this is always a subject of flamewars and Frugalware did not have any support for coloured manpages so far. i've now added (in man-1.6e-2) support for it, but it's still disabled. see the documentation on how to enable it if you like. you can reach a screenshot here if you use the default colors.

when we switched to git, our darcs stat page was no longer updated. now i've created gitstats, which serves the same purpose. it's written in python and it was a few more features compared to darcsstats, ie. alias support, so that the stats for a dev are not lost when he/she changes his/her email addr.

the new stat page is here. enjoy! :)

well, it truns out what i'm mentioned at bitlbee.org :)

the story is about my skype plugin for bitlbee. google doesn't even find it (mostly because nobody links my page), so i asked the devs to link the page. now they posted a news entry about it ;)

/me goes to sleep..

i've recently pushed a new asciidoc to my repo. after intalling it, you have to be able to display this example page properly. (here is the source)

so now go and tell your latex friends that you can still include your exotic math formulas in asciidoc while you can avoid its usualy difficult syntax! :)

as of openoffice.org-2.3oog680_m1 there is a firefox plugin (for OOo documents) included in our openoffice pkg. at the moment it's not enabled by default, you need an

ln -s /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/libnpsoplugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

to enable it

long time no blog ;)

in darcs, tags are empty patches which depend on every patch since the previous tag + the previous tag. so tag is shown in the changelog itself

in git, tags are just pointers to existing commit objects. for example 1c77ec3 already exists, then you say let's call this 1.0

you may want to create darcs-like tags in git. of course this won't be the git way, but it's nice to see that the git core allows you to do so

so here is what you need:

echo "tagged 0.9.2" |git update-ref HEAD git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD

thanks hliusv561! :)

ok, there is no such option, but there is an equivalent trick :)

for example if you want to do exclude the _darcs dir, then you need:

find . -type d -name _darcs -prune -o -print

where can be "-name *.c" or so

thanks crazy for the tip :)

i've recently got a mail about linuxquestions.org now has a separate collection of Frugalware screenshots. so here it is, maybe one find it interesting :)

we're always working on something, sometimes it worth to have a look round and see what we've reached. so here is my list, probably incomplete :)

1) syncpkgd

2) -stable support. if you want to have a secure server you no longer have to use -current

3) OOo for x86_64, also split the language packs

4) many-many packages. really. sometimes i need a package and i'm impressed it's already in fst :)

5) in connection with the big number of packages: dynamic cds/dvds based on dependencies. i remember when we had to move something to extra just becase the second cd was too big

6) rewritten the setup in C. do you remember the sloooow installer written in sh? :)

7) Xorg 7.0. so many hours of sucking when: 7.1) do a clean install 7.2) add the xorg7 repo and -Syu 7.3) write down the occurred errors 7.4) fix them 7.5) rm -rf / 7.6) goto 7.1 :)

8) pacman-g2. pacman without a lib? brr :)

9) getting rid of hotplug in favour of udev. maybe you remember how slow it was, it took at least 10-12 secs on my pc :)

10) fw-xgl-control: enabling and disabling it for a normal user without reading tons of docs, breaking your system, etc :)

(yes. the list is unsorted )

could you imagine living without these? :)

i've just noticed that finally ftp.heanet.ie has no more "connection timed out" errors, so we have a new fast full mirror :)

it suppors ftp, http and rsync. it has been added to the homepage and to pacman-g2's darcs