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Run your industrial metal working machine using Debian?
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2nd March 2022
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After many months of hard work by the good people involved in +LinuxCNC, the +system was accepted Sunday +into Debian. +Once it was available from Debian, I was surprised to discover from +its +popularity-contest numbers that people have been reporting its use +since 2012. Its project site might +be a good place to check out, but sadly is not working when visiting +via Tor.

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But what is LinuxCNC, you are probably wondering? Perhaps a +Wikipedia quote is in place?

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+"LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of +machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers, +cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or +joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has +several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen, +interactive development)." +
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It can even control 3D printers. And even though the Wikipedia +page indicate that it can only work with hard real time kernel +features, it can also work with the user space soft real time features +provided by the Debian kernel. +The source code is +available from Github. The last few months I've been involved in the +translation setup for the program and documentation. Translators are +most welcome to +join the +effort using Weblate.

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Updated vlc bittorrent plugin in Debian (version 2.14)
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VLC bittorrent plugin in Bullseye, saved by the bell?
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1st May 2021
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Yesterday morning I got a warning call from the Debian quality -control system that -the VLC -bittorrent plugin was due to be removed because of a release -critical bug in one of its dependencies. As you might remember, this -plugin make VLC able to stream videos directly from a bittorrent -source using both torrent files and magnet links, similar to using a -HTTP source. I believe such protocol support is a vital feature in -VLC, allowing efficient streaming from sources such at the almost 7 -million movies in the Internet -Archive.

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The dependency was the unmaintained -libtorrent-rasterbar -package, and the bug in -question blocked its python library from working properly. As I -did not want Bullseye to release without bittorrent support in VLC, I -set out to check out the status, and track down a fix for the problem. -Luckily the issue had already been identified and fixed upstream, -providing everything needed. All I needed to do was to fetch the -Debian git repository, extract and trim the patch from upstream and -apply it to the Debian package for upload.

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The fixed library was uploaded yesterday evening. But that is not -enough to get it into Bullseye, as Debian is currently in package -freeze to prepare for a new next stable release. Only non-critical -packages with -autopkgtest -setup included, in other words able to validate automatically that -the package is working, are allowed to migrate automatically into the -next release at this stage. And the unmaintained libtorrent-rasterbar -lack such testing, and thus needed a manual override. I am happy to -report that such manual override was approved a few minutes ago, thus -increasing significantly the chance of VLC bittorrent streaming being -available out of the box also for Debian/Buster users. A bit too -close shave for my liking, as the Bullseye release is most likely just -a few days away, and this did feel like the package was saved by the -bell. I am so glad the warning email showed up in time for me to -handle the issue, and a big thanks go to the Debian Release team for -the quick feedback on -#debian-release -and their swift -unblocking.

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