Mathias' Blog

The various large-language models (LLMs1) from pick-your-favorite-company are getting pretty fancy and are capable of so...

Last month, Incus 7.0 LTS was released. 🎉 I figured this would be a good excuse to give an update about the state of Inc...

Debian trixie has been released!

Debian trixie is currently scheduled for release on August 9th!

We’re well into trixie’s hard freeze, which means significantly less packaging activity in June.

The trixie hard freeze began on May 15, and most of my work last month focused on making sure the packages I help mainta...

The first half of April was focused on the new LTS releases of lxc and incus, as well as making the final significant up...

For the past week or so, when trying to search Google I’ve encountered the following message several times a day: ...

March 15th marked the first of the trixie freeze milestones.

February was a bit of a lighter month, due to travel and other activities.

The trixie freeze dates were announced earlier this month, which means we’re getting closer to the release.

Recently while traveling, I went to activate my wireguard VPN connection, but it failed with the error RTNETLINK answers...

Even though the trixie freeze dates haven’t yet been announced, this past month my focus began to shift to prepari...

In addition to the work below, I’ve been testing the KDE Plasma 6 packages from experimental, and at the end of No...

Well, ChatGPT spam has found its way to my blog’s comments.

Seems like an appropriate response….

Had a fairly productive month with lots of packaging and BTS work.

September didn’t present a lot of time for open source work, as I was busy helping put on the Duke City Hamfest an...

A few updates from last month; I sponsored a couple packages and updated a handful of others.

Last month was busier than normal, as I attended DebConf24 and was therefore able to spend quite a bit of focused time o...

A Brief Recap It’s been an interesting six months or so in the Linux Containers world.

This weekend, an annular eclipse passed directly over Albuquerque, and it was quite a sight!

Today marks Debian’s thirtieth anniversary!

Debian bookworm has been released!

After about 14 years, it’s time to say goodnight to my trusty T61 ThinkPad.

I’ve been a long time OpenZFS user, and for the past couple of years it’s been pretty much the only file sys...

This week openrct2 was accepted into bullseye-backports; as such, I will no longer be hosting/providing openrct2 package...

It’s been a bit over a month since becoming official, but I’m now a full-fledged Debian Developer!

Earlier this week, Return to Monkey Island was finally released on Steam and other platforms!

Earlier today, LXD was accepted into Debian unstable!

LXD has finally been uploaded to the NEW queue!

I host a small, personal apt repo, primarily for my own use and convenience as I work on preparing packages for inclusio...

Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) Yesterday we fin...

Progress on getting LXD packaged for Debian continues, although at a bit slower rate the past couple of months due to re...

As of today, it’s official – I’m now a Debian Maintainer!

Happy 2022 everyone!

We’ll start today with a PSA: 32bit architectures still exist.

Today, after 252 days in the NEW queue, OpenRCT2 was finally accepted into Debian!

Well, I’m calling this the “Wild West” edition of my LXD packaging report, as I have been reminded onc...

A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian.

Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian.

This weekend we had a bit of aviation history here in Albuquerque: the B-29 “Doc” was down at the Sunport.

In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...

Early this morning, Ingenuity successfully made its first flight…. pretty amazing!

Hard to believe it’s been a full ten years since Portal 2 launched!

This is something I never thought I’d have to write about, but due to the events of the past few weeks, I need to ...

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had a higher than normal number of interactions with various online companies. ...

I think we might be living in the future… we’ve got a satellite (the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) snapping ...

For a while now, I’ve been running an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network on my main wired LAN.

Yesterday marked one month since insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol building.