Martin Wilke » FreeBSD

still life but ..

miwi — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:49:40 +0000

sadly I did’t found free time to write here anything, real job makes
me too busy, it’s huge fun even if it is not always easy. I am now
almost three months in Kuala Lumpur, and I am still impressed by the
large squares, by the peoples and the culture. I did’t found time
to go more outside, but i think/hope this will change someday.
Oh yes i found here a FreeBSD Geek, I am very impressed by this
people because I’ve never tought I will find someone here, that
has the Technical understanding, it must be added that we interested
have some commonalities. I hope I get this opportunity people even
closer to get to know . Food and drink tastes good, I am doing
quite well so far…

PS: Pics can you find on Facebook

= Martin

Stepping down from KDE, Gecko, and vbox …

miwi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:16:03 +0000

Howdy Guys,

Few Weeks ago i wrote that i’ve got a job offer in Kuala Lumpur,
I got this Job now and unfortunately now I need now to reorder my
life a bit. So first step is now to step down from KDE, Gecko
and vbox teams. I am not really happy about this step but sometimes
priorities goes to new state and we have to reorder something.
I’ll spend my time more to portmgr stuff, mentoring fresh
Blood, Gnats cleanup’s and committing any good stuff. I’d like
to say many thanks for all the nice time in these teams .

- Martin

Kuala Lumpur first Impressionen!

miwi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:52:48 +0000

Well more or less the first week is over now, It’s
very hot here and we european guys need to learn
here with the climate, and of course with the other
timezone . The culture here is very nice and very
friendly, eating is ok so far, there are also MC
Donalds, Buerger King, Pizza Hut etc. we don’t miss
anything here.

Mostly you’ll find a lot of meals with chicken in
all possible variations but all what we found/got
was tasty . My new Job is nice, i’ve learned a
lot over the week here, but unfortunately my english
is very bad to hear and spelling right but i think
thats not alone my fault the peoples here speak very
very fast and whisper that you can’t hear all right
But all my colleagues help me if i need that
(many thanks Guys!)

This was all the good thing, now the only bad news,
my Laptop is gone, the sata controller thought it
is too hot here and and didn’t want to work longer
here so now it’s broken. Tomorrow I get a new one
with hoping to get FreeBSD installed quickly and
hopefully without any big problems. My plan was to
get Xorg finish this week but i have 2 problems
in the house we don’t have internet yet and too
much stress in the office to start fixing all the
problems I really hope to get this finish over the
Weekend.

So finally here are two urls with pics i made here.
First one is from the hotel where we sleeped the
first night and the secound url is from the house
where we live now.

First Days
House

- Martin

Moving to Kuala Lumpur

miwi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:15:01 +0000

Now that everything is alright I’d like you to inform you that
I’ve got the best chance of my life! I got a job offer in
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to work as a System Administrator.
The plan is to move next week on Thursday, the flight is
12 hours, a long boring time That will be my first flight and
I’m a bit nervous

The good thing is that the time I have to work for
FreeBSD will not be affected.

I’ve created a new category Kuala Lumpur here in my
Blog. I think that if I find a bit of time I’ll post some
news with some pics.

Call for Testing X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

miwi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:41:31 +0000

Howdy!

We’re happy to announce that Xorg 7.5 is ready
for public testing.

The ATI and Intel drivers were patched to work with
the new server, please report any problems to us!
The drivers for Vesa, NV and NVIDIA have been tested
thoroughfully and seem to work fine.

A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: Unfortunately you’ll have
to compile gcc 4.2+ first because the X.org Team doesn’t
support gcc 3.X longer, We strongly recommend you to
update your system to 7.x or above.

Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find
the svn repo to checkout X.org ports.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5

A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real
portstree could be found here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge

The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script.
Please set the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org
ports.

After merging please try

portupgrade -af \*
portmaster -af

Please report any problems and issus to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.

Thanks to beat@ and rnoland@ for their help.

Happy Updating!

Call for Help Xorg Team need Fresh Blood!

miwi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:37:26 +0000

Howdy All,

How you all know is Robert Noland our X guy but he lose most of his time
for his new job and x11 is to many for one people. Robert is dealing
most time with x stuff on the src site and we need now some people to
help him on the ports side. Beat@ and I have been started to help him,
we’ve setup a SVN [1] and small wiki page [2] with all needed infomations.
If you have intrested to help us a bit please mail me back or join
us via irc EFnet/#freebsd-xorg.

[1]
http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/branches/xorg-dev

[2]:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5

Many Thanks

- Martin

[CFT] KDE SC 4.4.0 for FreeBSD.

miwi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:33:59 +0000

Hello Internet,

We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was
released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before
you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before
FreeBSD 7.3 was released.

What is new:
KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate
local and network social services .. and a lot more. The official
release notes for this release can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/

Now you can get KDE SC 4.4 with a svn checkout:

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/

now try:

sh Tools/scripts/portsmerge
sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge

Please read carefull /usr/ports/UPDATING-area51
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/UPDATING-area51

Happy Updating!!

Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD available

miwi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:58:36 +0000

Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our addon’s problem.

Presenting KDE 4.3.5 for FreeBSD.

miwi — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:59:02 +0000

Howdy,

The official release notes for this release can be found at
here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series.

It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree,
because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port
KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it
in out FreeBSD 7.3 release.

We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.

Server is back

miwi — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:48:43 +0000

Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.