The Final Zone project

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00955.html That topic on Fedora-Devel list reminds the 4KSTACK saga that was not supported by Nvidia for 4 months in Fedora Core 2 time. What is also interesting was the Xorg 7.1 breakage with current Nvidia drivers are done by a Nvidia developer. Complaining that a third party package won't work on a system like Fedora Core 5 because of Xorg 7.1 is not a good way to solve the problem. After, users relying on closed binary driver can choose to not update.

It has been almost two weeks without PC as the motherboard based on NForce3 broke. Even though it is under warranty, it will take times before getting a brand new one. As a consequence, I cannot work on packages like gdesklets. I will see how I will manage to translate some wikis though.

Sans surprise de ma part, la France a remporté la victoire sur le Brésil 1-0 avec sa défense impressionant et se qualifie pour le demi-final contre le Portugal qui a gagné contre l'Angleterre 3-1 sur le penalty. En regardant le match, il est évident que l'équipe française connaissait le ske style brésilien et tient avantage de la faiblesse: limiter l'espace d'ouverture pour les attaquants brésilien. Pour la troisième fois depuis 1986, la France a du succès contre le Brésil ce qui rend fier mon collègue MrTom.

There is an extension from joga.com that provide more details about world cup football (soccer in North America) result. Unfortunately, it won't install on Fedora version of Firefox even though it is 1.5.x.y. It looks like a bug from joga,com. I submitted a bug report so hopefully joga.com will fix it. Joga football extension ---- joga.com fournit une extension de resultat de la coup du monde de football. Malheureusemnt, cette extension ne fonctionne pas sur la version Fedora de Firefox. J'ai envoyé un courriel à joga.com concernant le problème. Pourvu que le bogue soit fix&eacute.

Following MrTom's (Thomas Canniot) suggestion, a poll is posted on fedoraforum.org about the new icon sets theme for Fedora Core. The feedback are worth a reading as it might provide some point to improve. Hopefully this kind of information will be useful for Diana Fong and Máirín Duffy.

Togo team played well despite the loss against Korea Republic 2-1 and less player. Let's hope they can do better. France and Switzerland made a scoreless tie. The former lack some finess while the latter made a excellent job on defense. Brazil won against Croatia 1-0. Although the former didn't play their full potential, the latter didn't give up and manage to cause trouble on Brazilian defense.

Thanks to Fedora XGL repository blog , my FC5 x86_64 is now running XGL. One notice change is the removal of window tab preference inside Desktop--> Preference --> Themes. The animation is quite impressive as it reminds the Luminocity experiment provided by Seth Nickell and company. As pointed out before, XGL requires hardware accelerator and extras dependancies such as xorg-x11-server-xgl. On a system running with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of RAM and a Nvidia Geforce 5600XT, the performance is good with very few ram consumption. I haven't a chance to test AIGLX as the open source version of Nvidia driver "nv" is not supported at the moment. It appears these technologies demonstrate how fast the open source projects evolve.

Being a great football (not soccer, I wonder who came with this word fan, I can't resist to watch one of match. Currently Germany leads 2-1 agaisnt Costa Rica. Étant un fanatique de football (soccer, connais pas), je ne peux resister à regarder l'une des match. Présentement, l'Allemagne mène 2-1 contre Costa Rica.

After a year of contribution to Fedora Project and also Fedora News, I decided to become Fedora Ambassador of Vancouver, Canada. One thing I will have to deal is some people are very afraid of change. The task might be challenging but a small action can make a big leap.

According to this Press Release via OS News , it appears Sun Microsystems allow the redistribution of their Java development for Linux distributions under a new license called Operation System Distributor's License for Java or in short "Distro License for Java". Currently, only binaries are licensed as the source code is not available for the public although SUN promise to open source Java . I wonder if that announcement will affect the whole GCJ on which Fedora Project is focusing. Pour les francophones: Selon cette note de presse via OS News, Sun Microsystems permet la redistribution des binaires Java pour les distribution de Linux sous la nouvelle license nomm&ecaute;e License des distros pour Java . Je me demande si cette annonce affectera le développement de GCJ.

