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Back to Adobe® Flash™ Player
Jul 14th
After 4 weeks using exclusively Gnash as flash player, I have switched back to Adobe® Flash™ Player.
Though I had found workarounds for major video sites (including Youtube and DailyMotion), I have had a lot of issues with musical websites, most of them being still designed in Flash™.
To use Adobe® Flash™ Player on my amd64 desktops, I have used Bart Marten’s workaround described in the Debian wiki. It works fine though the player randomly crashes on some websites, and the browser needs to be restarted so that it works again.
This 4-week experience was fine, but I am a little bit puzzled that there is still no usable free flash player. Hopefuly, things will improve over time… the sooner, the better!
DSPAM 3.9.0 released!
Jan 12th
The DSPAM team have just announced their first official release, one year after the project was taken over by the Community.
You can download the sources from the SourceForge project.
Unofficial Debian packages are being built right now, but will only be uploaded to my repository after a bit more testing, during the week-end I guess.
They are meant to be uploaded to the official Debian archive once they are considered as ready by the pkg-dspam team.
Hopefully, they will be part of Squeeze.
Things I like in Ubuntu
Dec 6th
Though I haven’t used (and won’t use) Ubuntu, it has a few things I appreciate (as far as I know them):
Ubuntu One: I wish we could have something similar for Debian users (ideally, it should be extended so that we could sync our calendars, contacts, liferea data etc.).
usb-creator: seems the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick containing a complete and customisable environment. I am aware of the existence Debian Live, but I must say I haven’t given it a try yet.
Desktop orientation: Ubuntu users are in a large majority desktop users. Ubuntu is imho desktop-oriented, and I particularly like the artwork coherence (from boot loader to default desktop).
Switched to GIT
Nov 22nd
After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.
rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.
This page on the wiki has helped a lot.
I now need to learn how to use this tool, but my first tests are very encouraging.
I haven’t had to change my packaging workflow, switching from svn-buildpackage to git-buildpackage.
I am even able to build i386 packages on my amd64 machine as before without the need to change anything in my ~/.pbuilderrc.
Converted my packages to 3.0 (quilt) source format
Nov 22nd
I have now finished converted most of the packages I maintain (part of the official archive or not) to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format.
I first had to switch from dpatch or cdbs’ simple-patchsys to quilt, which was easy thanks to Romain Francoise’s old blog post.
Also note this quick adaptation for cdbs:
for i in $(ls debian/patches/*.patch); do \ I=$(basename $i | sed 's/.patch$//'); \ quilt import -P $I.diff $i; \ done
The rest was much easier than what I thought, thanks to the related page on the wiki.
I have already tried uploading a package to my personal repository, and reprepro just worked as expected.
Start compiz (or any non-default WM) automatically with GNOME
Oct 25th
I have just noticed the latest gnome-session package doesn’t use compiz as default WM if installed.
I have had to found the right way starting it for my session, anf finally found the following was the easiest and cleanest solution:
echo export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compiz >> ~/.gnomerc
Writing it here so that I can find it again…
