Development

Using 'skim' for input in KDE

| Development | #FreeBSD | #kde | #scim | #skim

I have a long history suffering from inputing Chinese in KDE, where scim does not work well, especially when used with Qt applications. Certain applications like KWord will refuse Chinese when using SCIM.

After some search it seems that ‘skim’ which is scim Qt’ifyed version, would support them well. Moreover, this version seems to have better UI than its GTK counterpart. The port (textproc/skim) is now unmaintained, maybe someone will pick it up? I’ll consider picking it up if there is nobody taking care for it.

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patched top(1) and kernel to support multiple CPU

| Development | #FreeBSD | #multiprocessor | #top

前几天有人问 FreeBSD 的 top(1) 如何能够显示不同 CPU 的占用情况。这是 patch 过之后的输出：

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last pid:  1773;  load averages:  0.43,  0.19,  0.16                                                                                        up 0+00:34:35  16:17:04
97 processes:  1 running, 96 sleeping
CPU 0: 20.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 79.2% idle
CPU 1:  3.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 96.9% idle
Mem: 517M Active, 21M Inact, 577M Wired, 11M Cache, 48K Buf, 810M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

 PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND  
 1236 delphij 1 104 0 232M 143M select 1 4:37 37.06% Xorg  
 1768 delphij 1 8 0 164M 52704K nanslp 1 0:07 36.28% kicker  
 1771 delphij 1 8 0 6212K 1664K wait 0 0:00 3.17% sh  
 1772 delphij 1 45 0 8020K 1656K select 1 0:00 2.39% ksysguardd  
 1756 delphij 1 20 0 10648K 3596K pause 1 0:00 1.17% csh  
 1754 delphij 1 4 0 11764K 1588K sbwait 1 0:00 0.78% gnome-pty-helper  
 1751 delphij 2 -8 0 136M 25756K piperd 0 0:00 0.68% gnome-terminal

FreeBSD 8 中已经包含了这个功能。

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Qt 4 将提供 GPLv3 授权选项

| Development | #GPL | #KDE | #Qt

在 Google campus 举行的 KDE 4 Release Event 上，Trolltech宣布将提供 GPLv3 授权选项。许多国内媒体将这一变动称为"以GPLv3授权发布"，很明显这与事实是存在差距的。

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Sun收购MySQL AB

| Development | #acquire | #MySQL | #Sun

今天早上MSN上收到的消息，Sun公司宣布收购了MySQL AB，中午又听说，Oracle收购了 BEA。今天是什么日子啊……

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Micropolis ported to FreeBSD

| Development | #FreeBSD | #micropolis | #port | #Simcity

Today I have ported (a rather hacky patch) Micropolis (a GPL’ed version of SimCity) to FreeBSD.

(20080114) Note: the patch is based on the git version of micropolis-activity, as available from git://dev.laptop.org/projects/micropolis-activity .


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BSD ar(1) announced

| Development | #binutils | #deprecate GPL | #DTrace | #FreeBSD | #toolchain

Kai Wang has announced today the BSD ar(1) is available for wider testing. This is amazing work, the creation and list speed are 5-20 times faster than GNU ar(1), and extraction speed is also slightly better than GNU ar(1).

It is also important to note that this version is completely BSD-licensed (yes, that means that you are free from the lair’s license), and is a piece of the vital parts of the FreeBSD DTrace work.

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Perl 5.10 released

| Development | #FreeBSD | #Perl | #ports

Perl 5.10 发布了！我觉得这对于 p5-* 绝对是一个大事件 :P

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转投 KDE 了！

| Development | #Desktop | #FreeBSD | #KDE

犹豫了很久，实在是禁不起诱惑……从今天起改用 KDE 了，感觉这个桌面平台比 GNOME 更理性一些。

在 FreeBSD 上安装 KDE 非常简单：portinstall kde。然后配一下.xinitrc让它启动就可以了。

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qmail进入public domain

| Development | #open source | #public domain | #qmail

终于 djb 大人决定将 qmail 放入 public domain 了。但是，这一天来的太晚了，qmail 吃掉了邮件服务器市场上一部分的 sendmail 的份额，然而后来的 postfix 凭着不断的改进，最终在性能、可靠性、可扩展性等方面都远远地把 qmail 甩在了后面。

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OpenSolaris冲向IBM Mainframe

| Development | #IBM | #mainframe | #opensolaris | #sun

据 eWeek 说，OpenSolaris快要有IBM Mainframe上跑的版本了。看来，这个市场已经快要萎缩到昔日的竞争对手开始同仇敌忾的地步了。

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