After two years of development, Debian 8.0 (code-named “Jessie”) has finally been officially released.
The most obvious changes will of course be the updated stable packages, but there is a lot more to look at as well.
Debian 8.0 replaces SysV with systemd as the default init system. This change was seen by many as a very controversial move and was the subject of a quite a few heated debates as well as the creation of a fork.
I came across a useful program called rmlint, a very fast GPLv3 licensed non-interactive tool which detects and removes duplicates and other lint from your filesystem, last week and finally had a moment to give it a try.
My initial impressions are quite good. It did everything that it said it could do and quickly freed up a few gigabytes of space in my various miscellaneous storage directories within my /home folder (everyone has at least one of those, right?).
In my opinion the best way to get free and open source Android software is through the F-Droid application repository. However, while not horrible by any means F-Droid’s website isn’t always the easiest thing to browse through when you are looking to discover software to use.
Fossdroid, a new project created by created by Daniele Simonin, aims to alleviate this issue by interfacing with F-Droid and displaying the available software in a clean and user-friendly layout. Fossdroid also includes a very useful software popularity list in each category as well.
I highly recommend checking it out if you prefer using FLOSS applications on your Android devices.