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RPM of final release of php 5.3.2 are available for Fedora and for Enterprise Linux (RHEL/CentOS) in remi repository. This version will be available really soon in official updates (testing) for Fedora >= 12.
Read the PHP 5.3.2 Release Announcement Use  YUM to install :
yum –enablerepo=remi update php-\*
Notice : now, all extensions are provided for php-cli and php (module for apache in prefork mode) and php-zts (module for apache in worker mode). Read the entry PHP 5.3, MPM worker, zts and mysqlnd (yes I know, pecl extensions are not yet available).
For all questions or help, please use… Lire PHP 5.3.2 available

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I’m pretty late with this one. All thanks to the excessive work that’s bogging me down. (College work + fests + projects + fedora work ) Anyway, here goes:
The event was the second major FOSS event that I attended, the first being foss.in at the end of the last year.  Pune was great to be at. I flew into Mumbai from Mangalore (airport nearest to Manipal) and took a train into Pune. The organizers did a great job of getting us to the event location and the accommodation provided was fabulous.
My workshop on RPM packaging was on Day2 of the event. We mostly spent Day1 trying to solve some FTBFS bugs and packaging some new stuff. Rahul’s event opening talk on FOSS and Kushal’s python workshop happened on Day1.
We started early on Day2 to get the labs ready for our events. I spent most of the morning setting up Fedora Packager on the systems. The tight schedule only allowed me 2 hours for the workshop, which, pretty frankly, is a short time to walk a newbie through packaging. Keeping that in mind, I decided to walk them through a font package, since packaging fonts teaches you all about the spec while skipping over the building from source. The workshop went pretty well, slow, but well. Rahul helped out by hopping around and correcting people ( Thanks for that ). We got them to complete a spec each. Most of them managed to build rpms from them too. rpmlint errors took more time. By the time we got to this, the professor whose workshop was scheduled next at the lab was walking around .
I din’t make myself any slides for the workshop. A page with the relevant links was all that was needed. The workshop was to be a “no theory, all work” event. I stuck strictly to this method.
Here’s a set of photos from the event.


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QElectroTech version 0.21 is out. RPM are available in remi repository for Fedora ≥ 8 and will be in fedora updates repository (Fedora ≥ 11) after the testing stage . This is an application to design electric diagrams, try it and send feedback to the team. Official web site : http://qelectrotech.org/.
Changes : Changelog 0.2 -> 0.21 (in French)
Installation by YUM :
yum –enablerepo updates-testing install qelectrotech
Or:
yum –enablerepo remi install qelectrotech
Launcher is available in Applications / Electronics.
If you still prefer download : the repository… Lire qelectrotech-0.21-1

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A continuación reproduzco comunicado por parte de Mozilla con respecto a la decisión que tomo YouTube y Vimeo de optar por el codec H.264 en vez de Ogg, viendose perjudicado los usuarios de navegadores como Firefox y Opera por esta decisión, como asi también todos los internautas por el riesgo de las patentes y tener que pagar por una licencia de uso, tanto por la creación de contenido como visualización del mismo.
Comunicado de Mozilla:
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La primera vez que realice un blog fue por la monada del medio y era por el advenimiento de algo nuevo que se observaba en la nube….. el cual no fue mala idea, conocí a mucha gente, el cual no me arrepiento de haberlo hecho es mas me ayudaron en la vida desde hace muchos años , quizás cambiaron en parte la órbita de mi destino.

Ha pasado casi 7 años de mi primer blog siempre alojado en mi servidor pero en este ultimo año observo el advenimiento en la nube de muchas cosas relacionadas en la red social y el microbloging como método para que se masifique la intención de que la gente tenga algo que decir y lo peor de todo que esto es un éxito y realidad y lo peor de toda este historia es que a mi también me arrastra este tsunami quedando atrapado es este imán fiel corderito de todo este sistema, he notado que muchos amigos casi el 99,999 % también los veo a mi lado de esta ola inmensa y casi pocos se han mantenido fiel a fiel viejo blog , nos están encausando a pensar poco, apenas nuestro cerebro se convertirán en 140 caracteres y no los millones caracteres que podríamos escribir en nuestros paleolíticos blogs .

