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A sunny DebianDay

kaeso — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:57:37 +0000

As Meike mentioned, Debian turned fifteen last Saturday. We enjoyed our Italian DebianDay too, in a sunny and beautiful day, very close to the sea (a great thanks to lug Govonis, here!).
Lots of talks and interesting discussions all the day. with people crossing half Italy to celebrate and party with us, ended with a great pizza all together. A wonderful DebianDay, really :)

Rebootless Linux kernel security updates

kaeso — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:21:27 +0000

Some of you may have already read of ksplice, a recently announced hot-patching system for Linux kernels. Given the actual kernel source tree and a security patch to be applied (which shouldn't include semantic changes), it can build a kernel module with the fix which would introduce a trampoline to the bug-fixed object. The mechanism, along with other limitations, is described more deeply in the accompanying paper.

An RFP was reported a couple of days ago, for which I've put an initial rough packaging under collab-maint with git (both source package and i386 binary are already available). All the things are still a bit unripe, thus before allowing it into unstable I'd like to find a co-maintainer (preferably with a good kernel knowledge :) ). So, if you found it useful and want to help, feel free to drop me a note.

Monday

કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:23:54 +0000

* Why Monday sucks?

* I agree with Gunnar. +1 for it!

Inkscape 0.46 released

kaeso — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:02:27 +0000

The Inkscape community is really proud to announce the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor: Inkscape 0.46 is out!
This version introduces a lot of new features and various improvements, and I'd suggest you to read the release notes.
Binary packages for most common platforms will be available soon.

Kudos to all the members working to keep Inkscape rocking!

Nemiver in experimental

kaeso — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:50:57 +0000

A lot of new features were recently added to nemiver, a new and promising standalone graphical debugger for GNOME. Jonathan and Dodji announced a shiny new global variables watcher and an impressive hex memory viewer/editor, based on gtkhex widget. However, before being able to release the next stable version, they need a lot of testing and bug-hunting: so I've just uploaded a recent SVN version to experimental.

Please test and report any bug not yet reported.Also, note that upstream contributors are always really welcome, and that there is also plenty of non-coding work to do, as documentation and translations are still in progress...