System Administration

Not too long ago I kicked off my Debian PPA. While building packages is a rather fixed problem in my case, I haven't published them on my own in quite some time. Back in the day, I used to rely on reprepro, but there were couple of shortcomings

Writing in the previous post in the series about the way I like my interactive shell to be configured, I did touch on the context aspect briefly: Well, OK, maybe the other nicety is using a right-hand prompt as well for some stuff (mainly context info, like venv etc.) I

On May 13, Hell froze over, and Oracle released Solaris 11.4.81 CBE. I just want to point out that this really doesn't make Oracle any less shitty—this will never change, but now they're still shitty but with a fresh Solaris 11 control. Well,

We are not enemies either. These days I'm mostly indifferent, that's all. I used to oppose K8S with every inch of my body. Not anymore, at least. Frankly, it's not K8S that bothers me—it's everything that comes along and around it.

I've been meaning to start this (what I hope will eventually become) series for a very long time. There's a lot I'd like to cover, and it was daunting to figure out how to actually get going. I think this quick introduction is going

Here's what I wrote, almost 9y ago: After seven years of maintaining PPA with custom packages for Debian, I now decided to finally drop and close it. I no longer use Debian as my main Linux distribution hence I have no need nor interest in providing any builds