During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…
I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything worthy of going […]
Over on Planet Debian, Christian Perrier looked back at the number of Debian bugs submitted over the years.
The variation is not quite large enough to make any serious judgements about the impact of Ubuntu, but the spike in 2004 has a certain whiff of intrigue about it. Perhaps that’s just me.
Of course, I soon […]
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