It’s nice to be able to count on friends across vendors. The two new Parted Team members, Joel Andres Granados Moreno and Bryn Reeves from Red Hat, has been working with me to solve the s390 error that was blocking Debian to move to latest parted release (1.8.8 up to now).
They’ve had a hard time to identify the real problem and we helped each other for those past two weeks. That’s awesome to be able to share the work load and be able to get help to solve problems. Even more when this is done for a very important software like Parted.
I do believe this is the way to go for Free Software projects… maybe others could learn from that?
Cheers
Eu desejo um feliz ano novo para todos e que 2008 seja um ótimo ano para todas pessoas envolvidas com Software Livre.
Pessoalmente, eu estou envolvido com muitas pessoas do Software Livre e várias são meus amigos. Eu não poderia esquecer de desejar a todos eles um feliz ano novo.
Agora, vamos largar o computador e nos reunir com a fámilia e amigos.
Vejo todos vocês em 2008!
I wish happy new year to everybody and that 2008 be a great year for all people involved with Free Software.
Personally, I’m involved with many people from Free Software and many of them are friends to me. I couldn’t forget to wish the best for all of them.
Now, let’s move out of computer and go together with our family and friends.
See you all in 2008!
I’ve just uploaded, to experimental, a new usplash package that uses the new splash API provided by lastest sysvinit (guess what.. experimental too) and we want to ask to everyone that has the possibility to try and report any problems back to us.
It was a very long time ago since I did my last resume and never found the energy to update (or translate it to English) so I thought it was nice to have this kind of information about myself. It was nice since it gave to me a nice impressions of events I participated and like.
I’ve decided to do my resume using LaTeX (I use it for majority of my documents) and started to browse the web to find something useful to use as basis. I ended up finding Making a Resume in LaTeX and liked the final result. I then wanted to have it in English and Portuguese and them I remembered about po4a that makes that task very easy 
I ended changing Adrew’s style to a class and writing a cuple of Makefiles to automate all this. All well done 
I suggest that anyone interested on it to take a look on the GIT repository and also provide tips about how to improve it.
I hope it’s useful to anybody else
Hoje foi lançada a nova versão do O.S. Desktop contendo as atualizações do Etch r1 e mais algumas feitas pela equipe da O.S. Systems e junto com essa nova versão foi colocado disponível para download uma imagem de DVD contendo as 4 versões do sistema (GNOME e KDE - instalação e live-cd) para que em um único disco tenha-se todas as versões disponíveis.
Abaixo vai a lista das principais correções:
- Sistema totalmente atualizado em relação ao Debian Etch;
- Correção no rdesktop para evitar segfault quando conectado a clientes Windows;
- Atualização da base de hardwares reconhecidos;
- Corrigido “Terminal como Root” na versão KDE;
- Melhorado suporte a TouchPad Synaptics (usualmente encontrados em laptops);
- Corrigido problema no processo de instalação para montar as partições existentes do sistema;
- Adicionado suporte a novos modelos de iPods;
- Gerenciador de midia do GNOME agora abre o Banshee quando um iPod é conectado;
- Melhorada detecção de laptops;
- Adicionado suporte a leitores de cartão da Texas Instruments;
- Melhorado suporte a placas wireless;
I’m looking for someone to help with no-ip package maintainence. It’s hosted on collab-maint Alioth’s project and it does deserves some love.
I’m not a regular user of it anymore and I’ve been involved in many other project so lacking the need time to take care of it how it deserves. Please, feel free to start providing patches or even commiting changes on its repository. If you’re not DD or DM I can do the uploads for you and help with anything need.
Thank you by any help!
Well, I forgot to say where you can get git-dch and many people worried about it on IRC.
git-dch is part of git-buildpackage lastest version and come with a nice set of options to allow you to customize its behaviour and like. Guido is nice as upstream since he’s very open for suggestions and I do think that if you have any suggestion to give, you shoul do.
I’ve get in touch with Guido and explained him some missing things I had found on git-dch (part of git-buildpackage). The most amazing thing is that he implemented them all and his code is much nicer then mine since it has been wrote using the Python extensions for the GIT.
Please, migrate your scripts that use git-update-debian-change (if there’s someone else then me using it) to use git-dch since I’ll drop it next week.
To reduce the duplication and make the maintainence easier, syslinux templates has been splited.
Currently both normal and menu share common templates using a common directory and the required files are copied to the image during the build. The only current know regression is PXE that needs fixing to work with this new templates however the rest should just work.
I’d suggest to everyone interested on Debian Live do a try on it. The easier way is to use the snapshots of live-helper and use it normaly.
Thanks to Daniel by merge all the fixes so fast and to keep this nice peace of software working