Archive for April, 2005

Linux workflow during the “bitkeeper debacle”

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

At the beginning of this month, Larry McVoy of Bitmover fame stated that his company was going to phase out the free (as in beer) Bitkeeper client that a number of Linux developers use. As a result of this, Linus Torvalds took a week to figure out alternatives to Bitkeeper, and finally, not finding anything [...]

Linux spreading ;-)

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

Yesterday my girlfriend and I decided to rent a bike to have a little trip, as it was sunny there. We went to the bike renting station, which is a service from the local collectivity with attractive prices (1 € for the afternoon). I saw that the software they use runs on some kind of [...]

“The kernel SCM saga”

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Looks like the free-as-in-beer Bitkeeper will soon disappear. You probably read about it all over the internet so I don’t have to explain the causes and consequences of this Bitmover decision.
I personnally don’t care very much, as I don’t hack on Linux quite enough to need such a solution. A few scripts to handle the [...]

Gentoo & OS X

Friday, April 1st, 2005

After trying to upgrade gnome on my iBook running gentoo, I found myself waiting a few hours for it to compile everything. And then, when reopening my session, nothing worked anymore (nautilus dying, applets dying, …). As the only other Linux PPC CD I have at home is a really out of date Debian (realize [...]

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