Debian and Canonical/Ubuntu News
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Junichi Uekawa: Got crosvm building in Debian.
Got crosvm building in Debian. Now to rebase and try to upload. Or maybe upload the version I have first and then rebase.
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Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities Feb 2023
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 237 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version
237. This version includes the following changes:* autopkgtest: only install appt and dexdump on architectures where they are available. (Closes: #1031297) * compartors/pdf: + Drop backward compatibility assignment. + Fix flake warnings, potentially reinstating PyPDF 1.x support (untested).You find out more by visiting the project homepage.
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Create stop motion animation with Dragonframe on Ubuntu
“It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t.”
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Ubuntu is a Canonical product
A while back I wrote that from an outside perspective, Ubuntu is Canonical's thing, in that Canonical runs the show despite having outside contributors. But in the wake of wrestling with Canonical's advertisements in a stock 22.04 LTS machine and losing, I want to amend that observation with an important additional one. Ubuntu is not merely Canonical's, Ubuntu is a Canonical product. Which is to say, Ubuntu exists to make money for Canonical. Further, the current evidence suggests that Canonical feels it's not making enough money for them; hence the steadily increasing advertisements in Ubuntu, along with other moves.