Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Planet FreeBSD Related Websites

Following a discussion on IRC, I created a new planet for some FreeBSD related websites. I try to select and/or filter only FreeBSD-related entries of the chosen websites but it’s not always so easy, so you may find some !FreeBSD content on it. The list still is quite short, if you’d like to suggest some more websites, just drop me an email.

I’ve fixed the links on the right (thanks Maledictu for the report) and splitted the Links section into Planet Flavours and Links.

Also, I’d like to call for talented (or not) CSS/XHTML people around here. I like the current style of Planet FreeBSD but it’s not really fancy. So if you feel like doing something better than the other Planets, drop me an email and we’ll try to arrange something. Note that you won’t get any money, but you may become rich and famous after I put your name on the website :-)

FreeBSD work for this month

Well, it’s not over yet, but I’ve a plan!

First, I’d like to say that I’m delighted to see that joel’s perforce digest got so much attention :-)

Some days ago, following a mail from linimon, I upgraded google-earth to 4.0.1660, which lead to two problems: first, filename collision (4.0.1563 and 4.0.1660 distfiles are named GoogleEarthLinux.bin) so I had to hack something to avoid this (easy enough); and secondly, 4.0.1660 just doesn’t work, which is more of a problem, because I can’t really do anything. Anyway, I sent two bug reports on Google Earth website addressing these two issues. We’ll see what happens.

I just upgraded libtorrent-devel and rtorrent-devel ports to their latest releases. Earlier today, I updated iwi-firmware-kmod so that people tracking RELENG_6 can use the latest changes from sam and mlaier (MFC’ed yesterday).

I noticed yesterday that WordPressMU had released a 1.0.rc.2 version. Knowing how broken the current snapshot running on bsdblogs was, I decided to upgrade it. I upgraded bsdblogs-beta yesterday and since nobody reported problems, I upgraded bsdblogs today. Hopefully, this should be much more stable. Time will tell.

Now my TODO list contains: fixing the etcdir/prefix mess in HEAD’s rc.subr, make a patch to Planet to make upgrades a bit easier and finally continue my work on a bugtracker for FreeBSD powered by Django. Well there are quite a few other things that I’m planning to do but these need to be sorted out quickly.