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kexec-loader 2.2 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 03 Feb 2010 at 20:25 UTC

New release of kexec-loader, features CD support, bugfixes and improved build docs.

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RunVCS 0.2

Posted in software on 22 Oct 2009 at 16:09 UTC

I've released RunVCS version 0.2, it has a rewritten configuration loader and a lot of bugfixes.

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Transmission Calculator

Posted on 09 Sep 2009 at 10:56 UTC

I've written a tool to help with choosing Land Rover transmission setups, it calculates the total transmission/drivetrain ratio for each gear and the engine speed/gear at chosen road speeds.

Link: Transmission Calculator

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kexec-loader 2.1.1 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 30 Aug 2009 at 20:45 UTC

New release of kexec-loader, features improved module loading code and bugfixes. Read the ChangeLog for more details. The new kernel build in this release also has full USB HID support, which should fix problems with USB keyboards.

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kexec-loader 2.1 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 30 Jul 2009 at 17:07 UTC

Haven't felt like working on kexec-loader much recently, but v2.1 is finally finished! This is mostly bugfixes and UI improvements. Read the ChangeLog for more details.

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Year of the Linux desktop

Posted in Linux on 02 Mar 2009 at 09:43 UTC

Every year people say "Is this the year of the Linux desktop?", well I think 2009 is it. Ease of installation has come far since the 1990s, as I prove with the following install story.

After binman180 installed Debian 5.0 (lenny) on his "new" laptop (Celeron 1.3, circa 2000 BC) he wanted to install KDE instead of GNOME, which is the default. Installing the 'kde' metapackage resulted in GDM refusing to start, with some error that neither of us can remember. The error log, had nothing helpful (since GDM was written by the GNOME devs they probably thought error messages would be too cluttered/complicated for users). After purging and re-installing GDM it decided to not even give us an error on the screen, still nothing in the error log.

Clearly GDM wasn't going to work without a huge hassle, so we decided to install XDM instead. Joy! We managed to get the login screen working again! Pity it was still loading GNOME. My next thought was "Maybe if we uninstall GNOME, XDM will load KDE, since it's the only installed DE".... Wrong! After running `aptitude purge gnome` and restarting XDM, it attempted to load a (broken) installation of GNOME... I have no idea why.

After poking around my own homedir, I remembered that mine did the same, in order to make XDM run KDE, this is all that had to be done:

cat > ~/.xsession << EOF
#!/bin/bash
startkde
EOF
chmod +x ~/.xsession

I mean, it's so obvious that you should create a shell script that runs 'startkde' named ~/.xsession, how could I have overlooked it in the first place? 2009: Year of the Linux desktop

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kexec-loader 2.0 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 17 Feb 2009 at 00:51 UTC

Version 2.0 is now available for download!

It is a complete rewrite of kexec-loader which fixes many design flaws and bugs which appeared due to design changes over the past year.

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IPXWrapper 0.1 released

Posted in IPXWrapper on 29 Jan 2009 at 20:54 UTC

I have finally released IPXWrapper v0.1!

This has been kicking around for a while with barely any work being done, but after testing it thoroughly with a game of RA2 (No lag or disconnects, even using wifi) I think it's time to release.

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kexec-loader 1.6.2 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 13 Jan 2009 at 02:07 UTC

kexec-loader v1.6.2 released, this is mostly a bugfix release, the shell no longer has autocompletion since I rewrote it to fix a bug, autocompletion will be back soon(ish). The disk image uses Linux 2.6.25 since 2.6.13 doesn't compile under GCC 4.3, somthing will break, it always does.

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kexec-loader 1.6.1 released

Posted in kexec-loader on 22 Nov 2008 at 00:27 UTC

v1.6.1 released, the main changes are shell autocompletion and bugfixes, see ChangeLog for a full list.

I've also uploaded a precompiled initramfs for v1.6.1 which will make it easier to compile custom kernels and updated the nightly build script to copy the initramfs to the nightly download directory.

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