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Jonathan Carter
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Jonathan Carter's personal blog at jonathancarter.org covers systems and programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonathan Carter's posts as context on Debian packaging, especially his 2024 post on orphaning bcachefs-tools, and his 2012 Edubuntu and tablet posts. Commenters cite them, without praising them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-08-29
- /2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-plans-for-12-10/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-16
What Hacker News says?
For the Debian thing, I'm not sure on the specifics for bcachefs-progs (I'm going by what the author is reporting and some blog posts) but I think the problem with Debian is that they willfully ignore when upstream says "this is only compatible with this library version 2.1.x" and will downgrade or upgrade the library into not supported versions, to match the versions used in other programs already packaged. This ki…
Comment linking /2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/
on “Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"”Submitted Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian as a story · 177 points
HN discussionI think this is what I was recalling. https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-too...
Comment linking /2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/
on “Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?”Submitted CentOS Stream, or Debian? as a story · 91 points
HN discussionYou should come to the Debian conference in Cape Town next year :) https://jonathancarter.org/2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hos...
Comment linking /2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hosted-in-cape-town/
on “Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania”Submitted Debconf 2016 to be hosted in Cape Town as a story · 14 points
HN discussion> [bcachefs auhor's] side is that basically it doesn't make sense to package the tools for an experimental FS in an OS that's going to get very far behind If the bcachefs author's believe the tool is too unstable for Debian stable and Debian developer's believe bcachefs is too unstable for Debian stable [1], it sounds as if they agree. [1] https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-too...
Comment linking /2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/
on “Migrating Away from Bcachefs”Submitted Orphaning Bcachefs Tools in Debian as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe tablet they're targeting (re: http://jonathancarter.org/2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-pl... ) is the ZaTab. From their site ( http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html ): "The only tablet on the market that doesn't violate the GPL! Yay! (You get the source code with the machine, not months later, if at all.)" "Some manufacturers consider "root" to be a four-letter-word. We don't. The ZaTab is an open device. The boo…
Comment linking /2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-plans-for-12-10/
on “Bug 1,000,000”Submitted Orphaning Bcachefs-Tools in Debian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey're not going up against the iPad directly, instead they're making a top-to-bottom system that makes more sense for schools than iPads do. http://jonathancarter.org/2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-pl...
Comment linking /2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-plans-for-12-10/
on “Bug 1,000,000”Submitted LLXC: My little python3-lxc based project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMore context: https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-too...
Comment linking /2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/
on “Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools”Submitted Phone Upgraded to Debian 12 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random Bits from FOSDEM 2020 – Jonathan Carter as a story · 2 points
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