Technology, Open Source and Shiny Things

The first time that I used Linux was mid 2006. I had heard about Linux from a couple of people but never really done much investigating myself. One day I was listening to the Maccast, one of the few podcasts out at the time, and the host had some news about the bootcamp beta. Someone had triple booted a mac with OS X, Windows and this thing called Ubuntu.

Well this got my attention I started googlingaround for this ubuntu thing and was really interested. Once I installed it I fell in love. I started learning everything that I could about Linux. Tried different distros and window managers. I tried KDE 3 but it seemed too much like windows and I could spend days configuring the thing. So I stuck with Gnome for two years.

Almost a year ago KDE 4 came out and it was a bit rough, with good reason, anyone who used it would notice the massive changes and give it some time. Well I have been using the 4.2 beta for a few months now and just upgraded to the final release. It is now my desktop of choice and moreover I see so much potential for it going forward. Truly I am a Konvert.

So I have been looking around at starting to package with Ubuntu. I have been going back and forth as to whether to try to submit packages to Ubuntu directly or setup my own repository. As the packages will likely be security related I am leaning towards submitting to Ubuntu. I don’t know why the metasploit packages are not in Ubuntu. Part of me says that it is lack of interest and they just need someone to step up and make the packages and part of me says it may be for political/legal reasons. I can’t even find deb packages for most of the stuff or an external repository. I haven’t been able to contact anyone on IRC either.

So I have been reading up on packaging. It seems like there are like 8 different ways of making packages. I guess I’m just gonna have to try them all.