December 28, 2024 – 2:55 pm
As I was tired of long build times, so I convinced my boss to buy me a Lenovo Legion pro 7. The reason is: this laptop has an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX that has 16 cores (32 threads). This reduces a lot the time I have to just wait for my laptop to compile, or […]
August 22, 2024 – 10:20 pm
During Debconf, Edward Betts and myself started packaging Home Assistant for Debian. It consists of hundreds of Python packages. So far, we counted at least 675 packages. That’s a lot, though most packages are just libraries to talk with some IoT devices and some APIs. It’s fairly easy to create a new package: it takes […]
September 24, 2023 – 3:19 pm
The new 7945HX CPU from AMD is currently the most powerful. I’d love to have one of them, to replace the now aging 6 core Xeon that I’ve been using for more than 5 years. So, I’ve been searching for a laptop with that CPU. Absolutely all of the laptops I found with this CPU […]
I arrived in Prizren late on Wednesday. Here’s what I did during debcamp (so over 3 days). I hope this post just motivates others to contribute more to Debian. At least 2 DDs want to upload packages that need a new version of python3-jsonschema (ie: version > 4.x). Unfortunately, version 4 broke a few packages. […]
October 6, 2021 – 9:26 pm
It was out at 3pm, and I managed to finish uploading the last bits to Unstable at 9pm… Of course, that’s because all of the packaging and testing work was done before the release date. All of it is, as usual, also available through a Bullseye non-official backports repository that can be added using extrepo […]
October 6, 2021 – 9:23 pm
My employer, the biggest Swiss server hosting company, Infomaniak, has just opened registration for its new IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) OpenStack-based public cloud. Well, in fact, it’s been opened since a week or so. Previously, it was only in beta (during that beta period, we hosted (for free) the whole Debconf 21 infrastructure). Nothing […]
August 30, 2021 – 9:52 am
During Debconf, Holger, who’s one of the developers-reference maintainers, made a quick presentation that was explaining the developers-reference needs some love. Indeed, it has gathered dust, and some useful refresh would be very welcome. Holger pointed at the list of bugs:https://bugs.debian.org/src:developers-reference After having a quick look into that list, after Holger’s Debconf presentation, I wrote […]
April 23, 2021 – 12:56 pm
As you may know, Puppet uses “facter” to get facts about the machine it is about to configure. That’s fine, and a nice concept. One can later use variables in a puppet manifest to do different things depending on what facter tells. For example, the operating system name … oh no! This thing is really […]
October 14, 2020 – 1:07 pm
This is a follow-up from the blog post of Russel as seen here: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/10/13/first-try-gnocchi-statsd/. There’s a bunch of things he wrote which I unfortunately must say is inaccurate, and sometimes even completely wrong. It is my point of view that none of the reported bugs are helpful for anyone that understand Gnocchi and how to […]
So, Megacli is to be replaced by Storcli, both being proprietary tools for configuring RAID cards from LSI. So I went to download what’s provided by Lenovo, available here:https://support.lenovo.com/fr/en/downloads/ds041827 It’s very annoying, because they force users to download a .zip file containing a deb file, instead of providing a Debian repository. Well, ok, though at […]