X Resource Monitoring
Just for Jeff, improved blame assignment for memory hogging. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–11.html#16)
Just for Jeff, improved blame assignment for memory hogging. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–11.html#16)
Screenshots of the compositing manager prototype, also demoed live at the desktop conference yesterday. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–11.html#11)
Fedora Core 1 is out (release notes), and it rocks: Graphical boot turned out beautifully Prelink speeds up application launching Kernel peppy and responsive Exec-shield and PIE improve security Laptop IO mode and CPU powersaving ACPI 2.6 kernel preview (not in the release, but available) Revamped the Bluecurve look GNOME 2.4 OpenOffice.org 1.1 Epiphany (This […]
Slashdot readers… wow. Get your clues here: “Retail shelf” is a distribution mechanism, and “desktop” is a usage scenario. The two are not the same. Similarly, “enterprise” is a class of user, and “server” is a usage scenario. Also not the same. Technical clue dispensed by a third party, see section 7.7. Improving software involves […]
Does “open source community” mean the Slashdot horde and their PC views, or the contributors who are building and supporting open source software? People use the term without getting this distinction clear in their minds. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–11.html#4.2)
The freedesktop.org X hacking is low-profile unstableware at the moment, but one particular proposal interests me the most. Here is how I understand it, I’ll probably get it wrong: The idea is to make the X server model-view. The server stores a tree of windows as it does now. However, unlike today, it keeps the […]
Seth: “Stop worrying about ideas and get back to work” isn’t an accurate paraphrase. I prefer: if you have an idea, do the work to make it happen. The realistic path is probably twisty — having a goal in mind does not imply a straight line to get there. Sometimes the work involves writing code; […]
Speaking of copying Microsoft instead of innovating, should gnome-vfs really be a UNIX-like interface to bytestreams, or should it be more, say a general purpose data model with an evolutionary upgrade path from the hierarchical filesystem and features such as cross-machine synchronization. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–10.html#29)
Seth: for every cool thing that someone does, there were 100 people sitting around saying “we should do something cool” 😉 Keep making it happen. People forget too quickly how huge some of the battles were that made GNOME what it is today. In my day, we didn’t have time-based releases or basic UI sanity […]
I’m well into Robert Love’s new book, Linux Kernel Development. The book rocks; a concise, readable explanation of all the major pieces of the kernel, how they work, how to use them. Now if only I had time to apply this knowledge. 😉 Really I just want to sound cool by using a lot of […]