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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 9 October 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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X.Org 7.1 to enter stable for amd64 and x86 |
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The Gentoo X11 team[1] plans to stabilize X.Org 7.1 for x86 and amd64 on |
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or after Thursday, 12 October. The lack of binary driver support |
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previously held up this release, but Nvidia and ATI released compatible |
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versions that are now marked stable on both architectures. |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11 |
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This release features the addition of accelerated indirect GLX (AIGLX), |
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which allows for eye candy such as the Compiz window/compositing manager, |
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as well as running 3D accelerated display walls with Xdmx. X.Org 7.1 also |
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integrates the kdrive (TinyX) servers for embedded systems into the |
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xorg-server package with the kdrive USE flag. The kdrive integration |
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additionally provides Xephyr, an enhanced Xnest-like client. Numerous |
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video drivers also received significant updates. |
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Safe CFLAGS |
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Being able to tune CFLAGS is part of the user control and extreme |
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configurability that are hallmarks of the Gentoo experience[2]. Being in |
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control brings both benefits and problems. CFLAGS tuning is not an |
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exception. |
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2. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml |
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Using anything beyond -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march/-mcpu/-mtune in |
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CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS (and -mieee, -mabi etc. on selected archs that tell you |
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to do this), and using anything at all in LDFLAGS or ASFLAGS, is usually |
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not worth the trouble for most users. There's usually very little benefit, |
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if any, high risks, and large amounts of time spent on frustrating tuning |
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that could be enjoyed doing far more interesting things. |
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The recent upgrade to GCC 4.1 for stable x86 and amd64 users changed the |
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CFLAGS landscape. Users that spent some time tuning their CFLAGS with GCC |
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3.4 might find that an upgrade to GCC 4.1 leaves them with an unstable |
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system. |
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Examples of this are: |
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* nss_ldap stopped working with -ffast-math (-ffast-math is often misused |
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and must be considered a dangerous flag) |
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* -fvisibility-inlines-hidden still breaks some code |
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* -ftree-loop-linear now breaks in GCC 4.1 (at least with mesa) |
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* -ftree-vectorize is known to be broken in GCC 4.1 (at least for x86 and |
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ppc, there are fewer problems reported by amd64 users, but no guarantees) |
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* -fforce-addr and -fweb break regularly on x86 with video libraries or |
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graphic processing apps which use hand-optimized assembly (-fweb may be |
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safe on amd64 but like above no guarantees) |
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There are known-to-be-broken flags for all GCC versions that you want to |
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check for too: |
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* -fvisibility=hidden |
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* -frename-registers (may be safe on amd64, at your own risks) |
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* -ftracer |
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* -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 |
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* -msse, -mmmx, and -m3dnow (no need for them on amd64, they are wrapped |
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up by -march=k8/nocona/... and safely used there) |
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* -W |
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* -mfpmath=sse,387 |
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* -malign-double |
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Users with unsupported CFLAGS might want to return to safe CFLAGS (see |
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warning above) if recent updates caused them stability problems. On the |
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other hand, more adventurous users might want to experiment with CFLAGS |
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that didn't work properly with GCC 3.4.6... As always, the user is in |
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control (and the gun pointed to their feet is in his/her hand). |
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Final notes: |
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* The GCC man page contains warnings for some unsafe optimization |
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options. You should read it carefully when you experiment with CFLAGS or |
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upgrade GCC on a CFLAGS-customized Gentoo. |
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* Some options that are unsafe in the system-wide CFLAGS might be added |
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automatically in some ebuilds if the developer deems them safe (by |
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redefining CFLAGS or using append-flags from the flag-o-matic eclass). For |
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example -ffast-math is added by the xmame/xmess ebuilds on most |
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architectures even though you should not put it in your CFLAGS. |
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* You might get an idea of the stability issues of a specific |
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optimization option by running: find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild' | xargs |
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grep -- '-your-risky-optimization-option'. It takes quite some time, but |
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might be enlightening: look for the 'filter-flags'. |
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2. Developer of the week |
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." - |
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Daniel Ostrow, dostrow |
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Figure 2.1: Daniel Ostrow |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20061009_dostrow.jpg |
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Developer Daniel Ostrow, also known as dostrow, was born and raised in |
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Michigan. Though he claims to be a New Yorker, at least in spirit -- |
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spending 16 years there could do that -- he currently resides just outside |
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San Francisco, CA. Daniel lives alone, though he plans to get a cat one |
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he's settled. When living with his family back in NY, Daniel lived with |
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three cats, some fish, a turtle, and a nine foot snake. |
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Dostrow learned pretty early on that college wasn't for him, though he did |
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work for a while towards a degree in Interdisciplinary Marine Psych/Bio, |
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specializing in marine mammals, quite the far cry from the computer geek |
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he admits to having always been. Daniel says that in due time, he will |
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eventually get around to a degree in something or other. |
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Daniel works for a Human Resources web service company, Workstream, which |
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provides both on premise and hosted solutions for the entire HR life |
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cycle, from recruitment to termination. While he was hired because of his |
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affiliation with Gentoo, he is, alas, not paid to work on Gentoo. His job |
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title is that of Senior Systems Engineer. Daniel sums up his job as being |
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loaned to other departments to make the impossible, possible. While this |
