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Gentoo Rules
2008-08-12 12:27:00 I’ve done a lot of Linux distro hopping lately and have been pleased with some (like PCLOS) and disappointed in others (Fedora 9). I decided to take the leap to Gentoo, which is, along with Slackware, widely considered one of the more “difficult” distros to use. I chose Gentoo because of its oft’ heralded configuration and ...ShareThis
By: tasthius.com
Universal Tracker
2008-06-02 10:08:00 Hi AllMy friend started a new project for the Android platform: the universal tracker called "Unit".Cited his definition:Unit is a mobile application for tracking lists of owned, loaned and borrowed assets (such as books, CDs, DVDs or board games) using Android mobile platform.Here's a demo screenshot:He's currently looking for help developing the application, so if you like this, join him!!Thanks :-)
Firefox3 RC1
2008-05-20 19:52:00 I cannot believe its happening to me.I've updated to RC1 as expected by suggested update. Now the thing crashes on me almost constantly!!! Even in Gmail!Anyone knows whats going on?Beta 5 was so solid compared to RC....
Running tests on Windows.
2008-05-04 15:47:00 Hi allI need a free tool for testing a GUI application. Something in lines with Mercury's WinRunner.Does anyone knows something like that?Thanks
Oh Gentoo, what had become of thee?
2008-04-23 15:25:00 Dear friendsYesterday was an important day for me. I stumbled into a very important issue, albeit small, which made me to come to the following decision: I am leaving Gentoo as a desktop platform.It does not come as an easy decision. I've been using Gentoo and quasi-actively participating in the community for about 5 years. I have it installed currently on 3 out of 4 computers I have (the last one being mac mini, which I keep with Mac OS X). So why would I take this decision?It all began with a one simple thing. You may have read my previous posts on various WINE installations, and I use some Windows applications with WINE. But recently Internet Explorer stopped working. I've tried to reinstall it (and it is easy in Gentoo, just as in any other Linux distribution with decent package manager), but to no avail.Next step was slightly more complicated, but still quite simple: I've used VMWare to install complete Window XP environment. It worked fine for awhile, until I couldn't use ...
Linux on the desktop now!
2008-04-21 10:32:00 Hello allI just read an article, where Novell's CEO says that Linux will not be on the consumer desktop in at least for another 3 years. And that made me think.We, users of Linux and open source software, would be happy to see everyone using Linux. We use it every day ourselves. And we're happy with it. Dell is installing Ubuntu Linux on various models, and people are buying them, preferring this to installing it by themselves. IBM, Sun and other vendors provide Linux systems just as they do Windows-based ones. Isn't this a nice trend that shows readiness of an operating system and its acceptance by vendors?With this trend, how can it be that Linux on the desktop will take another 3-4 years? And what does it mean exactly? Linux desktop share currently stands about 3-4% of total desktop installations. Another 3-4% goes to Apple Mac OS X installations, another similar share to other alternative operating systems (such as Free/Net/OpenBSD, BeOs, Haiku, OpenSolaris, etc).But Windows ...
Building a development environment for Xbow Motes on Gentoo
2008-03-04 06:13:00 http://www.acet.reading.ac.uk/~-mjeg/blog.php?p=1165509636 The quick start installer from Xbow is for Windows. I wanted to configure my Gentoo Linux box as a development environment for writing Mica applications. From looking at the Cygwin environment set up by the Windows installer I knew I needed the tinyos (tos) development packages and the nesC compiler. On Gentoo all tos stuff is masked as unstable so you can’t just emerge what you need. This is what I did to build the environment: root@covent src # emerge sys-devel/crossdev root@covent src # echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/loca-l/portage" >> /etc/make.conf root@covent src # mkdir /usr/local/portage root@covent src # crossdev --target avr The final tool is the program to upload applications to the mote. This is called uisp, unfortunately the default version in Gentoo (when I was doing this ‘uisp-20050207-r1?) does not understand how to correctly talk to the serial programming board we have (mib510). From...
By: weiwei's study
What are the top 3 issues facing Gentoo?
2008-02-20 02:18:00 I ran a quick, informal poll on the internal Gentoo developers' list last week, and tonight I began analyzing the results. 50 developers responded to my 9-question survey, and I'm going to post the results of 1 question at a time.
