Ubuntu

Jay Bertrand hat es getan. Coole Sache. Das Paket muss dann demnächst mal auf meinem Server installiert werden (mal schauen wie gut das Ding mit Multisite-Installationen zurecht kommt).

Dudes, to be honest. The last blog entry was not suposed to be a basher on Ubuntu (if it was meant to be as one I would already have gone). It was just meant to remind the Ubuntu people (at least those who read my blog) of the roots.

Another report I just filed today is my favorite right now: Beer for the dude (or dudette) who fixes Internet Radio while Upgrading the System.

I just finished installing Edgy Beta 1 on the Thinkpad and I have to admit that there are lots of things different from my desktop. The desktop has been dist-upgraded regularly and is as up to date as the Thinkpad is, but eg. the desktop doesn't have usplash, I wonder which things are different too. Then I don't have the network manager icon in the systray anymore (I used to have it on the Thinkpad before the disk broke).

24 hours after getting the Thinkpad back, I finished installing edgy on it (from a USB pendrive). It was quite tricky, because Casper is broken (Ubuntu Developer on the question whether he could take a look at it today: »no, I'm not at work today« :'( ).

I have been attending my fourth GUADEC this year. As always, it's been a really great time with you guys. I have been doing some really nice hacks (to be talked about later) and you brought up several interesting ideas.

TabletPC rotation

I did it. It didn't go smoothly (just because I forgot the boot smylink on my boot partition) but it went very well.

So here's your way to install a fresh Ubuntu on the Pegasos2:

I don't know about the mkvmlinuz status of Ubuntu Dapper and the Pegasos2, but I managed to skip this issue (for me).

Preparing your partitions

I think it's time to update the Pegasos2 box. The kernel is still 2.6.8-something and the system is running a very ancient GNOME.

I think, I'm going to install Ubuntu on it, but I'm not sure whether it will work. I'm going to do this tomorrow after my maths lesson.

Has anyone tried that before? Did it work? Which release of Ubuntu did you test?

Today we're having the party for the beginning of the semester. We#re playing our music with rhythmbox, managing the files with nautilus, and finally... we're capturing pictures with my webcam. Everything went so smoothly and I just enjoy the update to breezy which I did yesterday just because "I felt bored" and "the other dist-upgrades went so well".

So now we have a working driver for the Quickcam 4000 (thanks to the Ubuntu folks), a great desktop and music playing application.

Free Software just rocks...

Wow, this has been a very successful weekend so far. I started to work on criawips again this week (motivated by the engagement of the other contributors) and see what I did. I have had three local development trees on my machine, so I went ahead, fininshed the new debugging code (#1), checked it in, finished the rendering re-organization (#2), check it in too and I have been looking for a bug in my tree dedicated to the reintroduction of glade for the main window (#3). The bug got squashed, the code checked in and I have only one development tree (aka HEAD).

In the meantime Ezequiel made some progress on the save operation which is pretty cool, though it showed up a bug in libgsf which has been fixed in CVS. Unfortunately Jody just released a new libgsf version some days ago (including the "gsf gnomevfs can follow symlinks" patch), so I will wait for the next release to depend on.

Unfortunately I realized that my gdb on the Powerbook (Ubuntu Hoary) is broken, I should provide a bug report for this. First I thought that it might have been some broken memory stuff, but a reboot (the first one for 24 days) did fix only other issues.

Now it's time to relax because I had a very hard day, hacking to 3am, sleeping to 8am, doing sports, hacking, going to bed now.

Got my Pegasos 2 today. Played around with it a bit, unfortunately the front cover (from the AOpen H360A) doesn't automatically open when I push the CD tray button (obviously the resistance of the front cover is too big for the CD drive).

Had some email conversation with Sven Luther afterwards, he told me that there a Ubuntu people working on support for the Pegasos 2. So I have one more reason to wait for the Hoary Release.