After reading this topic on Fedora Forum, I modified the fedora-core.repo and fedora-update.repo to enable i386 support on my Fedora Core 5 x86_64. Yumex method worked fine except during the update which caused conflict between two architectures because of the variable $basearch. Currently, setting "i386" constance is the only way for the extras lines. Here is the result . This example shows the efficiency of yum with biarch settings which sets apart from other package managers. Hopefully developers will find a way to enhance it.

After downloading x86_64 version of Fedora Core 5 from the torrent, I found a error on disc 1 titled FC/5 x86_64 . It appears someone made a typo which causes the system to not prompt to the installation screen. I have submitted bug report . Currently, I am looking to other mirror to see if the same typo is there. Pour les francophones, Une erreur de frappe sur la version CD de Fedora Core 5 x86_64 prévient l'accès à l'écran d'installation lors du démarrage. J'ai donc soumis un rapport de bogue disponible au lien ci-dessus.

Crime scene from Fedora Extras reported on this Fedora Forum post . I investigated the problem on the spec file and notice that "pyobirt >= 2.0.1". I am completely baffled what cause pyborbt to require == 2.0.1. I removed the ">=" for the update. I wonder what caused that glitch. Here is the report: $ gdesklets shell You're running gDesklets for the first time. gDesklets will start a requirements check now... Checking requirements: - sys ... found - xml.parsers.expat ... found - xml.sax ... found - gtk ... found - ORBit ... found Version check failed. ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required. Please make sure that the required software is installed. Also try to avoid having multiple versions of a library/binding on your system. gDesklets won't work if you don't have all necessary dependencies installed on your system. THE STARTUP WILL BE CANCELLED NOW

Writing this blog on a brand new motherboard Gibabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with Athlon64 3200+ Venice. It is much snappier than the old Athlon XP2500+ Barton. That motherboard is not equipped with on-board which is not a big deal. That costs $310 CAN which is a bargain for its category. I am planning to get a SATA hard drive to install x86_64 rawhide version of Fedora Core this. En passant, je salue la communauté de Fedora France.

A strange problem occured on the computer when I installed Fedora Core 5. For odd reason, GRUB will appears on text mode without bootscreen. This is the first time that problem occured as I didn't have any problem with previous release dual booting with Windows XP. It turned out the BIOS for Asus A7S8X-MX will refuse to recognize GRUB so I had to boot Fedora using the Ultimate Boot CD. I have the latest version of BIOS update. I learned that motherboard was really cheap so I already order a new motherboard with Athlon 64 +3200. It will be the first time I will enter into a 64 bit hardware world. I will still use x86 Fedora Core and I plan to use x86_64 only for Rawhide testing.

Finally, Fedora Core 5 is available. This distribution is special for me as an active contributor for the documentations, translations and my first ever package for the Fedora community Gdesklets since my first encounter with Fedora developers, contributors and some Red Hat staff during San Francisco LinuxWorld 2006. Pratically, Jeremy Katz' blog summarized the moment for developping Fedora Core 5. I am currently waiting for the torrent to complete and will possibly write a simple review.

All of effort translating Fedora Overview vanished with the crash of Firefox on Fedora Rawhide edition 2006-02-21. >. I am too tired to redo it again so I will rest to fully complete this long task.

Good news : I finally made my first Fedora Rawhide livecd using Kadischi Bad news : the iso is 864.3Mb using the default installation which is way about 700MB from CD-R. Workaround : I will have to strip down the number of unnecesarry packages for a LiveCD In memory of my Grand Mother (1922-2006)

Packages Bytes Time │ │ Total : 717 1677M 2:47:14 │ │ Completed: 636 1381M 2:17:42 │ │ Remaining: 81 296M 0:29:31 | Good to see the desktop space reduced to 1.4GB

As Fedora testers know, system-config-packages is retired and replaced by Pirut. That new frontend package manager share some look to its predecessor. The major different is the use of yum as backend. Currently still in early development, I tested Pirut with the inclusion of Freshrpms, a third party repository. Interestingly, Pirut is able to detect these third parties pacakge when setting in list mode. Unfortunately, Pirut won't let user to select the same packages to install under browser mode. It lloks like some yum command needs to be sorted out.