Neuvoo.org

Last time I wrote here something was about my DevKit8000. I mentioned Gentoo Pandora there. I talked a lot to these guys in IRC which led us to reorganize our work. We (viridior, javaJake, powderluv and me) created neuvoo!! Neuvoo means Gentoo for embedded arm (especially armv7a, OMAP3). We have our own overlay but also try to push things to Gentoo and or upstream. We also hope, we can combine the various arm related overlays to one. Join us on freenode in #neuvoo and neuvoo-dev

DevKit8000

Last we arrived my new toy, a DevKit8000 with a 7" touch LCD. The DevKit8000 is kind of a clone of the BeagleBoard. At the moment Angstrom and Android runs on it (and also Windows CE, but...). The goal is to have Gentoo on it and there are also some guys porting Gentoo to the Pandora game console which has an OMAP controller as well. Actually they develop on the BeagleBoard at the moment until at least the Pandora is available.

Using Funtoo to get a recent Gentoo

Today I created a chroot to be able to do some tests. Therefor I wanted to have a recent unstable gentoo stage. Unfortunately there are no (recent) unstable stages (or I was just blind) but there are unstable funtoo stages.

So I followed the instructions on funtoo's quick-install-howto but instead of git checkout funtoo.org I did a git checkout gentoo.org which gives me a clone of gentoo's portage tree. After emerge --sync and emerge -avDu world (which downgrades some packages) it seems to be a ordinary gentoo but with a git based tree instead of rsync based but that doesn't matter...

One question still remains, what exactly is the difference (I mean other than a git based tree) between to two, gentoo and funtoo?

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Gentoo and AVR32

Is there anyone out there using gentoo on avr32 hardware??? I really want to do that but is seems to be a lot of work :-( So I looking out for others who want to contribute...

Yeah, I've just finished compiling the avr32 toolchain using crossdev (well there're some modifications to crossdev and also the toolchain eclass). Let's see if it also works in the right way...

Scribus 1.3.5 beta

Yesterday (or so) Scribus 1.3.5 beta has been released. As I use Scribus at work to design some product flyers I always interested in the latest release :-)

For windows there are frequent svn snapshots available which works quite good and stable, at least for me.

Unfortunately there's now ebuild for gentoo for the 1.3.5 branch, so I created a snapshot version (svn snapshot) and a live ebuild... try them out!

Available in my overlay:

http://bitbucket.org/bearsh/bearshoverlay/

Please report bugs using the associated issue tracker

EDIT: Please don't use my ebuilds anymore, there are newer versions available in the kde-testing overlay

Thunderbird extensions: Complete List

My more or less complete list of Thunderbird extensions:

• addressContext
  An extension to add addressbook-related options to the context menu.
• Allow HTML Temp
  Allows to HTML temporary for actual message.
• Auto Zip Attachments
  Creates compressed archives of you attachements automatically.
• Bugmail
  A bugzilla companion.
• Colored Diffs
  Color diffs sent by SVN/CVS notifications.
• Copy Attachment To Clipboard
  Allows copying attachments to the clipboard.
• Display Mail User Agent
  Show a symbol of the user agent with which the message got compossed.
• Enigmail
  OpenPGP message encryption and authentication
• Extension List Dumper
  Dumps all extensions to list/clipboard (used to generate this list)
• Image Zoom
  Zoom function for embedded pictures.
• Lightning
  An integrated calendar for Thunderbird
• LookOut
  LookOut reads and integrates TNEF encoded parts in emails
• Mail Redirect
  Allow to redirect (a.k.a. "bounce") mail messages to other recipients
• MoreFunctionsForAddressBook
  Extens mainly im- and export capabilities of the addressbook.
• QuickFolders
  Bookmark your favorite mail folders in Thunderbird.
• Quote Colors
  Configure text and background colors for different quote levels in mail/news messages.
• QuoteCollapse
  Collapse quotes.
• Search for Sender
  Searches for messages from the sender of the selected message
• syncSW
  Sync Address Book with ScheduleWorld.
• ThreadVis
  Displays a small graphic visualising the context (thread) of the currently selected email.
• Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export
  Export and import of filters
• United States English Dictionary
  English United States (en-US) spellchecking dictionary
• URL Link
  Allows you to select a non-URL in a mail or news message, and open it in a browser window

Thunderbird extensions: ThreadVis

This is a really, really great extension for Thunderbird. It add a graph to the email view which visualizes the context. This means if you have a conversation over multiple email, it is visualized and you can quickly access the various mail by clicking on the graph. This jumps then for example in your sent folder to you previous mail.
The extension's website is here where you also can download it.

Here you see a screenshot of its visualisation

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Drink plenty of irish beer and celebrate!!!

delicious...

Finally I've gave up and created a del.ico.us account where I keep my bookmarks. Some of them are publicly available at http://delicious.com/bearsh/.

Happy bookmarking :-)

Cython syntax highlighting for Kate

The cython language has a similar syntax as python but with some extensions. For example there's a keyword called cdef. The python syntax highlighter works quite good but a cython highlighter is even better.

Fortunately I found a already existing syntax definition file for kate here. This one is for Pyrex on which cython is based so it should work well.

Put the file in ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax/, if this folder does not exist, just create it. Now you should be able to select pyrex from the script section under highlighter in kate. You can also rename it to cython but then you also have to change pyrex to cython in the file.

Edit: I added some cython specifig keyword to it, you can get my version from here.

Perfect Screenshot

There's a nice little app for taking screenshot in windows. It's called greenshot and is licensed under GPL and hosted on sourceforge. Try it out...

KBlogger ebuild

I've put a ebuild of KBlogger into my overlay. If you can read this, it works :-)
To be honest, it seems to be unstable but what to you expect it is a alpha...
Thanks to this nice app you will maybe see some more posts on this site...

Gentoo Overlay

Finally I've put my small overlay online on bitbucket, which I think is a really nice plattform. It gives you the opportunity to create a free acount where you have 150MB of space for an unlimeted number of public mercurial (hg) repos including a private one. Each repo has it's own wiki which is a hg repo itself.

How to add the overlay with layman is documented in the wiki. Feel free to fork and or contribute...