Sebastian Bergmann - gentoo

PHP Vikinger

nospam@example.com (sb) — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:15:45 +0200

The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in Skien, Norway on June 24th an 25th. Like the famous Foo Camp and Bar Camp, PHP Vikinger is driven by its attendees. The people who come choose and present the sessions at the event.

Attendance is by a mix of invitation and registration. 50 invitations have been sent to various PEAR and PHP contributors and 50 spots are open for people who register. Additionally, the invitees have been asked to nominate another 50 people who should be invited to the event.

The event is meant to be as affordable as possible; registration is only 20 EUR, and simple food and a place to sleep are provided for the two days of the event. The major expense for most attendees will be the cost of traveling to Norway.

Registration will open May 1st.

GNOME 2.14

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:45:00 +0100

Beagle / Nautilus integration goodness in GNOME 2.14.

Zend Framework in Gentoo Linux

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:25:00 +0100

The Zend Framework, which is a high quality and open source framework for developing Web Applications and Web Services, is now available through Gentoo Linux's portage system:

wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -p ZendFramework

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/php-toolkit-1.0-r2
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-5.1.1
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ZendFramework-0.1.1

Enjoy!

FrOSCon 2006 - Call for {Papers|Projects}

nospam@example.com (sb) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:30:00 +0100

If you want to submit a talk for FrOSCon in June, you will have to hurry: The deadline for the call for papers is approaching.

Talks can be submitted until March, 15th 2006. The organizers ask for talks about free software and open source. Expert knowledge on programming languages, free software on the desktop, security, administration and networks is in demand. Talks about the philosophy of free software and experience with free software in business settings is another focus of the conference.

Besides the conference program, the organizers have a special offer for open source projects: Projects can apply for a developer room at FrOSCon. This room is managed by the project and can for example be used for developer meetings. Members of the project can meet in this room, exchange ideas, socialize and hack code. The conference provides the infrastructure.

Applications for developer rooms should be submitted until March, 31st 2006. Please include the name of the project, the number of participants you are expecting and the URL of the project's web site.

More information about the Call for Projects can be found here, information about developer rooms is available here.

FrOSCon takes place on June, 24th and 25th 2006 in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, Germany, and is a conference on Open Source and Free Software. It is organized by FrOSCon e.V, the department of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin (LUUSA) and the student body.

Xgl and Compiz

nospam@example.com (sb) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:30:00 +0100

Hanno has updated his overlay and I just installed his new Xgl and Compiz packages.

Here's how I did it:

Install the overlay.
emerge -NDuav world. This will update the x11-proto/glproto, media-libs/mesa, media-libs/glitz, and x11-libs/cairo packages to the current CVS versions.
emerge -av xgl compiz. This will install Xgl and Compiz.
cd /usr/bin && rm X && ln -s Xgl X. This changes the /usr/bin/X symlink from /usr/bin/Xorg (standard X.org 7.0) to /usr/bin/Xgl.
When logged into X, run LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/ compiz --replace decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher & and gnome-window-decorator &.

The screenshot above shows GNOME 2.13 running with the Compiz window-manager on top of Xgl.

eZ components in Gentoo Linux

nospam@example.com (sb) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:40:00 +0100

The eZ components, which provide an enterprise ready general purpose PHP platform, are now available through Gentoo Linux's portage system:

wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -vp ezc-eZcomponents

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/php-toolkit-1.0-r2  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-5.1.2  0 kB [3]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Base-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Database-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-PhpGenerator-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Configuration-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-ImageAnalysis-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Archive-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Translation-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Cache-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-ConsoleTools-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-PersistentObject-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-ImageConversion-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Mail-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-UserInput-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Debug-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-EventLog-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-Execution-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php5/ezc-eZcomponents-1.0_rc1  0 kB [2]

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/overlay/personal
 [2] /usr/local/overlay/cvs
 [3] /usr/local/overlay/php/testing
 [4] /usr/local/overlay/php/experimental
 [5] /usr/local/overlay/gentopia
 [6] /usr/local/overlay/xgl

Migration to GCC 4.1

nospam@example.com (sb) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:00:00 +0100

After upgrading from GCC 3.4 to GCC 4.0 a couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my notebooks's Gentoo Linux installation to the current snapshot of GCC 4.1 yesterday.

