Debian Development and Developers
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Christian Kastner: 15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload
Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted. Debian had replaced backdoored Windows as my primary OS in 2005, but it was only when I saw that package zd1211-firmware had been orphaned that I thought of becoming a contributor. I owned a Zyxel G-202 USB WiFi fob that needed said firmware, and as is so often is with open-source software, I was going to scratch my own itch. Bart Martens thankfully helped me adopt the package, and sponsored my upload.
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Petter Reinholdtsen: New theora release 1.2.0beta1 after almost 15 years
When I a few days ago discovered that a security problem reported against the theora library last year was still not fixed, and because I was already up to speed on Xiph development, I decided it was time to wrap up a new theora release. This new release was tagged in the Xiph gitlab theora instance Saturday. You can fetch the new release from the Theora home page.
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Mark Brown: Seoul Trail revamp
I regularly visit Seoul, and for the last couple of years I&aposve been doing segments from the Seoul Trail, a series of walks that add up to a 150km circuit around the outskirts of Seoul. If you like hiking I recommend it, it&aposs mostly through the hills and wooded areas surrounding the city or parks within the city and the bits I&aposve done thus far have mostly been very enjoyable. Everything is generally well signposted and easy to follow, with varying degrees of difficulty from completely flat paved roads to very hilly trails.