Florent Thoumie

As you may have noticed, freebsd blog stuff has been down lately. Erwin was hosting everything and apache crashed while he was away. For some reason, people with root access to the machine couldn’t restart it and Erwin isn’t supposed to come back before a few days.

I decided to move everything to my own server, [...]

I haven’t blogged about this in a few weeks so I figured that could be a good time to give everybody an update.

It has been decided that the X11BASE to LOCALBASE migration would happen when we merge the new X.org in the ports tree. The necessary infrastructure changes have been done but some ports are [...]

With help from mlaier and sam, I finally committed my first significant contribution to the src tree.

Few months ago, anholt gave me email addresses of people at Intel that would be willing to discuss terms under which we could redistribute their firmwares. After a few emails (and some months), we came to an agreement. I [...]

I guess it’s time to review what I’ve done for the past year. Not much actually. I’ve focused on X.org ports while trying to get my ports up-to-date. There’s also the USE_LDCONFIG variable.

Anyway, I think I can tell that this was a very unproductive year. I guess I’ve spent too much time playing games and [...]