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I just spent a few evenings playing with WSL2 and all I've been able to think of during this whole time is one of Rob Pike's remarks from his still eerily relevant talk on how systems research has become irrelevant: "[Windows] is [to the pre-OS X Macintosh] an industrial response …

systemd, the (init?) system that everyone loves to hate, needs no introduction. It's pretty ubiquitous today -- to the point where you can find it, for example, in Yocto.

When it comes to its use in embedded systems, the (vocal) community response is either that it's too bloated, or that it's …

Well, it's happened before, so it was bound to happen again: a remote code execution bug was found in APT. And it's particularly interesting in the context of an age-old debate that has been dragging on in Debian-related circles about the use of HTTPS - a question that has been asked …

Like most people on the Interwebs, I was unable to peacefully drink my morning coffee due to the news that Red Hat is going to be bought by none other than IBM.

Am I worried?

Yeah.

See, IBM is not viewed entirely unfavourably in the FOSS world, but that's mostly …

The Debian project just turned 25, which calls for celebration. Unfortunately, I'm on a pretty restrictive diet at the moment, which means that beer is out of the question. So I settled for the second-best solution: I took Debian 3.0, the first Debian version I used, out for a …