Why I’m a Debian Developer Jonathan McDowell revdenoodles noodles www.earth.li/~noodles/ [email protected] . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 1 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 What is Debian? Linux distribution started in 1993 by Ian Murdock Volunteer run - no controlling corporate interest All Free software Strong commitment to the right technical solution Over 43000 packages included . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 2 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Things based on Debian Cumulus (network switch OS) LiMux (Munich) Raspbian Ubuntu . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 3 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Who am I? Linux user since 1995 Debian user since 1999 Debian developer since 2000 Worn many hats over the years: I Developer I Sysadmin I Network admin I Law student . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 4 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Why try Debian? Complete convert to packaging Had account on someone else’s Debian box Unimpressed by downtime during upgrade for Red Hat Debian’s impressive package list appealing - too many poor RPMs out there Community nature appealed; strong commitment to technically correct solutions and flexibility . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 5 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Black Cat Networks Small ISP (initially just web hosting) Entirely run on Debian Internal deployments done as Debian packages Extended Debian installer for automated RAID installs At one point responsible for registration of Debian domains . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 6 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Becoming a Debian Developer Strong belief in upstreaming Wanted to give back Black Cat had various external dependencies (e.g. Perl modules) Didn’t want to maintain local deltas when unnecessary Good business . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 7 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 3PAR (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) High end storage device Multiple nodes (x86 based) All running Debian (+ custom kernel + extra userspace) Free nature of Debian significant advantage Incredibly powerful from a development environment PoV . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 8 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Toby-Churchill Embedded ARM device (PXA255) Too small for Debian proper Only got involved because of my Debian experience Very different environment to 3PAR . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 9 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 DebConf Annual Debian conference Moves around the world; local teams produce bids to host future instances Fantastic way to meet lots of people active in the project Lots of useful information about what’s happening Helps build community cohesiveness Not just DDs . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 10 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Staying involved Maintaining fewer packages post-ISP Ended up single-handedly dealing with the keyring for a while Regular attendance of DebConf On-and-off active in New Maintainer process User both on co-located/virtual machines and work/home desktops . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 11 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12 Conclusion Learnt a lot from participation in Debian Lots of different areas to contribute to Go-to distribution whether for a desktop, server or embedded device Still a believer in Linux distributions (even for containers) DFSG great from a commercial point of view Maturing community continues to strive for correct technical solutions . BelFOSS,. Thursday. 28th. January,. 2016. 12 Jonathan McDowell Why I’m a Debian Developer / 12.