Last week I attended the MiniDebConfHamburg. I worked on new releases of dracut and rinse. Dracut is an initramfs-tools replacement which now supports early microcode loading. Rinse is a tool similar to debootstrap for rpm distributions, which now can create Fedora 28 environments aka chroots.

On Sunday I gave a lightning talk video about how to try out dracut on your computer without removing initramfs-tools. In Debian, we still did not switched the default to dracut, and I like to see more feedback if dracut works in your environment. Later I did a presentation on the FAI.me build service (video, slides). Many thanks to Juri, who implemented a switch on the FAI.me web page for changing between a basic and an advanced mode for the installation images. I've also worked on installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) using FAI, which was quite simple, because changing the release name from xenial to bionic was most of the work. Yesterday I've added some language support for Ubuntu into FAI, so I hope to release the next version soon.

MiniDebConfHamburg was very nice, a nice location so I hope there will be more MiniDebConfs in Hamburg in the future.