Vidéo hilarante avec Bill himself et pleins de guest stars:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3z9z4_le-dernier-jour-de-b(...)

Au moins, il a de l'humour ;-)

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http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=761

J'ai loupé le coche ou personne n'en parle ?!

After several weeks of discussion the leaders of Compiz and Beryl have agreed that the two communities shall reunite. This decision is supported by both David and Quinn and represents the majority decision of the administrators and developers in each community. At this early stage not a lot has been decided, but these are the main points of the agreement:

- As had previously been decided, Compiz will effectively split in to two divisions: Compiz-core and Compiz-extra.

- The Compiz-Core division will continue in the form described here http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=677. The name of the package will remain compiz.

- The Compiz-Extra division (what we think of as Compiz) will merge with the Beryl project to form a new community with the temporary name of "Composite Community".

- The codebase of the new community will consist of the best plugins, decorators, settings tools and related applications from the Beryl and Compiz communities. We will create a code review panel consisting of the best developers from each community who will see that any code included in a release package meets the highest standards and is suitable for distribution in an officially supported package. Support for existing packages will be continued at least until the first stable release of the new project.

- The websites of each community will remain up and running until a new, user oriented site is completed. Since the forums are the heart of each community, they will be merged first. Once we have a single community forum we can use it to discuss the additional details, including the name of the new project, as well as setting the goals for the first release.

Congratulations to everyone who has worked to reunite the communities. Well done!

Jeff

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Hello,

Je vais bientôt changer de processeur (P4C vers C2D).
Je vais faire quelques benchmarks à 2 frs pour voir la différence de patate des CPU.

Le but est juste une évaluation à titre personnel. Pas la recherche de la vérité absolue.

Merci de proposer vos idées/commentaires divers.

Pour le moment:


Benchmark Linux: P4C/C2D
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Configuration:
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P4C 2.8GHz HT + 2x 512Mo PC3200 + i965G
C2D E4300 1.8 GHz 2cores + 2x 512Mo PC5300 + i946GZ

Debian Etch (testing)
Linux 2.6.18-3-686 debian
Linux 2.6.20 maison
Système quasi minimum, pas de démon autre que ceux tournant par défaut ( acpid, atd, cron, dbus/hald, udev, syslogd ).

Protocole de test:
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Nettoyage si nécessaire et reboot entre chaque test
Test en tant qu'user de base sauf les stress
En console si possible

Test1:
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time tar -xjf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2

Test2:
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time make

Test3:
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time make -j2

Test4:
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time make -j4

Test5:
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Sous X (xorg+xfce4.4 compilé+iceweasel ouvert), écoute d'un MP3 avec XMMS.
Vérification de la réponse du systéme, des coupures de la musique, etc...

nice -n -10 stress --cpu 16 --timeout 10s
nice -n -5 stress --cpu 64 --timeout 10s
nice -n -20 stress --cpu 1 --timeout 10s
nice -n -20 stress --cpu 2 --timeout 10s
nice -n -15 stress --cpu 4 --timeout 10s
nice -n 0 stress --cpu 4096 --timeout 10s
nice -n -5 stress --cpu 4096 --timeout 30s
nice -n 0 stress --cpu 64000 --timeout 30s
...
D'autres tests avec vm et io: stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s

Test6:
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Lancer une dizaine de mplayer lisant une vidéo...


> Lire le journal (25 commentaires, moyenne: 2,2).

Voila un message de Mark Shuttleworth concernant Dapper +1

En gros, ca sera une version de toute les experimentations, qui devrait se stabiliser avec les 2-3 version suivantes ( comme on peut considerer Dapper la stabilisation de 2 ans de devellopement ).

This mail charts the territory post-Dapper for those of us who like to
dream a little.

First things first. The codename of Dapper+1 will be:

The Edgy Eft

And here's why. Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge,
brand new code and infrastructure. It will be the right time to bring in
some seriously interesting but definitely edgy new technologies which
lay the groundwork for the next wave of Ubuntu development.

An Eft is a youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the
rocky territory just outside the stream. And that's exactly what we hope
the development team will do with Ubuntu during the Edgy cycle - explore
slightly unfamiliar and uncharted territory that is perhaps a little out
of the mainstream.

So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and other
wonderful wobbly window bits, the goodness of Network Manager, a first
flirt with multiarch support for true mixed 32-bit and 64-bit computing
on AMD64, the interesting possibilities of the SMART package manager...
and other pieces of infrastructure which have appeared tantalisingly
on the horizon.

We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1, because Dapper has turned
out so well. We have a great answer for people who need super-solid
and super-predictable results: Dapper is still fresh, will continue to work
on modern hardware for some time, and has plenty of legs in its support
cycle left to run.

In terms of the management of the release, we will have some fun with the
core Canonical team. I'm promising to impose (almost ;-) zero from-the-top
requirements for Edgy, this release is entirely up the to development
team to envision and implement. Of course, feature proposals need to
go through a review and approval process, and we'll make sure everyone
has enough on their plate to keep busy during the cycle, but almost
everything that lands in Edgy will be driven from the development team,
who get to play with whatever new technologies they fancy along the way.
So that should give us a nice big bump in infrastructure and bling.

I would encourage members of the community who have been thinking of
a cool new feature or plan to seize the opportunity to get it into Edgy.

