December 2006 Archives

Thanks to Dojo for Intel Development Hardware!

By Benjamin Reed on December 20, 2006 4:13 PM | 1 Comment

When I went to OSCON 2006, I ran into Alex Russell of dojo and sitepen fame. He mentioned that they used Fink a lot (especially KDE) and wanted to help out.

Yesterday, I was walking out the door to head to work, and the doorbell rang. Fresh from the FedEx guy was a nice shiny new core duo 2 mac mini!

I've got it configured to the point that I can use it, and now need to get my KDE stuff building on it. This should cut the time it takes to build KDE down to the order of hours instead of days... (Even with distcc, it took 4 or 5 days to do a full build from qt up on my laptop.)

Thanks again!

Updates Since Um... A Long Time Ago

By Benjamin Reed on December 4, 2006 11:01 PM | No Comments

I've been working on packages and catching up on quite a bit of stuff for a while now, but hadn't gotten around to posting about it, so I guess it's time to do so. :)

I've got some more coming down the line -- a big reworking of the PostgreSQL packages (including 8.2) as well as a few other things. At that point, I should actually be reasonably caught up.

Big Updates:

  • KDE: finally got 3.5.5 out the door. Mostly just version bumps, although I did add some code to allow you to easily disable quartz-wm for clipboard synchronization (in some cases, folks were seeing quartz-wm hog memory with a huge leak). You can do so by adding export DISABLE_PROXY=1 in your .xinitrc before you run startkde.
  • Mono: various Mono updates, including a number of compile fixes and stuff. Everything (but MonoDevelop, as always) works now on OSX. Yay!

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