Planet Debian
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Paul Tagliamonte: designing arf, an sdr iq encoding format 🐶
Interested in future updates? Follow me on mastodon at @paul@soylent.green. Posts abouthz.toolswill be tagged #hztools.
🐶 Want to jump right to the draft? I'll be maintaining ARF going forward at /draft-tagliamonte-arf-00.txt.It’s true – processing data from software defined radios can be a bit complex 👈😏👈 –
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.1 on CRAN: Calendar Updates
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Emmanuel Kasper: Minix 3 on Beagle Board Black (ARM)
Connected via serial console. Does not have a package manager, web or ssh server, but can play tetris in the terminal (bsdgames in Debian have the same tetris version packaged).
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debusine projects in GSoC, Debian CI updates, Salsa CI maintenance and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
Debian Contributions: 2026-03
Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Looking for work
It seems my own plans and life's plans diverged this spring, so I am in the market for a new job. So if you're looking for someone with a long track record making your code go brrr really fast, give me a ping (contact information at my homepage). Working from Oslo (on-site or remote), CV available upon request. No AI boosterism or cryptocurrency grifters, please :-)
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: anytime 0.3.13 on CRAN: Mostly Minor Bugfix
A maintenance release 0.3.13 of the anytime package arrived on CRAN today, sticking with the roughly yearly schedule we have now. Binaries for r2u have been built already. The package is fairly feature-complete, and code and functionality remain mature and stable.
anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Talking to the Computer, and Getting Some Nonsense Back...
At last, I can run my own large language model artificial idiocy generator at home on a Debian testing host using Debian packages directly from the Debian archive. After months of polishing the llama.cpp, whisper.cpp and ggml packages, and their dependencies, I was very happy to see today that they all entered Debian testing this morning. Several release-critical issues in dependencies have been blocking the migration for the last few
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Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s Finally Working
I’ve been using the Furilabs FLX1s phone [1] as my daily driver for 6 weeks, it’s a decent phone, not as good as I hoped but good enough to use every day and rely on for phone calls about job interviews etc. I intend to keep using it as my main phone and as a platform to improve phone software in Debian as you really can’t effectively find bugs unless you use the platform for important tasks.
Support Problems
I previously wrote about the phone after I received it without a SIM caddy on the 13th of Jan. I
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Ravi Dwivedi: Hungary Visa
The annual LibreOffice conference 2025 was held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2025. Thanks to the The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring me to attend the conference.
As Hungary is a part of the Schengen area, I needed a Schengen visa to attend the conference. In order to apply for a Schengen visa, one needs to get an appointment at VFS Global and submit all the required documents there, which are then forwarded to the embassy.
I got an
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: Mostly Internal Fixes
The twentyfourth release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now twenty-one year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN) package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later.
littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates
...Rscript. It allows for piping as well for