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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml |
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 24 January 2005. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Gentoo/OpenSolaris |
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Only few hours ahead of the first of many components[1] of the complete |
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Solaris source code being publicly released under Sun's brand new, |
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OSI-approved CDDL open-source license, Gentoo is pleased to announce plans |
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to add OpenSolaris[2] support to Portage. Gentoo Senior Manager and |
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OpenSolaris pilot program participant, Pieter Van den Abeele, has been |
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working closely with Sun's management, legal and engineering teams to |
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prepare this move. Gentoo will be leveraging the hard work of long-time |
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Solaris users and Gentoo Developers-in-training Sunil Kumar and Jason |
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Wohlgemuth, whose "Portaris" project has been running on top of Solaris 9 |
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and 10 builds for quite a while already[3]. |
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1. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/23/0349259 |
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2. http://www.opensolaris.org |
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3. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040202-newsletter.xml#doc_chap4 |
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Figure 1.1: OpenSolaris + Looking Glass - an interesting alternative for |
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the open-source desktop market |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050124_looking-glass.jpg |
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With "Sun going back to its roots by open-sourcing the code," Pieter |
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expects OpenSolaris to have a huge impact on the open-source market. "With |
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their service and support network and their expertise, they can redefine |
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at least part of the open-source landscape in the enterprise," says |
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Pieter. And he expects Gentoo to become an important factor for |
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OpenSolaris' success: "We're able to build on prior experience with Gentoo |
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ports to non-Linux operating systems, we've had the technology preview of |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X[4], we've got developers working full-time on |
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Opendarwin support, and we're well out of the starting blocks for the race |
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to Gentoo-ifiedBSD kernels and userland applications[5]," he says. "But |
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even I wasn't quite prepared for my Sparc booting with a Gentoo |
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bootsplash," laughs Pieter. |
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4. http://www.metadistribution.org/macos |
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5. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/ |
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The unofficial Portaris[6] or "Portage for Solaris" project has been |
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maintaining Gentoo's package management system on top of Solaris 9 and 10 |
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systems. Its two biggest contributors, Sunil Kumar and Jason Wohlgemuth |
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(who, like Pieter, is a member of Sun's pilot program for open-sourcing |
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Solaris), have invested a tremendous amount of their time in this project, |
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culminating in a veritable installer for Solaris[7] that has been |
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available to a small, knowledgeable Solaris user community for several |
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months already. |
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6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=113387 |
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7. http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/solaris9/ |
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New kernel profiles for 2005.0 |
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In view of the 2005.0 release date, the Gentoo developers on the kernel |
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team have been working very hard amalgamating the sources in the Portage |
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tree. Since the 2.6 kernel tree will become the default for all supported |
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architectures except Sparc, the separate kernel categories in Portage are |
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being abolished and replaced by the same generic names formerly used for |
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the 2.4 versions of the same sources. This is the first time that the new |
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"cascading profiles" feature in Portage has been used to manage the |
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dependancy requirements of a package. In essence, this means that the same |
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package - say, gentoo-sources - will automatically decide whether its 2.6 |
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or 2.4 version is being requested, based on the specifications in the |
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chosen sub-profile. By linking /etc/make.profile to either the 2.4 or 2.6 |
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subprofile (whichever may exist for your profile) |
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in/usr/portage/profiles/default-[OS]/[arch]/2005.0/, you can choose which |
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one you want as your personal default, while the other version will be |
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masked.If you don't choose a subprofile, 2.6 will automatically become the |
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default, where applicable. |
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"If you're currently still running 2.4 kernels, but don't care all that |
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much about staying, this would be a perfect moment to switch," suggests |
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Gentoo kernel devJohn Mylchreest[8]. "We do recommend switching to 2.6 |
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wherever possible, and you can catch up on what's involved by reading our |
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kernel migration guide[9]." Sparc being the only architecture with a |
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number of unresolved issues preventing a move to 2.6 as default, the newer |
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version will become the standard for virtually everybody else. Users with |
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any of the following kernel sources currently installed on their systems |
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need to be aware that these are going to be removed at the same time as |
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the 2005.0 release. Their replacements are also listed: |
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8. johnm@g.o |
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9. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml |
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* development-sources will become vanilla-sources |
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* gentoo-dev-sources will become gentoo-sources |
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* rsbac-dev-sources will become rsbac-sources |
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* hardened-dev-sources will become hardened-sources |
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The switch is going to be automatic for users who follow a steady rsync |
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and emerge world diet. When the next version of their kernel sources |
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becomes available, an emerge --update will pull in the source tarball |
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under its new name, and update accordingly. While the Gentoo kernel team |
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recommends switching, this also works for users with specific reasons to |
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keep their 2.4 series: They just have to make sure they link to a 2.4 |
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subprofile, and emerge --update for them will consequently only fetch and |
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install newer versions in the 2.4 tree, not 2.6. |
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The move on to the new profile that sets 2.6 by default will involve |
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changing from the old linux26-headers to linux-headers at the same time. |
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An emerge glibc - or emerge system - may be a good idea at that point. |
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Except for the pegasos-dev-sources that have already been moved |
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topegasos-sources, the changeover will occur at the same time as the |
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2005.0 release. More detailed information, including specific instructions |
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for linking /etc/make.profile to the right subprofile will be made |
