Kernel 2.6.24 with Zen patchset

18 febbraio 2008 - Fonte: http://gianvito.wordpress.com

Zen sources is a branch of “linux26 git sources” (the original linux sources)

 

zen sources

It’s aim is to be “A stable and featurefull kernel patchset.”
as there is written on the official thread on “GENTOO FORUMS”

I use it in the last month and i have to say it’s very stable and fast thanks to his custom configuration panel in the “make (x)gconfig” window… Sometimes there are problems related to compilation process but i have to say that they’re soon fixed in the git repository after a few hours.

Some links:

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Emesene-svn

18 febbraio 2008 - Fonte: http://gianvito.wordpress.com

Now we talk about emesene… A really interesting MSN MESSENGER clone.

emesene

In the last revisions… Has been introduced “Send File Support”

Even if this support is still a little bugged (as all software at all)… it’s a good thing… and now we haven’t to change to another messeger client to send file

ArchLinux installation:

If we want to checkout everyday developers work… we can use PKGBUILD on aur related to emesene-svn (if we use archlinux)

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Glipper

18 febbraio 2008 - Fonte: http://gianvito.wordpress.com

Today i want to talk you about an interesting clipboard manager for GNOME.

glipper

How many “right and copy” have you done in a day… Glipper collects them for you.

So if you want to go back to your previous “copy” with glipper you can

So let’s see how to install it on archlinux

It’s so simple… If you have Community repo enabled… open a terminal and write

sudo pacman -Sy glipper (or only -S if you don’t want to update your repos)

Then click with the right mouse button on the panel and click on Add to panel…

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Compiz-git and ArchLinux

18 febbraio 2008 - Fonte: http://gianvito.wordpress.com

Archlinux is a really fast distribution…

Archlinux

A way to get compiz taken from git available on your distribution is to get PKGBUILDs from AUR or use yaourt

It’s simple… If you are sure to have 3d acceleration activated on your machine get tarballs from this links and save them in a folder…

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