So Nokia finally announced the N900. It’s an impressive phone already getting positive reviews. Reading the specs I miss two things: FLAC and Ogg support. How is it that a Linux & Maemo based phone does not have support for FLAC and Ogg?! Let’s hope Nokia fixes that in new firmware releases.
The Linux Foundation just released their annual ‘Who Writes Linux’ report. A fascinating read worth your time if you are interested in the numbers behind Linux’ relentless progress. And guess which company is totally absent in the report? Canonical. No suprise there. All I hear from Shuttleworth is rhetoric about how the Community would benefit from synced releases. Yeah right.
Tonight I was updating a laptop to F11, did some tab completion and almost had a heart attack from the way too loud beep that hammered my ears. Obviously this should never happen again so next step was disabling this deafening beep.
In the good ol’ days you disabled the beep from hammering your ears during tab completion by adding or uncommenting “set bell-style none” in /etc/inputrc. Since I don’t know if that still works I figured I might as well prevent the pcspkr module from loading in the first place with:
# echo “blacklist pcspkr” > /etc/modprobe.d/pcspkr.conf
# rmmod pcspkr
Enjoy the peace and quiet!
An interesting post and comments on Mether’s blog about Banshee and F-Spot depending on Moonlight.
Personally I would rather see Mono and apps that depend on it disappear from Fedora and not come back. The Moonlight dependency is another example of the rather grey area this whole Mono thing is venturing into. And at some point enough is enough and the powers that be should just pull the plug on it. If you still want to make Mono available then stick it in RPMFusion.org. Or perhaps the RPMs could be offerend from a yum repo at the Mono website.
Why do we even need Mono and Mono based apps? To replace Tomboy there’s GNote that gets better every day and is part of Gnome. To replace F-Spot there are a number of apps like Digikam, Fotoxx and Solang. Really, why would I possibly want an app that’s not part of the Gnome familiy, requires a massive amount of external libs, is or may be patent encumbered and which development team is led by someone who’s judgement seems rather clouded by his love and admiration for the Beast from Redmond.
Mono, just say no.
Fedora 12 will come with another cool new feature: poly instantiated tmp directories. Read more here.