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available at that time. |
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Genesi Open Desktop Workstation sales - Gentoo Linux pre-installed |
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>From 1 March 2005, Luxembourg-based Genesi[10] will start selling their |
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Open Desktop Workstation in a configuration with Gentoo Linux |
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pre-installed - for a price of $999 USD, ten percent of which will be |
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donated to the Gentoo Foundation! Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi, explains the |
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new sponsoring deal: "For every workstation we sell thanks to a referral |
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from Gentoo's website, we'll donate 100 USD to the Foundation." As many |
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Gentoo users have been looking for attractive opportunities to support |
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Gentoo financially, sales are expected to soar now that the ODWs are |
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clearly benefitting the project as a whole. Moreover, Genesi is offering |
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their Gentoo-ified models at a considerable rebate compared to their own |
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standard offers of desktop and server configurations for $1399 and $1799 |
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USD. |
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10. http://www.genesi.lu |
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Figure 1.1: Open Desktop Workstations with Gentoo Linux/PPC, shipping soon! |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050124_odw.jpg |
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The Open Desktop Workstation is configured as follows: |
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* Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor |
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* 256MB of PC2100 DDR RAM |
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* CDRW drive |
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* 40GB ATA100 Hard Disk |
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* Radeon 9200SE 128MB AGP Graphics with DVI, VGA, and TV-Out |
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* Low profile small footprint case - tower or desktop orientation |
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Thirteen of these ODWs had previously been donated to Gentoo developers |
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for thorough testing and feature development, and consequently Gentoo |
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fully supports the PegasosPPC. The pre-installed version is based on the |
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2004.3 release of Gentoo Linux/PPC. |
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Pre-ordering is available right away. Sales will begin on 1 March 2005 - |
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detailed information about how to order will be sent to everyone |
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expressing interest. To be alerted when orders for the ODWs with Gentoo |
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Linux can be placed, send a message to odw@g.o. |
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2. Future Zone |
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Renovating the Forums - phpBB brush-up and other changes |
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Something's afoot in the Forums, and we asked one of the admins,Christian |
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Hartmann[11] (ian), what was going on. The following interview sheds some |
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light on what we can expect to happen in the very near future: |
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11. ian@g.o |
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Q: The Forums footer says: Powered by phpBB 2.0.x © 2001, 2002 phpBB |
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Group. What version are we actually using at the moment? |
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A: At the moment we are using a heavily patched version of the phpBB 2.0 |
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branch. All security related bugs have been patched. Furthermore we |
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applied some performance tweaks and other modifications[12]. |
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12. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040920-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1 |
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Q: Why aren't you just using a vanilla phpBB 2.0.11 instead? |
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A:That's a very frequently asked question. First of all we will indeed |
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switch to the latest stable phpBB release soon. Backporting all the |
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patches we applied to their 2.0.x codebase will almost be done by the time |
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you read this. |
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Q: What about all the feature requests in Gentoo Forums Feedback[13]? |
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13. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=5 |
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A: We look at every post in Gentoo Forums Feedback and know exactly what |
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our users demand. After installing the new forums software we will have a |
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look at implementing a lot of new and exciting stuff. Expect a period |
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where we'll have something new almost every week... |
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Q: Does that mean that you will also make use of mods? |
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A: Exactly! That is one of the reasons why we are switching to the latest |
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phpBB release. This will make adding modifications much easier. |
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Q: Adding modifications to the forums were a "no-no" for a long time. |
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Whatmade you change your mind? |
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A: Gentoo is project based entirely on the work of volunteers, and so is |
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its Infrastructure team. We just didn't have the resources to do any of |
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the more sophisticated things. Now that we do, it was about time we |
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changed our policy and started working on it. |
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Q: Talking about modifications and additions, what can we expect to see? |
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A: We'll have to move the forums web service to a different server soon, |
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and we'll start making use of the new forums software when switching to |
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that new server. The user hopefully will not even realize that we switched |
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to different software. It will be mostly the same as it is now, just with |
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a clean codebase, and with some of the earlier itches like the search |
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bug[14] ironed out. More corrections will be made to the language packs, |
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and after that we will add two more forums, one each for our Turkish and |
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our Arab users. There's a lot more on our todo-list, but we can talk about |
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those additions once we're done with the first batch. |
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14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=279845 |
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3. Gentoo security |
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Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Squid contains vulnerabilities in the the code handling NTLM (NT Lan |
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Manager), Gopher to HTML and WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol) which |
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could lead to denial of service and arbitrary code execution. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[15] |
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15. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-25.xml |
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ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow |
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ImageMagick is vulnerable to a heap overflow when decoding Photoshop |
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Document (PSD) files, which could lead to arbitrary code execution. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[16] |
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16. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-26.xml |
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Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to |
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run arbitrary code, crash the program or perform DoS by CPU and disk |
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utilization. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17] |
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17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-27.xml |
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Xpdf, GPdf: Stack overflow in Decrypt::makeFileKey2 |
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A stack overflow was discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in the |
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execution of arbitrary code. GPdf includes Xpdf code and therefore is |