Like with the previous upgrade, the migration (upgrading GCC, followed by an emerge -e world) to GCC 4.1 went without problems.

FrOSCon 2006 - Call for Papers

nospam@example.com (sb) — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:50:00 +0100

The first Free and Open Source Conference ("FrOSCon") takes place on June, 24th and 25th 2006 in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, Germany.

Organized by a commited team, it aims to become a significant event for free software in the Rhineland. The conference is hosted by the faculty of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the student body and the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin.

In a Call for Papers, the organizers ask for submission of contributions. A broad variety of topics concerning free and open source software is desired. Particularly welcome are contributions about programming languages, free software on the desktop, security, systems administration and networks. Aspects of free software in busincess and industry are also a focus of the conference.

Contributions can be submitted in English or German and should summarize the intended talk concisely and succinctly; talks should range from 45 to 60 minutes in length. Deadline for submission is March, 15th 2006.

FrOSCon will offer Developer Rooms (just like FOSDEM does) to Open Source projects. These projects can use the rooms to organize developer meetings as well sub-conferences dedicated to their project. Projects that have already registered a room or are interesting in doing so include: Gentoo Linux, GNOME, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, OpenWRT, PHP, and Wikipedia.

Xgl

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:55:00 +0100

Following ~~Mike Doty's instructions~~ Hanno Böck's instructions, I built Xgl on my Gentoo Linux notebook.

To be able to switch between vanilla X.org 7.0 and Xgl, I expanded my xdm-setup init-script that I blogged about before.

/etc/init.d/xdm-setup

#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
  before xdm
}

start() {
  # Xgl ? Xgl : X
  if grep -q Xgl /proc/cmdline ; then
    cd /usr/bin && rm X && ln -s Xgl X
    cp /etc/xorg-conf/10-glxcompmgr /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
  else
    cd /usr/bin && rm X && ln -s Xorg X
    rm /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/10-glxcompmgr >/dev/null 2&>1
  fi

  # nvidia ? nvidia : xorg-x11
  if grep -q nvidia /proc/cmdline ; then
    if ! grep -q nvidia /etc/env.d/03opengl ; then
      eselect opengl set nvidia > /dev/null
    fi
  else
    if grep -q nvidia /etc/env.d/03opengl ; then
      eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > /dev/null
    fi
  fi

  # /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  if grep -q 0x360 /proc/cmdline ; then
    if grep -q nvidia /proc/cmdline ; then
      cp /etc/xorg-conf/single-nvidia-1280x800 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    else
      cp /etc/xorg-conf/single-nv-1280x800 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    fi
  else
    cp /etc/xorg-conf/dual-nvidia-1024x768 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  fi
}

/boot/grub/grub.conf

default 1
timeout 10

title=Internal LCD                                                  (X, nv)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x360 video=vesafb:mtrr:3

title=Internal LCD                                              (X, nvidia)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x360 video=vesafb:mtrr:3 X=nvidia

title=Internal LCD                                            (Xgl, nvidia)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x360 video=vesafb:mtrr:3 X=nvidia,Xgl

title=Internal LCD + External VGA                               (X, nvidia)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 video=vesafb:mtrr:3

/etc/xorg-conf/10-glxcompmgr

#! /bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/ glxcompmgr wobbly shadow &

A couple of notes:

~~Logging out of GNOME does not work, clicking on the corresponding menu entry or button has no effect.~~
~~Icons that are aligned by the top-left corner (just below the top-panel) are too close to the top-panel when Xgl/glxcompmgr is used.~~
~~I had to add a sleep 10 to make sure that glxcompmgr gets started after the desktop is fully loaded/initialized. Otherwise I would end up with a panel-less desktop.~~

My Current Desktop

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:45:00 +0100

This (#1, #2, #3) is what my Gentoo Linux powered notebook's desktop currently looks like.

