Archives for March 2008
Moving x264
For people using my overlay, I just want to pass on a warning about the package move from media-libs/x264-svn to media-libs/x264. The x264 development repository had been moved to git, so the -svn name is no longer appropriate. After emerging x264, you can add media-libs/x264-svn-20089999 (for example) to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided for other packages depending on that.
25 Mar 08 at 01:22 | overlay, x264 | Comments: 11
Doesn’t feel like spring
image by Nadya Peek
Three days ago spring started, in this part of the world. The weather here doesn’t seem to have noticed, treating us with a very rare White Easter. Also, I’ve been feeling pretty crappy the last few days, I hope I’m not getting the flu that’s been going around. At the same time […]
23 Mar 08 at 14:54 | Personal | Comments: 0
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Know your distro: Gentoo features
image by David Barrie
Gentoo has a number of features you should familiarize yourself with, if you want to use and administer it successfully. In today’s part of this series, I am not going to explain everything, but I’m sending you back to the resources we covered yesterday. (I’m mean like that.)
The first place is taken […]
20 Mar 08 at 02:24 | documentation, eselect, Gentoo | Comments: 1
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Know your distro: Gentoo documentation sources
image by worak
Of course the first step to being a successful Gentoo user should be to get to know the distro you’re using. This may seem self-evident, but the opposite human tendencies of curiosity and laziness may battle over this. You may dive into the handbook just enough to get the operating system installed and […]
19 Mar 08 at 01:22 | documentation, Gentoo, google | Comments: 5
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How to be a Successful Gentoo User
image by James Gordon
This week I want to write a series of blog posts on “How to be a Successful Gentoo User.” I regularly spend time in #gentoo, our IRC support channel, as well as on the forums. Having been a Gentoo user myself for over 5 years now, maintaining a public overlay for the […]
18 Mar 08 at 00:04 | Gentoo, howto, tips | Comments: 7
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Qassia
I have registered for the Qassia beta program. It’s a place to share knowledge which will be credited (instead of edited) by the community. Each bit of “intel” that you add, will also backlink to your website. And the more credit you get, the higher you will rank in the Qassia web directory. So if […]
18 Mar 08 at 00:02 | qassia, web | Comments: 2
More Gentoo pre-beta news
As a follow-up on my “While waiting for the next Gentoo release” post, there is some more news. While elsewhere an impatient Gentoo user has released his own unofficial LiveCD for i686, one of the Gentoo/MIPS devs has released experimental 2008.0-beta1 stages for Cobalt and SGI MIPS hardware. Our RelEng team is still working hard […]
17 Mar 08 at 22:25 | Gentoo, livecd | Comments: 1
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Nokia and Open Source
Via LWN.net and flors, Ari Jaaksi’s keynote on Nokia’s vision for the role of open source: “We participate in many open source activities, such as Gnome, Debian, Linux, Mozilla and WebKit browsers and so forth. We plan to increase our involvement there. We believe open source is a key strategy to create exciting devices and […]
14 Mar 08 at 14:47 | open source, qt, webkit | Comments: 1
Firefox 3’s improved memory usage
Pavlov.net has an interesting write-up on Firefox 3’s improved memory usage. Looks like I should start testing that beta!
12 Mar 08 at 15:34 | browser, firefox | Comments: 2
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While waiting for the next Gentoo release…
I know some people are desperately waiting for the 2008.0 release, in order to have an up-to-date LiveCD and fresh stages to install Gentoo with. The beta release was originally planned for last week, but has suffered a little delay (but I can assure you that our Release Engineering team is working hard to get […]
10 Mar 08 at 20:41 | Gentoo, livecd, systemrescuecd | Comments: 4
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Qt-WebKit browser
Qt 4.4, of which a beta was just released, has the exiting new webkit module (the rendering engine behind Safari, based on KDE’s KHTML). As a demo, one of the developers has made a browser. This could grow into a very interesting project, so I’ll certainly be following it!
6 Mar 08 at 20:39 | browser, qt4 | Comments: 1
Feeds moved
I’ve updated the feed locations to use feeds.liveforge.org, which forwards to FeedBurner. This way, visitors who open a feed in their browser will get a nicely formatted page, while it gives me the opportunity to better track subscriptions. DNS propagation may take up to 24 hours, so if it doesn’t work now, try tomorrow.
6 Mar 08 at 15:50 | dns, feedburner, feeds | Comments: 0
FFmpeg svn breakage
For people using my overlay (berkano overlay, available in layman), I just want to repeat the warning Diego gave that FFmpeg has changed the layout of its headers. This will break most packages that depend on FFmpeg, so you may want to wait with updating FFmpeg from subversion, until those packages have had time to […]
4 Mar 08 at 12:49 | ffmpeg, Gentoo, overlay | Comments: 0
Site updates
Over the next days (and probably weeks) I will gradually be adding stuff to this site, especially the sidebar, as well as tweaking the stylesheet. If things look out of whack, try reloading the page (with F5 or Ctrl-R for example).
3 Mar 08 at 23:07 | site | Comments: 0
