Entries from December 2006 ↓

Today I received a file to add zh_TW (Traditional Chinese) to Smart. It’s commited on SVN trunk r845. Thanks to Swyear.

My friend Aurelio has just released a new version of txt2tags (2.4). Keep up the good work!

Tem coisas que só a Microsoft faz por você:

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E os brasileiros que se danem…

[UPDATE]: Atendendo a pedidos, segue link com um texto similar.

Não sei porque, mas continuo lendo sobre essas comparações entre LCD e Plasma, mesmo depois de já ter me decidido por uma LCD. Mais uma da série relacionada à TV digital.

I’ve be giving Fedora a try (because I need to, I’ll explain later). It makes me realize how bad is to have fixed ideas about solving a problem, which is common when you need to deal with some different concepts in a regular basis for quite some time. So it felt really strange when I switched from Slackware (my first distro) to RedHat, then to Conectiva, Mandriva, SUSE and now Fedora.

This really feels strange. Even more because I’m switching from KDE to Gnome. I’m having a very hard time finding the things around. The apps that should be the equivalents of K3B (Gnomebaker) and Amarok (Rhythmbox) may be really tight to the Gnome HIG, but they are far (far) away from being user friendly, and would need to grow up for ages before being real competitors to their KDE counterparts. Hey, this is my opinion. You’re free to disagree.

Kudos to the SUSE developers on how they managed to build a x86_64 distribution. Fedora is just a big nightmare when comes to that. I may be wrong, but it doesn’t look like they’re paying too much attention on that matter. Explaining the problems I’m having with it (mostly browser, plugins, duplicated packages, repository problems, etc) would need a separate post, which I don’t feel I’m up to write at the moment.

And may I say that, I don’t know why, Yum behaves differently on Fedora than it does on SUSE (don’t ask me to explain), which makes me feel very comfortable to, once more, say out loud that Smart is, definitely, the most comprehensible, stable and easy to use package manager.

Well, I guess I don’t have much to say for now. This post is not a review, neither a comparison, is just a follow up on what I’ve been doing. Maybe I’ll post some more on this matter when when I fell I won’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Maybe some few of you know my pet project called pmping. I know it’s frozen for a long time, but I still have some (few) users for it. One of them just wrote to tell me that the beep2 project site is offline, so I just decided to put a copy of the file on my pmping site. If someone is using it on SUSE, you can find the beep2 RPMs on my repository.

Since I’m planning to share some more personal photographs in my Flickr page, I decided to license them under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License, until further investigation of all of it’s derivatives and consequences.

Today Raúl Moratalla sent an updated smart.po for es_ES. Now Smart is also 100% translated to spanish. Thanks to him! (Commited into SVN r840)

Later when issue99 was filled I coded a solution which wasn’t very nice and clear regarding coding style, so it got removed from the main sources before going into any released version.

Today, after some fixes and improvements, the ‘–dump’ option has been commited again into Smart’s SVN trunk (r839), with a little change from the original implementation: there is only a single option called ‘–dump’. If you wan to dump the package names without the versions, you would need ’smart -o dump-versions=False –dump’ (or make it permanent with ’smart config –set dump-versions=False’). Here is an example output:

# smart install eclipse --dump -o dump-versions=False
Loading cache...
Updating cache...          ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...
ant
eclipse
eclipse-gtk2
eclipse-platform
eclipse-scripts
jakarta-commons-logging
libswt3-gtk2
regexp
servletapi4
xerces-j2

–en

I’ve put some photographs from nature and landscapes on Flickr (including the original 4.1 mega pixel files). I’ll be uploading some more when I get some free time to organize them.

–pt_BR

Fiz o upload de algumas fotos de natureza e paisagens para o Flickr (incluindo os arquivos originais de 4.1 mega pixel). Estarei disponibilizando outras quando tiver mais tempo livre para organizá-la.