By: Server Tales
Learning Gentoo
2008-02-16 20:56:00 This week I have installed Gentoo, I made it using the Live CD once there I have used the text interface to install it, with the expert option, and using Networkless, so it is more or less like installing the Debian base system. Once that installed (the instructions were easy to follow), I installed xorg emerge xorg-x11 Follow this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xo-rg-config.xml and fluxbox emerge fluxbox Follow this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fl-uxbox After that I wanted to install firefox, so I had some problems, I had to resync my portage packages using: emerge --sync Then follow this to install firefox Install Firefox on Gentoo As you can see everything is well documented on Gentoo, I think it is really difficult to add something to such well documented distro, I have to say it is not easy to work with it, but I like it, it optimizes the hardware to limits I had not seen before, using uptime I could have seen that uses less CPU resources than my Light Debian with Fluxbox I think...
Learning Gentoo
2008-02-16 20:56:00 This week I have installed Gentoo, I made it using the Live CD once there I have used the text interface to install it, with the expert option, and using Networkless, so it is more or less like installing the Debian base system. Once that installed (the instructions were easy to follow), I installed xorg emerge xorg-x11 Follow this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xo-rg-config.xml and fluxbox emerge fluxbox Follow this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fl-uxbox After that I wanted to install firefox, so I had some problems, I had to resync my portage packages using: emerge --sync Then follow this to install firefox Install Firefox on Gentoo As you can see everything is well documented on Gentoo, I think it is really difficult to add something to such well documented distro, I have to say it is not easy to work with it, but I like it, it optimizes the hardware to limits I had not seen before, using uptime I could have seen that uses less CPU resources than my Light Debian with Fluxbox I think...
zRaven in Linux review
2008-02-09 19:00:00 Dear allI've been contacted by the Zoundry, developers of Zoundry Writer and got notified that they've got zRaven into beta, so I might try it and run in Linux. Here's the quote:Please note that Zoundry Blog Writer has finally be deprecated and replaced with a new version called Raven.We're really striving to make it the best product we can, so we'd love it if anyone interested could give it a try and give us some feedback. Raven just went into public Beta testing this week.We haven't tried getting Raven to work under Linux, so obviously your mileage may vary. However, I do think we have done a much better job with the UI this time around. :) Let us know what you think.This is very cool to be contacted by them, so here we go. I've decided to play around with a new release. But I have to give the following notion: I've tryed zRaven before. When I performed a research about different blog editors for Linux, I've even tested some of them in Windows first, using VMWare image. ...
Did Gentoo just die?
2008-01-25 00:00:00 While no official body has yet to confirm or spread news about it, Daniel Robbins, creator of Gentoo Linux, confirmed that the Gentoo Foundation’s charter has been revoked for the next several weeks. In layman’s terms, as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists. Apparently this happened because the people who are supposed to be in charge of keeping this alive have mostly resigned or are MIA. Aside from neglected online duties like publishing newletters, updating the site, etc, they didn’t file routine paperwork with the proper authorities, which puts the legal status of the Gentoo foundation in jeopardy. No one has explained why to the community, or said much of anything until Daniel stepped forward. What will happen to Gentoo now? Referring to the foundation, Daniel is offering to return to his post as president of the foundation (as posted on his blog) so things at the enterprise end will remain stable. On the distro end, even with the ...
By: Atma Xplorer
Pushing Gentoo forward
2008-01-23 08:53:00 Hi allBeing part of a Gentoo community (and I am after all an ex-User Representative. The "ex" part in it is because the project is debunk and no longer exists), it hurts me to see my favorite Linux distribution getting to the point of no return. Like, the Tipping Point in reverse: after this point nothing can be done to stop its destruction.I'm not pessimistic person in general. I'm just an outside (and a little inside) observer, who wishes all the best but can't really affect anything. I just read Brian Proffit's support call for Daniel Robbins' offer to step as the leader of Gentoo's legal affairs again. I am gladly joining the call, because I think Gentoo is in position where it needs leadership.Gentoo was founded by Daniel, who left it in 2005 for personal reasons. This act may be seen as treason by some, or a happy occasion by others. It doesn't matter though, because for awhile Gentoo was a thriving community and had an inertia of speeding mass to move it forward. But ...
