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Julien Valroff's weblog and personal homepage
Lenny…
Feb 15th
Well, I am sure all of you have already read the announcement: Lenny (aka Debian 5.0) is out!
I have been using Debian on all my machines since at least mid 2003, when Woody was stable. Sarge was then released in 2005, then Etch the year after.
I have updated my personal repository of unofficial packages for this new stable release. I have let etch packages available (under oldstable), but will remove them in a while. This repository is mainly mainly composed of backported or patched packages for my own use, but can be used by anyone (but I do not guarantee anything 
).
My new xorg.conf
Feb 7th
~$ [ -s /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] ; echo $? 1
Yes, it is an empty file! I have just upgraded xorg to the experimental packages. hal does its job, and all devices are automatically detected and configured.
This is actually a great improvement, especially for those who had to fight against the XFree86 configuration file just to get a graphical session working, back in the late 90′s.
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Counting Debian source packages #2
Jan 17th
IPv6: Miredo link to HE Tunnel endpoint
Jan 17th
As announced a few weeks ago, my website should now be accessible through IPv6. The connectivity is made thanks to Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel service as recommended on Linode wiki.
At home, I use Miredo, an open-source Teredo IPv6 tunneling software for GNU/Linux and BSD. This works great with many websites. I can ping6 servers I know, like ipv6.google.com or www.debian-administration.org.
However, I cannot ping6 my Linode server until I have established a link from the linode to home. But after a while (a quarter or so), the link is dead, and I have to ping my home address again from the linode to make it alive.
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Counting Debian source packages
Jan 17th
Following to Kushal’s post about counting total number of Debian packages, he concluded that sid currently has more than 30,000 binary packages (free, contrib & non-free).
IMHO it is more relevant to count source packages. I couldn’t find any existing way of doing it, I have hence written a short bash script.
DSPAM-Community – first RC: call for testing
Jan 6th
I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community.
I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the project is left out by Sensory Networks (the company took over DSPAM in May 2007).
I give all my confidence in the fork as the original author, Jonathan Zdziarski, is part of the new development team!
I have prepared EXPERIMENTAL packages of the first RC of DSPAM-Community.
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