Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli

When and Where Thursday, June 18 11:30 am onwards Location: University of Naples "Parthenope" - Faculty of Science and Technlogies, Centro Direzionale di Napoli Isola C4 Responsible Ambassadors Giuseppe Coviello Attendees Gianluca Varisco ... add yourself here! ... Program 11.30: "Welcomes to the conference" by Prof. Giulio Giunta 11.50: "Fedora 11, New Features" by Gianluca … Continue reading Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli →

CRUX PPC 2.5 Released

CRUX PPC 2.5 is now available. Supports Apple 32bit "NewWorld" G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP32 (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn. CRUX PPC 2.5 is released as two different installation ISO: 32bit and 64bit. The 32bit version is based on a single … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.5 Released →

CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4

It’s time for a new (and we hope the last one) release candidate for CRUX PPC 2.5. This release candidate implements all the changes introduced in CRUX PPC Release Candidate 3. From this release candidate we provide a full support for IBM pSeries machines (since we bought a second hand IBM Intellistation 2-way POWER4+ workstation). … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4 →

Making ilenia update local repositories

After about two years I felt the time to add a new feature to ilenia was came. On every systems were I’ve installed CRUX (or CRUX PPC) on I use local repositories for storing ports written by me for that system or ports selected by other repositories (“contrib” for example), while there is an automatic … Continue reading Making ilenia update local repositories →

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 →