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sounds a bit unsettling, he enjoys always being kept on his toes and the |
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fact that he is never working on one thing long enough to get bored with |
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it. Workstream is a CentOS/Solaris/Windows shop, but Daniel managed to |
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squeeze in Gentoo on a server that needed a custom patched kernel and his |
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own local workstation. |
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Being an active Gentoo developer is a skill that Daniel describes as being |
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invaluable in the work place. He is able to apply the same skills required |
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to be a good developer (being an effective administrator, a logical |
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thinker, and a tinkerer at heart) easily to most any IT job. |
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When not working, dostrow indulges in his animation obsession, basically |
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vegging out in front of the TV. He partakes in the pretty standard |
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activities, going to the San Francisco clubs and bars or taking in a |
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movie. He loves Star Wars (lots and lots) and dance music. His favorite DJ |
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is currently Armin Van Buuren, though Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk, and Ferry |
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Corsten are all at the top of his list. He likes techno so much that |
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Daniel makes it to the Ultra Music Festival in Florida every year. Oh |
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yeah, did we mention that Daniel loves Star Wars? If that wasn't enough, |
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he also admits to a hobby of archery. The neatest place that dostrow has |
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traveled to? Definitely his month-long trip to eastern Asia where he had |
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the opportunity to hit up Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taiwan. |
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Dostrow started his *nix experience using NetBSD and went through a phase |
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of trying multiple Linux distributions. He found his way to Gentoo in the |
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1.4_rc1 days, but found that a number of frustrating 'linuxisms' |
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confounded him, so he moved on to other distributions. He found his way |
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back to Gentoo after having familiarized himself with Linux. He attributes |
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his early successes to the assistance of the Gentoo community (and gives |
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shouts to Pylon and pvdabeel for their early help in getting his first PPC |
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up and running). Dostrow continued to hang out in #gentoo-ppc, submitting |
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patches and writing new ebuilds for out of date packages. He was quickly |
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recruited by pvdabeel in May of 2004. His primary roles are with PPC64 and |
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XFCE. He absolutely loves XFCE, having recently acquired the hardware to |
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maintain it on every supported architecture. |
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Daniel boasts quite the home computer collection, consisting of an x86 |
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Dell laptop and desktop, two AMD64 systems and an AMD64 Acer Ferrari, an |
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Alpha, an HPPA, an ARM, two PPC's, two PPC64's, a few Sparcs, a MIPS box, |
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and an IA64. Not too surprising, the first application dostrow launches is |
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XFCE, followed by urxvt, gaim, xchat, and evolution. |
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3. Heard in the community |
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forums.gentoo.org |
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Goodbye my Gentoo servers, I hardly knew you |
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Forums user kashani writes about his experiences with using Gentoo Linux |
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as a replacement for CentOS at http://jumpcut.com/ prior to being bought |
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by Yahoo! two weeks ago. The post starts with talking about how the |
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conversion was begun with the support servers, then the development |
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servers, followed soon by staging and production. |
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* http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-504541.html |
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gentoo-user |
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OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD |
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Devon Miller owns a SanDisk Sans E260, a flash-based MP3 player with a |
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slot for additional SD card storage. Devon was able to mount the flash |
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drive but not the SD card. Steve McGrath (who'd had a similar problem with |
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a 5-in-1 card reader) advised Devon to recompile his kernel with the |
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option "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" selected under Device |
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Drivers->SCSI device support. Devon reported problem solved. |
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* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/171570 |
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Allow a user to restart net.wlan0 |
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In order to deal with intermittent NIC failures on his son's machine, Mark |
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Knecht needed to allow a non-root user to run the command |
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/etc/init.d/wlan0 restart. Mark Shields and Devon Miller advised him to |
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use visudo to add "username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0" to |
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the /etc/sudoers file. Ian Buchanan's suggested alternative was "username |
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ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart" which would allow only |
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the restarting of the service. |
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Nick Rout and Alexander Skwar pointed out that the Atheros card might work |
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better with the madwifi-ng driver in lieu of the ndiswrapper-ed Windows |
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driver which Knecht had been using. |
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* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/171551 |
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4. Gentoo in the press |
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NewsForge (6 Oct 2006) |
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Benetech CTO, Dr. Patrick Ball talks about open source software and Gentoo |
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in particular. |
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Ball's personal desktop is a Gentoo Linux box. "I've used Gentoo for |
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years, because it was a lot of fun and it taught me a lot about how to |
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administer a machine," he says, noting its unique |
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choose-and-compile-everything philosophy. But he also says that you're not |
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caught out on a limb when you use it -- the people who use and support and |
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develop it are there to help you. |
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"The community is really strong and they're responsive at different |
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levels," he says. "Other [free software communities] are responsive maybe |
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at the newbie level or way out at the expert level, whereas Gentoo is |
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there across all levels -- they don't flame you with Eric Raymond's URL |
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and tell you to get lost." |
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While Benetech had previously chosen Red Hat and Gentoo for its desktops, |
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today they're all running Ubuntu. Ball cited Ubuntu's ease of setup and |
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installation as the reason for the switch. "If you have to roll out 10 or |
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15 machines, Gentoo's [inconvenient]. Most of our machines are Kubuntu, |
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but there are a couple of GNOME people in our organization." |
