¡Feliz 17 años Debian!

Hace algunos años, un tocayo mío escribía en la lista de correo del LugFI una frase que decía algo así como "No entiendo como la gente no usa Debian". Tamaña curiosidad me agarró que, un mes antes de su release oficial, y por no tener banda ancha aún, llegaban desde Buenos Aires dos DVDs con un snapshot de Debian Sarge.

Casi siete años mas tarde, una DebConf y un montón de buenos momentos, yo mismo me hago esa pregunta.

¡¡¡Feliz cumpleaños Debian!!!

Si sentís lo mismo que yo, no dudes en decir gracias.

Linux en la tostadora: una breve introducción al desarrollo de sistemas embebidos con GNU/Linux

Éste domingo doy una charla homónima a éste post en las Jornadas del Sur. La charla va a ser muy sencilla, dedicada a quellos que quieran un primer pantallazo de lo que hay que aprender para desarrollar software libre en sistemas embebidos. El material de la misma lo pueden encontrar acá.

Con respecto a las jornadas, para ser que se realizan en Bahía Blanca, no he tenido casi relación con su organización. Recién hoy por la tarde pude ir a tratar de dar una mano, para volverme medio rápido a mi casa debido a un resfrío que estoy curando...

Pero me pone muy contento ver la cantidad de logros (¡y lo que se han movido!) que han conseguido los chicos que organizan. Al igual que Marga, es mi primer contacto social en masa con otros geeks desde la DebConf 8.

Si pueden, no se las pierdan :-)

Last post from DebConf 8

This will be (I guess) my last post from DebConf 8. It has been a great time here. I really hope I can make it to DC9.

And do not forget:

¡¡¡Happy 15th Birthday Debian!!!

I want a N810 too!!!

Nokia has been giving free N810 to developers at aKademy. I have seen two or three here in DebConf8, and they are simple great.

Imagine having Debian with KDE running in those little precious things... do not. They do :-D

Sadly, they will cost a fortune here in Argentina. They are between 300 and 400 dolars in EEUU, so with the change to pesos plus transport plus customs terrible taxes, they will cost almost as much as a simple laptop, that I do not have either ;-(

Perhaps in some years...

I guess I did not explain myself correctly

Today I was in Paul Wise's BOF "Bits from NMs and users". As the talk was about what users like and do not like about Debian, I asked why do we don't have a simple way of doing a KDE install only. My fault. I should have asked it in a different way.

My real question is this: why do we not have an option in the Debian installer to install only KDE or only Gnome or only XFCE (to name three desktop environments that have a metapackage to install them).

Gunnar Wolf said that we have three first instalation CDs, one for each desktop. Good. But not enough. Nowadays it's becoming more normal to do a instalation from the Debian's net install CD (a great advantage of Debian). Why not to let the user choose there?

Bdale Garbee said that to change that, the most convenient thing would be to propose it (and why not, send a patch) to de Debian Installer stuff (if I understood properly). That's a great answer I must say. I do fully agree with him, maybe I should give it a try myself.

The current DPL, Steve McIntyre, said that "we (as Debian) must do a choice, in order to let the user with less questions". A good answer, but I truly don't agree.

Desktop flamewar?

The problem with these kind of questions is that is prone to generate flamewars. Shame on me, I guess I almost got one with my question :-( . That was truly not my idea. The idea was to say "hey, we got something we can improve here". Anyway, I think I will be already tagged as a flamer :-(

DebConf starts!

And in the front desk we are ready to give bags and T-Shirts to 96 people according to Penta.

Today Christoph Helwigg arrived. He suscribed to Penta yesterday, so we don't know if we have room for him :S (of course that's fixable).

So, let's see what happens :-D

Nuevo nick en IRC

Gracias a Amaya y a Zer0mdq, ahora tengo nuevo nick en IRC, PowerMan. Suena a típico héroe de cuarta, pero la verdad es que tiene una lógica por detrás: en cierta forma soy el encargado de la parte eléctrica de DebConf. Gran parte del trabajo lo hizo la gente del hotel, pero parece ser que tomé el puesto de consultor para la instalación :-P

In DebCamp

I can't believe we are already on Wednesday :-D . DebCamp has been great so far. To give you some ideas, I'm typing this next to people who is hacking NEO runners, people working with VoIP, or embedded systems like Balloon Board or Beagle Board.

I already had the pleasure to meet Ana. I have a nice picture of her taken by Aurel.

I am using my free time (I have plenty of it) to do some coding on the Smith chart Qt class that I hope I will use in QAntenna.

I do also want to test FreeSwitch again, and having people here that knows about it, I guess it's a great opportunity :-)

Pre DebCamp days

Matías "Angasule" D'Ambrosio and I arrived to Mar del Plata on August Friday 1st, at about 06:45 AM. We took a taxy and got to the Dorá Hotel.

Well, the first two days (the two days before DebCamp starts) were quite exciting. Lots of network setups, hard drives to set up, stairs to go up and down... and food!!!

The food is actually amazing, we have great breakfasts and better lunches and dinners.

Angasule took some photos, which I hanged in my gallery. Our main duty during DebCamp (the first week) will be in the Front Desk.