Today I got a small box in the post containing an obsolete iPaq I bought off eBay for 50 bucks. I’m expecting another one next week. These are my Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 test devices, to allow me to get Mandriva’s WM2002/2003 sync support into line with the WM5+ support I already worked on [...]
So, thanks to the fine work of the WebKit team - particularly the GTK+ port - Mandriva can now achieve 100/100 on the Acid3 web standards compliance test. I’d include a picture, but I’m not in a position to upload them right now.
Cooker users can test with webkit-0-0.32531.2mdv2009.0 and either use Midori (package ‘midori’) or [...]
Yes, well, it’s not nice to whine, but…check this out. That’s the most important news in the Linux world from the last week, according to Slashdot.
Notice anything missing, perhaps?
Yep, according to Slashdot, a preview release of Granular Linux, a vague Gartner report on the future of open source, Red Hat sending out a press release [...]
Yes, it’s finally done. And for the first time…well…possibly ever? Certainly since I can recall, anyway…it’s on time. In fact, a day early, really, as our initial plan set release for the 10th.
Yep, 2008 Spring is done, we stuck a fork in it and sent it to the mirrors this morning. Early seeding has been [...]
Following on from my last post - I cleaned up the Windows Mobile 5+ sync support even more, and tested that it works from a completely clean install of 2008 Spring. And then I made a video, and now I’m sending it to the world.
The video shows me installing the metapackage for WM5/6 + [...]
So somehow, last night and today, I’ve more or less dropped everything else and been working on making it *really easy* to use Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices connected via USB in 2008 Spring. Happily, I’m making a lot of progress.
This was the state of play as of a couple of days ago:
Nothing at [...]
So as the Bugzilla mail piles up happily in my inbox (I’m glad it’s an electronic inbox, if it was a real one, it would have toppled over and caused me a serious head injury by now), I spent today doing…other things.
The What’s Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Wiki is [...]
Yep, the 2008 Spring pre-release cycle just hit the late beta…err, I mean, release candidate…stage. RC1 has lots of juicy stuff, including the new look for 2008 Spring (which is very pretty), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.1, some new default applications, the drakconnect / ndiswrapper bug finally fixed!, WPA-EAP support, new NVIDIA / ATI drivers, and [...]
So, um, I don’t do this often, but I could do with some help.
Basically: I am drowning in an unending sea of bugs.
Last year we set up a much better process for handling bugs than we previously had. There is now a proper policy for bugs defining exactly what can, should, and can’t be done [...]
I decided today that I really hadn’t had enough crazy hardware hackery in my life lately.
I’ve been planning for a while to buy a new desktop, replacing the laptop I’ve been using as my only client system for the last year and a half. This was mainly due to a few irritants with the laptop:
one, [...]