Arch Linux has a very decent system for building packages called ABS or Arch Build System. It basically comes down to one file called the pkgbuild where you put all the necessary information to construct a package. Everything else is taken care by makepkg, the tool that reads, compiles and builds the package accordingly. Because [...]
Yesterday I added another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) which brings up my total to 6. The 2 applications are the mercury compiler and csrftester.
I was surprised to see there was no fitting packaged mercury compiler available in any of the Arch Linux repositories. Arch has many compilers available but apparantly not [...]
My last post dated from a while back now, October 17 to be exactly. A lot of things have happend and they kept me busy ever since. So no, I’m not dead. I just happened to have a lot on my mind. Following are my 2 months in a nutshell.
Let’s start with the things that [...]
GNOME 2.28, released on early september 24, has recently hit the Arch Linux repositories and, as an old time GNOME user, I was eager to try it out. First, I’d like to congratulate JGC for all his excellent work. He did a wonderful job testing and packaging GNOME 2.28 in such a short notice, considering [...]
After months of false announcements on my behalf, I finally finished up writing my XMonad configuration tutorial. Since not everyone uses XMonad, let alone has ever heard of it, Here’s a brief introduction: XMonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager, written and configured in Haskell. Tiling window managers arrange windows in nonoverlapping tiled patterns [...]