Did Gentoo just die?
2008-01-21 00:00:00 While no official body has yet to confirm or spread news about it, Daniel Robbins, creator of Gentoo Linux, confirmed that the Gentoo Foundation’s charter has been revoked for the next several weeks. In layman’s terms, as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists. Apparently this happened because the people who are supposed to be in charge of keeping this alive have mostly resigned or are MIA. Aside from neglected online duties like publishing newletters, updating the site, etc, they didn’t file routine paperwork with the proper authorities, which puts the legal status of the Gentoo foundation in jeopardy. No one has explained why to the community, or said much of anything until Daniel stepped forward. What will happen to Gentoo now? Referring to the foundation, Daniel is offering to return to his post as president of the foundation (as posted on his blog) so things at the enterprise end will remain stable. On the distro end, even with the ...
By: Atma Xplorer
MacBook Air: not impressed
2008-01-16 08:26:00 Well, now everyone already knows about the Mac Book Air. I've seen the pictures, and to tell you to truth - I'm not impressed.Yes, its thin. Probably light. But it looks breakable. It's expensive. It has slow hard drive.And design? I'm not sure yet I like it either.So, we'll have to wait and see. I thought I could get a new laptop and waited until January. Now I think I lost some time.
Did Gentoo just die?
2008-01-15 00:00:00 While no official body has yet to confirm or spread news about it, Daniel Robbins, creator of Gentoo Linux, confirmed that the Gentoo Foundation’s charter has been revoked for the next several weeks. In layman’s terms, as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists. Apparently this happened because the people who are supposed to be in charge of keeping this alive have mostly resigned or are MIA. Aside from neglected online duties like publishing newletters, updating the site, etc, they didn’t file routine paperwork with the proper authorities, which puts the legal status of the Gentoo foundation in jeopardy. No one has explained why to the community, or said much of anything until Daniel stepped forward. What will happen to Gentoo now? Referring to the foundation, Daniel is offering to return to his post as president of the foundation (as posted on his blog) so things at the enterprise end will remain stable. On the distro end, even with the ...
By: Atma Xplorer
Most Hated Company
2008-01-08 22:15:00 I just read a post by Mike Elgan, in which he argues that Asus is the most hated company in the computer business right now. And all this just because they made it first to market very cheap laptop with Linux on it (that being Asus eee701 PC).So here's the breakdown of reasons why it is most hated (mmm, right ):1. Apple, Dell and HP hate Asus. That's because they've out a subnotebook earlier than an expected (and, in my opinion, while really possible, still highly speculative) Apple subnotebook, which supposedly will be announced on MacWorld in a week, and will probably cost much more than $400.2. Microsoft hates Asus. That's because there's no version of Microsoft Windows is installed in Asus laptop. It's a Xandros Linux (with some Asus' tweaks). And its light and great!3. Intel is very happy with Asus Because Asus used their chips in the laptop.But somehow, I think that industry is just fine with Asus on all this. There are few reasons for that:1. Asus (or, Asustek) is t...
Is OLPC team crossing the lines?
2008-01-06 14:24:00 And if they would've, what would those lines be?Hello dear reader. I've just been reading an article on News.com, which explains in some detail the exit of Intel from an OLPC alliance. It happened after some few years of disagreements and heat between the teams; and after they seemingly made up and OLPC started developing an Intel-based model (which I would love to see). What's going on then? Why road is not all that slick and easy for the project, which took the pledge to help all the poor kids in the world (sort of)?It seems that while everyone agrees with the goal, many disagree on the way that goal is to be achieved. Here comes the question I asked at the beginning:The OLPC project is made to help educating children, and they are doing so by letting children laptop computers. Choosing to use the technology to solve some of the hardest problems existing right now, is great act. But the world of technology is very well advanced in developing world. So, would it be fare to ask o...
