DebConf26, Freexian, and Debian Bloggers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2026

• Debian ☛ Bits from Debian: DebConf26 dates announced

  As announced in Brest, France, in July, the Debian Conference is heading to Santa Fe, Argentina.

  The DebConf26 team and the local organizers team in Argentina are excited to announce Debconf26 dates, the 27th edition of the Debian Developers and Contributors Conference: [...]

• Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2025 free software activities

  I guess it is about time I posted a new summary of the free software and open culture activites and projects I have been involved in the last year. The days have been so packed the last year that I have failed with my intention to post at least one blog post per month, so this summary became rather long. I am sorry about this.

  This year was the year I got tired of the lack of new releases of the multimedia related libraries published via Xiph, and I decided to wrap up the current state and make the releases myself. In a burst of activity early this year, I collected and tested patches, coordinated with other developers and finally made new tarballs and release announcement for theora, and new tarball releases for liboggz, kate and fishsound.

• kpcyrd: 2025 wrapped

  Same as last year, this is a summary of what I’ve been up to throughout the year.

  See also the recap/retrospection published by my friends (antiz, jvoisin, orhun).

• Freexian Collaborators: How files are stored by Debusine (by Stefano Rivera)

  Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. This post describes how Debusine stores and manages files.

  Debusine has been designed to run a network of “workers” that can perform various “tasks” that consume and produce “artifacts”.

• Sergio Cipriano: Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF

  Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF

  I recently had to debug an Envoy Network Load Balancer, and the options Envoy provides just weren't enough. We were seeing a small number of HTTP 499 errors caused by latency somewhere in our cloud, but it wasn't clear what the bottleneck was. As a result, each team had to set up additional instrumentation to catch latency spikes and figure out what was going on.

• Ravi Dwivedi: Transit through Kuala Lumpur

  In my last post, Badri and I reached Kuala Lumpur - the capital of Malaysia - on the 7th of December 2024. We stayed in Bukit Bintang, the entertainment district of the city. Our accommodation was pre-booked at “Manor by Mingle”, a hostel where I had stayed for a couple of nights in a dormitory room earlier in February 2024.

  We paid 4937 rupees (the payment was online, so we paid in Indian rupees) for 3 nights for a private room. From the Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS) bus station, we took the metro to the Plaza Rakyat LRT station, which was around 500 meters from the hostel. Upon arriving at the hostel, we presented our passports at their request, followed by a 20 ringgit (400 rupee) deposit which would be refunded once we returned the room keys at checkout.