Fell in love with Debian Lenny

Debian 5.0 (Lenny) has been released. I've been running it for about one month (installed from a release candidate iso) and I must admit I'm absolutely delighted by it. Being an Ubuntu user before I already got used to apt-get, synaptic and other goodies. Where Lenny really shines (compared to Ubuntu) is:

• it's rock stable; I haven't had a single stability issue so far
• it's well tested and you can really feel it. I haven't experienced any stupid / trivial / obvious bugs that  should have been detected and fixed (as it was often a case for Ubuntu or openSuse). It just feels the release was not rushed as it often happens to commercial distros.
• it's not bloated (number of services is reduced to the minimum, no desktop indexing like Beagle or Tracker is installed by default etc.)
  
• no experimental or unfinished features (e.g. no PulseAudio...)

All in all, Lenny seems to be a really good and solid release. Long live, Debian project!

A bit of self-promotion & job status update

I've just received a nice declaration from my university. It states that I've graduated Computer Science within 5% of best students (in 2008) :). This is very refreshing given my recent job changes (to remind you: Astaro closed its R&D office in Poland) and it was also a nice and unexpected surprise!

When it comes to job changes, starting from March 2nd I'll be working for my former company (Alcatel-Lucent) again.