Moonshine enters FreeBSD Ports
I’ve had the port locally for some time, but since the tree was frozen and there was no rush to commit it, I forgot about it. Anyway, here it is!
Also, I added the pulseaudio option (on by default) to the moonlight port, which makes the moonshine experience much more interesting.
When everybody’s talking about Moonlight 2.0 Preview, we’re finally getting somewhere with 1.0 
Moonlight 1.0 coming to a ports tree near you
I was blogging about it the other day, and (for a change) it took longer than I first announced, but here it is!
I just committed my moonlight port (based on moonlight 1.0 release). Now bear in mind this is still a work in progress. I’ve experienced issues with Firefox 3 so support is disabled for now. Also, moonlight requires pulseaudio for sound support which I haven’t tried yet, so the port doesn’t support it. If you happen to have pulseaudio installed, I’d say moonlight will detect it and hopefully it will just work. I’m interested if you have feedback about this.
If you want to start playing around with it, go to http://www.silverlight.net/.
Moonlight on FreeBSD, bling bling, whizzzz
The title may be a bit too exciting, but that’s how you catch people’s attention.
Anyway, yesterday was one of these days where I mumble about an app that Linux guys have and we don’t. This time it was Moonlight. I looked at it a few months ago and I couldn’t get it to work after a few minutes so I just forgot about it. I mean, how often had I visited a website that required Silverlight… Never. Since then… well not so often, I think it happened once actually, to see a trailer for a PS3 game.
If you’re a Mono-enthusiast, you probably rejoyced a few days ago when I merged Mono 2.0.1 (thank the guys at #bsd-sharp, I’m just the messenger). Mono and c-sharp ports are moving faster these days. I know there are quite a few new ports that will enter the CVS repository quite soon (including gnome-do).
Back to Moonlight. This time I decided I would spend more time on it, because of that reason I gave in the first paragraph. There’s been a lot of buzz around it because of the Obama Inauguration. Also Moonlight 1.0 was released a couple days ago. After a couple of hours, I got something working. The port isn’t ready for the public yet, cause there’s still some polishing left to do, but I’ve uploaded a xpi installer for people who want to try it. Here it is (also here, or here, or there). I hope to finish the port and have it in CVS by monday.
FreeBSD Mono mailing list inauguration
I dropped an email to postmaster@ yesterday to get the freebsd-mono@ mailing list created and David Wolfskill created it today. Time to subscribe now!
End of X.org exp-run, starting mono exp-run
I think I’ve fixed everything there was to fix to merge X.org 7.4 in the tree. Except open-motif, which means 300+ ports are in duds right now. Open-motif is quite old in the ports tree (2.2.x) and requires Xprint, which I have removed. The update to 2.3.x is ready but I still need to bump PORTREVISION on ports that depend on it and fix what breaks.
In the meantime, I’ve started the mono experimental run. I don’t expect much fallout so it’s highly likely to hit the tree before X.org.
Waiting for new mono, here’s a new banshee
Banshee 1.4.2 was released yesterday. It comes with a handful of fixes. I don’t get the startup-at-freeze bug anymore, which is cool since it’s basically the only one I’ve encountered so far.
A few people have been working behind the scenes on FreeBSD/Mono for some time now. Wesley Shields (wxs@) sent a patch an hour ago which I’ll run through pointyhat once my X.org exp-run #3 finishes.
Hopefully mono 2.0.1 (I’ve been told 2.2 is in the works) should enter ports soon enough (along with a few ports updates). Stay tuned!
Banshee hits FreeBSD Ports
I’ve had a local half-baked port of banshee for quite a while now. I’ve finally made the extra effort to make it a bit cleaner. This is basically the minimal set of features you can get, there’s no iPod support, no MTP support either. There are probably some rough edges, but now it’s there and people can test it.
Have fun!