Friday, March 20, 2009
Kernel Upgrades
Slackware’s kernel in -Current has been upgraded to 2.6.28 according to the latest -Current changelog which is released today. Along with the update, there are several packages which are also recompiled, such as gcc dan glibc. Also there has been some updated package as well, such as gimp. Here’s the rather small changelog:
Thu Mar 19 20:35:06 CDT 2009
a/glibc-solibs-2.9-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against 2.6.28.8 headers.a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.9-noarch-2.tgz: Upgraded to tzdata2009c.
a/kernel-firmware-2.6.28.8-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8 firmware.
a/kernel-generic-2.6.28.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.28.8_smp-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
a/kernel-huge-2.6.28.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
a/kernel-huge-smp-2.6.28.8_smp-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
a/kernel-modules-2.6.28.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.28.8_smp-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
ap/hplip-3.9.2-i486-2.tgz: Patched an issue that could cause high CPU utilization after switching to a different user.
d/kernel-headers-2.6.28.8_smp-x86-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
k/kernel-source-2.6.28.8_smp-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.28.8.
l/glibc-2.9-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
l/glibc-i18n-2.9-i486-2.tgz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-profile-2.9-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
l/lesstif-0.95.0-i486-3.tgz: Patched to compile with gcc-4.3.x.
xap/gimp-2.6.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gimp-2.6.6.
xap/gimp-help-2-0.8-noarch-1.tgz: Removed. This is out of date, the newer versions are very large, and using the online help (which is the built-in default) works fine.
extra/grub/grub-0.97-i486-7.tgz: Patched to fix loading x86-64 Linux kernels.
extra/linux-2.6.28.8-nosmp-sdk/: Updated SMP to no-SMP kernel source patch.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt with newly compiled kernel modules.
usb-and-pxe-installers/: Rebuilt usbboot.img with newly compiled kernel modules.
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KDE + OpenChange + others in GSoC
I was happy to see both KDE and OpenChange (and some lesser projects 
) were accepted for this year’s Summer of Code project.
OpenChange is progressing quite well - Julien now has a server running that supports Outlook logging in, and returning the folder list. If that is the sort of thing you’d like to be involved in, check out the list of ideas.
I’m sure you can find the list of KDE ideas, but I’d like to point out my favourite idea - the Okular presentation recording.
A few thoughts about applying:
- A detailed, well prepared application is critical.
- You need to make contact early (pick a specific mailing list for KDE).
- Your own ideas are frequently a better approach than one from the list, as long as it is sane and novel (at least it will stand out on KDE). If you need a mentor for a specific idea, make sure you have one lined up.
- Your chances of getting picked are generally better on a smaller project (like OpenChange) than on a really big project (like KDE). KDE only gets slots for about 10-20% of its applicants. The risk is a smaller project might get a couple of great applications and only has a very small number of slots. Even a good application could come in at n+1, where n is the number of slots.
- There is no magic recipe, but treating Summer of Code as a job is probably the best concept. So this is really a job application.
Good luck, and remember to get started early. Applications open 19:00 UTC on 23 March 2009!
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small tip: Change the hostname of your Linux
I recently needed to change the name of my Linux Operating System server, it is a Debian Lenny 5.0 Stable, what I did to make the change permanently is to run this line.
sudo vim /etc/hostname
And add something like this in there:
www.go2linux.org
Then I run the /etc/init.d/hostname.sh script, and that is, to test it run:
uname -n
or
hostname -a
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