gee just after midnight local so we still had 11 hours to spare) Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” release. This year we had our “Biglyest test matrix ever”[0], 111 tests were completed at the point the release images were signed and the […]