The Final Zone project

Two years passed with No network on x86-64 saga mainly due to skge inability to work above 4GB RAM support. With the help of kernel team, it turned out the solution was simple. # rmmod skge # modprobe skge dma_bits=32 Where 32 is the max value for 4GB address space. It might be late for people who have already replaced their Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard but the issue can be finally put to rest.

Français La police Comfortaa est maintenant disponible au dépôt Fedora 12 et 13 en utilisant "Ajout/Enlever Logiciels" au menu ou la commande sur le terminal: yum install aajohan-comfortaa-fonts English Comfortaa fonts is now available on Fedora 12 and 13 repositories using either "Add/Remove Sofware" from the menu or command from terminal: yum install-comfortaa-fonts

Français Le paquet aajohan-comfortaa-fonts contenant la police Comfortaa a été soumis au dépôt Fedora (12, 13, 14 et Rawhide). Il suffit d'ajouter de karma pour sa disponibilité. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/aajohan-comfortaa-fonts?_csrf_token=feb4ed5db6cbc68e5bd439455d67ea8fdae1c7a2 English aajohan-comfortaa-fonts package featuring Comfortaa fonts has been submitted as stable for Fedora repository. Please add karma so it will be soon pushed on Update repository https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/aajohan-comfortaa-fonts?_csrf_token=feb4ed5db6cbc68e5bd439455d67ea8fdae1c7a2

Francais Grâce aux aides de Drago01 et Mamoru Tasaka, le paquet Gimp 2.7.1 est disponible sur koji pour évaluation. Notez que cette version remplace la version courante (2.6.9) si installée. English Thanks to Drago01 and Mamoru helps, Gimp 2.7.1 package is available on koji for testing purpose. Be in mind this package will replace the existing installed Gimp.

English Design team has kicked off concepts for Laughling release theme quoted: Something that can illustrate the emergence concept, like multiple objects combined to create a new one (more complex) . Feedback (refer to this guide ) is needed until the deadline which is July 30, 2010. Current list of concepts (be in mind they are not final for the release) and newest version will be added until July 6, 2010: Background Concept - Kyle Baker Floral Mosaic - María "tatica" Leandro Atomos - María "tatica" Leandro Wires - Jayme Ayres Concept - Mythcat SecConcept 2 - Mythcat Concept Kyle Blender - Kyle Baker Concept01 - H. Height Français L'équipe Design a commencé les modèles sur le thême de sortie Laughling: quelques choses pouvant illustrer l'émergence des concepts, une combinaison des objets multiplies créant un nouvel objet voire complexe . Les critiques sont nécessaires jusqu'à écheance du 30 juillet 2010. La liste des concepts couran...

English I like MgOpen Modata fonts (or typeface). Unfortunately, it does not have accents glyph on its list making useless for French articles. French J'adore la police MgOpen Modata. Malheureusement, elle ne dispose pas d'accents ce qui la rend inutile pour les articles francophones.

Français La transition de Constantine à Goddard via preupgrade s'est effectué avec succès. Le plus important est de définir la taille de la section /boot à 500 Mo afin de faciliter le processus. À cause du bogue dans le paquet xorg-x11-drv-wacom, Le stylus ne fonctionnait pas sur la tablette (Tablet PC), une mise à jour en utilisant le dépot update-testing a reglé ce problem. En tout, le système est operationnel sans encombre. De plus, la nouvelle version de gnome-shell est tres fluide et utilisable. English Transition from Constantine to Goddard via preupgrade was successfull, The most important task is to set the size of /boot section to 500 Mib to facilitate the process. Stylus was not functional due to a bug inside xorg-x11-drv-wacom but an update from updates-testing repository solved the issue. Overall, the entire system is running smooth. Finally, the new gnome-shell version is smoother and usable.

Français La fondation Blender a récemment lancé un aperçu sur leur prochain métrage titulé Sintel . Le téléchargement est disponible en format Divx, MP4 et Theora. English Blender Foundation recently launched a preview about their incoming movie called Sintel . Downloading is available in Divx, MP4, and Theora.

English Should you use thefinalzone.blogspot.com url, you will be redirected to the new address blog.thefinalzone.net. Major design layout will come soon. Starting now, my blog will be written in both English and French. French Si vous cliquez sur le lien thefinalzone.blogspot.com, vous serez redirigé sur la nouvelle adresse blog.thefinalzone.net. Le graphisme courant subira un changement majeur pour bientôt. Dès aujourd'hui, mon blog sera écrit en Anglais et en Français.

