News Update - Dec. 04, 2008
Dec 5, 2008
- Built a MT-Daapd Linux appliance to share my music at home.
Installed it in a machine with 1GB of RAM and am now as happy as I
can be. The whole thing weighs in at 237MB (I’ve included vim,
openssh, libogg plus a few other nuggets) and off course everything
is managed by the awesome
conary technology. I’ve also
added ushare (upnp support) and am hoping to make it so that sharing
videos and music can be all done via a web interface. I haven’t made
the installable ISO or VMWare image available yet but will do it
soon.
- Speaking of other technologies, I’ve been playing with a MacBook
these last 2 days and am generally happy with the experience.
Everything just… works! What? No need to tweak configuration
files? With the exception of the lack of a right-click button, so
far I give it 2 thumbs up.
- Since we’re talking about operating systems, I was really glad to
see that Foresight Linux has been
awarded the 2008 Ovatio
Award
as the Distribution of the Year, and honor that is shared with
its other green cousin, openSUSE. I have
been running Foresight for over 2 years now and I just cannot
imagine any other distribution that would give me the same
flexibility, stability and coolness combo. You want to see a
distribution that knows how to be a first citizen in the upstream
world? Come talk to me on #foresight on Freenode.
- Speaking of being a good citizen with upstream projects, if you
speak Brazilian Portuguese you’ll be glad to know that the
GNOME, KDE,
XFCE, and Openbox
desktop environments are in excelente shape as far as the
localization effort goes. The Brazilian translation team for
Fedora has also done a great job at
delivering a localized desktop with their latest release! Now, I
don’t know where you get your translations but if it isn’t being
pulled (without modifications) from upstream, good luck pal!
- Finally, between the many hours I have put into work these days
(ever wonder why I haven’t blogged much? now you know) I have
managed to mess around with Django to scratch a need. If I were to
describe what I think about this framework using as few words as
possible, w00t and teh aw3s0m3 comes to mind! By the way, writing
code with 2 other guys while discussing ideas over Skype? Great XP
experience for those who cannot afford to travel!