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Writing about Linux, packaging, development, and systems engineering.

  • Jul 5, 2026

    Comparing Distribution Security Coverage

  • May 10, 2026

    dist-git as a Registry

  • Apr 28, 2026

    Fedora Is Not a Product

  • Apr 17, 2026

    Kernel packaging

  • Apr 10, 2026

    Building a Robust Code Signing Infrastructure with AWS KMS

  • Mar 9, 2026

    Comments are hard

  • Mar 2, 2026

    Memory Efficiency With Arena Allocators

  • Mar 1, 2026

    Improving Memory Compaction with Dedicated Malloc Arenas

  • Feb 28, 2026

    Memory Fragmentation in gnome-software Search Provider

  • Feb 7, 2026

    Complex Packaging Workflow

  • Feb 7, 2026

    How to select a distribution

  • Feb 7, 2026

    How to choose a distribution: Fedora

  • Feb 1, 2026

    Simplify your CI

  • Jan 17, 2026

    Semantic Versions on shared libraries

  • Jan 17, 2026

    Dependency generation

  • Jan 15, 2026

    UncLe D. wants YOU! ... to use versioned symbols

  • Oct 31, 2025

    Branching within rpm git repos

  • Oct 25, 2025

    What is a distribution?

  • Oct 3, 2025

    Why Fedora Flatpaks?

  • Sep 28, 2025

    Making effective use of the stable release model

  • Sep 28, 2025

    Definitions and Context

  • Jul 31, 2023

    Semantic Releases (Part 2): Collaboration Requires Compromise

  • Jul 28, 2023

    Semantic Releases (Part 1): An Example Process

  • Jul 4, 2023

    If you don't understand its purpose, you can't improve the process

  • Jun 26, 2023

    In favor of CentOS Stream

  • Dec 11, 2022

    What does stable mean?

Writing about Linux, packaging, development, and systems engineering