Raul Benencia

Hello, and welcome. I’m Raúl Benencia and this is where I share my writings. I publish mostly technical musings related to the Debian project, Emacs, and free software in general. There’s also a Spanish version.

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Cervantes on good writing

...puesto que es mejor ser loado de los pocos sabios que burlado de
los muchos necios, no quiero sujetarme al confuso juicio del
desvanecido vulgo, a quien por la mayor parte toca leer semejantes
libros.

  — Don Quixote, Chapter XLVIII

Loosely translated by me, Cervantes says that “given that it’s best to be praised by a few wise than mocked by many fools, I don’t want to hold on to the confusing judgment of the faded layman, to whom, for the most part, it falls to read such books.”

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Emacs server, systemd and XAUTHORITY

Running Emacs as a systemd service should be relatively straightforward if using its Debian package, given that it comes with a systemd unit.

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Debian contributions — October 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another round of Debian contributions.

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Debian contributions — September 2021

Greetings from San Francisco, and welcome to another round of Debian contribution logs. Days are getting darker and shorter as summer breezes out unamusingly. Perhaps it was not my coldest winter, but it was chilly anyway.

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Debian contributions — April 2021

Greetings from a windy San Francisco. This blog is a bit quiet; let’s fix that. I will start making some noise by sharing my contributions to the Debian project.

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