user: Eitan Isaacson (eitani) join LDTP group

Posted by Benjamin Close on July 23, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

Please welcome Eitan Isaccson to (eitani) to the ldtp group

user: Fathi Boudra (fabo) joins Portland / xdgutils

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Please welcome Fathi Boudra to the Freedesktop ranks. Fabo will be working on portland and xdg utils.

user: Siarhei Siamashka (siamashka) Joins Xorg & Cairo

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Please welcome Siarhei Siamashka to the Freedesktop world. Siarhei will be working on Xorg and Cairo, mentored by Søren Pedersen

www: Telepathy Wiki cleaned up & catchaps added

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 29, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

In an effort to cleanup spam telepathy wiki has been shifted to annarchy, upgraded and catchpa’s added. All spam pages have now been removed.

Caldav calendar & icalserver

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 24, 2009 under Computers, FreeBSD, OpenSource | 2 Comments to Read

For quite a while now I’ve been using Apple’s ICal server on FreeBSD and Sunbird/Lightning as a front end to the calendar. However, one thing that has always annoyed me was the lack of a web frontend to my calendars. Well today after searching on a completely different topic I found a javascript front end [..more..]

www: libopenraw, moin upgrade, moves gabe->annarchy

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 11, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

As part of the continued server cleanup plan, the libopenraw website has moved from gabe to annarchy. In the process it also got upgraded to a later version of moin to enable catpha’s.

user: Pavel Beňak (aries) Joins Portland (xdg-utils)

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 29, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

Please welcome  Pavel Beňak (aries)  to the FD.o crew. Pavel will be working on portland and xdg-utils.

user: Joel Bosvend – GSOC Input Redirection

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Please welcome Joel Bosvend (b0le) to the FD.o ranks. Joel will be working on Input Redirection in the Xserver as part of a Google Summer of Code project. Peter Hutterer is his mentor.

www: spectre & swfdec moin wiki’s upgraded/cleaned up

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 28, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

To combat spam both the spectre and swfdec wiki’s have been upgraded to a later version of moin. Capta’s have been put in place and all existing spam has been removed. Sorry, probably a few broken links due to this change but shouldn’t be too hard to clean up.

Booting FreeBSD from a root zfs pool using a standard MBR and partition table

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 8, 2009 under FreeBSD | 5 Comments to Read

This page documents the current state of play for booting the root filesystem (/) off a zfs zpool under FreeBSD, using a standard master boot record (MBR) and a standard partition table. The aim was to be able to have a dual boot system for my laptop using the standard FreeBSD quick selection boot loader. [..more..]