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April 15, 2008

History meme

Filed under: Linux — J5 @ 2:35 pm

history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 145 git 129 cd 115 ls 113 gvim 62 vi 39 ssh 32 sudo 25 grep 24 giggle 22 ./start-myfedora.py

Wow, I git more than I cd or ls.

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April 8, 2008

A bit disappointed with the desktop roundtable

Filed under: Linux — J5 @ 2:20 pm

It’s about value not price. The ability to see the source code means you can integrate much better on the hardware if you target your scope. Value comes primarily from the user experience and secondarily from the cost. The number of people who will continually (not just one off) buy based on price will slowly decline if the value is not there. Worse off, vendors who sell solely based on cost bring down those who do work on value as the market gets diluted while the innovators take a bit longer to get to market. What I hope Linux Desktop (which includes devices) vendors do is to produce value. The vendor who can do that and still keep prices competitive will rise above the crowd.

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April 4, 2008

[ANNOUNCE] D-Bus 1.2.1 released and branched

Filed under: D-Bus, Freedesktop — J5 @ 3:58 pm

Due to issues putting the re-licensing effort on hold indefinitely, it has been decided to move to 1.2.x versioning scheme. Being that 1.1.20 is considered to also be 1.2.0 and this being the second release in the 1.2.x stable series we have versioned this release 1.2.1. This release contains a number of bug fixes identified after 1.1.20:

compiles under some older versions of glibc
compiles without X support once again
fix stuck server grab if dbus-launch is run in an existing D-Bus X session
various Mac OSX build fixes added
don’t use the broken poll call on Mac OSX
better checks for linker flag support should allow D-Bus to link under various linkers
exit_on_disconnect is set after the connection registers with a bus so we don’t exit if we get a disconnect during the handshake
dicts now work correctly with dbus-send
inotify backend is now less aggressive
pending calls expire correctly
memleak of uuid when the bus is autolaunched fixed

D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a “single instance” application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.

Get it now at:

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.2.1.tar.gz

All stable development will now happen on the “dbus-1.2-branch” branch and all unstable development should happen on the “master” branch.

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