Marcin Juszkiewicz

Today is big day. Today is a day when I released Linux distribution for first time.

I work on Linux distributions for last few years. First it was packaging stuff for Debian (mostly for own usage), then I took over packaging of ROX-Filer (now in Debian). But rox was not my first package which is in official Debian — first was tex-skak. I made that package for my friend. Since “The ROX-in-Debian Project Team” took rox-filer I do not have public APT repositories available.

When I bought my first Zaurus I started to build software for this platform. Quickly discovered OpenEmbedded, tried it and joined team. Now I’m one of core team members. I also joined OpenZaurus developer team — first as collie (Sharp Zaurus SL-5500) maintainer, then became one of core team member and finally I’m Release Manager for it.

What means being Release Manager at all? I had to deal with RC bugs (some left), catch some developers to get their packages fixed, fix some other packages by own etc. I also made OpenZaurus 3.5.4 test program which get over one hundred of Zaurus users. This was big help as they found many different bugs and provided fixes for many of them. Thx guys!

Mickeyl just gave me info that all packages were built and uploaded to EWI (our primary mirror). Whole OpenZaurus 3.5.4 takes 1.9 GiB of storage space (packages + images).

Today I will create feeds, check does they are OK and will prepare some kind of changelog.

Tomorrow release!

Few days ago kados on #openzaurus asked me about support for CF-XGA card under OpenZaurus. I googled and found kernel driver for card and source of few tools. Card API is simple (few ioctl() calls), card itself is simple too — few resolutions available, VGA/Composite/S-Video output and 800x600 in 16bits.

Kernel module needed patching (as usual) but finally I got it built and it works on device (Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 ‘tosa’). Small utils which I built also works.

But yesterday I started own tool for that card. It is simple but now it has functionality of few other tools and will improve when I will find some free time.

UPDATE: got display ;) 480x480 for now instead of 480x640 but thats some kind of display ;)

Today I tried to change website look a bit — those Technorati tags, related posts things… Looks like sooner or later I will probably work on totally new theme which will take care of some parts.

Things to consider: how to show Technorati tags, my own categories, related posts, post meta infos… It need checking blogs of other people, open designs etc…

I just pushed all things which I wanted to get in OpenZaurus 3.5.4 release. Some things left unfixed but I really, really want to get this released — we could fix bugs later via upgrades.

It is first release which I maintain and I hope that it will be our best release — nearly one year passed since we released 3.5.3… We added WPA support to all kernels, many updates to most of packages, fixed some long standing bugs. Whole list of changes is so long that I will not provide it.

Time for celebrating :)

Few days ago I did a search for WordPress statistics plugins and found bsuite. It’s working and have nice addition: show Technorati tags and use tagged posts to provide links to other related posts.

I created few patches to bsuite:

• [tags] support
• do not show empty ‘Related’
• move formatting to CSS

I will add some statistics into sidebar when find time for it.

I moved from friend’s server to hosting center. What was changed?

• del.icio.us bookmarks are fetched from PHP code (not Javascript like it was) — has to work on it a bit
• I have IMAP now
• more domains
• more control over account
• SPAM filtering

Cześć jestem Hrw i też jestem uzależniony od czytania.

Czytać zacząłem mając latek ponoć około 5-ciu. Potem było już tylko gorzej… Ze szkolnej biblioteki przestałem korzystać pod koniec siódmej klasy bo nie było w niej nic do czytania (brałem od tej pory tylko lektury). Tam też ustanowiłem swój rekord wypożyczeń: 14 książek jednocześnie (to był Winetou w zeszytach).

Z bibliotekami to w ogóle miałem tak jakoś inaczej — przychodziłem, kładłem oddawane książki na biurko bibliotekarki i wybierałem nowe — dopiero na studiach musiałem się przedstawiać… No ale to pewnie ze względu na fakt, że tam nie odwiedziałem biblioteki 2 razy w tygodniu ;)

Potrafiłem o 16 przyjechać z technikum, zjeść obiad, pójść do biblioteki wymienić książki na nieczytane i przeczytać jedną 400-500 stronicową przed północą. A rekord czytelniczy ustanowiłem w drugiej klasie podstawówki: 800 stron w ciągu dnia — niestety nie pamiętam już co to było…

A teraz? Od jakiegoś czasu nie mogę się zebrać i poszukać biblioteki w okolicy z sensownym wyborem pozycji… Jak czytam wypowiedzi o polskiej fantastyce to równie dobrze mogłoby to być o wierszach Eskimosów bo się nie orientuję… Ale nie zmienia to faktu, że czytam nadal.

A piszę to wszystko przez YaaL i jej małe pole na komentarz ;)