Posts tagged: planet-debian

FOSDEM 2017: People, RISC-V and ChaosKey

This year, for the first time, I attended FOSDEM.

There I met...

People

... including:

  • friends that I don't see very often;
  • old friends that I didn't expect to see there, some of whom decided to travel from far away in the last minute;
  • met people in person for the first time, which previously I had known only though the internet -- one of whom is a protagonist …

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More work on aptitude

The last few months have been a bit of a crazy period of ups and downs, with a tempest of events beneath the apparent and deceivingly calm surface waters of being unemployed (still at it).

The daily grind

Chief activities are, of course, those related to the daily grind of job-hunting, sending applications, and preparing and attending interviews.

It is demoralising when one searches for many …

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Work on aptitude

Midsummer for me is also known as “Noite do Lume Novo” (literally “New Fire Night”), one of the big calendar events of the year, marking the end of the school year and the beginning of summer.

On this day, there are celebrations not very unlike the bonfires in the Guy Fawkes Night in England or Britain [1]. It is a bit different in that it is …

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About the Debian GNU/Linux port for OpenRISC or1k

In my previous post I mentioned my involvement with the OpenRISC or1k port. It was the technical activity in which I spent most time during 2014 (Debian and otherwise, day job aside).

I thought that it would be nice to talk a bit about the port for people who don't know about it, and give an update for those who do know and care. So this …

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Hallo, Planet Debian!

Hi!

I just created this blog and asked to get it aggregated to the Debian Planet, so first things first -- in the initial post I wanted to say Hallooooo! to the people in the community and to talk about my work and interests in Debian.

Probably most of you never interacted with or even heard of me before. I am contributor/Maintainer since ~2010 and Developer …

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