Almost 5 years have passed since I erased my Microsoft Windows partitions to switch to Mandriva Linux (Mandrakelinux 9.1 at that time). And I never regretted it. However, I try to keep myself informed of what happens in the Windows world, just to be able to help relatives when …

It’s Big Buck Bunny !

Enjoy !

Here’s an insightful vision of the current Linux distro’s market, from Dave Neary, former member of the GNOME foundation board.

I don’t want to pick on Mandriva, but it’s true that right now they’re aiming for the general consumer, the enterprise desktop and the enterprise …

Yup, Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Spring has been released today. What is amazing is that it’s been released on time, which hasn’t been the case for years !

I’ve started testing it quite late in this development cycle (RC2), but I still was able to find a few …

I barely use pidgin (and jabber even less), but today, I was just fed up of having the same connection error. I’m using the 2.2.1 version, shipped with on Mandriva 2008.0. The problem is that I had an SSL certificate error each time I would try …

urpme -a mono

Un chaton, ça ne reste pas un chaton longtemps. En plus c’est con ces bêtes là, ça ne pose pas pour la photo, ça ne sourit pas. Alors quand les premières photos sont ratées, et que depuis le bestiau a grandi, il ne reste plus que l’informatique pour …

I’m currently writing an application that has two backends.

• In live mode, I acquire images from several cameras.
• In replay mode, I read pre-recorded images from the hard drive.

As I want to switch between these 2 backends transparently, I thought of using two implementations of a custom GSource …

Will it be for the best or the worst ?

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Learning from the past

Yesterday an old (1.5 year) blog entry of Ryan Lortie on cpu and battery consumption came to my mind. He tested some GNOME applications and saw that some of them caused way too many kernel wakeups, which prevents the CPU from entering in low consumption …