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vulnerable to the same issue. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18] |
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18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-28.xml |
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Mailman: Cross-site scripting vulnerability |
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Mailman is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19] |
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19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-29.xml |
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CUPS: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code |
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CUPS includes Xpdf code and therefore is vulnerable to the recent stack |
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overflow issue, potentially resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary |
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code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20] |
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20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-30.xml |
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teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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teTeX, pTeX and CSTeX make use of vulnerable Xpdf code which may allow the |
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remote execution of arbitrary code. Furthermore, the xdvizilla script is |
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vulnerable to temporary file handling issues. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[21] |
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21. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-31.xml |
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KPdf, KOffice: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code |
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KPdf and KOffice both include vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, |
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making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[22] |
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22. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-32.xml |
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MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation |
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MySQL is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user |
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to overwrite arbitrary files. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[23] |
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23. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-33.xml |
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4. Gentoo International |
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Belgium: Gentoo Developer Meeting at FOSDEM ( |
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Gentoo will again be present at FOSDEM[24] in Brussels, the annual |
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non-commercial Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting. |
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It will take place at the Université Libre de Bruxelles[25] on the |
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weekend of 26 and 27 February. The Gentoo community will be represented by |
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more than 25 developers from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, |
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Denmark, Spain, Italy, and even the U.S. This time we have our own |
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Developers' Room[26], an amphitheatre with 59 seats, open on Saturday and |
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Sunday. |
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24. http://www.fosdem.org/ |
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25. http://www.ulb.be/ |
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26. http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_gentoo |
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A full schedule of presentations[27] has been set up by Gentoo's Fosdem |
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organizer for the Developers' room, Lars Weiler[28]. In addition to this, |
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one of Gentoo's portage developers, Marius Mauch[29], will give a |
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presentation about portage as part Fosdem's main track. |
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27. http://dev.gentoo.org/~pylon/fosdem-2005.html |
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28. pylon@g.o |
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29. http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/speakers/speakers_mauch |
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As usual we will also show hardware which is supported by Gentoo, like |
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Genesi's[30] PegasosPPC, an UltraSparc and an SGI Octane. Several MacMinis |
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are also expected to get thrown in the mix. Gentoo LiveCDs will be |
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available for purchase at FOSDEM. |
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30. http://www.genesi.lu/ |
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USA: CPLUG Security Conference (5 March) |
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Central PA Linux Users Group[31] will be hosting a Security Conference[32] |
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at Messiah College near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 5 March 2005. The |
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all-day event will feature several speakers covering topics with a |
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technical focus on Linux-related networking and security, including Gentoo |
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Hardened developer Brandon Hale[33] who will make a presentation on |
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"Advanced Memory Protections with Linux". Registrations have already |
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started and accomodation is provided by the organizers upon request. |
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Admission to the event is $5 USD, including lunch. |
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31. http://cplug.net/ |
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32. http://cplug.net/conference |
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33. zhen@g.o |
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5. Gentoo in the press |
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004 |
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Gentoos are "busily coming and going, squabbling and fighting, raucously |
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greeting each other," and - before you start thinking we're reporting from |
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a developer conference here - "stealing stones from their neighbours' |
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nests." Nah, we'd never do that, of course. Swedish photographer Lars-Olof |
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Johansson received a "Highly commended" mention at the BBC Wildlife |
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Magazine's and The Natural History Museum's "Wildlife Photographer of the |
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Year" contest, for his extraordinarily intimateshot of two Gentoo chicks |
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and their mother[34]. Disclaimer: We don't do that, either... |
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http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/wildwin/2004/ad_picnumb.dsml?catdescrip2=abb&posdescrip2=hc&picnumb=24 |
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6. Bugzilla |
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Summary |
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* Statistics |
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* Closed bug ranking |
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* New bug rankings |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[35]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 16 January 2005 and 23 January 2005, activity on |
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the site has resulted in: |
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35. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 990 new bugs during this period |
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* 546 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 35 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 7976 currently open bugs: 109 are labeled 'blocker', 230 are |
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labeled 'critical', and 593 are labeled 'major'. |
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Closed bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period |
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are: |
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* Gentoo KDE team[36], with 41 closed bugs[37] |
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* OpenOffice Team[38], with 27 closed bugs[39] |
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* Gentoo Games[40], with 26 closed bugs[41] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[42], with 21 closed bugs[43] |
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* Vim Maintainers[44], with 20 closed bugs[45] |
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* Java team[46], with 20 closed bugs[47] |
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* media-video herd[48], with 19 closed bugs[49] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[50], with 17 closed bugs[51] |
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36. kde@g.o |
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37. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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38. openoffice@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=openoffice@g.o |