Gentoo File Manager
2008-01-02 23:41:00 Gentoo a Light file manager for low resourses PCs here you have a screenshot. Update: 01/02/08 This post was originally posted on 02/07/2007, but I wanted to complete its information and repost it. Gentoo is a light File manager, you can use over a SSh connection, with it you can copy files, create directories, change permissions, etc. You can install it on Fedora yum install gentoo and on Ubuntu sudo apt-get install gentoo hope you like it, you will have access to lots of tools as you can see on this screenshot As you can see, you can even tar, or gz files directly. And there are also options to configure by clicking on configure, in the main window.
Great Gentoo Linux sites
2007-12-30 20:02:00 I really want to go into Gentoo, I think I will learn a lot using and learning it. As a first step I looked for some useful sites for Gentoo's beginners and I want to share them, here they are: Good Explanation about Flags on Gentoo Detailed instructions to install Gentoo Gentoo's site FAQ Convert RedHat 9.0 to Gentoo over ssh The Gentoo Howto Great and complete guide to install Gentoo Flags Descriptions Another good how to for Gentoo Desktop Linux Install Gentoo on a USB memory Stick The Gentoo Wiki page Sabayon the most famous Gentoo based Linux Using Gentoo with your ATI Radeon hardware Hope you enjoy them.
Olive branch to all Free Operating systems users
2007-12-30 10:07:00 Hello my dear readers,A little statistics part first. WHAT A RUSH!!!! That's my response on what happened after I posted my opinion on Ubuntu and Linux. At the beginning there were few responses from Planet Larry where I'm syndicated, as I mostly use Gentoo. Then I submitted it to digg and Linux Today, and until the end of the day in my time zone, it got 424 diggs and more than 5000 visits, which was about a total on this blog until this day from the start. That feels great. Then it came ~5000 more visits the next day, and about 1500 visits the day after that. It have received ~100 comments on my blog, and about 200 on digg. So its cool.There are few things that I wanted to share about this. The comments are generally split into 3 categories, and they are:Yea, exactly!!! My favorite distro rules! And its better than Ubuntu!!!! Ubuntu sucks!!!!Yea!!! Ubuntu rules!!! We're here to get you all!!!!Who cares?And, to my own surprise, I agree with those who are in group 3. Let me explai...
There's more to Linux than Ubuntu
2007-12-26 21:49:00 Dear readerI've told a million times by now, that I am a Linux person. I like the operating system, the tools, the applications, the works. I like the process. I like the community. I like the people. And all these positive feelings are not distribution-specific, or "KDE vs. Gnome" or "Is Amarok the best media player?" kind - its genuine people-to-people kind of a thing, and the love for the technology.Recently I got to read more and more stories about Linux in general (at least that what it was insinuated by the name of the article) where term "Linux" is quite replaced by Ubuntu. The latest one was from the LifeHacker blog, which I follow frequently (I have it in my RSS reader) and respect greatly. But why Ubuntu is the Linux chosen all the time? I know that this is the most spread and used distribution (or maybe 2nd most), but there's still no reason for it to be a solely used in such an article. It really makes me sad that media uses term "Ubuntu" and that there are no mentions...
Mobile really likes Linux (supported by ArsTechnica)
2007-12-22 20:15:00 As a prove for what I've been preaching for a while: The Eee PC will likely have a noticeable influence on future mobile computing development. Companies are increasingly adopting Linux in the mobile space, and Linux developers and distributors are embracing this trend and accommodating rapid development. Intel is also pushing forward Linux-based budget mobile computing with the Silverthorne architecture.It is becoming increasingly obvious to hardware makers that Windows simply isn't flexible enough to meet the requirements of the rapidly-evolving mobile market and that open-source software provides a clear path forward. The Eee PC is a stunning example of what a hardware maker can accomplish when mixing a highly compact form factor with a custom open-source Linux platform. With the Eee PC, consumers can get a taste of the future today.Read on ArsTechnica, in Asus Eee701 PC review
Top Best 50 Ubuntu Opensource Applications For Design
2007-12-20 16:56:00 I just seen this post on digg, List of the 50 best opensource applications for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Fluxbuntu.It got hundreds of diggs, but I wonder, why is it the Ubuntu list? I run almost all of these in Gentoo as well.So I wonder, why is it the author defines it with some distro name?I'm afraid that Linux might go the pass of podcasting, when people believe that they need an iPod to listen to one. It may happen with Ubuntification of Linux.The future will tell.