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http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/09/29/1827208.shtml?tid=39&tid=150&tid=132 |
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Linux Magazin (Nov 2006) |
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Germany's Linux Magazin has published an article about |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org and layman in the November edition of their |
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print magazine. The article, entitled "Community-basiertes |
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Qualitätsmanagement" (Community-based Quality Management), talks about how |
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Gentoo demonstrates how a strong interaction with the community breaks |
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with traditional quality assurance procedures and still produces a stable |
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result. |
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German-speaking members of the community should pick up the November |
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edition of the magazine for the article, as it is not available online. |
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* http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/11 |
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http://gunnarwrobel.de/blog/english/technical/gentoo/german_linux_magazine_ |
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publishes_article_on_overlays.gentoo.org_and_layman.html |
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5. Gentoo developer moves |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: |
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* Tim Yamin (plasmaroo) |
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* Gregorio Guidi (greg_g) |
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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl) crypto team |
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* Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro) sci-* team |
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* Timothy Redaelli (drizzt) Gentoo/FreeBSD |
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Changes |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: |
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* none this week |
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6. Gentoo security |
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Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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The Mozilla Foundation has reported multiple security vulnerabilities |
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related to Mozilla Thunderbird. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[3] |
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3. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml |
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Adobe Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution |
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Multiple input validation errors have been identified that allow arbitrary |
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code execution on a user's system via the handling of malicious Flash |
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files. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[4] |
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4. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-02.xml |
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ncompress: Buffer Underflow |
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A buffer underflow vulnerability has been reported in ncompress allowing |
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for the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[5] |
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5. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml |
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7. 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[6]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 01 October 2006 and 08 October 2006, activity on |
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the site has resulted in: |
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6. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 748 new bugs during this period |
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* 584 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 34 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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* 213 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this |
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period |
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* 166 bugs marked as duplicates during this period |
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Of the 11080 currently open bugs: 33 are labeled 'blocker', 121 are |
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labeled 'critical', and 505 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 Games[7], with 43 closed bugs[8] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[9], with 42 closed bugs[10] |
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* AMD64 Project[11], with 28 closed bugs[12] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[13], with 24 closed bugs[14] |
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* Portage team[15], with 21 closed bugs[16] |
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* Xavier Neys[17], with 19 closed bugs[18] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[19], with 14 closed bugs[20] |
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* Gentoo Ruby Team[21], with 11 closed bugs[22] |
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7. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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9. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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11. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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13. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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15. dev-portage@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@g.o |
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17. neysx@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@g.o |
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19. maintainer-needed@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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21. ruby@g.o |
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22. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ruby@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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* Default Assignee for New Packages[23], with 29 new bugs[24] |
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* Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[25], with 20 new bugs[26] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[27], with 13 new bugs[28] |
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* Mozilla Gentoo Team[29], with 10 new bugs[30] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[31], with 9 new bugs[32] |
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* Gentoo Games[33], with 8 new bugs[34] |
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* AMD64 Project[35], with 8 new bugs[36] |
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* Java team[37], with 7 new bugs[38] |
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23. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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24. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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25. pclouds@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=pclouds@g.o |
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27. maintainer-needed@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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29. mozilla@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o |
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31. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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33. games@g.o |
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34. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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35. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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37. java@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-10-01&chfieldto=2006-10-08&assigned_to=java@g.o |
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to help with the package and keep it alive. The GWN staff hopes to make |
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Package: Removal date: Contact: |
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app-emulation/vmware-workstation-3.2.1 27 Oct 06 Chris Gianelloni[40] |
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games-fps/quake3-truecombat 27 Oct 06 Chris Gianelloni[41] |
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net-mail/quotient 28 Oct 06 Christian Heim[42] |
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media-radio/ax25-tools 29 Oct 06 Christian Heim[43] |
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x11-libs/buffy 29 Oct 06 Christian Heim[44] |
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net-im/gabber 01 Nov 06 Olivier Crête[45] |
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net-im/jabbero 01 Nov 06 Olivier Crête[46] |
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media-sound/fobbit 03 Nov 06 Diego Pettenò[47] |
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sys-apps/sal-client 05 Nov 06 Christian Heim[48] |
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40. wolf31o2@g.o |
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41. wolf31o2@g.o |
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42. phreak@g.o |
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