Debian GNU/Linux Work

Debian is the biggest and most easily upgraded Linux distribution. It is a free work of a collection of volunteers (known as Debian Developers) via the Internet. The downside is that that there are long delays between releases and the install process could use some work, but this is more than made up for by the facts that upgrades are trivial, development versions are as stable as other Distribution's released versions, and the number and degree of integration of the packages. (Once a package is installed/upgraded, it will be configured, will work, and will play nice with the other packages.)

I became a Debian Developer in June 1996 (possibly earlier). In December 1998 and early 1999 I merged in the UltraSparc support from UltraPenguin and prepared the Sparc CDs for the Debian 2.1 release. I then became busy with work and school, and the Sparc work is now being done by others. I still maintain a few packages and hope to resume work on alternate platforms when I find time.

The Debian packages that I currently maintain are:

amaya

A WYSIWYG web editor that came out of structured document editing research at INRIA.

oneko

A screen hack. Cat runs around on the root window.

x-symbol

A nice [X]Emacs mode for editing equation-laden TeX documents. (Shows real symbols, subscripts and superscripts.)

xmix

A simple X-based mixer program