TabletBlog.com by ThoughtFix: Internet Tablet OS2008 Review
2007-12-19 16:26:00 ThoughtFix just posted a review of OS2008 for Nokia's tablets n800 and n810. Read here
That Which we call free
2007-12-17 19:45:00 I just read a reference to RMS' post to OpenBSD maillist. It is very him in the nature and the language, and I will not post anything here.But I started thinking then, how important nowadays the "openness" of the products? How the fact, that the product I use has a non-free parts impact its use?I'm not sure anymore it does. I see more tendencies in many market niches to move to open systems, open protocols and open implementations. And Linux is, of course, a part of that. Open architectures allow changing in a very convenient ways. For example, I worked in a company which created a NAS solutions. We took standard harware and put a Linux-based software on it. Then, it is connected to a network, and here you go - you have a network storage.There are 2 ways of creating such a product. A first one, is to create everything from the scratch - the operating system, the services, the protocols implementations, etc. The second one - the one many vendors choose these days - is to take some ...
The way of a bully
2007-12-16 17:10:00 Hi readersAs I have stumbled through my stories with Blogger and blogging, I got to thinking about 2 things that I believe are important. Both of them have relation to technology and software. These are those issues:What impact have large vendors on open source projects?Why my is browser slow?This time I will talk about the first issue.It came to me after I read an article, about Sun being bully to a developers of CIFS server in Java. The project was open source, and its main developers were all Sun's employees. But then, in weird series of events, all developers were fired from Sun, and Sun forced its control over the project. All that while the project is still open source!!So, what is the purpose of such a project? If a large company forces its own rule on an open source project - what is the point for the project to be an open source one? I can understand the business targets of any vendor. Its purpose it to make money, and the company would do almost anything to reach that goa...
Debian vs Gentoo
2007-12-15 16:27:00 Luego de varios dias sin postear, estudio y otras cosas personales... espero sepan entender! aqui les dejo algo que he leido y me super interesa:Las “guerras de distribuciones” son un clásico de la comunidad de software libre, y suelen originar interminables flames en listas de correo. Dejando de lado los fanatismos por una u otra distribución, las comparaciones entre ellas son útiles para quienes tienen que elegir una distribución para instalar en su equipo.En mi opinión, no existe una distribución que sea mejor que otra en todos los casos, sino que cuál es la mejor distribución en cada caso depende de las necesidades y preferencias personales.En cuanto a lo estrictamente técnico, algunas características destacables de Debian son:* Su alto nivel de confiabilidad, estabilidad y estandarización.* Excelente documentación. Muy completa.* Posee un poderoso sistema de actualización de paquetes que es muy fácil de usar (apt-get).* El repositorio de paquetes de Debian es ...
Linux Blogging Sucks no more
2007-12-13 16:06:00 I want to apologize to you all.I know I hurt some people with my post about how Linux blogging sucks. I apologize for that. At the time of writing that post, this was exactly how I felt, and all I could think of was letting things out. I was bitter that there's no good application for Linux that I could use for blogging in offline mode using the New Blogger platform.But now its gone, I feel better and more objective (or even more subjective? You decide). I started to look around on what supports Blogger as a blogging platform, and then it had actually got me.There are no good offline tools for posting on Blogger! At least I haven't found one. Even BlogJet (which is probably my favorite application now) does not support all the features.Why is it so? Is it so hard to implement a simple feature? I'm sure the API is completely open, isn't it?Fine, I thought, I would go the way of samurai open source, and create something of my own for a change. I would at least answer my own goals ...
Better Than Kindle?
2007-12-09 08:56:00 OK, so by now I think there are no people left who didn't hear about the Amazon Kindle. Or read about it. Or written something. Or something.I just listened to a podcast by Leo Laporte (it's on Twit network - go check out), where he and his guests in the studio are talking about the kindle device and are not really thrilled by it. These are the sort of people who jump on all the newest and the greatest in the gadgetry, but they don't jump on this one.Why?I could probably take a guess, and to be correct as much as anyone. But here are few things that pop into my head when I'm thinking about any eBook:It has to be sorta cheapIt has to have a great screen - quality is importantThe screen size should be convenient (I know, this one is very subjective)It should be lightweightThe power should have a long life for thisWhile I'm thinking about all the things I'd do with it, this is what comes to my mind: this thing cost around $400. There are few other devices that cost that much thes...