Software used includes X.org 7.0, GNOME 2.12 (with gnome-themes and gtk-engines from GNOME 2.13), Clearlooks, Tango Icon Theme.

Lookback at 2005

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:59:00 +0100

The year started in January (obviously ;-) with the publication of my first book, "Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5".

In February I joined the Gentoo Linux development team, attended the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM), and launched a new website for PHPUnit.

In March I gave a presentation on PHPUnit at a meeting of the PHP Usergroup Cologne/Bonn which was hosted by O'Reilly Germany and went to Hannover for CeBIT.

It was in April that I started to work on the "PHPUnit Pocket Guide".

In May I spoke at the International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition in Amsterdam where I presented "Unit Tests with PHPUnit" and "PHP 5 - The Year After". A couple of days later I visited the PHP Usergroup in Hamburg where I gave two presentations.

June saw the release of the free HTML edition of my book "Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5". During LinuxTag we celebrated PHP's 10th Birthday.

In August I got myself a new camera, a Nikon D70s.

The "PHPUnit Pocket Guide" was published in October, during which I visited Amsterdam again, this time for the EuroOSCON conference.

November saw another incarnation of the great International PHP Conference in Frankfurt am Main. During my full-day tutorial on PHPUnit I released the free HTML version of the "PHPUnit Pocket Guide".

In December I started to work on PHPUnit 3.0 and upgraded my DSL line from T-DSL 1000 to T-DSL 6000 (including new DSL/WLAN hardware) after Christmas.

GCC 4.0.2 and OpenOffice.org 2.0.1

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:00:00 +0100

I recently updated to GCC 4.0.2 on my Gentoo Linux laptop. Today I built OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 with it and was amazed that the compilation took 2 hours and 20 minutes less than compiling OpenOffice.org 2.0.0 with GCC 3.4.4.

Kudos to the GCC Development Team!

T-Sinus 1054 data

nospam@example.com (sb) — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:50:08 +0100

I recently bought a T-Sinus 1054 data USB/WLAN (Intersil Cohiba IEEE 802.11g chipset) adapter that I have not yet got to work on Gentoo Linux (~amd64).

The device works, using ndiswrapper, on my Gentoo Linux (~amd64) notebook. But since there is no Windows XP 64 driver for the device, using ndiswrapper on my desktop is not an option.

Any hint on how to get this device to work would be much appreciated. The extended entry contains the output of "lsusb -v".
Continue reading "T-Sinus 1054 data"

X.org 7.0 RC2

nospam@example.com (sb) — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:35:00 +0100

Yesterday I upgraded the X.org installation on my Gentoo Linux notebook (nVidia GeForce 5200 Go) from x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc2 (changes since X.Org 6.8).

Here is how I did it:

Add the "Modular X" packages from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to /etc/portage/package.unmask.
$ echo "x11-base/xorg-x11 dri" >> /etc/portage/package.use
$ emerge -C xorg-x11 nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx synaptics
$ rm -rf /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11 && rm -rf /usr/lib/libGL*
$ emerge xorg-x11 xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-nv nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx synaptics
$ revdep-rebuild
$ ln -s /usr/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so (#111547)
Remove :unscaled from the FontPath entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (#112159).
Remove the ModulePath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (#112924).

The only problem (besides the three issues referenced above) that I have is that app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 does not build against the modular X yet (#112939). Binary packages like dev-java/blackdown-jdk are also reported to be broken by revdep-rebuild.

OpenOffice.org 2.0

nospam@example.com (sb) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:00:00 +0200

OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been released and thanks to Andreas Proschofsky we already have it in portage. Well done, Andreas!

I am looking forward, though, to some improvements in Gentoo Linux's OpenOffice.org 2.0 package like support for GCJ, Mono, and building against more system libraries to decrease compile-time.