The tradeoff, of course, will be that some of these new ideas will not
land perfectly first time. So there may be shakiness, or outright
bumpiness, in Edgy. We will for the first time possibly have to say
to new users "Edgy gets security updates etc for 18 months but seriously
consider Dapper if you need the most polished platform". I think that's
a worthwhile tradeoff, because I think a clean-the-pipes type release
like Edgy is a good way for us to re-energise the team and the distro.
Risk is good, when you give it a place and a time. And Dapper+1 is
the right time for us to take a few risks.

All of this will be managed using the Launchpad spec tracker, now called
Blueprint. You can find the current set of "out there maybe" specs for
Ubuntu at:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs

Go ahead and start drawing up braindump specs in the wiki for ideas you
would like to get into Edgy, and registering them there. Don't put too
much time into the detail of the specs because we should stay focused on
the business of polishing up Dapper until June 1st. In the week after
the Dapper release we will open up the Edgy archive and start reviewing
and prioritising Edgy specs, and two weeks after release we will have
the next Ubuntu Developer Summit, where the core team's specs will get
finalised and approved.

This "meta cycle" of aggressive new features, slowly converging over a
series of releases on a solid and consistent look-and-feel and underlying
platform, has worked very well for us over the course of the past two
years. We didn't plan it this way, but I suspect the next two to three
years will look similar - we'll start of with a release that has a lot
of edge and new tech (remember Warty?) and polish that up till we see
the timing is right for a really polished enterprise "long term support"
release, like Dapper. We've no concrete plans for the next Dapper, only
that we'll know a release or two in advance when the time is right.

The past two years have been a privilege and a pleasure. Dapper is the
full expression of what we have learned in this first phase, and I have
every reason to believe it will be a hit. Once that's out the door, it
will be a great opportunity to rock-'n-roll up our sleeves, play with new
ideas, kick some new tyres and of course dig some new foundations. We may
strike gold, we will likely uncover some dirt, but it should be fun and it
should be funky. Let's live on the Edge a while.

Mark

De bonne choses en perspective!!!

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Salut, travaillant sur des machines modestes ( PIII 500-933 MHz + 128-256 Mo RAM ), je me suis mis a chercher un environnement de travail leger et rapide.

Apres quelque recherche/essai, voila mon environnement operationnel:

Debian 3.1 minimum (en fait n'importe quel distrib avec le minimum ferait l'affaire je suppose )
+
X.org ( parceque je le vaut bien )
+
xdm ( ca evite un startx et encore avec un mini script... )
+
icewm ( magnifique d'efficacite avec sa taskbar. Avec un theme correct, c'est vraiment un regal!!! )
+
mrxvt ( THE emulateur de terminal avec tab! )
+
gvim ( version GTK pour un editeur de texte graphique )
+
Opera (la 9.0p2)

Donc dans tout ce beau monde, seul Opera n'est pas libre.
C'est vraiment dommage car je lui trouve que des qualites!!!:

leger, rapide, efficace, intelligent, web + mail ( alternative de qualite: sylpheed evidemment! )

A cote Firefox (1.5) me parait retrograde et "bloated" ( pas trop difficile le bloated ;-) ).

Monsieur Opera Software, siouplait, liberez Opera!!!

http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/

PS:qwerty inside

> Lire le journal (40 commentaires, moyenne: 3,5).

Ubuntu Flight CD 3 est une version de test pour la futur version stable de cette distro majeur.

Elle a subit un minimum de test pour que ce soir installable mais ca reste en dévellopement donc ne pas la considerer comme stable!!!

C'est disponible sous forme d'iso donc facile a graver et a tester!

Europe:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dap(...) (Ubuntu)
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/rele(...) (Kubuntu)

United Kingdom, and the rest of the world:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-3/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-3/ (Kubuntu)


Quelques trucs nouveaux:
X11R7
Gnome 2.13.4
LiveCD amelioré

Une excellente page plein de screenshots sur les nouveautées de cette version:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperFlight3

Pour reporter les bugs:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs

PS: qwerty

> Lire le journal (44 commentaires, moyenne: 1,9).

Les distro linux sont devenu tellement commune et tellement façile à faire marcher...

Les *BSD étant aussi rentré dans les meurs...

Quel OS installer pour faire mumuse comme au temps ou les hommes étaient des hommes et écrivaient leur propre pilote de périphérique ?

Sans aller jusqu'a la, comment retrouvé le bonheur d'utiliser un nouvel OS comme le GNU/Linux d'il y a 10-15 ans ?


Hurd: humm, prometteur mais j'ai absolument pas creusé

QNX: très très sympa mais déja testé
http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/QNX-OS-dep(...)

OSx86: http://www.osx86project.org/ Surement très sympa mais pas très légal ni Free...

Windows*: no comment

OS2: pourquoi pas mais est-ce libre ?

Un BeOS like: oui mais lequel ?

Surement plein d'autre...

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La version 1.32b du code source de Quake3 a été publié sous GPL.

Ca se télécharge la:

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/quake3-1.32b-source.zip(...)

Miroirs:

http://0day.icculus.org/mirrors/quake3/quake3-1.32b-source.zip(...)
http://3ddownloads.com/liberatedgames/quake3-1.32b-source.zip(...)

D'après la news de linuX-gamers:

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=924(...)

C'est sympa pour une grande boite de jeux video de faire ce genre de chose.
Il faut dire que Id Software est coutumier du fait!

> Lire le journal (22 commentaires, moyenne: 3,9).

Cher journal, existe-il une commande ou une astuce pour fusionner 2 répertoires en un seul symbolique ?

Une sorte de:

ln_fusion -n rep1 rep2 rep_de_fusion

Merci.

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