Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: GNU/Linux

Bug chasing

Some months ago I’ve set up a Debian 9 virtual machine on the VMWare server of the SME I work for. I planned to enable several services on it: an IMAP server to locally store the email archive of the administration office a shared calendar and address-book with the startd protocols CalDAV and CardDAV; while…

Ultrabook Katana

Reading the pages of DUCC-IT 2017 speakers I discovered this: Ultrabook Katana EN – SLIMBOOK Ultrabook, laptops, computers With the notable exception of the CPU (6th generation versus 7th) it’s almost like the Dell XPS. So now I’m officially torn and I don’t know what to choose: the “mainstream” company, so they will keep supporting…

Aside

windows-subsystem-for-linuxWindows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linuxbinary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10. Microsoft and Canonical partnered together to enable a genuine UbuntuTrusty Tahr image to be downloaded and extracted to the user’s local machine, and for the tools and utilities contained within that image to run natively on top of the WSL.

Some people may say that we’re at step four:

  1. First they ignore you,
  2. Then they laugh at you,
  3. Then they fight you,
  4. Then you win.

I’m not that sure. The once-dark-knight doesn’t look that dangerous these days. The evil overlord is now another.

Moments

There are moments that shall be recorded. This is one of them for me: Student Petru Gurita Project nameLiberty Eiffel meets Windows OrganizationGNU Project Mentors Paolo Redaelli Liberty Eiffel language available on windows environment. Sorgente: Organizations | Google Summer of Code