Using ZFS for home partition on Fedora

ZFS is a great filesystem: it’s based on a copy-on-write transactional model, it supports dynamic striping of data across all devices, it supports a transparent compression and many more features, but the more interesting feature to me is the support for snapshot and clones. I feel interesting snapshots and clones primarily for backups: using a … Continue reading Using ZFS for home partition on Fedora →

Loading font face from file using Mono and Cairo

I was trying to build up a little application for previewing and installing FreeType fonts using Gtk#, but I didn’t found any existing API for loading the font face from a file (.ttf) in Mono.Cairo. In Mono.Cairo there is the class FontFace that represents a FontFace, this class has only a constructor that accept an … Continue reading Loading font face from file using Mono and Cairo →

CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 3

Remember this CRUX PPC full 64bit is coming soon? I was trying to build a full 64bit CRUX PPC system (and intallation iso). Now we got it! CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 3 is distribued as two different installation iso, one for 32bit systems and another one for the 64bit ones. The 64bit version isn’t … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 3 →

CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 2

CRUX PPC 2.5rc2 is now available. CRUX PPC 2.5rc2 32/64 bit multilib includes kernel-2.6.28.5, glibc 2.8, gcc 4.3.3 and binutils 2.19.1 . please stay tuned and give us a feedback on the forum topic: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=220 ftp://ftp.crux.it/cruxppc/test/crux-ppc-2.5rc2.iso ftp://ftp.crux.it/cruxppc/test/crux-ppc-2.5rc2.iso.md5

Writing a browser in three rows

We reached a new record: writing a browser in three rows! After python I decided to test also WebKit bindings for ruby: [kaltura-widget wid="jr0a2p7nrk" width="410" height="364" addpermission="0" editpermission="3" /] And these are the three rows: require 'webkit' Gtk::Window.new().add(wv = Gtk::WebKit::WebView.new).show_all Thread.new do Gtk.main end As you can see from the video to open a webpage … Continue reading Writing a browser in three rows →

Writing a browser in less than a minute

I wanted just to test WebKit, but instead of getting a browser based on that project I decided to test directly the (gtk) widget using python and I was impressed how it is simple and fast embedding a full functional web browser in any kind of application! The source used in this video is (almost): … Continue reading Writing a browser in less than a minute →