As mentioned earlier, I’ve set up an unofficial arch user repository to share my builds with everybody. Today I will elaborate a little more on the provided packages. If you look at the current package list: x264 ffmpeg mplayer ffmpeg-mt mplayer-mt mpd netembryo rxvt-unicode you might be wondering why I provide these packages. All but [...]
It is time again to keep you in the loop on my desktop’s appearance. This month I’ve switched back to XMonad after using Gnome the last couple of months. Time and time again I’m surprised by the paradigm of tiling window managers and how functional you can make it. All in all I put together [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]