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Debian GNU/Linux/meta

Posted on 2004-01-19 by ivo :: /meta :: link

Debian GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution. Worldwide, about one thousand people work together to make a high-quality free operating system. Read more about Debian.

Unofficial Debian packages

My own apt-get-able repository of unofficial Debian packages. Read more about its contents, and how to use it.

Planet Debian

The /debian tree of my weblog is part of Planet Debian, a collection of the weblogs of several Debian developers.

My work in Debian

I am responsible for the quality of several packages in Debian. To see which packages they are, have a look at the list of packages and related info.

To see the state these packages are in, have a look at the outstanding bugreports against my packages.

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