Tanguy Ortolo

J'organise deux signing parties en France :

• samedi 17 novembre à 12:15 aux JDLL à Lyon ;
• dimanche 25 novembre à 11:45 à la Mini-DebConf à Paris.

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I am organizing two signing parties in France:

• Saturday, November 17th at 12:15 at the JDLL in Lyon;
• Sunday, November 25th at 11:45 at the Mini-DebConf in Paris.

Read more Upcoming signing parties in France

Vous avez peut-être entendu parler de la mini-DebConf à venir. Une mini-DebConf, c'est un rassemblement de debianistes avec des conférences et des ateliers. Et donc, il va y en avoir une à Paris, le week-end des 24 et 25 novembre.

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Si cela peut servir à quelqu'un, voici une petite liste d'extensions Firefox que je trouve utiles. Certaines sont très connues, d'autres moins…

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For those interested, here is a way to install Debian and boot it with UEFI if you have an UEFI motherboard. Using UEFI with Debian requires expert knowledge so if you do not feel up to it, keep your BIOS system.

1  Background

UEFI is a specification for motherboard's firmwares which is replacing the old BIOS. For now, UEFI motherboards still include a BIOS compatibility layer.

The UEFI boot process is quite different from the BIOS one. It involves one specific piece of the motherboard's firmware, the UEFI Boot Manager, which is able to load boot loaders from FAT file systems on specially-typed partitions. It can offer a boot menu (boot: Debian from HDD, Windows from HDD, USB stick, DVD?), which can be configured from a running operating system.

So, basically, to boot a system with UEFI, you need two things:

• to install an UEFI boot loader on a FAT-formated EFI System Partition;
• to tell the UEFI Boot Manager to create an entry for that boot loader.

Read more Debian: switch to UEFI boot