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Name: Elvis Pfützenreuter
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After 12 years, I still work with computers, and I currently work in mobile apps. I also keep an open-source IEEE 11073-20601 stack library (Antidote). This stack is used by Personal Health devices.

Wow, about 3/2 months without a diary entry!

I was on vacation between 20001225 and 20010107. Meantime I learnt some things about navigation, seatides and astronomical orientation. Quite nice pieces of "unuseable" culture ;)

As of the beggining of the year, I am one of the Conectiva "buildmasters" (as Claudio Matsuoka, big IQ and a nice person to work with.) The rightwingers are 0wn1n6 the distribution now ! Beware rudá ! ;)

KDE 2.1 (still in beta stage but susprisingly stable, even better than 2.01) is almost out, our packages are ready.

I am really happy with Brazilian Government's initiative to build cheap PCs (US$ 200) with Linux, KDE, Koffice and Konqueror. Of course, I am KDE-biased, but the real great news is that Linux will be the "fist OS" of a lot of people. Definitively, the govt is at least *trying* to make the Right Thing (TM) sometimes ;)

A lot of small changes in initscripts. It became a real good program IMHO, with the best algorithms to solve dependency trees etc. This weekend I will make a "proofread" in it to try to squash the last conceptual bugs, if any.

The "sound server" chapter of my life is finished ;) KDE/aRts team accepted a patch from me that implements a "suspend" method, for softwares like KRecord that need to own /dev/dsp. It will be available in KDE 2.1. For KDE 2.01, it introduces binary incompatibility, so I cannot use the patch right now, because as a distribution we have to enforce binary compatibility with KDE-2-compliant binary packages out there.

Talked about CUPS, sound servers, KDE and initscriptsNG in irc://irc.uninet.edu/#linux last Saturday. Got a bit nervous, so my English output was not the best possible ;) Next time it will roll more smoothly. People seemed to like.

Modified initscriptsNG, so /sbin/iniscripts now supports user calls like that:
initservices start smb sshd bla bla bla
It solves dependencies, starts services that are needed for those explicitely asked etc. In "initservices stop", it will ignore services that user has asked to stop but are needed by other ones that would be still running after initservices stop.

pam_mount 0.3.1 has been released a few days ago, with another bugfix patch from Norway.

In the day-to-day work, lots of small things here and there that take a lot of time. I expect to finish KDE 2.01 packaging this week once and for all.

Another interesting thing I've been working on is the use of sound servers, to allow (among a lot of other things) the mix of n sound sources without hardware support for multiple DSP streams. I have tested KDE's aRts a lot. With a LD_PRELOAD trick, most programs will be fooled to play into aRts than to /dev/dsp. The only thing aRts is really lacking is some program to support RECORDING. aRts needs full-duplex in soundboard to support recording, and most of soundboards out there (e.g. notebooks) does not support that.

Today I proposed my initscriptsNG (initscripts with dependencies between services) to LSB. I exchanged some ideas with Richard Gooch but it seems that we have very different ideas of what a boot system should be (he wants something that is easy/clean for people that maintain the system using vi; while I aim for compatibility and transparency for newbies). So I sent the proposal to LSB, since some persons there seem to want the same things as me.

Anyway, what I want is to provoke a decision. Whatever boot system "wins" (Gooch, Clausen, mine), I will be happy to work to improve it.

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