Frederik's Blog

Since a few days, the bug triaging process is in full force. The purpose is to review all old, unconfirmed bugs, and verify if they are still valid. And of course, making sure those valid bugs are fixed. I have the impression that it’s really a great success. Lots of Bugzilla e-mails are arriving in [...]

Last weekend, I bough an external USB hard drive to finally start regularly making back-ups of my computers at home. For security reasons, I wanted to store back-ups on an encrypted partition, because one never knows what may happen. Using an encrypted partition was not too hard, but still some bugs prevented it from being [...]

Last Thursday, at least four Mandriva employees received the news that their contract will be stopped next month. All of them are people who are very active in the Mandriva community, and sometimes maintainer of important packages (such as Apache). There has not been much more explanation about this decision. This gives the news last [...]

Mandriva 2007 Spring was already a very nice distribution with a lots of improvements and changes in style from the previous versions. severely improved graphical themes, the public availability of non-free packages, getting update notifications on the desktop without Mandriva subscription, and a generally more polished system. For the next version of Mandriva, the bar [...]

One week ago, kernel hacker Ingo Molnar reviewed Con Kolivas’ swap prefetch patches and approved them to be added to the official Linux kernel. Swap prefetching is a technique, which will load swapped out memory pages back in memory if the system is idle and memory has become available. This is useful for people starting [...]

This week I was contacting the mailing lists for various upstream projects to find fixes for some problems. First there was the problem that F-Spot does not automatically handle the upgrade from sqlite2 to sqlite3. In the past, F-spot used sqlite2 as its database, today it uses sqlite3 by default, but you can still continue [...]