Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Luca Bruno: kaeso- August 18, 2008 As Meike mentioned, Debian turned fifteen last Saturday. We enjoyed our Italian DebianDay too, in a sunny and beautiful day, very close to the sea (a great thanks to lug Govonis, here!). Lots of talks and interesting discussions all the day. with people crossing half Italy to celebrate and party with us, ended with a great pizza all together. A wonderful DebianDay, reallyhttp://kaeso.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/a-sunny-debianday/ Romain Beauxis: Byte swap and amd64.. (Episode 2)- August 18, 2008 Following the recent post about my issues with byte swapping on amd64, I have received several answers.. Since comments were broken, Rupert sent me a good explanation of the cryptic code from OSS4. Let me remember you what it was doing: static inline short bswap_16 (short x) short y = 0; unsigned char a = ((unsigned char ) &x) + 1; unsigned char b = (unsigned char ) &y b++ = a--; b++ = a--; return y; The code is indeed very simple, but it has to be decomposed carefully.. First, the..http://blog.rastageeks.org/spip.php?article12 Romain Beauxis: Mediawiki 1.13.0- August 18, 2008 Mediawiki 1.13.0 has just been released. The debian package has been updated. I don't know yet wether it would be a good idea or not to ask for an inclusion into lenny. The changelog is important, and it seems a good release. I am looking for testers in order to nail down all possible issues in the package, as well as arguments, in favour or not, about this possible inclusion..http://blog.rastageeks.org/spip.php?article11 Christian Perrier: Debconf 8: Wunderbar!- August 18, 2008 I will probably never find time to blog about Debconf 8 and write down the pleasure I had to attend it, so let's use jetlag as an excuse for the short length of this blog entry and just mention that Debconf 8 rocked. The DC8 organizers rocked. The hotel rocked. The network team rocked. The DC8 attendees rocked. The speakers rocked. And jetlag sucks. Soon to come: my online gallery...http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/08/18#debconf8-back Meike Reichle: Happy belated birthday Debian!- August 18, 2008 On August 16th 2008 the Debian Project, joy and burden of my geek life, has turned 15 years of age. Congratulations! There have been celebrations all around the world, and we've also had a little party at our home, complete with nice unhealthy food, red wine and chocolate and strawberries for dessert. For a GNULinux distribution 15 years is quite a lot. We're almost the only distribution of such old age (Hi Slackware!) and there've been many, many others that didn't make it half as long....http://blog.alphascorpii.net/english/debian/happy-15th.html Ross Burton: Sound Juicer "I Don't Know What You Heard But It's Mandatory" 2.23.2- August 18, 2008 Sound Juicer "I Don't Know What You Heard But It's Mandatory" 2.23.2 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Lots of fixes from the Amazing Matthew Martin: Stop playback when the disc is re-read (Matthew Martin) Only eject the disc if tracks were ripped (MM) Don't try and move the non-existant temp file when skipping (MM) Free the option context (Pierre Benz) Don't block until n-c-b quits when copying discs Fix...http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.23.2 Russell Coker: SE Linux Policy Packaging for a Distribution- August 18, 2008 Caleb Case (Ubuntu contributer and Tresys employee) has written about the benefits of using separate packages for SE Linux policy modules 1. Firstly I think it&8217;s useful to consider some other large packages that could be split into multiple packages. The first example that springs to mind is coreutils which used to be textutils, shellutils, and fileutils. Each of those packages contained many programs and could conceivably have been split. Some of the utilities in that package are...http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/18/se-linux-policy-packaging-distribution/ Julien Danjou: Unexpected VARMon new release- August 18, 2008 This has been 4 years since I released a new upstream release of VARMon, the DAC960 administration tool. There was a bug first discovered in 401236. It has been fixed in Debian with an ugly fix, which did not work finally for a long time. Recently 491505 got opened too, which was the same as the previous one. But this time I got access to hardware, thanks to Christoph! And I finally fixed the bug. I've even be able to test the fixes I wrote years ago for all of the compilation...http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/post/2008/08/18/Unexpected-VARMon-new-release Filip Van Raemdonck: Linde- August 17, 2008 16 08 2008<br > <br > <img src="http:blog.sysfs.netmediacollage.jpg" style="width: 900; height="633" alt="My little baby girl (photo collage)" title="Photo's of Linde" >http://blog.sysfs.net/archives/51-Linde.html Obey Arthur Liu: Going to London - Cambridge- August 17, 2008 I&8217;ll be in Great Britain next week. I&8217;ll come to the Debian Party 2008 in Cambridge on Saturday 23rd August and will be back to London to visit &8217;till Wednesday 27th August. I&8217;m staying by myself in a nice little hotel in Bloomsbury. It will be very interesting to meet Debian people and probably do some pitching for my Aptitude GTK project which is making nice progress. I&8217;ve never been to London before. In fact, I&8217;ve been once when very young and all that I can...http://www.milliways.fr/2008/08/17/going-to-london-cambridge/ |