Compiling firefox-9.0 on linux PPC
The good point is that yes!, it is possible to compile firefox 8.0 or 9.0 on linux-ppc. General point of view The mozilla foundation has stopped supporting the PPC platform for firefox starting with...
View ArticleYet another KDE QA failure
Just as lot of people here and elsewhere keep on denying KDE QA major problem, the 4.10 release is yet another proof of how bad the situation is. KDE cares so much that they already closed the bug with...
View ArticleAMD r600 gpu backend on Gentoo
The current situation is rather messy with respect to the AMD r600 GPU backend : it has been merged on llvm, but not yet released. The problem is that, on gentoo, the USE flag “r600-llvm-compiler”...
View ArticleRelease of EmergeActivity 2.1
Emerge activity is a small PyQt application aimed at Gentoo users that displays an “activity” graph of the emerges. Here’s a typical example on my desktop computer : For those wondering, the huge...
View ArticleRelease of Colibri 1.0-beta2
Time flies, and I haven’t made any release of Colibri for a long time, despite it being used in production and bug being fixed as they are found. So here it is. No shiny new feature there, it’s mostly...
View ArticleFix Baloo on KDE using the same trick as once used with Nepomuk
update: this post made me banned from KDE planet in a very rough way Nepomuk Problem Since the daunting day of the kde 4.0 release, I’ve been struggling with nepomuk. I’m no random user, i know...
View ArticleKDE Community: be liberal with ourselves, be harsh with others
(yes, the title is a tribute to the robustness principle) Censored In quite an aggressive move, I’ve been censored by KDE. My blog has been removed from kdeplanet. The only information I have so far...
View ArticleUsing keystone 9.0.0 (Mitaka) with gunicorn and nginx
(all of this is done in Gentoo, but this is mostly irrelevant here). With the Mitaka release, keystone expects a WSGI server of some sort. The ‘canonical’ documentation is focused on apache + uwsgi....
View ArticleRelease Of EmergeActivity 3.0
It’s been a while since the last release of EmergeActivity. There were some fixes, but nothing really worth a release, so mostly everything was ok. Still, it was based on Qt4/PyQt4, and times passes,...
View ArticleHacking the Game & Watch on Gentoo
At the end of 2020, Nintendo has released a new version of his famous “Game & Watch” mini console. It looks like the old-school one, but has a real screen (with pixels, even color !), a modern...
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