August 6th, 2017 — General
It moved to krosos.org/news/ but it lacks any styling at the moment.
Generated from Haunt.
August 1st, 2017 — General
I’ll try an update of what I’ve been up to. I’ll probably miss about 50% of it anyway.
guix packages
Lots of stuff, too much to cover all of it. Check the repositories.
palemoon
I’ve updated the guix package for palemoon to 27.4.0.
I’ll see about what needs to be changed for palemoon to go into guix master (if this is possible at all)
and I will contact the upstream developer(s) if we could distribute the resulting binary substitute. Otherwise we would have to keep doing what I do – just provide the recipe to build from.
fonts
I packaged OpenDyslexic, which is now waiting for inclusion (but still available in my “packages” repository).
I wrote a package recipe for the weird-licensed Everson Mono. What is this now, Shareware? Not shareware? I was obviously able to get it and use it. Ping me if this ever stops being able to be build, they don’t provide versioned archives. Available in the “guix_packages_nonfree” repository.
infotropique
and a continuation from packages:
I’ve started working on Firefox and Thunderbird. Well, mainly Thunderbird.
Forget the website, it’s still confusing. We’ve discussed these ideas off the record and in private for a long time now and I’m currently rewriting the website. It would be much faster if someone else would write the texts from what are able to talk about, so that the message is clear as it should be. Anyway, it will be done. Eventually. Soon.
hosting location will move
music
Yes, that’s right: music. A while back I started looking into new ways to express what I want with krosos. This project has been on hiatus since 6 or 7 years or something. Now I’m experimenting and I’m thinking and dealing with this creative project again.
It will be very likely be a departure from the attempt to work with people in the band context and probably also not recording the 1 album + 1 EP material I have written down (though themese might occur later on or it might be recorded after all later). It’s good to be back at this, I’ve started this back in school.
And I have forgotten about 3/4 of the rest. I still need to move away from this outlet. I already generate my websites with Haunt and news entries are build, but I want to polish it a bit more..
July 13th, 2017 — General
Yesterday I finished a package I worked on for many moons.
I don’t really consider the code good (yet) and I would also like to point out the privacy issues (default startpage is a landing page with advertisment etc) and the questionable license (the source is open, the distribution of binaries not).
For those reading this post: No, there are no official binaries (binarny substitutes in guix) I provide. You will build palemoon from source with a package instruction I wrote.
(I think this should cover all eventual cases of developers trying to contact me)
I’m not convinced that it works, but at least it did not crash so far.
If you have no problems with this, feel free to check it out in the link I posted yesterday.
July 12th, 2017 — guix
I am currently trying to fix up the palemoon package I’ve had 98% completed at some point in the last year.
Re-distribution in binary format would be interesting to clear up, but my repository (includes uemacs, linux, and others) which simply provides you with instructions to build it locally from source is no legal problem.
There are some questionable inclusions I’ll patch out later in an modified version of it.
I should probably give it up (I already had given it up) because of this license, but I’m curious about getting it finished just “because”.
July 10th, 2017 — General
- I’m trying to include more languages now.
Which means you will occasionally see German, English, French, or Spanish post on here. I haven’t written French and Spanish in a very long time so this is just to practice and improve again.
- BaFöG Anträge are terrible.
- We have made some progress with the design of infotropique OS. This didn’t happen in public, so I will make an official post later this week.
- I will work on Gentoo packages again, occasionally. I’ll also pick up Debian and Alpinelinux packaging. This is not related to the previous item and this also doesn’t mean I’m withdrawing from Guix and GuixSD.
June 28th, 2017 — infotropique
I am done with enough of the text to justify the push I just made.
The generated documents can be found at dist.infotropique.org/doc/ which includes html and pdf,
and source for this can be found (at the time of writing) at notabug.org/infotropique/developer_handbook.
Like the foreword says, it’s neither very complete nor perfect.
June 28th, 2017 — infotropique
After a long time of discussions, chats, calls and thinking I have arrived at a first informal design for infotropique OS + infotropique LIVE.
I was able to explain my ideas before in person, but writing them down in an handbook in electronic form is essential for people who want to help.
Why the handbook? Because the website is really terrible in explaining everything, I prefer to skip the fix for now and write this.
This version 1 of the handbook will be published (pushed) hopefully around the middle of July.
June 28th, 2017 — General
This site will continue to exist.
June 22nd, 2017 — infotropique
This is not suited for the official outlet, so it will be posted here.My main activity in the last weeks has been thinking about order, structure, organization, expansion and start of infrastructure, and the many aspects of the system including how to maintain this the best way so that relevant parts of code can be shared with GuixSD.
Nothing is really “static” and fixed to what I wrote in the Email many weeks ago, the only fixed fact is that the goal is to make GNUnet universal usable.
At the moment I am writing a documentation handbook. I could simply develop on my own and wait for more people to ask where they could contribute, but infotropique maintenance and development will soon run on shared time.
Development is just a one person job at the moment, so I can’t really calculate any deadlines for first releases.
We are still discussing the source code repository location and workflow, so I’m sitting on some unreleased material, specifically the master repository.
Within the next months you should be able to:
- read the handbook, intended for contributors and those who want to become contributors (later it will be expanded, I just need to make a start for developers)
- point your guix pull to an URL which represents first individual pieces of this system
- and more
June 16th, 2017 — General
Looks like I haven’t left yet.
If it seems like I am idle, this is what I’ve been up to:
– bunch of stuff for Guix (mostly updates iirc)
– started fixing Enlightenment on GuixSD
– trying to update XFCE4 on GuixSD
– moving repositories around
– came to a conclusion with names, we ended up with infotropique
– started writing an developer documentation for the OS
– applying for university
– started drafting a license in public
– and much more
now it would be great to move this web log to https://krosos.org/~/ng0/log/ (which doesn’t exist at the moment),
using haunt.