By RangerRick, on January 16th, 2008%
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/xbox/KDE_Mac_4_0_Snapshots_Available’;
Just in time for the KDE release event (grin) — a new KDE/Mac snapshot is available. I will be demoing it at the release event, thanks to Google and the KDE release coordinators for arranging free lodging, and my employer, OpenNMS, for covering my travel!
On to info about the snapshots.
Qt is updated to 4.3.3, and my build tools have been updated to use the KDE 4.0 branch now that 4.0.0 has been tagged. This does mean that kdepim and kdevelop are no longer being built (for now). Also, I’m not building Amarok right now since it has some compile issues, and I need to get with the Amarok folks to figure out what to do about some architectural issues (no Plasma on OSX).
Nothing huge code-wise has changed from a Mac point of view, other than all of the general updates that have gone on in the KDE codebase since the last snapshot. It appears that kdeinit4 and kded4 both have some crashing issues related to something deep in Qt, I will be investigating it when time permits. . . . → Read More: New KDE/Mac Snapshot
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By RangerRick, on January 11th, 2008%
FYI, the “finkproject.org” domain name is down — turns out it had expired and we didn’t catch it. We’re working on getting it fixed, just wanted to get the word out. Fink Is Not Kaput 😉
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By RangerRick, on January 8th, 2008%
I’ve gotten all of the dependencies of OpenNMS packaged up on Fedora Core 8 now, and have our yum repository up-to-date.
If you’re looking to install on FC8, you should be able to follow the usual instructions (substituting “fc8” for the distro) and it should work fine.
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By RangerRick, on December 13th, 2007%
(No, it’s not a suppository.)
Trolltech has released phonon backends for GStreamer, DirectShow, and QuickTime/CoreAudio, and will be maintaining them in the KDE codebase!
I guess it’s time to start another build and see how Amarok sounds with nice CoreAudio output.
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By RangerRick, on December 12th, 2007%
Figured it’d been a while since I did a general “status” post about what’s been going on.
First and foremost, as I mentioned before, much of my spare time has gone into fixing up the Fink package database. It’s now much easier on our web server, and uses a combination of PHP and a really spiffy Lucene-based full-text search engine called “Solr.”
Also, I did some work on making Fink play nicer with the new Xquartz releases. It’s still in testing, but in the meantime, their 2.1.1 release provides a workaround to allow Fink users on Leopard to run without issue.
I’ve also been wearing my OpenNMS.com hat recently, and am working on some spiffy customer-management tools for keeping track of our support work better. I’m a big fan of Ruby on Rails, and am mocking it up in that — on top of JRuby, of course.
In the process, of getting my development system set up to do rails development, I updated all of the Fink packages for rails 2.0 and related stuff, as well as taking over rubygems from . . . → Read More: It’s Been a Crazy Couple of Weeks
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By RangerRick, on December 10th, 2007%
If you haven’t noticed, the Fink package database is back up, and the server seems to be handling the load alright. I’ve fixed all of the bugs that I’m aware of, but if you notice anything strange in queries or other behavior you don’t expect, please let me know.
Also, one thing I hadn’t mentioned earlier is that in the process of reworking the PDB, I added a pretty major feature: RSS support. Any query you make through the browse interface has an equivalent query through the RSS interface. For example, if you have a query for unstable x86 packages in the “kde” section, excluding splitoffs, you can replace “browse.php” with “rss.php” and get an RSS feed with the results that match that query (in order of their last modification date in CVS).
Woot!
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By RangerRick, on December 6th, 2007%
As of last night, the new PDB seems to be working alright with the (few) testers it’s gotten from fink-devel yesterday evening, so I’d like to open this up to a wider audience.
Please, give the new test code a whirl and let me know if you see any issues.
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By RangerRick, on November 29th, 2007%
OpenNMS 1.3.9 has been released. It’s mostly a few small bug fixes and features, but it does fix a rather important deadlock in the database code that could cause notifications to not go out correctly (among other things).
Other than that, we’ve been pow-wowing on what to do for the next release — there’s a bunch of niggly little bugs that need to be cleaned up, but overall, the trunk codebase is still looking solid.
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By RangerRick, on November 21st, 2007%
We’ve finally gotten the OpenNMS image for VMware put together and uploaded to SourceForge, with OpenNMS 1.3.8 on it. It hasn’t been updated since the 1.3.3 VMware image was put together.
Since I’d been having such good luck with Mandriva, and as Tarus mentioned, they’ve been very supportive of us in general, I went ahead and made the image using Mandriva 2008.0. It has the advantage of being quite a bit smaller than our previous CentOS-based image (about 400MB compressed) and is a very minimal install with just the minimum needed to get OpenNMS up and running.
So if you were wanting to try OpenNMS out but didn’t really have anywhere to run it, why not download the image from SourceForge and give it a shot? All you need is the free VMware player; just follow the README file inside the package and you should be off and running.
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By RangerRick, on November 19th, 2007%
I’ve finished getting everything set up so that you can run OpenNMS on Mandriva Linux. It is now possible to install using URPMI with a minimum of fuss.
I’ve gotta say, it’s been a number of years since I’ve tried out Mandrake Mandriva, and it’s definitely grown from just a KDE-themed RedHat into a pretty sweet and polished Linux distribution.
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