It's not just your email, you know...
My last several posts here have related in some way to the CSAIL mail system. While that's a big part of what I work on, it's definitely not everything. One of my other big projects is the development and maintenence of CSAIL Debian, our custom variant of Debian GNU/Linux. Even with recent delays, Debian is getting ready to release a new version (4.0, codenamed "etch", after the "etch-a-sketch" character from Toy Story) somewhere around the end of this year. Once that happens, we need to start preparing to upgrade all the CSAIL Debian machines in the lab. There are several hundred of them, all in various different states. One of the unique things about CSAIL is that computer owners here get root access on their machines, and we still support them. Most places give you a choice between root access and support, if they even give you the choice of root access at all.
In preparation for the upgrade, I first plan on upgrading to cfengine2, and that's the primary focus of my CSAIL Debian efforts right now. There's other random stuff, including kernel updates to support some very new hardware, worrying about some difficult to resolve security problems, and some work for Debian itself, mainly in my role as a security officer.
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