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Debian 11.10 and 12.6 released!
The Debian Project have recently released two new point releases of the supported Debian versions: Debian 11.10 (Bullseye) and Debian 12.6 (Bookworm). Debian Bullseye (Official announcement) was released on August 2021, while Bookworm was released on June 2023. Here are the links to the official announcements to the two point releases: These releases consist of…
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Debian Buster 10 will reach LTS End of Life
Debian 10 was released on July 6th, 2019, and it featured software that was released in 2019, such as GNOME 3.30 and Linux 4.19.0-4. On June 30th, 2022, Debian Buster 10 reached the security end of life, but the LTS support was still ongoing. Today, the Debian long-term support release team has announced that the…
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Debian 13 Trixie Official Artwork Contest Started
The official artwork contest for Debian 13 Trixie has officially started according to the latest mail entry from the debian-devel-announce mailing list. This entry is an official call for proposals for those who wish to contribute to the Debian artwork by making official Debian 13 wallpapers and other artwork based on the Debian Desktop team’s…
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Debian and systemd-boot fusion
The Debian developers have recently uncovered their plan to use systemd-boot for UEFI installations of Debian Trixie, which is going to be released in 2025. According to this mailing list entry, they aim to add signed secure boot support to Debian to try to solve the problem regarding UEFI and Secure Boot with Debian systems.…
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Debian’s Package Manager, overhauled!
APT, Debian’s package manager, is a console application that allows you to install and manage Debian packages that contain binary copies of your favorite programs and libraries. It was a convenient package manager that provided a comprehensible prompt for every action being taken, such as package upgrades. However, there were some concerns about the package…
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Debian 64-bit time_t transition in progress
Recently, a transition involving many packages has commenced because the Debian project wants to transition these packages to using the 64-bit time_t variables. This allows such packages to handle dates after 2038 to ensure that these systems continue to run after that date. This migration started in the Debian Experimental branch to conduct tests before…
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Debian 32-bit architectures will be able to handle dates after 2038!
Recently, a transition involving many packages has commenced because the Debian project wants to transition these packages to using the 64-bit time_t variables. This allows such packages to handle dates after 2038 to ensure that these systems continue to run after that date. This migration started in the Debian Experimental branch to conduct tests before…
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Debian is shutting down a 9-year old Single Sign-On server
Since 9 years, The Debian Project made their own single sign-on server to handle signing in to various Debian services with just one username and one password. This server, sso.debian.org, handled all the logins to access all Debian services so that users could access these without having to re-enter their credentials for each service. Recently,…
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Using Systemwide Perl Libraries for Bugzilla Perl Upgrades
If you have installed Bugzilla modules using the install-module.pl script, you might have noticed that the required and optional modules are installed into the lib directory on the root of the Bugzilla installation. Inside the lib folder, it contains compiled Bugzilla Perl modules that your computer compiled using your currently installed system Perl. When such…
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Kernel Simulator 0.0.20.0
In 2018, we started the development of the very first version of KS in February 10, and finished it in February 22. It was a minimalistic simulator that simulated the most basic parts of the kernel. It was in version 0.0.1 to denote the first iteration. Since then, we’ve continuously made the changes to the…
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