Para todo hay justificación , algunos dirán el tiempo , otros la necesidad de mantenerse conectados y otros dirán simplemente moda, pero los geeks que alguna vez soñamos en un mundo nuevo no podríamos caer en este vicio que otra vez los que controlan el mundo nos vuelven a encasillar .

Hoy declaro que no me dejare llevar por este tsunami y que a pesar que la tierra cambie de eje o los días poco a poco se hagan mas cortos, diré que me mantendré otra vez fiel a mi viejo blog, quiero manifestar que aun quiero generar contenido y no quiero dejar de pensar, quiero que mis nietos me recuerden como el rebelde que aun quiere mantenerse fiel a la lucha de guerra de guerrillas y no ser un corderito mas de este ganado que conducen l abismo de la ignorancia ….

Comunico que ya los tiempo difíciles están pasando a nivel personal , poco a poco nos iluminamos el cielo de nuevas esperanzas y que poco a poco nuestra órbita del destino nos esta llevando a lo que queremos ….

Bueno lo bueno es que ellos tienen bugs y esto mismo aprovecho para ser rebelde … es decir estoy en su mundo y ellos en el mio , es decir mi blog cuenta con rss y ellos oyen mi blog es decir lo que escriba esta en twitter y en facebook …. así jamas dejaran de leerme.

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In the last KDE and Qt meetings, there have been many and important changes, so I decided to blog about them to keep users up-to-date. The summaries and logs are available in each project’s site (http://kde.gentoo.org and http://qt.gentoo.org). Both projects have regular meetings, every third Thursday of the month (unless announced otherwise), and very often they have a common one. The channel that hosts us is #gentoo-meetings in Freenode, and everyone is welcome to join us. I will mention only the most remarkable issues that were discussed/decided, which seem to be a lot:
Qt meeting, 19 February 2010
This was delayed one day, so I missed it. I really hate it when I miss Gentoo meetings, as every time they are very fun and challenging, and I like very much interacting with so many Gentoo developers and contributors at the same time. Before proceeding, I’d like to point out that the Qt Project was very recently founded as a separate project, because the Qt Team (sub-herd of the KDE Project) has grown too much and had too many non-KDE issues. The Qt members are doing an awesome work. And here are some of the important issues:

We now have an “unofficial” channel in IRC, and a new shiny Qt Subdomain! So from now on you can find us in #gentoo-qt on Freenode, and our documentation resides in http://qt.gentoo.org (thanks to Robin (robbat2) for setting that up). Of course we will still be available in #gentoo-kde or #gentoo-desktop.
Raster USE flag is going to be on by default. Μάρκος (hwoarang) already blogged about this asking for testing.
Qt 3 has been masked for removal from the tree, along with all Qt 3 packages and the qt3 USE flag. The only blocker for this task was MythTV, which now has a stable Qt 4 replacement in Gentoo. Also, Ben (yngwin) informed the kde-sunset maintainers about this, but so far I didn’t see anyone committing those apps there, so if you want to do it (or do general qt3 and kde3 work), consult this document. (Reminder: kde-sunset is user-maintained overlay, anyone interested can ask for access there, so if you are still interested in Qt 3 and/or KDE 3 packages, please ask for commit access instead of complaining to the Gentoo developers).

KDE meeting, 25 February 2010
This was delayed one week, which was a request by me, so it won’t be during my exams. There hasn’t been a KDE meeting in January, so there were plenty of topics to discuss. I was also the moderator of this one, which made it double fun. In most of the issues there has been some progress, so let’s begin:

