For those living under a rock, Gnome 2.13.1 has been released and I’m working on getting it into the BMG overlay. So far I haven’t noticed any real breakage, however the new version of libgsf does require a quick revdep-rebuild as it changes .so naming. I hope to have it all committed by this evening, [...]

There’s more than a little truth here… How unfortunate. Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here.

I know it’s no longer my primary concern, but it still amazes me to see the FUD coming from a few Gentoo devs about BreakMyGentoo. After all the work Joem and I did during the last two releases to bring our ebuilds up to the “Gentoo QA Standard”, someone comes along and makes brain-dead remarks [...]

I’ve just installed the new Gnome beta release (overview, announcement) and am thrilled with the feature improvements so far. I know it’s a beta release, but it’s been stable and haven’t found much of any breakage… yet… I couldn’t get evolution to compile and run, but I’ve chatted with a few folks and apparently there’s [...]

I’m migrating our work server over to a complete RAID setup (software) and needed to find a way to migrate the system partitions over to RAID 1 with a minimum of hassle. I found this how-to and was able to follow most of it verbatim for my test run, but I thought I’d post the [...]