Some of us attended this years FOSDEM in Brussels (thanks to Dimitry it was really, really great). We (at least the ones attending) got to know each other a bit better (I even got to know some pre Gentoo devs .. yeah, you), and some time after FOSDEM (I think it was ~3 days afterwards), Petteri (betelgeuse) asked me why people all of the sudden start to call him with his first name on IRC. ...
OK, as some of you have noticed; I prepared my box for the new toolchain, recompiled the stuff Kevin mentioned in the exact same order wrote down in his README, and it looks like it actually works with all my stuff I have on my box; except sys-libs/grub! sigh Apparently, grub segfaults at boot and/or while running it from the chroot in the exact same spot, the new QA warnings complain about .. ...
The last three days have been quite amazing, I’m still stunned by all these impressions (basically meeting all those people you usually know though IRC), how nice people can be if they want (yeah dad, I’m talking about you 😛) Although I was pretty sad about leaving so early (I think, if I’m going to attend next year, I’m going by train and starting on Monday morning so I got one night more in Brussels), I’m also quite happy to be home again, as I was pretty phreaked (haha, self-pun intended) by all those people. ...
Today, I got up again at 0630 ugh went to bath, woke up Torsten, afterwards the mystery guy and went downstairs to get some breakfast. I ate some cornflakes and some bread along with a glass of chilled orange juice, then went back up to get all our stuff and prepare the room the way we found it. After we finished that, we went downstairs and met Alex along the way went to the cars and Torsten led us to the university. I went to the booth and noticed that Torsten and me where the only ones that early at the booth. So we sat down for a moment, cleaned up the booth space a bit and finally sat again preparing the notebooks. ...
So, as I earlier mentioned, we finally found the U.L.B. and also found the booth and staffed it for nearly the whole day (I haven’t managed to view any of the speeches, neither one of the Gentoo ones nor any of the others), I talked to some interested people asking about Gentoo itself, but also asking about the EFIKA’s (the Genesi PPC’s), one by Camille and Julien providing video forwarding (from one EFIKA to another via cross-over cable), and the other one by Chris playing Descent 2 and Quake 2 at the end. Peter (I think the PR guy from Genesi Europe, will have to ask Chris / Mike again). ...
We arrived in Brussels on Friday around 2230, since we kept searching the centre of Brussels, we really tried hard since we didn’t have a map, we tried navigating by bus cards (which was quite fun). So after we finally found the city centre (which is quite bad signposted), we went to the pub supposedly having the free beer, but they told us the FOSDEM area was closed due to christel drinking all beer (just kidding), but we did find Pylon and kugelfang I think. ...
OK, as Diego posted earlier last week, to switch to something else than xine-ui ( #161913 is really annoying), I decided to use codeine. It looks nice so far, supports what I need, so everything is fine now. Thanks to Diego for the heads-up.
I had a very moving year with Gentoo. At first I only focussed on the stuff I already had (being vServer / openVZ related stuff), but later on also on suspend2-sources and other stuff I took over back when Hendrik retired. Sometime this year (I think it was somewhere in the early summer) I joined up with the kernel herd, helped out Daniel while he was moving from London(?) to Boston, took over hardened-sources from John (who’s pretty much away). I had a rough break (you remember, the break that turned out to be my most active time) in October till late November, while fighting with my private life and work. ...
Today (OK, it’s yesterday now, it’s again after 12:00) I had a little fun with pappy (Alexander Gabert) preparing 2.6.18 for prime time 😀 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $ ls -AGg 2.6.18 -rw-r--r-- 1 1593 Jan 25 23:25 1500_cvs-2007-1000.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 797 Jan 25 23:25 4000_deprecate-sk98lin.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 32192 Jan 25 23:25 4105_dm-bbr.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 125781 Jan 25 23:25 4300_squashfs-3.1.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 5710 Jan 25 23:25 4405_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 864955 Jan 25 23:25 4450_grsec-2.1.9-2.6.18.6-200611100917.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 910 Jan 25 23:25 4451_grsec-2.1.9-2.6.18.2-mute-warnings.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 1034 Jan 25 23:25 4452_selinux-avc_audit-log-curr_ip-grsec.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 2097 Jan 25 23:25 4453_pax_curr_ip-fixes.patch So far all patches are applying fine and according to Alexander it even works on his workstation. But I’ll wait for Steve/Ned to get back to me telling me if this release works for them or not (as they had serious issues with their hardened desktops - something about the cursor being stuck in the corners). ...
OK, today I finally took the steps of adding Hans (that’s Hans de Graaf), and just after I kicked him from #gentoo-dev so he gets his +o and suddenly Astinus took over .. but see for yourself 😀 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (15:28) < @Astinus> graaff: So graaff, what'd they con^H^H^persuade you into doing? (15:29) < @phreak``> Astinus: xemacs ;-) (15:29) < @Astinus> phreak``: hah! (15:31) < @graaff> Astinus: yes, xemacs, and when all of that is in order I'll see if I can help out with ruby and/or gnome (15:32) < @Astinus> graaff: to the former, good luck ;) to the latter, are you suicidal? ;-P (15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: actually it seem like he is :D (15:32) < @Astinus> phreak``: Excellent, I see you went through the recruiting checklist thoroughly (15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: lol (15:32) * graaff thinks better than to engage in a troll-fest about gnome on his first day (15:32) < @Astinus> (a) Should be suicidal to a degree less than ciaranm (15:32) < @Astinus> (b) should have a passion for Gentoo, but not the stalking developer kind (15:33) < @Astinus> graaff: ;-P (15:33) < @Astinus> graaff: *bait*