Categoria: Linux

  • qbittorrent3 & screenfetch for CentOS 6.3

    Following my previous post, I’m still updating my custom packages for my CentOS 6 installation. I added screenfetch to my small collection 🙂 QBittorrent version 3.0.0 introduces some new features and few bugfixes as you can read from its changelog. Screenfetch is a niece piece of free software that I’m maintaining for Mageia so, why…

  • Contributions to Mageia – July 2012

    Mageia.Org NEW PACKAGES IN CAULDRON This month I worked on packaging some new application for the development branch of Mageia. The detail follows: gmic 1.5.1.7 numptyphysics 0.3 gambas3 3.2.1 (no gb-jit support, introduced in August) monodevelop 3.0.3.5 ganttproject 2.5.4 tkgate 2.0 examinator 0.2 gmic and numptyphysics have been upgraded to their latest versions providing minor…

  • Contributions to Mageia – June 2012

    As a contributor to the Mageia project I spend a couple of hours every day of the week doing things like packaging new software, triaging bugs, testing, writing wiki pages and so on. Moreover I administer the mageiaonline.it website (Italian Community of Mageia users) to improve day by day the user experience and the quality…

  • KDE rulez!

    Which DE Do You Use?

  • qbittorrent and filezilla on CentOS 6.2

    Yesterday I’ve installed a fresh CentOS 6.2 on my small home pc which aims to be a small server 🙂 After I’ve installed and configured apache, samba and similar stuff, I enabled some additional repositories to install additional software. I was stuck when I was not able to find qbittorrent and filezilla. Even with these…

  • Yaflight – a Gambas3 success case

    It was four months ago when the first source tarball was released. It started just as a game, a way to play around with a powerful toy: Gambas 3. Now yaflight it’s a nice piece of software 🙂  UPDATE: yaflight was totally rewritten using C++ and the Qt framework to make it multi-platform. The previous…

  • mageiaonline.it

    mageiaonline.it vuole essere un luogo dove poter convogliare le esperienze degli utenti italiani (e quindi in lingua italiana) riguardanti la distribuzione Mageia, così come è stato per mageia.it, portale dedicato alla comunità italiana che entro metà 2012 punterà esclusivamente alle risorse localizzate in italiano su mageia.org – il progetto ufficiale a cui è stato fatto…

  • Speeding up APT

    As someone knows using multiple connections to download files could be helpful to speed up the upgrading processes (take a look to urpmi). Apt is definetly a good tool provided by debian, but from this point of view it could be “improved” (see notes below). Here you can see the way I’ve reduced my download…

  • HowTo compile omniORB on Fedora

    Download omniORB srpm Check for building dependencies Install the development tools Launch the binaries packages builder Download omniORB srpm $ wget -c http://www.fourpalms.org/pub/omniORB/SRPMS/omniORB-4.1.4-4.src.rpm Check for building dependencies # yum-builddep omniORB-4.1.4-4.src.rpm Install the development tools # yum groupinstall “Strumenti di sviluppo” Launch the binaries packages builder $ rpmbuild –rebuild omniORB-4.1.4-4.src.rpm For the lazy people… Libraries Development…

  • Alcuni articoli del vecchio sito

    wg111v3-linux-howto dlink-650plus-linux-howto kubuntu610-aiglx Ho raccolto in questo articolo alcuni pdf di articoli postati sul vecchio sito, che prima o poi andrà offline. Buona lettura