Graphs of package installation
I subscribe to the debian policy mailing list which often has some really interesting posts. This is one that I thought people would like to see, it needs wider distribution. The reason is that it is a pretty clear set of graphs showing how a package gets installed on debian and the consequences of installer scripts. Go directly to the post by Manoj to read more about this. He is going to continue work on the graphs but in the state they are in now they are pretty useful to describe what happens.

N900 definitely increasing developer participation
While interesting articles from Reuters are one way to measure the hype around the new Maemo device, another way is to measure developer participation. There is some data to go on, though a lot is anecdotal. Firstly, I think we have seen increased traffic on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #maemo) with lots of new users of various backgrounds. That is an easy thing to do, to show up on IRC and ask some questions, but there are other signs of increased developer interest. Firstly, we are seeing lots of new apps come into garage, Maemo’s development platform. That is a positive thi

Interesting new article on package management
Benjamin Mako Hill has written a great deal on Ubuntu and Debian and has been around both projects for a while. I just discovered a new article written by him and Kyle Rankin called Package Management in Ubuntu Server. It appears to be part of a book although I can’t tell which one. At first it might seem pretty straight forward and something that many of the people who read Planet Maemo would know already, but once I got past the first page I saw that the authors went into some pretty good detail. The site also has some other interesting articles for Ubuntu and Debian admins and

Freesmartphone.org
It’s a normal day, I am being bombarded by twitter, facebook, the intertubes, et. al. and I come across a tweet from @debian mentioning the new packages available from the last few weeks. I look at what has come into debian for something interesting and there is a lot, like an ofono package. What catchse my eye is vala-terminal since vala is something I would like to learn more about. Clicking on the vala-link in the debian packages web interface shows another interesting li