On June 30, Ring was officially accepted in Debian testing, the development repositories for the next Debian release: Stretch.
That is great news for Ring users!
It is now possible to install Ring from your distribution’s repositories without having to add the custom ring.cx repositories.
Ring at Debconf16 and availability in Debian and Ubuntu repositories
The 17th edition of the annual Debian Developers conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa.
Members of the Ring development team were on site in order to present the project and work on Ring’s integration in official Debian repositories.
Ring in Debian and Ubuntu Repositories
If you are a Debian Testing user, you may now install Ring with the following command:
– “apt-get install ring”
The arrival of Ring in Debian repositories also means that it will be available in Ubuntu.
As of July 2, Ring was integrated in the Ubuntu 16.10.
Some Debian contributors have already started testing Ring on GNU Debian/kFreeBsd. We expect a package to be available in the near future.
A request and a patch was sent by a Debian user that would allow to build Ring on Debian Jessie. If all goes well, Ring might make it to jessie-backports soon.
Presentation of Ring at Debconf16
Alexandre Viau and Simon Désaulniers made a presentation about the technology that allows for making calls in a decentralized manner in Ring. The talk also incluses a quick preview of how Ethereum will be used as a decentralized username registrar.
A recording of the talk is available on the debian-meetings archives:
– http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/Decentralized_communications_with_Ring.webm
OpenDHT in Debian experimental
OpenDHT was developed for Ring but the project remains independent and could be used for other applications. The libopendht package made it to Debian experimental during DebConf.
Up and coming iterations of the package will include the dhtnote program, which allows to run an OpenDHT node.
This program will allow the community to host OpenDHT nodes without having to run dring, the Ring daemon, which is heavier in dependencies than dhtnode.
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