The DSPAM team have just announced their first official release, one year after the project was taken over by the Community.

You can download the sources from the SourceForge project.

Unofficial Debian packages are being built right now, but will only be uploaded to my repository after a bit more testing, during the week-end I guess.
They are meant to be uploaded to the official Debian archive once they are considered as ready by the pkg-dspam team.

Hopefully, they will be part of Squeeze.

My blog has just celebrated its 4th birthday.

161 posts, only 190 comments, but the statistics shows a stable increase in the number of visitors (in average a bit less than 500 unique visitors per day).

During the week-end, I have worked on upgrading Wordpress to the newer 2.9 release, and have just finished optimising my apache and mysql configurations. Access to my websites should now be somehow faster.

Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.

The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on this linode due to the new IP adressess (both IPv4 and IPv6). Most DNS servers should however now be up-to-date.

Thanks again to Linode for their great service and support.

Though I haven’t used (and won’t use) Ubuntu, it has a few things I appreciate (as far as I know them):

Ubuntu One: I wish we could have something similar for Debian users (ideally, it should be extended so that we could sync our calendars, contacts, liferea data etc.).

usb-creator: seems the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick containing a complete and customisable environment. I am aware of the existence Debian Live, but I must say I haven’t given it a try yet.

Desktop orientation: Ubuntu users are in a large majority desktop users. Ubuntu is imho desktop-oriented, and I particularly like the artwork coherence (from boot loader to default desktop).

After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.

rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.

This page on the wiki has helped a lot.

I now need to learn how to use this tool, but my first tests are very encouraging.
I haven’t had to change my packaging workflow, switching from svn-buildpackage to git-buildpackage.

I am even able to build i386 packages on my amd64 machine as before without the need to change anything in my ~/.pbuilderrc.