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I just released KDE 3.5.8 to Fink unstable. There are a ton of little bugfixes in this release, as well as a few Fink-specific changes, mostly related to Leopard-compatibility… (A newer CUPS and a workaround for a stupid linker bug that won’t be fixed in time for 10.5.0.) As always, please let me know if you have any issues, or if it works for you. We’re going to try to fast-track the update to stable so we’re ready for Leopard. (Only 10 days to go!) Share on FacebookSure, it may seem quiet, but oh man, there’s been a lot going on. First of all, a little off topic… Hockey season has started again. Go ‘Canes! <grin> Second, as you might or might not be aware, a new kitty is coming to town soon. While David Morrison has done the majority of the work, I’ve been trying to help clean up some loose ends in getting things ready in Fink — validator fixes, working around compiler issues, and other misc stuff. Third, I and a few other folks have been working on finally getting GNOME up to 2.20 (including GTK+ 2.12) in Fink, which is a metric TON of work. GTK+ 2.8 introduced a dependency on Pango‘s Cairo backend, which has to bubble up into build-time dependencies for literally hundreds of Fink packages. Through a combination of brute force and some automation, this is now to the point where it’s time for brave users to help us find the kinks, test upgrades, and other fun stuff. Expect an announcement sometime this weekend with details. Fourth, I’ve been working on getting . . . → Read More: The Calm Before the Storm Share on FacebookFirst of all, I want to point out that OpenNMS 1.3.7 is out, and it’s full of awesomeness. Big speed improvements, my SmokePing clone, and lots of other cool stuff. I finally finished up the last of the packaging updates today; 1.3.7 is now in Fink, has Debian packages, and RPMs. I also spent a lot of time updating the installation instructions (Yum, Debian) so please, try it out, and if you run into any issues, let me know, and I’ll make sure the docs get fixed. In other news, I’ve actually started spending some time getting Fink stuff up-to-date again. PostgreSQL has bugfix releases coming up for all supported releases, and I have some KDE updates coming as well. In addition, I need to catch up on the KDE/Mac stuff, I’m going to start working on a new build this week. Share on FacebookA few weeks ago I finally released KDE 3.5.7 to Fink unstable, as well as KOffice 1.6.3. Both seem to be pretty solid and I’ve not really had any reports of issues, so it’s looking pretty good. In addition, I finally updated Fink stable to include the KDE 3.5.6 release that has been in unstable for months, as it’s had no major reports against it. I’ll give 3.5.7 a few more weeks to make sure there are no major issues with it, and then move it over as well. There is also another KDE4 release pending, API freeze is coming up Any Day Now, so I will try to refresh my binaries as well with the new code if I get the chance. Share on FacebookI started seeding a new KDE/Mac snapshot last night after fighting my way through some build issues. It looks to be a pretty solid release, lots of bugfixes and fresh code. 🙂 It’s been great to see the interest since going to aKademy, there are a number of folks very interested in seeing the Qt/Mac port get cleaned up and ready for the Real World™ so expect to see more in the future. It’s slow going seeding from my home network, as I need to throttle it during the day (since my wife and I both work from home) but it should pick up as things make it to other seeders, and my seeding machines out on the ‘net. As always, let me know how things go! Share on FacebookMy aKademy presentation is now available online! (There is also a torrent of the entire collection of talks.) It went reasonably well once I got started, but I actually had, um, some technical difficulties…. 😉 I had forgotten to pack my DVI->VGA adaptor so that I can hook up to the projector. Someone was kind enough to lend me one, but it turns out you can’t use any old adapter, you need an Apple one. Otherwise, your shiny new perfect Macbook Pro hard-locks and takes 5 minutes to fsck and start up. (GRR.) Anyways, Stefan Teleman was nice enough to switch with me, and do his talk first. Once he was finished, I tried one more time with the DVI connector, and it crashed again, so we gave up on the VGA plug and set about trying to figure out a way to get my presentation (and demos) viewable. Then someone in the crowd had the ingenious idea of setting my laptop on the spot for the projector camera used for oldskool transparencies, instead of hooking . . . → Read More: aKademy Mac OS X presentation available Share on FacebookIt’s been a crazy month, and it’s gonna keep getting crazier. June 11th I went to WWDC. Then, last weekend, I was in New York for the Origami USA convention. Now I’m headed out to Glasgow to speak at aKademy. Then, in July it’s off to the OpenNMS Dev-Jam, and immediately after that, LinuxWorld Expo, where we’ll be in the .org pavilion. Phew! So anyways, if you’ll be at any of those events (heh), drop me a line! Share on FacebookSo recently, Planet KDE has had a huge number of posts about the Windows and Mac ports of KDE and I just wanted to put in my $0.02. I’m the primary (or at least, most public) person working on the Mac port, and I am also employed by an open-source company, and I would just like to say I agree with Aaron’s sentiment. I am both a Mac supporter and an FLOSS supporter and while I can’t speak for the Windows port, I can say that I have no intentions of the Mac port trying to take anything away from the community nor from open-source software as a whole. There are large parts of the Mac community who had no idea open-source software existed for a long time, but things like Firefox (and heck, Safari’s KHTML heritage) have made it much more prominent, and have driven large numbers of people to try out things like OpenOffice, Ubuntu, and KDE and see that there really is great free software out there, which is not only free as in beer, but gives you the freedom . . . → Read More: KDE on Alternate Platforms Share on FacebookI finally had some time to finish up new KDE/Mac builds. They’re current as of a few days ago, and should be finishing seeding shortly. You can find out more on downloading them here. There are still a ton of rough edges, but I see a lot of the groundwork kdelibs cleanup that’s been going on has helped the mac builds too. Konqueror actually works pretty well, with https even! Some stuff has regressed however, it looks like a lot of the pretty SVG work that’s gone on in kdegames has made things look a little goofy. Bits of KOffice work enough to actually do something interesting with them. fish:// still doesn’t work, but I think that may be true on Linux as well. 🙂 Anyways, as always, bang on them and let me know what you think. Share on FacebookSo that was quick. It turns out I got an offer I couldn’t refuse. In an odd twist of fate, I will be working on the OpenNMS code base, for the third time. (This one’s the charm, right?) I will be doing community-facing stuff, as well as helping out with all the little things anyone has to do at a very small company. I get to do what I love, which is: a little bit of everything. 😉 Thanks to everyone for their support, I guess I’ll see you folks in #opennms on Monday! (OK, technically I’m already there, but man, that’s not as poetic.) Share on Facebook |
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