Jonathan Carter

TL;DR: What a great DebConf!

Debian 13 has finally been released!

The last two weeks I attended DebConf and DebCamp in Brest, France.

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Beer, cake and ISO testing amidst rugby and jazz band chaos On Saturday, the Debian South Africa team got together in Cape Town to celebrate Debian’s 31st birthday and to perform ISO testing for the Debian 11.11 and 12.7 point releases.

Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux.

I’m finishing typing up this blog entry hours before my last 13 hour leg back home, after I spent 2 weeks in Busan, South Korea for DebCamp24 and DebCamp24.

I very, very nearly didn’t make it to DebConf this year, I had a bad cold/flu for a few days before I left, and after a negative covid-19 test just minutes before my flight, I decided to take the plunge and travel.

Inspired by the fine Debian Local Groups all over the world, I’ve long since wanted to start one in Cape Town.

Last month, the Debian project released Debian 12, with the usual low-key fanfare that Debian usually announces a release with.