Anthony Wong

Last night I gave a short presentation at Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) on the Debian project and the new Etch release. As Roy Chan had given a talk about the new release in the Hong Kong Debian Etch release party, I asked for his permission to use his slides for this talk, and he happily agreed. I made some modifications to his slides and cut out the part about Linux introduction, you can find the presentation slides in OpenOffice.org 2 format here, PDF version here. In the meeting Darren mentioned the idea of using peer-to-peer technology in apt, so that users don’t need to set any repositories in the configuration, this is a very good idea, and coincidentally there is a Google Summer of Code project on this topic.

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上一屆的 Debian leader Martin Michlmayr 在他的 blog 上發表了一系列關於自由／開源軟件發布管理 (release management) 的分析文章。由於 Martin Michlmayr 在劍橋大學所做的 PhD 論文是針對自由軟件質量保證方面的研究，他的幾篇就 Debian, GCC, Gnome 和 Linux kernel 的分析都很精確，重點的列出了每個 project 管理發布的問題和解決方法，各有千秋，很不有趣。雖然篇幅不多，但是對於需要宏觀了解這些大 project 的朋友起了很大的幫助。相信他的論文會有更詳細的分析，非常期待可以早日看到他的研究成果，並希望能同時為 Debian 找到一條光明之路。

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前幾日去開王府井書店，見到有本書叫《Debian Linux系统配置与管理》。云云 Linux 書海裏有本專門寫 Debian 的實屬少見，所以特別易搵。二話不說，梗係第一時間拎嚟睇吓，睇書我好留意作者，一睇，原來作者係信息产业部软件与集成电路促进中心 (CSIP)，喺北京搞過 Linux 的人都知道 CSIP 係信息產業部下面嘅一大 linux player，個 linux lab 人就唔係好多，但喺 server 就多到用唔晒。講眞，睇見作者係 CSIP 我就即刻打咗個突，心唸既然佢哋都寫到 Debian admin 嘅書，咁我都可以寫 kernel hacking。內容就唔多講喇，想學 Debian 的話都會有用嘅，不過唔該搞清楚個 distribution 個名先好寫書，係 Debian GNU/Linux，唔係 Debian Linux 呀，大佬。

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Wow, Debian and its logo are used as an example of Geek Tee on a local magazine! Thanks Yorick for scanning the article from the PC Market. Click on the image to see the full page.

Debian is definitely getting more popular and mainstream, while maintaining its geek status. Hmm, I can now see the day of world domination is near…

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This is the mug used in the Beijing “Be there or Be square” (不见不散) restaurant. Apparently, Debian has already started its World Domination sub-project secretly for quite some time, and I guess it probably started from the time when our last Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr visited Beijing in the last Debian mini-conf.

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