This sunday I took the decision of reinstall my notebook over LVM, after that I realize that most of the apps I'm using right now are terminal-based and that I don't use the interface given by GNOME nor KDE even XFCE so decided to come back to FluxBox and didn't installed [X K G]DM. The only thing I miss is the buttons of my notebook working out-of-box but nothing that can't be fixed with some reading of the docs of FluxBox. I knew that I made the right decision when everything worked just like I expected...! :-)

That's my new goal, use full-time in the lab where I work debian/kfreebsd and install it in at least one server working 100%. The only problem I've found is the non-compatibility with LVM in freebsd, I will have to test with vinum or just put a little disk on that machine and connect with NFS to another machine with linux and LVM. Even in test period kfreebsd seems pretty stable, the only thing I can't get working on the desktop is X but since I don't need it for the tests I'm running that's no such a big deal... Congrats to the guys of the kfreebsd port! I could be joining pretty soon I think since the desktop that's for tests now I could get it to work seriously on porting to kfreebsd.

Since today at afternoon I'm officially working as sysadmin of my university linux servers (Debian of course) in the labs. I'm working with Skatox and our main work right now is migrate an ActiveDirectory Server to OpenLDAP and share files in a mixed-domain of Linux and Windows machines (trough Samba for Windows and NFS for Linux) with a lot of desktop limitations (given by the LDAP scheme). Then with this migration we need all the new services in Linux machines: DNS, DHCP and Firewall which are all right now on windows machines. My main question right now is how to regulate the desktop users of windows with LDAP?... I guess I'll find it out later reading more. BTW, all the machines are gonna be installed with debian (testing on desktops and stable on servers). Really, there's a lot of work to do and I cannot publish here all right now, I cannot organize my ideas, but I'll publish how's all going :-) In the middle time I will recruit more debian maintainers now that debian is gonna be used widely there :-)

I was in the third talugian meeting which has the best ambient I have ever been. Is nice when you talk about linux and nobody look at you like this guy what's smoking?!, and is great that the community is growing. I'm feeling that these meetings could get us better and stronger communities and with more experience. And there's a lot coming...! Thanks kamihacker for being such a kind host in this 3 meetings, we swear in the 100th we're gonna change the place ;-) P.S. talugian is from TALUG, T chira Linux User Group, my regional LUG.

I cannot build the new upstream rtorrent package (at least not as should been built) because of libcurl4-openssl-dev and the dependency on libssh2-0-dev that's a virtual package right now on sid (#442198). But I couldn't wait until curl get fixed so I downloaded libssh2-0-dev for lenny and installed it in my machine so I could build it (not with pbuilder but is built! :-) ) So you can find libtorrent 0.11.8 and rtorrent 0.7.8 binaries (and source of course) for amd64 right now on my server, in some minutes I will have the i386 binaries as well. The most important option added in this new release is the peer exchange option and a lot of commands for XMLRPC that in debian we can't enjoy by the moment. BTW, if someone can take care of xmlrpc-c which seems to be forgotten (or with a MIA maintainer) I would appreciate it (and finally be able to build rtorrent with XMLRPC support!!) Anyway, having rtorrent 0.7.8 in debian unstable could take at least a week more :-/ (while curl get fixed) so if you really want it grab them from my server or built it with my dsc diff.gz and orig.tar.gz and dpkg-source -x package_version.dsc and remember if you're building rtorrent you need libssh2-0-dev installed.

How weird is that a bug get closed by a spam email? Today I checked my email and found that #210857 got closed by a spam email of US army nurses and doctors...!

At least in unstable that's the case, thanks to santiago who uploaded rtorrent yesterday. Unfortunately(for people using testing) the new version 0.11.8/0.7.8 for libtorrent/rtorrent is out, that's why I will wait until rtorrent got into testing so there'll be no mismatch of versions between the library and the client (actually rtorrent 0.7.4 and libtorrent 0.11.7, should be rtorrent 0.7.7) and then will start looking a sponsor for the new packages of libtorrent/rtorrent (which are going to be ready later tonight).