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FOSDEM – here we go

Friday, February 5th, 2010 | FOSDEM, FSCONS, Free Software, GNU, Software, Uncategorized, X11, conference, event | No Comments

… having finished a hectic period I must say that leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning feels great. I will team up with Daniel Stenberg, Magnus Hagander and of course some GNUs, I know that some of the people at last year’s GNU Hackers Meeting (held the days before FSCONS) will come over to FOSDEM as well . Going to be great meeting Brian Gough and Jose E. Marchesi while I am not stressed of work overload, GHM planning and FSCONS planning. Brian and Jose were organising the GNU Hackers Meeting with me.    … and as always I’ll team up with the FSFE folks.

As for the presentations I will surely go and see:

• Sylvain Beucler talk about GNU Savannah: 100% free software mass-hosting

a topic I find interesting for many reasons, more on that later

• Daniel Stenberg talk about Rockbox: open source firmware replacement for music players

since I missed Daniel talk about this at FSCONS. As a FSCONS organiser I can’t just sit

• Mirko Lindner, Jon Phillips talk about Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

I missed Mirko’s presentation at FSCONS as well …. always on the move at FSCONS

And, of course I hope I will be able to do some business (Sandklef GNU Labs) down there. During some breaks I will prepare some presentations at “my” University next week and also prepare a Free Software presentation for a company later on in February (more on that later).

This year I’ll be traveling with Andreas Nilsson and Jeremiah Foster.  Same procedure as last year…

see you there

… did you see how I managed to mention FSCONS 6 times (including that very last)

swinput 0.7.4 is out

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Free Software, Non GNU, Software, X11, swinput | No Comments

Minor stuff to get swinput to work on Linux 2.6.30 (and above?)

Download 0.7.4 here:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=swinput

… and thanks Jesse W for not haunting me for being late

GNU Xnee in maemo.org

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | Debian, Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Software, X11 | No Comments

Got a note from Jeremiah Foster that Xnee is now available on the maemo device.

Read more:

http://maemo.org/development/tools/doc/diablo/xnee/

RECORD extension malfunctions, Xnee too

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | Debian, Free Software, GNU, GNU Xnee, Software, X11, archlinux, gentoo | 4 Comments

There seems to be an issue with the RECORD extension in Xorg.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3722

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21971

http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2009/04/28/gnu-xnee-303-ready-is-xorg-version-160/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/315456

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/379432

I will do my best to find a workaround for Xnee (the one I came up with yesterday didn’t work that well   )  and also focus on solving the problem in X.