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One more Savane release.

Not much to say, New release of Savane today.

Savane project need people interested in maintaining Savane for distributions like Debian, Fedora extras. If you think you have the profile, you appreciate Savane enough and want to be involved in Libre Software development and distribution in the long-run, please go ahead, start reading docs of the distributions you use and like and start the packaging work. :)

Looking for a nice shell prompt? Add the following in your .bashrc:

red='\[\033[0;31m\]'
RED='\[\033[1;31m\]'
green='\[\033[0;32m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[1;32m\]'
yellow='\[\033[0;33m\]'
YELLOW='\[\033[1;33m\]'
blue='\[\033[0;34m\]'
BLUE='\[\033[1;34m\]'
magenta='\[\033[0;35m\]'
MAGENTA='\[\033[1;35m\]'
cyan='\[\033[0;36m\]'
CYAN='\[\033[1;36m\]'
grey='\[\033[0;37m\]'
GREY='\[\033[1;30m\]'
NC='\[\033[0m\]'

   showuser=''
  if [ "`id -u`" != 0 ]; then showuser="\u@"; fi
  hostnamecontent=`cat /etc/hostname`
  showchroot=''
  if [ "$hostnamecontent" != $HOSTNAME ]; then showchroot="*$hostnamecontent"; fi
  PS1="${yellow}\$(date +%H:%M),\! ${cyan}${showuser}\h${showchroot}:${green}\w${NC}\n  ${grey}"'\$'"${NC} "
  # Define a nice correct PROMPT_COMMAND, which will update to window title,
  # only if we have an X terminal
  case $TERM in
    aterm|eterm|*xterm|konsole|kterm|rxvt|wterm)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}${showchroot}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
  esac
 

Linux « stable » branch is definitely a meaningless concept. udev and all its ramifications happens on a branch. It already caused 2 of my 4 own computers to be down for a reason or another. Sure udev is great. But it is definitely not production ready.

Linux is now like MS Windows in matter of release policy. Branded stable but not really.

zanee, that's funny, I always thought the standard US assault rifle was the M16, not the M14. Apparently, I'm not the only one.

Hum, you might be interested to know there's a new Savane release.

Published integcheck 1.0.4 today (a bit late, this release was ready in September already). Rant about some guys that confused a bug report with a place to discuss about some software else latest changes.

I had suddenly no longer any image with xv (blue screen) or xvidix (green screen) with a radeon 9600 pro and xorg. The only strange thing I found in the logs was an error about automatically detected VideoRAM. Xorg was guessing the card had 128MB while it actually have 256MB. Adding in VideoRam 262144 in xorg.conf did the trick.

Weird, isn't it?

Playing video with GNU/Linux is still really messy.

Update: it's surely a good day to find bugs. Previously, I reported linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: bug #334843: Oops suddenly appearing after a video card change and today, I had to try to trace the cause of this bug in order to check why suddenly ardour/jackd sound output was all fucked up. I guessed it was due to the fact that I switched back to 2.6.8 due to bug #334843. And I was right, actually the sound is clean only with 2.6.12... and it was hddtemp that was killing the kernel while doing a scan of devices -- quite odd that linux was killed due to a scan of a DVD device without temperature probe, quite odd that this occurs only with a given video card. I posted a report against hddtemp, not yet in the online debian database though... Well, I'm not sure I should mention jackd issue with 2.6.8...

I received today two Cowon iAudio 5 (one for me and one for my girlfriend)... They works perfectly: support ogg vorbis, works like a charm with GNU/Linux. That's really nice.