Md at debian.org

This needs to be clear: systemd is under attack by a trolling campaign orchestrated by fascist elements.

Recently I found myself with a few hours to kill, but with the only available connectivity provided by an annoying firewall which would normally allow requests only to a few very specific web sites.

Over the past year, the peering LAN of MIX-IT, the largest internet exchange point in Italy carrying 2.5-3 Tbps of traffic, has experienced multiple outages.

We want to use an hyperscaler cloud because it is cheaper to delegate operating a scalable and redundant database to an hyperscaler is something that can be debated from business and technical points of view.

More than two years after I last uploaded the purity-off Debian package, its autopkgtest (the Debian distribution-wide continuous integration system) started failing on arm64, and only on this architecture.

A few days ago CISPE, a trade association of European cloud providers, published a press release complaining about the new VMware licensing scheme and asking for regulators and legislators to intervene.

inn2 uses ephemeral UNIX domain sockets in /run/news/ to communicate with the ctlinnd program.

Now that Debian 12 has been released with proprietary firmwares on the official media, non-optional merged-/usr and systemd adopted by everybody, I want to take a moment to list, not without some pride, a few things that I was right about over the last 20…

I recently bought a Banana Pi BPI-M5, which uses the Amlogic S905X3 SoC: these are my notes about installing Debian on it.

To be able to investigate and work on the the measured boot features I have switched from grub to systemd-boot (sd-boot).