Florent Thoumie

My flatmate (formerly my friend) is complaining cause I’m not talking about it him in my blog. I’m having a hard time trying to get into his head that this is a technical blog but let’s talk about him for a change.

His name is Nicolas. He’s like … 26. He recently got a job at IBM in Clontarf (D3) as Software Engineer. We’ve been sharing this apartment in Stillorgan for around 10 months now (he’s been there first, approximately 7/8 months before I moved in).

So, we went to the Barge in Ranelagh (D6) last saturday (6/1/2007) for a couple of pints and there was a birthday party on the first floor I guess. Anyway, I think he fell in love with half the women in that part of the pub, so if you’re a woman and you were there, please leave him a message on his blog

I’m finally back from France so I can focus on (important) work.

I’ve added compiz 0.3.6 to the exp tree and updated beryl to 0.1.4 (still have to add heliodor and aquamarine). I’ve also updated a few ports and fixed some issues (dri detection on !i386, removed sun drivers from the build on !sparc64). At the same time I updated the instructions to upgrade xorg from 6.9 to 7.2-RC2 in the wiki so if you have time, please test and report both success and failures.

Tomorrow I’ll create a xdist-lite port to install a minimal X.org distribution. If you still have unresolved issues with the current git tree, please send me an email (I obviously accept patches ). Marius sent me a diff to improve sparc64 support which will be committed also tomorrow.

Edit: I forgot to mention FreeBSD/beryl got youtube’d