After 22 months of constant development, Debian Lenny stable is finally released! Debian Lenny is the latest from the Debian project, which is a GNU/Linux distribution. Debian Lenny supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments.

Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of twelve architectures are supported: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386), IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm, armel), IBM S/390 (s390), and AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).

As a current project, I’m developing a small game in C++ using the SDL API, the project is going well, so I thought I’d share some code. The following is a small parser to parse the game settings file. Target syntax for the INI file is within the header comment.

Yes, yet another VIM Run Command file (~/.vimrc). Enough said, read the comments for information on the commands if needed. Use it as you please, feel free to change anything to suit your needs.

Also, a nice resource for tips and tricks for better and easier VIM usage is http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page.

Bash wallpaper rotation is a simple wallpaper changer for GNU/Linux. It doesn’t work in every environment, but one’s which use fbsetbg to set the wallpaper. The usage of the script is fairly basic, you can set the delay timer in which wallpapers are changed, as well as demonizing the script or not.

The main purpose of SVN Commit is to save you time commiting any file(s) to the target SVN repository. What SVNc does, it parses files within an SVN checkout for a “commit comment”. Once this comment is found, it does certian checks to see if the file has changed, if so, it then commits the file back to it’s SVN repository, otherwise, moves to the next.

It’s a good program to use alone with a task scheduler (Windows) or a Cron job (GNU/Linux).

Software Freedom Day was held on Saturday 20th September. It was a chance to raise more awareness of GNU/Linux and free software. I got involved with the day, and setup an awareness stand with my friend Jake. We burnt off about 25 copies of Ubuntu, 10 copies of Open Disc (containing OpenOffice, Firefox and more free software), and about 5 copies of Open Education disc, which contained free educational software for students.

The day went from 10am till 4pm. Software Freedom Day for our team consided of a few lengthy discussions based on GNU/Linux, showing off the Compiz-Fusion project, demonstrating a few features of OpenOffice, and of course, teaching some newcomers what GNU/Linux is about.

Software Freedom Day was held on Saturday 20th September. It was a chance to raise more awareness of GNU/Linux and free software. I got involved with the day, and setup an awareness stand with my friend Jake. We burnt off about 25 copies of Ubuntu, 10 copies of Open Disc (containing OpenOffice, Firefox and more free software), and about 5 copies of Open Education disc, which contained free educational software for students.

The day went from 10am till 4pm. Software Freedom Day for our team consided of a few lengthy discussions based on GNU/Linux, showing off the Compiz-Fusion project, demonstrating a few features of OpenOffice, and of course, teaching some newcomers what GNU/Linux is about.

There was an issue with physical screen size detection some time ago, in a version of X. This caused extremely small, or large fonts to be displayed instead of normal sized fonts.

The problem is effected within the development versions of X within Debian lenny/sid, perhaps on other distributions as well.

However, there is a work around using the xrandr command (which is used to set size, orientation and/or reflection of the outputs for a screen*).

Last Friday I had the privilege of seeing Richard Stallman give a lecture on “Copyright and Community in the Age of the Computer Networks”. It was a rather interesting lecture, where he raised some informative points, which I agree with.

About a month ago, I came up with a idea to produce Linux game reviews. The game reviews being for any genre, the game must be free, but not necessarily open source.