Paris Jackson - Memorial

Paris-Katherine Michael Jackson at the memorial.. so sad.

OpenSolaris Text installer screenshots.

OpenSolaris iso's with the text installer is now available here

I tried it in virtualbox, it works without issues.

more infos here and here

Now here are the screenshots that i made:

gstreamer stuff on OpenSolaris

I've compiled some "encumbered" stuff for gstreamer. (and added the mp3 codec available from fluendo.com)

if you want to give it a try.. download them:

gstplugins support a wide range of audio + video codecs

install instructions:
download it, unpack it, put it in /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/

so:

mkdir /tmp/gst
cd /tmp/gst

wget http://pkgsrc.sartek.net/gst/gstplugins.tar.gz

gtar xf gstplugins.tar.gz

pfexec cp gstplugins/* /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/

cd
rm -r /tmp/gst


opensolaris graphical boot

XMMS is back in Slackware!

As you may know XMMS was removed on Mar 15 2007 from Slackware.

But on Sep 11 2008 was re added:

xap/xmms-1.2.11-i486-1.tgz: Added xmms-1.2.11. This is an audio player that
is similar to audacious, but uses about a third of the CPU power.

Well done Pat!

Boggle For Linux (with Maemo support)

GBoggle is a classic boggle game for GTK+ platform.
you can download it at the official page at http://gboggle.sourceforge.net

Features

* Support for internationalization of dictionaries and alphabets. Currently English and Hungarian are supported.
* Visual feedback is provided on the board for input words.
* Shows missed words at the end of the game.
* Support for maemo platform (Nokia Internet Tablets)

Confused

I started a thread on desktop-discuss with title "mplayer with sun studio"
I asked them if somebody hacks mplayer to be compilable with sun studio, dennis clarke said that blastwave has it but still not pushed to their repo, ok we asked about the patches, he said that they will pushed to the svn repo too, [...] and he said:

"don't be so whiney about a *free* software package service that tries to *give* you what you need."

if I understand correctly: we do not need the sources, use the software and stfu.

I only wanted to see those patches upstream, my dream is "./configure;make;make install" on solaris without any additional effort.

The funny thing is that in another thread he said:

"I support the open source needs of the Solaris customer."

so, he talks about only the "open source" philosophy not about the actual source, or the patches are not sources or what? don't understand.

PS: I dont like blastwave's repo, but that's another story