Posted by Benjamin Close on November 7, 2008 under OpenSource, Programming | 
The Autotools build system is a great system. It consists of a number of tools. These are aclocal[1], autoconf[2], automake[3], autoheader[4], and to some extent libtool[5] These tools all work together to aid in building applications, libraries and providing a consistent framework for doing so. The problem however, is the tools are hard to use, poorly documented and the [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeBSD |
Dual Booting Windows Vista & FreeBSD / Linux / Some other OS The Problem After installing Windows Vista Enterprise Edition, I very quickly wanted to get back to FreeBSD. As per previous versions of Windows, Vista does a great job of overwriting the Master boot record (MBR). Unlike previous versions of windows, you cannot just [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on October 8, 2008 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Arnaud Fontaine (arnau) who has joined the fd.o ranks to work on xcb!
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome John Carr (johncarr) to the fd.o ranks. He’ll be working on the OHM project.
Posted by Benjamin Close on October 3, 2008 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Andreas Volz (andreasvolz) who will be taking over maintaining dbus-c++ from Paolo Durante. Details at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16693
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
The Accessibility project at-spi has recently been granted bugzilla support. Hence visit http://bugs.freedesktop.org to file bugs Details about the project can be found at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15678
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Robert Staudinger (robsta) to the fd.o ranks with his newly created project ccss. Details at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17480
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
Due to inactivity since it’s inception, the libjpeg project has been shut down Refer to: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13874 for details.
Posted by admin on September 10, 2008 under FreeDesktop |
Yet again Annarchy suffered some evil failure requiring a hard reboot. The box really needs more memory. Keith has indicated there is budget so I guess when there’s some spare time we should buy and install it. 16GB more would make it very happy. Most the issues come down to disk io. When the ram [..more..]
Posted by admin on under FreeDesktop |
Today I finally found time to run throught the countless amounts of spam in the fd.o mailing lists. It amazes me just how quickly it builds up. Without listadmin moderating it would be a nightmare!
