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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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IPv6 available on this site
Dec 24th
Thanks to a recent article published on debian-administration.org, I have managed to get an IPv6 connectivity at home, and have hence decided to make this website available through IPv6.
I have used Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel service as recommended on Linode wiki, and everything seems to be working.
This was a really simple process (both at home and on my Linode!).
The AAAA DNS records have been set up.
While the propagation is being processed, you can still test using the IP 2001:470:1f06:ccf::2 (I now really understand why DNS have been created!). You can use ping6 or telnet -6 or even use your browser.
While browsing www.kirya.net using IPv6, you should get a message in the header (just below the links to RSS feeds) confirming your request have been served using IPv6.
Note that I haven’t yet set up all Apache virtual hosts to answer on IPv6, which might lead to some web pages being redirected to the defaut vhost. More over, the HTTP server will only answer to IPv6 request on port 80 (no SSL at the moment).
One month on Linode.com
Dec 11th
I moved my services onto Linode one month ago. Since Then, everything is running smoothly, I am really impressed! No problem at all, which clearly wasn’t the case with my previous hosting companies.
PS: No, I am not paid by Linode and I have no link to them, but I think it is good to tell people when something is good.
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