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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from May 2016</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from May 2016</description>
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  10                 <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://zfsonlinux.org/&quot;&gt;ZFS for Linux&lt;/a&gt; finally entered
  16 Debian.  The package status can be seen on
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux&quot;&gt;the package tracker
  18 for zfs-linux&lt;/a&gt;.  and
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
  20 team status page&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to help out, please join us.
  21 &lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git&quot;&gt;The
  22 source code&lt;/a&gt; is available via git on Alioth.  It would also be
  23 great if you could help out with
  24 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms&quot;&gt;the dkms package&lt;/a&gt;, as
  25 it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.&lt;/p&gt;
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  30                 <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
  31                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
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  33                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  34                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
  35 Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  36
  37 &lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
  38 plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
  39 Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
  40 for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
  41 plugin supported most file formats / media types.
  42 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
  43 result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
  44 not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
  45 these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
  46 players.&lt;/p&gt;
  47
  48 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
  49 player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
  50 Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
  51 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
  52 desktop file&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
  53 of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
  54 only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
  55 two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
  56 compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
  57 instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
  58 support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;
  59
  60 &lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
  61 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
  62 table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
  63 in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
  64 listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;
  65
  66 &lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
  67 parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
  68 kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
  69 support?&lt;/p&gt;
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  74                 <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
  75                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
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  77                 <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  78                 <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
  79 &lt;a href=&quot;https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/&quot;&gt;The Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, a
  80 handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled.  I
  81 would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)&lt;/p&gt;
  82
  83 &lt;p&gt;The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
  84 plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5&quot;
  85 LCD touch screen.  The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
  86 day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
  87 confirming this.  The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
  88 last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
  89 production started.&lt;/p&gt;
  90
  91 &lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
  92 Debian.  Please let me know if you know of any others.  Is it the
  93 first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?&lt;/p&gt;
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