IndiaFOSS 2.0[1], the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July. Previously named IndiaOS, the first edition that ran in January 2020 was an experiment that turned out to …
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A few days ago, I had a layover in Dubai while returning from a fun DebConf in Kosovo. The layover was a bit longer than 24 hours. I was joined by my friend Abraham Raji, who had to go to Kochi, and had a layover of around 22 hours. Since my layover was longer than 24 hours, I n…
I just came out of what has been one of the most wonderful experiences of my life– DebConf in Kosovo. DebConf is the annual conference of Debian contributors from all around the world. This was my first time attending a DebConf ever, which presented a great opportunity for me to…
Yesterday I went to Prizren stone bridge, which is in Prizren, Kosovo. Prizren is often referred to as the cultural capital of Kosovo. I am staying at the venue of DebConf 22 from where it is walkable distance, around 1.5 km. Prizren Stone bridge. I was going with my friends who…
At work, my colleagues and I stumbled upon a hair-pulling networking issue involving a specific problem when connecting to a Kafka cluster. We use the franz-go library in our Golang applications to interact with an external Kafka cluster. These Go apps are hosted inside a Nomad …
DebConf is the annual conference of the Debian community. This year’s DebConf was held in Kosovo, a European country from the Balkans. DebConf22 logo Debian sponsored me for the conference. Indian attendees needed a visa to enter Kosovo, which got complicated due to Kosovo not h…
I landed in Tirana, Albania today, which is a country in the balkans region of the Europe. My first impressions are: Tirana is neat and clean city with beautiful landscapes surrounding it. Beautiful views at the Tirana airport just after landing. Tirana International Airport. Ta…
GNU/Linux operating systems (if you heard about Linux operating systems, I am talking about the same. Read Why GNU/Linux if you are curious about the details.) have a reputation of being hard to use for non-techies. Some of the popular examples of GNU/Linux distributions are: Ub…
Debian as an operating system Debian desktop. Credits: Juliette Taka. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0. Source: Debian wiki. Debian GNU/Linux is a Free Software (software which respects user’s freedom to run, study, modify, share and share the modified versions) operating system. Debian is…
mirror.albony.xyz Currently mirroring 11 repositories. (archlinux, endeavouros, linuxmint, artixlinux, cachylinux, fdroid, manjaro, armbian, termux, blackarch and chaotic-aur) This mirror has 1Gbits/s bandwidth and it’s hosted in Nagpur, India. I get more than 14TB in traffic an…
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