Zoundry Writer in Linux review
2007-11-20 18:04:00 For a few days, I've been testing different blog editors and trying to find which one I would prefer to use. My requirements are simple at the moment. You can go over them in my previous post on the matter - BlogJet editor in Linux Review.I've written 2 articles, in which I told that Linux Editors sucks (and that was my personal feeling after I tried more than 5 different editors and found all of them either not working or sucking big time on features), and also that I've decided to try running a Windows blog editors (yes!) using WINE and I have written another post on that.So, I've found couple of editors that I succeeded to run in Linux. Here, I will talk about the second one, Zoundry. First, here's the screenshot of using this editor (click on the image to see in full size):So, as you can see, I'm writing this post in ZoundrySo here's my good feelings about this editor:Setting accounts is very easy and very good.Writing is very easy. All the regular features work (Italic, ...
BlogJet editor in Linux review
2007-11-19 14:39:00 For a few days, I've been testing different blog editors and trying to find which one I would prefer to use. My requirements are simple at the moment:Being able to publish to a blog platform I use at the moment. That's being Blogger (with a New Blogger [Google] API)Being able to publish in draft first. I don't mind to "touch" an entry before publishing, and doing so from Blogger's own web-based editor helps to "preview" the entry how will it really look like.Adding tags to the post. Labels, categories, tags - I don't care how would you call this, I want it working if my platform supports them (and it does).as a subset, pinging to Technorati and/or other services and including their links in the posts is welcome albeit unnecessary requirement.Convenient linking to other things. For example, suggesting to use what I have at the moment in the clipboard cache is convenient, as it allows me to copy something in the browser, and then directly paste it in the editor. I would also welc...
Running Zoundry and BlogJet blog editors under Wine
2007-11-18 13:36:00 Hi all !After I've written the Linux Sucks article, I started to think how can I still run any of the "good" (read Windows based) editors on Linux. And to tell you the truth, I've tried to run each and every one of those I found on different lists under WINE but to no avail.But no more. I've successfully installed and can run in Zoundry Blog Editor, from which I post this entry.Here's an install procedure (I use Gentoo, so I presume anyone who doesn't can adapt this to his/her own needs):Install IES4Linux on my machine (it installs WINE as well, so I don't have to).Run an Internet Explorer and try to browse. If you do so, then go over to Zoundry and download the Zoundry Blog Writer.In the same Internet Explorer window, go to File->Open and open the file you've downloaded.Install should start and install the application.Install mfc42.dll - get it from any Windows XP installation or here (legality of this action is beyond this post. Check with your lawer just in case). Copy ...
..si ma quale Linux?!? - Guida sintetica e completa alle principali distrib
2007-10-24 21:00:00 Uno dei problemi principali degli utenti che si avvicinano per la prima volta al mondo OpenSource, e in particolare al mondo Gnu/Linux, quello di scegliere quale distribuzione adottare, quale sia quella che sia datti di pi alle proprie esigenze.. Se ne contano circa un centinaio, ognuna con le proprie peculiarit e caratteristiche.. Per prima cosa cerchiamo ...
All Linux Versions
2007-10-15 23:45:00 At the school we have Linux Ubuntu like OS! I ask myself how many versions of Linux exists except the versions that i know (Mandriva, Mandrake, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, Fedore, etc). I search on internet and i found a list:
By: PiticStyle
USB Gentoo 2007.0 install
2007-09-21 21:00:00 In the following USB Gentoo tutorial will cover how to install, boot and run Gentoo 2007.0 from a USB device using Windows. Gentoo is a popular Linux version named after the Gentoo Penguin. Gentoo was originally created by Daniel Robbins with a goal to create a smaller portable Linux distribution that only included required ...
By: Pen Drive Linux
Gems aims to make large-scale Gentoo Linux management easier
2006-08-15 01:18:02 GEMS strips out unwanted packages and modules of Gentoo LinuxFull Story |
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