Categoria: Linux
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Contributions to FreedomBytes 2025
After a few years away from my blog, I’ve decided to bring it back to life and use it again to share updates on my current projects and adventures. This year, together with a great group of friends, I helped organize another edition of the FreedomBytes Conference in Pavia — a community event focused on…
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Contributions to Mageia – April 2018
As I’m back to work on some package for Mageia… let’s resume from where we stopped also on this blog. MAINTENANCE – MAGEIA 6 and CAULDRON areca-backup 7.5 areca-backup wasn’t properly working starting from Mageia 5 because of its dependency to Java (proprietary). Consider also that areca-backup seems no longer maintained upstream (last version released…
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Contributions to Mageia – March 2015
Mageia.Org Mageia 5 has been delayed cause we want to provide the best experience to our users. NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON mono-3.12.1 mono project released a new minor release shipping fixes for CVE-2015-231[89], CVE-2015-2320. It’s all about the TLS’s mono implementation that was causing some issue with TLS impersonation. You can find details here (some refining…
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Contributions to Mageia – January/February 2015
No spare time and No Wing Chun make me something, something… go crazy… but do not mind if I do [paraphrasing] Mageia.Org Welcome to a new report of my contributions to Mageia. As you can perceive by intuition it was difficult to properly maintain my packages and to develop the Mana Tools during the…
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Contributions to Mageia – December 2014
Mageia.Org 2014 is going to reach its end and another month of contributions to the Mageia project has passed. NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON noip A new package has been added to the cauldron (thus Mageia 5): noip contains the well known open source duc for linux. I decided to package it for two reason…
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Contributions to Mageia – November 2014
Mageia.Org One year has passed since my last relevant contribution, Mageia 5 is on its way and Mageia 3 is going to reach its EOL. UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON gambas3-3.6.2 gmic-1.6.0.1 screenfetch-3.6.5 libtorrent_rasterbar-0.16.18 qbittorrent-3.1.11 tortoisehg-3.2.1 Gambas3 latest version comes, like the others item of this brief list, with a lot of bugfixes since 3.5.4…
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Contributions to Mageia – November 2013
Mageia.Org Mageia 4 beta 1 is out and my perl-fu © is stronger than ever! 🙂 Give it a try! Provala! Unfortunately my daily job doesn’t leave me enough time to properly contribute to the Mageia Project (that’s definitely true for the last 4 months). UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON gambas3-3.5.1 mageia-doc-4.2 polkit-kde-agent-1 I’m not…
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Contributions to Mageia – September & October 2013
Mageia.Org Running for Mageia 4… Give it a try! Provala! NEW PACKAGES – CAULDRON libqxt UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON qlipper syntastic mageia-doc razorqt desktop environment screenfetch gambas3 scite areca-backup A lot of work was required to update qlipper because it’s now relying on libqxt and this library wasn’t already packaged for Mageia. Gambas3 3.5.0…
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Contributions to Mageia – August 2013
Mageia.Org Back to my contributions and Mageia 4 alpha 1 is already out shipping a lot of new stuff o/ Give it a try! Provala! MAINTAINED PACKAGES – MAGEIA 3 qupzilla 1.4.1 (bug mga#10572 and its QA validation request) UPDATED PACKAGES – CAULDRON yaflight yalib yainstall libtorrent-rasterbar 0.16.11 qupzilla yaflight, yainstall and their shared…
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Contributions to Mageia – June and July 2013
The summary of my contributions to the Mageia Project.