Debian
Debian
The Debian project is a gathering of more than a thousand developers around the world working together on a free (as in Free Software) operating system, called Debian GNU/Linux (ports based on non-Linux kernels are in preparation). A shared passion for high levels of quality ensures the resulting system is greatly renowned for its design and stability.
Debian contains a huge array of software (more than 15,000 packages), all integrated in a consistent and reliable system working the same way across a large spectrum of hardware architectures.
My Debian services
I propose a wide range of Debian-related services; they can be roughly split into two main categories:
- Administration: systems administration, maintenance, support, deployment, migration (whether across operating systems or across servers), setting up services, tuning and configuring them to your exact needs, etc.
- Development: you may need adapting your Debian system to particular needs, or developing specific software for it; or you may want to integrate existing software within the Debian system. In both cases, my in-depth experience of the system will provide efficient results.
My role in the project
I'm an official developer of the Debian project, and have been since 2001. My work inside Debian is mostly about maintaining the Gforge packages, but I'm also responsible for a few others, including some plug-in packages for the Kino video editor. Additionnally, I'm an administrator on Alioth, the Gforge instance dedicated to Debian and related projects, and I lend a hand on various tasks when the need arises.
That doesn't mean all the packages I prepare are part of the Debian distribution. Some are "backports" to the stable distribution, some are test packages for unstable software, and some may well not enter the distribution at all (that includes packages that clients wish to keep private). Some of these unofficial packages are available on my APT repository — beware, they may not be fully tested yet.