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News by khorben
on Friday, January 15 2010, 22:12
Another version of the Panel was tagged yesterday as 0.0.4. Of course, its source archive is available for download [1], and the pkgsrc package was updated as well [2].

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3321/Panel-0.0.4.tar.gz
[2] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/deforaos-panel
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News by khorben
on Thursday, December 31 2009, 03:02
The first releases of the libDesktop [1] and Mixer [2] projects made it to their respective project pages [3] a few hours ago. An attempt at packaging them has already hit pkgsrc's wip (work in progress) repository [4][5].
Both labelled as 0.0.1, the Mixer application will only be interesting on NetBSD-based platforms though (and probably Solaris too).

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3314/libDesktop-0.0.1.tar.gz
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3317/Mixer-0.0.1.tar.gz
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/project/list
[4] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/deforaos-libdesktop
[5] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/deforaos-mixer
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News by khorben
on Sunday, December 20 2009, 07:40
Another release of the libc [1] just made it out: 0.0.4 [2]. Among the changes since the last release:
  • fixed calloc()
  • added strsignal()
  • compilation fixes on FreeBSD
  • fixes for signals on NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux
  • really implemented SHM on NetBSD
  • fixes for Linux/amd64 when using shared libraries
  • added support for Linux/amd64 in libsocket
  • fixed return value for s{,n}printf() with NULL buffer
Some of these changes should help the RunningBear [3] project as well, which already included most of these fixes though.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/14/libc
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3309/libc-0.0.4.tar.gz
[3] http://runningbear.org/
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News by khorben
on Friday, December 18 2009, 23:33
It will be a while before it gets compiled by default, but nonetheless, a new desktop project was added recently as well: Mixer [1]. It probably supports NetBSD only so far (in fact maybe Solaris too). Anyway, as already described on my blog [2], it may prove useful to NetBSD users anyway.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3305/Mixer
[2] http://people.defora.org/~khorben/place/blog/75/A-graphical-mixer-for-NetBSD
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News by khorben
on Friday, December 18 2009, 23:02
There were no news about it yet, but a number of improvements were committed to the AppInterface code [1], so essential to the concept of DeforaOS itself (which still have to be documented). In any case, the VFS project was finally worth creating its own project page [2].
Among the improvements:
  • dynamic AppInterface definitions (AppBroker [3] from libSystem)
  • support for returning strings in parameters (libSystem)
  • support for more VFS calls, including opendir(), readdir(), closedir(), dirfd() and access() (VFS)
  • wrapping the regular libc calls through LD_PRELOAD for remote file access (libvfs.so [4] from VFS)
  • binding locally or allowing remote connections with a command-line argument (VFS)
It is now mostly missing the addition of the stat() family of calls in order to be fully functional. This could be done with a hack first, passing the structure through a Buffer. There will then be lots of possibilities, including:
  • mounting volumes in userland,
  • on the fly encryption/decryption,
  • accessing different remote hosts at the same time...
It is probably worth a release in the current state though; it can be safely expected.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/27?file=/src/appinterface.c,v
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3304/VFS
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/27?file=/tools/appbroker.c,v
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/3304?file=/tools/libvfs.c,v
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News by khorben
on Friday, December 18 2009, 22:15
According to Ohloh [1], the project hit the 6000 commits bar earlier this week [2].
Other more or less meaningful facts found there:
  • 70% C, 13% PHP, 8% Makefiles [3]
  • 63000+ lines of C code, almost 90000 with blanks and comments
  • worth $1,100,000 [4]
[1] http://www.ohloh.net/
[2] http://www.ohloh.net/p/DeforaOS/commits
[3] http://www.ohloh.net/p/DeforaOS/analyses/latest
[4] http://www.ohloh.net/p/DeforaOS
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News by khorben
on Sunday, November 29 2009, 20:41
As just announced on my blog [1], the gputty project is moving to another platform, the famous Sourceforge [2]. It has its own project page [3] and sub-domain already [4]. Then it won't be available in the DeforaOS Project anymore, where it didn't really fit the naming conventions nor the long-term plans anyway.

[1] http://people.defora.org/~khorben/place/blog/67/gputty-on-Sourceforge
[2] http://sourceforge.net/
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gputty/
[4] http://gputty.sourceforge.net/
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News by khorben
on Monday, November 16 2009, 19:43
One the desktop front this time, a new library is available in the project: called libDesktop [1] (surprisingly), it will contain all the redundant code from the different Gtk+ applications available. I was reluctant to adding it, because I wanted the desktop applications to be stand-alone.

However, maintaining the Gtk+ common code in the desktop simply became too difficult to maintain. When adding the newer desktop application, Todo [2], it was clear that I had to introduce the library at the same time. It will also improve the consistency between all applications.

The file browser [3] is already using it. It may also gain functions other than related to the UI, such as the Mime code, or a file selection widget based on the browser.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3298/libDesktop
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3299/Todo
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/230/Browser
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News by khorben
on Thursday, November 12 2009, 01:41
I realize I haven't released a tarball of the libc [1] in a long while. It seems to be in a decent state right now, and have therefore tagged it as 0.0.3 [2].

This will also ease the integration with RunningBear [3], which should then use this official release, and maintain a set of individual patches.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/14/libc
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3296/libc-0.0.3.tar.gz
[3] http://runningbear.org/
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News by khorben
on Sunday, November 1 2009, 19:58
A new version of configure [1] has just made it to the project page [2]. Among the fixes:
  • the LDFLAGS fields are always filtered for platform-specific particularities;
  • no longer tries to build explicitly against libdl;
  • the GPL version 3 license is truly applied.
[1] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3294/configure-0.0.7.tar.gz
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/16/configure
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