Author Archives: leio

Gentoo 2011 LiveDVD

Software in the making edition Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the availability of a new LiveDVD to celebrate the continued collaboration between Gentoo users and developers. The LiveDVD features a huge list of packages, some of which are listed … Continue reading

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How to speed up maintenance and other Gentoo work?

I’m collecting ideas from the wider development and contributing community on how to help maintainers and contributors get work done quicker, or rephrased – how to get more done in the limited time we have. This basically means ideas for … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.22 unmasked

Note that this is an old post from April 2008, we have newer that that, really. Apparently some planets like to repost them on broken feed URL updates Yes, indeed, GNOME 2.22 is now unmasked in Gentoo and entered ~arch … Continue reading

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gnome-power-manager tray icon not appearing on startup fixed!

Yes, that’s right. gnome-power-manager-2.20.0-r1 in Gentoo now shows its tray icon after GNOME startup. So everyone using some workaround hacks (usually involving scripts with sleeps, killalls and restarts), please remove them after upgrading to this revision As Gnome-2.20 is planned … Continue reading

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GNOME on Gentoo Linux feedback request

Hello, Now that GNOME-2.20 is unleashed to ~arch in Gentoo, I can come out of hiding again and try to blog again, as all the cool guys are doing. As this should be the first post that gets to Planet … Continue reading

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GNOME-2.18 stable, 2.14 cleanup

So the long-awaited (sorry about that) GNOME-2.18 has gone stable on most of architectures now. I would like to remind the GNOME-2.18 Upgrade Guide, which I also updated half an hour ago for some minor corrections. As Daniel already noted … Continue reading

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Heading for GUADEC 07 indeed

Just like Andreas, I will be heading to GUADEC as well and be there the whole week. So if you are there, then we should meet up! I might be even convinced to get stabilization of GNOME going in Gentoo … Continue reading

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gtk+-2.10 stabilization

News from the GNOME stabilization front: We decided to go back to stabilizing GNOME in at least two steps again. GTK+ and co in the first step, followed by the whole of GNOME as the second step. So there is … Continue reading

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GNOME pre-2.14 cleanup

I figure that as I haven’t really blogged much as of late, I could just as well note what my latest commit spree was about (related to that – go beat my todays commit count on cia.navi.cx in a productive … Continue reading

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GNOME-2.16 in unstable

Yes. That’s right. GNOME-2.16 is out of package.mask and now nearing your unstable ~arch systems closest mirror with the speed of, :-/, electrons. This is currently a 2.16.1 version of it. For the rare (sub)profiles using Linux kernel version 2.4, … Continue reading

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