I’ve been too busy to notice that Solaris 10 is out for public release.

This time round I have a problem, my usual SPARC ultra 5 that use for sun testing has gone production so I don’t have a machine to test Solaris 10 on …. BUT, to my surprise the x86 version is FREE – WOW !

So here are some screen-shots of me installing Solaris 10 in Qemu

My first impressions were surprise that it worked ! , in general the sol10 in qemu is slow & I haven’t yet worked out how to change the screen resolution, but sun’s move to release the x86 version for free is a welcome one, and I can’t wait to find a proper machine to test it on !

ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve needed to rebuild an rpm, I guess it just goes to show what a good job those repo-boys are doing !

Well I’ve just noticed Solaris 10 is available and I needed a download manager. Normally the built in download manager in firefox will do, but today I wanted to be able to control the speed at which I downloaded … et voila d4x, an rpm hasn’t been build since fc2 so I built one.

Here’s a screen shot to keep you interested !

Download d4x

Busy busy –

Just for dariorodt (See gnome-look ) I have done a copy of “I’d rather be at $HOME” without the text – enjoy !.

Download from Gnome-Look
Download from [LINICKX].com

I’ve been away for a couple of days, & it’s always nice to come $HOME to some good news !

My wallpaper “I’d rather be at $HOME” has been approved for art.gnome.org

Check out: http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/gnome/1129

Today I’d rather not be working So a desktop background has been inspired:

Download from Gnome-Look.
Download from [LINICKX].com

Well it’s my Birthday in 10 days time & I’m not usually very good at giving present suggestions to my friends, well this year I thought I’d change that.

It’s only a start (currently only 4 ideas), but here we have it:

http://www.linickx.com/birthday

Found something cool today, a GUI for cisco’s LINUX vpn client.

I’ve tested it & it works as expected, check out the screenshot.

Gnome VPN Dialer Home Page

I’ve been trying to get beagle working on my FC3 machine for a while now, but without much success . I have two fc3 machines at my disposal , what I ended up with was one where the beagle daemon would load & index data, but the best (search) gui didn’t work – So I couldn’t easily search what I had indexed – and on the other the best gui worked, but the daemon wouldn’t start – DOH , a gui but nothing to search !

Last night was a turning point in my beagle experience, on the 1st of June beagle version 0.10 was released, and I successfully installed it on my 1st machine that had a working daemon, and to my surprise the gui instantly worked!

If I get it successfully working on my other box I’ll document what I’ve done ! – Watch this space

I’m forever looking for ways to make things easier for myself

Today I came across gnome-blog it’s a small gnome applet that allows you to post direct from your desktop, Infact that’s exactly how this was written ! (h)

The default FC3 rpm on seths website didn’t install for me, it complained about a python(abi) dependancy – which I just couldn’t find – I did however find this similar rpm which I installed before installing gnome-blog, so if you have problems installing my rpm, then this may help. ( http://dl.atrpms.net/~/pythonabi-2.3.4-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm )

This is the screenshot from seth’s site, although I can’t work out how to preview like his !

Oh yeah – my rpm is here: gnome-blog-0.8-1.i386.rpm