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40. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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42. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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44. vim@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=vim@g.o |
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46. java@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@g.o |
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48. media-video@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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50. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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New bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during |
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this period are: |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[52], with 17 new bugs[53] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[54], with 17 new bugs[55] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[56], with 16 new bugs[57] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[58], with 14 new bugs[59] |
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* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[60], with 13 new |
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bugs[61] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[62], with 13 new bugs[63] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[64], with 12 new bugs[65] |
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* media-video herd[66], with 11 new bugs[67] |
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52. sound@g.o |
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53. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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54. gnome@g.o |
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55. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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56. x11@g.o |
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57. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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58. base-system@g.o |
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59. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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60. kernel@g.o |
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61. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=kernel@g.o |
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62. amd64@g.o |
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63. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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64. kde@g.o |
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65. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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66. media-video@g.o |
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67. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-01-16&chfieldto=2005-01-23&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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7. Tips and Tricks |
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|
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Watching logfiles on your desktop: root-tail |
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-------------------------------------------- |
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A good sysadmin should be able to take care of what's going on his system |
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at any time. To keep up with what's going on it would be best to see the |
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logfiles just scrolling by on the desktop, but most utilities, like tail |
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-f, cannot handle more than one file at a time. Moreover, it's a little |
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tricky to configure a terminal so that it becomes borderless and |
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transparent. |
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|
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Enter x11-terms/root-tail[68]. This handy utility opens a window on your |
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desktop and lets you look at any given logfile's entries as they're made. |
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There is only one problem: Most modern Window Managers occupy the desktop |
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and show a background-image on it. But there are workarounds, and one (for |
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xfce4) is shown here: |
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68. http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=root-tail |
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|
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| Code Listing 7.1: | |
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|Script for starting root-tail in | |
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xfce4---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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--- |
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| | |
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|#!/bin/bash | |
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|deskid=`xwininfo -int -name 'Desktop' | grep 'Desktop' | awk -F' ' '{ | |
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print $4 }';` |
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|root-tail -g 900x150+50+575 -font 6x10 -outline -minspace -id ${deskid} | |
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-f \ |
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| /var/log/emerge.log,yellow \ | |
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| /var/log/messages,lightblue | |
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| | |
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|
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This script will find out the PID of xfce4's desktop-process, then |
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forkroot-tail into the background with a given size, place and font upon |
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the desktop where the ID is now known, and will show two logfiles, |
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printing messages in different colours. Bear in mind that if you are using |
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a localized environemnt, Desktop could be named differently, of course. |
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8. Moves, adds, and changes |
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=========================== |
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|
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Moves |
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|
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
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|
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* None this week |
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|
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Adds |
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---- |
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|
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: |
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|
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* Fernando J. Pereda (ferdy) - net-mail |
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|
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Changes |
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------- |
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|
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux |
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project: |
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|
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* None this week |
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9. Contribute to GWN |
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==================== |
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|
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Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an |
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email[69]. |
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69. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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10. GWN feedback |
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Please send us your feedback[70] and help make the GWN better. |
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70. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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To subscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to |
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gentoo-gwn-subscribe@g.o. |
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* Portuguese (Portugal)[80] |
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* Spanish[82] |
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71. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml |
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72. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml |
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73. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |
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74. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml |
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75. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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76. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml |
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77. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml |
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78. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml |
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79. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml |
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80. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml |
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81. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml |
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82. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml |
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83. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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