X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/f6db65e98bd1ab694356eb52db78b921d686c6b1..2377a19a2fcd67c09830cbb4a2a81cfd5a6f00d6:/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss b/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss index 267d424b2d..b0ee5eb80b 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss @@ -6,6 +6,30 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html + Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100 + <p>I was happy to discover a few days ago that the +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> +project also this year received a Christmas present from Another +Agency in Trondheim. NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account +December 24th. I want to express our thanks for this very welcome +present. As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on +funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer +gatherings, this donation was most welcome. One developer gathering +cost around NOK 15&nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the +development pace we want. Thus, I hope their example this year is +followed by many others. :)</p> + +<p>The public list of donors can be found on +<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">the +donation page</a> for the project, which also contain instructions if +you want to donate to the project.</p> + + + How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html @@ -66,9 +90,9 @@ Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet. The package is now maintained by a <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team. We -own a huge thank you to all these team members. :) +owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :) But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in -Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and a outdated client from +Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from backports). The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking it from entering testing. To try to help the team and improve the situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug @@ -76,11 +100,11 @@ reports. I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt Corallo in a <a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the -Debian package. </p> +Debian package.</p> <p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to -improve the package. It now contain fixes for the RC issues (not from +improve the package. It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion setup. As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created @@ -101,7 +125,7 @@ Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough. Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to pay with bitcoin is still not very good. The bitcoin: URI is a step in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in -use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire it up to do a +use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a quick transaction. I believe there are other clients available, but have not tested them.</p> @@ -111,8 +135,8 @@ with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin. I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two years ago, as can be <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen -on the blockexploer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your -donation. The blockexploer service demonstrate quite well that +on the blockexplorer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your +donation. The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the number of users have gone up since then. If you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to