I decided to revert to Fedora 12 because of the lack of input for stylus for the tablet. I will wait for beta version. ----- J'ai décidé de retourner sur Fedora 12 à cause du manque d'entrée du stylus pour la tablette. J'attendrai la version beta.

Installation was strange as Anaconda backtraced right at the option of checking media. Fortunately, quickly switch to "skip" button seems to not have impact on installation. A welcome change is the home partition inside Logical Volume Management. 4.8 GB is not enough because of my intensive use as designer so I increased it to the maximum after setting root partition to 16 GB. To be continued... ---------- L'installation a été étrange puisque Anaconda a laisse des traces de bogues sur l'option de vérification du média. Changer et presser rapidement le bouton "skip" semble ne pas avoir d'impact sur l'installation. Un changement agréable est la présence de la partition "home" dans la Gestion des Volumes Logiques (LVM). 4.8 Go ne suffit pas en raison de mon usage en tant que graphiste, elle a été ajustée au maximum tout en mettant la partition "root" a 16 Go. A suivre...

That message from LWN (Linux Weekly News) said it all. Here is that part: Our MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License includes 29 patent owners contributing more than 900 patents that are essential for use of the MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) Standard. Our AVC Patent Portfolio License includes 25 patent owners contributing more than 1,000 patents that are essential for use of AVC/H.264 Standard ("MPEG-4 Part 10"). Under the Licenses, coverage is provided and rights are granted for (a) manufacturers to make and sell MPEG-4 Visual/AVC Products and (b) for such MPEG-4 Visual/AVC Products to be used to deliver MPEG-4 Visual/AVC Video content. The Licenses were set up this way so as to apportion the royalty at points in the product/service chain where value is received, and also to not place the full royalty burden on one party in the chain (e.g., an encoder maker). No wonder software patents are such a mess.

Drawing straight to the tablet on Gimp 2.6.7. No GEGL used. Not sure if I should go to paint or more realistic.

First FUDcon I ever attended as Fedora contributor in Toronto. It was not only a fruitful experience but also seeing some familiar faces. Adam Holt from OLPC gave me a prototype of XO-1.5 that I immediately run side by side with the regular XO. Only notable physical difference is the simplified touchpad much like regular laptop but more rugged to prevent water infiltration. For the Sugar interface, the boot process is much faster on XO-1.5 than its predecessor thanks to the updated specification and the storage has been increased to 4GB instead of 1GB. Another difference is Gnome is more responsive and Firefox is included by default instead of Midori. Perhaps Gnome desktop environment needs to be lighter but other alternate like XFCE and LXDE already fill the gap. XO-1.5 is promising and I am looking to explore more about the machine and the software as designer (already updated to latest build and downloading the new Sugar on Stick Bluebbery). Having so much listed presentations on a...

Due to the poor network in Seneca College, my message will be short. Final release name is known as Goddard, American scientist behind one of first rockets using liquid fuel . Fedora 13 Artwork wiki has been created as kick-off for designers. Feel free to submit your concept as sketch, illustration, collage as long it follow the theme related to rocketry, space, galaxies.

My first ever live participation FUDCon will occur in Toronto. It will be the first I will travel to that city in Winter. It will be also my first I will see some familiar faces like Mo (Libre Graphic Meeting 2007 in Montreal) and Spot (Linux World San Francisco 2005). Reservations are essential done. Now looking for roommate in hotel.

After deeply checking about the fuzz on bug # 534047 , I think the reaction is exaggerated. The default policy from PolicyKit applies for single user that can install signed package from official repository without root password but unsigned packages need authentification. Grab any unsigned package and test yourself . For multiple user account, setting policy is the key.

English Fedora 12 release is cleanly installed on Tablet PC and the backup is fully restored despite the mishap from pybackpack application due to its inability to use CD/DVD. The whole installation was smooth. I notice both Keyboard and Language selection can be combined on the same page and am planning for a mockup. The stylus is fully supported out of box which has become a norm for me as art (designer is an artist). Gone is the tweaking of xorg.conf. On negative side is the backlight that will stay in low level and the hotkey will not work after either suspend or hibernation of laptop. Screen cannot be rotated out of box in Tablet mode and some keys will not be recognized . Français La sortie Fedora 12 est nettement installé sur la TabletPC et les archives restorés malgré les problèmes de l'application pybackpack en raison du manque de support de CD/DVD. L'installation complète est sans histore. J'ai remarqué que les pages Clavier et Langage peuvent être combinées e...

Echoing Nicu, Mo, Kusha and Marìa.