We now have a new leader, Tomáš Chvátal aka scarabeus. After a year of Jorge Manuel B.S. Vicetto’s (jmbsvicetto) absolutely perfect leadership, we had the annual elections, were scarabeus was voted by pretty much everyone. He is admittedly very skilled and very active in Gentoo community in general, as a member of QA, X11 and KDE Teams and also a recent council member. I’d also like to give props to my former “boss” Jorge, especially for taking over that old nasty mysql/amarok issue and creating the libmysqld.so patch.
KDE SC 4.3.5 is stable in tree now, and the newly released KDE SC 4.4.1 is available in tree as testing. There have been many problems with 4.4.0 (mostly crashes), so it won’t be a stable candidate for sure. We’ll see how 4.4.1 goes and accordingly decide if this is going to be a stable candidate, or wait for 4.4.2.
Amarok and MySQL 5.1 suffer from the same old libmysqld.so issue. Thus, we strongly recommend to remove the embedded USE flag from both Amarok and MySQL. In fact, it is not anymore enabled by default in the ebuilds. As a side note about MySQL, Akonadi seems to break in some machines with >MySQL-5.1.42. The problem is known to upstream developers, and there have been some workarounds in KDE forum, but I didn’t have time to test any of them yet.
KDEPIM in trunk KDE is currently broken (really just kmail). This is because kmail’s mail storage is being ported to akonadi, so IMAP (I don’t know about the other protocols for sure) doesn’t work at all at the moment. Sput (Quassel developer) proposed to use the enterprise KDEPIM branch, which is supposed to work, as it is being paid by companies. I sent an email asking for help in gentoo-desktop mailing list, with no answers so far. Please see the thread archive (available here) for more info. I would also like to inform you that the KDE Team decided not to provide the usual trunk snapshots until version 4.4.70 (which is going to be the first alphas), because of this KDEPIM issue.
KOffice 2.1.1 is released a month ago, but it is not available to users yet. Actually, it is in tree hardmasked, as it needs a close depedency checking in ebuilds. I was held responsible for this, and I hope till the weekend it will be done, if I get enough help from scarabeus which was the former KOffice ebuilds maintainer, or by anyone else from the KDE Team (there are plenty of people in the Team, I’m sure I’ll find someone to help me). By the way, this is my only KDE todo thing left.
KNetworkManager is now in tree, but also hardmasked. This was in upstream’s kdereview branch, which contains packages that stay there for review by the developers for wider testing, before they move to their final KDE module or extragear branch (take a look at KDE’s SVN repo to get the picture). It was supposed to be released along with KDE 4.4, but it didn’t make it. So, I created a snapshot of the current SVN repository, which seems to have many problems, like crashes, missing features etc. So I guess it will remain hardmasked for a while, and I will continue to update the snapshot once every two weeks.
The KDE Documentation is also one of my playgrounds. I recently updated the guide, and with a quick look I did the following: closed all three bugs regarding the KDE Installation Guide, added more items in Hints and Troubleshooting section, completely removed the kdeprefix reference, replaced the snapshots installation guide with a note that we won’t provide them for now, and done a bunch of small fixes (mostly version corrections and typos).
I raised the issue of kde-meta (and accordingly @kde-* sets) not including all KDE modules. It currently excludes the developer-specific modules like KDESDK and KDEbindings (although it does contain KDEWebDev), and proposed either to include them all in kde-meta or to introduce a developer or sdk USE flag in kde-meta. Some developers were opposed on this, proposing to have a new meta package, like kdefull-meta, an idea which I actually hated. Our final word on this was to open a new discussion thread in gentoo-desktop mailing list, which I did, and review the issue in the next meeting.
Finally, I’d like the attention of everybody here, as the following issue is very very important. In a previous meeting we discussed the split of the desktop profile in gnome/ and kde/ subprofiles. We raised the idea in gentoo-dev mailing list for review, and we had a positive feedback in general. Other DE’s refused to have a special subprofile, so they will stick to the basic desktop profile. What this means is that the desktop profile from now on will not contain GNOME or KDE-specific USE flags, which are transfered to the according subprofile. For users that want both DE’s (or just both DE-specific USE flags) can enable them manually in their make.conf (they are not many after all). The major advantage from the user-side of view is that many unwanted dependencies get stripped off automatically, and from the developer-side of view is that from now on we’ll have a more separate approach when packaging. The patches are ready and sent for review in gentoo-dev mailing list. Currently the result can be seen in the kde-crazy overlay, and here you can see the relevant thread. A news item will also be made before committing, and I hope that the final move will happen next week. I’d like to thank Maciej (reavertm), Ben (yngwin) and Samuli (ssuominen) for their precious help on this. (P.S. This is one of the very few moments that I felt I did some Gentoo development instead of KDE packaging, if you know what I mean )

Qt Team meeting Log and Summary
KDE Team meeting Log and Summary
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I’m in the metro of Paris, testing Typepad :
new beta account I just subscribed to
new mobile version of the blog
Iphone App
automatic Twitter posting
per category feeds

Typepad is Based on Movable Type, the best blog system ouuta there. It’s Perl based. It rocks.

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