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PixieLive

A friend of mine, Christian, has released PixieLive, a slax based live linux distro build with gentoo.
It’s one of the few live distributions that support Intel GMA500, popular on netbooks like some Asus EEEPC.

PixieLive

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agosto 26th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

Posted in English,Linux

Tagged with gentoo, Linux, Software, torrent

Metalink

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Oggi ho scoperto metalink, Ã¨ uno standard che cerca di unire modi diversi di scaricare file (http , ftp , torrent) in un unico formato. A prima vista non sembra nulla di nuovo rispetto a quello che giÃ fa getright (il download segmentato) ma in realtÃ non Ã¨ vero. Getiright usa filemirrors per ottenere una lista dei siti web o ftp che hanno il file e ad alcuni di questi viene poi affidato download di un segmento . I metalink funzionano in modo piÃ¹ simile a torrent, i file .metalink” sono dei file in formato XML:



     archlinuxhttp://www.archlinux.org/
Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.


0.7.2
Linux-x86

aa7ded55704d6d9f982f68f9872fac79

ftp://archlinux.puzzle.ch/0.7.2/iso/i686/arch-0.7.2.iso
ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/ArchLinux/iso/0.72/arch-0.7.2.iso
ftp://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/archlinux/0.7.2/iso/i686/arch-0.7.2.iso
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/0.7.2/iso/i686/arch-0.7.2.iso

ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/0.7.2/iso/i686/arch-0.7.2.iso .............................................................

Utilizzando i tag dell’XML vengono descritte alcune informazioni sul file tipo le varie sorgenti ( anche P2P ) con locazione (Italia,Svizzera ecc), l’md5 (per controllare che il file non sia corrotto a fine download) , ed una descrizione dettagliata sul file e chi lo rilascia.
In windows getright supporta i metalink mentra per linux ho provato aria2 ( in command line).

PiÃ¹ di un mega… ho visto di meglio ma Ã¨ stato stabile.

Written by gas

marzo 20th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

Posted in Linux

Tagged with Linux, Software

Rhythmbox and ekiga

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Today after syncing I found out that Rhythmbox 0.9.8 (codename “Type Slowly” it hangs!!!) and Ekiga 2.0.5 are now in portage. I use rhythmbox a lot and hopefully I’ll enjoy one of the improvementes like the album cover shown in the trayicon tooltip and the ability to transcode songs before sending them to the ipod .

Overview of changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.8 "Type slowly"

=====================================================* move to SVN and move round lots of files. yay!

* use "friendly" date-time in track list (William Jon McCann)

* add visualisation plugin (JOnathan Matthew)

* support more lastfm:// URIs (Jonathan Matthew)

* split code out into a library common to plugins and the binary (Jonathan Matthew)

* display cover art in the tray icon tooltop and song-change notification (Ed Catmur)

* Magnatune improvements (Adam Zimmerman)

* core art improvements, support art for podcasts et al (Ed Catmur, Martin Szulecki)

* Python plugin improvements (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)

* add support for the Jamendo online catalogue (Guillaume Desmottes)

* support new Gnome "media key" mechanism (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)

* support track transfer for "generic" audio players, and improve iPod

  track transfer support, including transcoding (James Livingston)

* many build/run issues on Solaris (Irene Huang)

* Nokia N800 support (William Jon McCann)

* Many core improvements, for future work

* the usual pile of minor features and bug fixes

As far as I can tell from the changelog there have been a few fixes for ekiga but no big improvements.

Thinking about ekiga i realize that is very easy to get lost in very simple things, especially for gnome developers. Every tray icon of any Voip/Chatting software on this planet change when you have a missed called , so you can actually realize that someone was looking for you but not with ekiga. You must open it and once you have done it there are no symbols that warns you about the missed called at first glance but there’s a single text message …. it doesn’t seems so smart…

Written by gas

marzo 6th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

Posted in English

Tagged with audio, musica, Software, voip

Flock

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flock logo Flock Ã¨ un browser basato su firefox , Ã¨ nato con l’idea che un browser moderno debba includere le funzionalitÃ necessarie a rendere la navigazione piÃ¹ semplice e immediata.Per questo motivo c’Ã¨ flickr , delicious e la possibilitÃ di bloggare senza dover installare nessun plugin. L’idea Ã¨ quella ma se sia meglio o peggio che scegliersi i propri plugin Ã¨ da vedere.