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Gnosis is a non-profit organization that intends to expand the free software philosofy. We're working on some projects and some days ago terceiro (a friend of mine) discovered a problem with URL encode on websvn, a software that we are using on Gnosis for browse our Subversion repositories.

I wrote a patch for it and sent to Debian. This was fixed. Ok, it was very simple but as I'm not a programmer I'm very happy. Mainly for Gnosis has made its first code contribution.

I'm very happy for it!! I decided to post a short tutorial for help other people:

Setting up VGA out in your Ibook using Xorg

I saw many people trying unsuccessfuly to setup the VGA out feature of their ibooks (using a non-macos, of course). I intend to show here how to setup the VGA out using Xorg. I use Debian GNU/Linux, and I have super cow powers by using APT ;o) but this can be useful for other distributions too.

So, the first step is install Xorg. There is a good project called Debian-Desktop where are compiled and packaged some importants programs that still aren't on the oficial Debian mirrors. You can use a PPC version of Xorg provided by Debian-Desktop, adding this line in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/xorg-6.8.2/ sarge main

It also works well on Debian SID. Now you just run these commands:

aptitude update
aptitude install xserver-xorg

You can get my xorg.conf here and put it in your /etc/X11/ dir. It's working very well on my ibook G4 1Ghz.

Thanks to otavio, the man that really has found this solution for us.

1) I've sent my first patch for Debian :o) Ok, it's a very simple code but I think will be useful (#298885)

2) My first Debian package was accepted. Ewiki is a wiki-wiki tool wrote in PHP and is used for debian-br team. (#286037). Thanks, Otavio!

3) I finished the first version of my second debian package, BBClone. Just is missing the ITP. Thanks, kov! I know you'll find some mistakes anyway...

A important notice for brazilians: The Second Free Software Festival of Bahia (II Festival Software Livre Bahia) has a new date: april 8, 9 and 10. The causes was a problem with the meeting local. Here in Bahia we aren't sponsored by Estate, and maybe it be the true cause of some problems... Ok, I hope to be all right now.

for LTSP users: help us to populate a worldmap here.

I intend to finish this script for general purposes, I like so much these worldmaps :o)

Oh, I'm testing some features here... Sorry...

I have finished a debian package called ewiki. Erfurt Wiki is a cool wikiwikiweb that is used for Debian Brasil website. Maybe ewiki will be in Debian Sid this week. Thanks to Otavio Salvador.

*&@#*&^ j2re don't works in PPC. Any idea?

hard time... Why not 36 hours? I'm in love. Ibook is very cool. My son. I'm happy because I found a j2re for ppc. Here a script to install it and create a sim link to mozilla e firefox (ps: not tested!!):

#!/bin/sh
# ver 0.7
# Copyright (C) 2002 Kevyn Shortell (kevyn@mac.com)
# Modified by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz (tiago at debian-ba.org)
#       - to get new version of the j2re
#       - to suport mozilla-firefox
# This script will download and install the j2re files required for java
# support and configure Mozilla for Yellow Dog Linux systems
#

 #
# Notify user of what we are about to do

 echo "Attempting to get j2re (10MB file) from ftp.tux.org"
echo "Depending on your network connection this could take a while..."

 #
# Change directories to the target destination and start wget

 cd /usr/lib/
wget http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/java-linux/JDK-1.3.1/ppc/FCS-02b/j2re-1.3.1-02b-FCS-linux-ppc.bin
#wget ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.3.1/ppc/FCS-02a/j2re-1.3.1-02a-FCS-linux-ppc.bin

 #
# Test to see if j2re file is installed

 if [ -f /usr/lib/j2re-1.3.1-02b-FCS-linux-ppc.bin ]
then

 #
# j2re comes in a binary format, set as executable and run

 chmod a+x j2re-1.3.1-02b-FCS-linux-ppc.bin
echo "Now installing the Java 2 Runtime Enviroment"
./j2re-1.3.1-02b-FCS-linux-ppc.bin
#
# Clean up the mess

 echo "Cleaning up installer files..."
rm j2re-1.3.1-02b-FCS-linux-ppc.bin

 #
# Make the symlink for Mozilla

 echo "Making symlink for Mozilla"
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.3.1/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so ./

 echo "Making symlink for Mozilla Firefox"
cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.3.1/plugin/ppc/mozilla-firefox/javaplugin_oji.so ./


 #
# Make the symlink for java

 echo "Making symlink for /bin/java"
ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.3.1/bin/java /bin/java

 #
# Finished, tell the user
echo "Java2 runtime enviroment installation complete"

 else

 echo "Error: Java2 run-time install files could not be found,"
echo " please verify your network settings. Now exiting"

 fi

Bye...

Yeahh!! Finally my ibook arrived!! More than one month waiting... So, I'm downloading Debian PPC netinst to install tomorrow in my ibook. For a great hardware, the best OS. I'll write news about this on next days. I intend to write a howto about installing Debian in ibook for brazilians users that can't read in english. I'm very happy, it's is my first portable machine, I never had a notebook or something like this... I don't sleep today.