Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS! #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #floss
"Ceratopsian" will be the default theme for Debian 13: The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used theme called "futurePrototype" by Alex Makas. After the Debian Desktop Team made the call for proposing themes, a total of six choices were submitted. The desktop artwork poll was open… image
Would you like to see your amazing ideas on the DebConf 25 website, on T-shirts, etc., so that people all over the world can take them home? Only 12 days left to submit your artwork: deadline December 15! #debian #debconf25 #debian
Bits from the DPL: This is bits from DPL for November. MiniDebConf Toulouse I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent MiniDebConf in Cambridge. Both events were preceded by a DebCamp, which provided a valuable opportunity for focused work and collaboration. DebCamp During these events, I participated in numerous technical discussions on topics such as maintaining…
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz. Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator, mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin…
Congratulations to Patrick Noblet Appiah and Divine Attah-Ohiemi, the Debian Outreachy interns selected for the December 2024 round from a pool of great applicants. To those who didn't manage this time, thanks for your contributions and never give up! #debian #outreachy
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz. Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator, mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin… https://bits.debian.org/2025/11/welcome-outreachy-interns-2024.html
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: * Joachim Bauch (fancycode) * Alexander Kjäll (capitol) * Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) * Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: * Alberto Bertogli * Alexis Murzeau * David Heilderberg * Xiyue Deng * Kathara Sasikumar *…
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OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12: You may have seen this toot announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure. 🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap #Debian 🤓 We spoke with Grant Slater, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the…