Debian

Last weekend, DebCamp, which is the pre-event of the largest Debian conference worldwide - DebConf , started. This years DebConf will take place in Taiwan from July 29 th to August 05 th . After we already took part in this years MiniDebConf in Hamburg, we are now also going to visit Taiwan to...

The credativ PostgreSQL Competence Center has released a project roadmap for the PostgreSQL appliance Elephant Shed . Elephant Shed is a freely available PostgreSQL solution developed by credativ, which combines management, monitoring and administration into one system. The project roadmap for 2018...

The credativ PostgreSQL Appliance is now available for download as a completely free Open Source solution. The new appliance called' Elephant Shed PostgreSQL Appliance ' offers a tremendous ease of use for enterprise PostgreSQL operations. The long-term maintenance of the appliance will be handled...

This year's DebConf was held from 6th to 12th August at the Collège de Maisonneuve in Montréal. We supported the event by sending 5 colleagues of ours and providing silver sponsoring . As in last years DebConf17 provided an incredibly productive environment as well as many interesting and thoughtful talks. Among the highlights are the Lightning Talks which featured a talk about how Google will rename their internal Distribution "goobuntu" to "gLinux" and switch from Ubuntu to Debian as their upstream. In Will there be Debian in your next BMW car? we were presented BMW's workflows regarding the usage of free and open source software on their cars and what role Debian might play for them.

The big day is approaching, as DebConf 2017 opens its doors next weekend. This year DebConf takes place in Montreal, Canada. On July 31st, the big preopening event, DebCamp started, which goes over to the actual DebConf on August 6th. DebConf takes place a whole week and attracts hundreds of...

Again this year, credativ travels around the globe to participate in DebConf 2017. We are pleased to announce that we are once again supporting the event with a silver sponsorship this year. DebConf is the world's largest Debian conference with annually changing venues and will take place this year from 6th to 12th August in Montreal, Canada at the Collège de Maisonneuve .

Between May 31st 2017 and June 2nd 2017 we visited Open Source Summit Japan 2017 in Tokyo. Open Source Summit is a collaboration of LinuxCon, ContainerCon and CloudOpen, and thus the first of its kind, not only in East Asia. The Linux Foundation hosted the conference together with Automotive Linux...

In addition to FOSSAsia 2017 , which was in March, credativ is attending the next big Open Source event in east asia. Between May 31 st 2017 and June 2 nd 2017 we are going to visit Open Source Summit Japan 2017 in Tokyo in the Ariake Conference Center. Open Source Summit is the new name under...

Debian 9 “Stretch” , the latest version of Debian, is about to be released and after a full-freeze on February 5 th everyone is trying its best to fix the last bugs that are left. Upon entering the final phase of development in February the test version was “frozen” so that no more packages could...

We are pleased to now announce the Debian images for Microsoft Azure are complete and ready to access! The free Debian Linux distribution is now available as a supported Distribution in the Azure MarketPlace . In collaboration with Microsoft, credativ will also take care of the other Debian images...