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rpath bites me again
It’s funny, in bad way, when certain sorts of bugs come back to bite you. People may remember the fun Debian had with rpath issues around in the late 90s where some binaries wanted to set the path of where their libraries were located. After much contraversy the consensus was at least in Debian (with…
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procps-ng version 3.3.2 released
procps-ng version 3.3.2 was released today. This version fixes some bugs introduced in version 3.3.1 as well as a number of enhancements. Below is the most significant set of changes that 3.3.2 brings. NLS The most visible change is that procps-ng is now international. The NLS changes took a long windy path but we got…
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When a dynamic library and program share functions
This is about making procps have a proper library but it really is a generic sort of question. Say you are making a library and a program that uses that library. Now at times you may have convience type functions; procps has them for things like escaping command names or allocation different sorts of memory. …
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procps-ng 3.3.1 released
Procps-ng, the Debian, Fedora and OpenSuSE fork of procps had another release today. This is a bugfix release that fixes some important bugs that have cropped up in 3.3.0 pgrep crashes, pgrep -u not finding processes and a problem with top forest view have all been fixed. An important addition to this release is that…
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procps-ng 3.3.0 Released
Tonight procps-ng, a fork of procps by developers from Debian, Fedora and SuSE was released. The main goal of the team for this release was to reduce the number of patches we all carry in our respective distributions and learn from each other. As an added bonus, we had one of the original authors of…
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@ 0x28
It doesn’t look so old in hex; Zero, x, Two, Eight but I finally got there. So on this day, what other landmarks am I up to? I’ve been programming, on and off, for 28 years (thanks for teaching me Chris – anyone still use LOGO?) Writing Free Software for 17 years (thanks Terry for…
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ncurses library split
The new ncurses library that is currently sitting in the NEW queue will have a significant change that, if we’ve done it right, should be an invisible change. If we’ve got it wrong, then the BTS (and us) may be a little busy. What has happened is that the low-level terminfo library has been split…
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Getting music into the iPod Shuffle
Sounds easy doesn’t it? You got a nice Debian computer filled with mp3s and you got an iPod Shuffle. You want to get the mp3s onto the Shuffle, simple really! Well, no. I’ve got a 2nd Generation iPod Shuffle; its a little blue thing the size of a postage stamp with no screen. Specifically a…
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Debian turns 18
In Australia, 18 means you can do things like vote and drink. While most don’t get terribly excited about the first, the second usually happens on your 18th. And so 18 years ago Ian Murdock brought together the new Debian distribution. I’ve been along for the ride for 14 of those 18 years and it…