I've had to work with the git version control system extensively in the past few weeks (due to the proliferation of projects I'm involved in that use it.). I found the standard "git status" output to be far too wordy and annoying, and sought a way to improve it and make it more subversion like. "man git-status" helped with this: one can write git status -s to get an output similar to svn status (or svn st for short) and git status -s . to restrict the output only to files below the current directory (and not get the ../… files). Enjoy!

I am sure there is billions or more people who already done that but I needed this quickly for my project and was not feeling googling around :

Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux
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Mandriva One 2010 Spring KDE
Muktware (blog)
When I optimistically downloaded the 690MB ISO file from Mandriva's website, I had high hopes that this version would improve the steadily degrading once ...

some time after mandriva 2010.1 has been released, i'm now pleased to report that perl has been updated to 5.12.1, all cpan modules are up-to-date (including padre 0.68) or bugs have been reported upstream... and parrot 2.6.0 is currently building.

the perl 5.12.0 - 5.12.1 upgrade was really smooth: no patch to rediff, reapply, etc. that's definitely a good thing for perl maintainers to have a stable series with only critical fixes going in. i've already said it, but thanks again to p5p!

Den turkiska Linuxdistributionen Pardus vill inta kontors- datorerna. Den har en hygglig chans om du behöver en enhetlig skrivbordsmiljö.

GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag is going very well so far even if so many people are missing this year. I hope you did not miss the best talk so far! If you don't want to miss other talks, live streams are available on GUADEC website.

The major GNOME announce yesterday was GNOME 3.0 being postpone to the next release, in March 2011.

People seem mostly happy with it and as you can see on the following photo, they still love release team!

Mandriva alert MDVSA-2010:140 (php)
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2,4 miljarder kronor om året. Så mycket pengar investerar Ryssland i ett projekt för att få bort Windows - bland annat. Google ligger också illa till.

FreetuxTV 0.5.1 est disponible
LinuxFr
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Well it's taken me a little time to commit this work, but here it is. This is the fruits of my labour from the KDE Multimedia Sprint earlier this year.

As well as taking part in various discussions, I was able to spend some time cooking up a UI to control the configuration of PulseAudio and the various cards attached.When adding PulseAudio support to the various parts of KDE that need it (Phonon, KMix), there was an important part of the puzzle missing: a card profile selector, and a sink/source port selector. I had always intended to include this functionality somewhere, but the KMix framework didn't really allow for it neatly (I could have created a separate dialog of course but it didn't quite feel right).

The eagle eyed readers may have seen a sneak preview of this feature when looking at the KDE-specific help page I wrote up on the PulseAudio website. So I give you this: the Speaker Setup tab in System Settings.

Speaker Setup GUI

The little icon in the middle is your user icon, so you'll see this differently unless your a weird stalker type and have set your icon to mine :s

The various drop downs allow fully control over all cards that are attached to the system. The buttons on the main pane allow you to test each speaker separately. In order to test the speakers, libcanberra is used. libcanberra is an implementation of the Free Desktop Sound Theme specification. It allows this test to be implemented with minimum hassle and I'm not personally interested in reinventing the wheel, hence the use of this library and the additional dependency.  Some people dislike using libcanberra in KDE (as was apparent from some discussions at the Multimedia Sprint), but I believe the reasons were often personal ones and not related to the usefulness of the code. If someone really wants to factor this out, they can but I have no interest in doing so and will prefer to use the existing implementation whenever possible (and this would include any future implementation I may or may not do with regards to support the Sound Theme Specification in KDE (or maybe Qt) directly)

When a 5.1 surround system is presented, the GUI is obviously a bit more advanced:

Speaker Setup GUI (5.1)

For those naysayers, I've tried my best to ensure that the compile will work fine without PulseAudio installed. It should also degrade gracefully when it is compiled with PA support, but PA is not configured to be used at runtime. The whole tab will simply not be available.

There is still one small problem left in that I don't handle disconnection/reconnection yet. This causes the GUI to crash if the PA server is stopped and restarted. This is not typically something that happens, but it's still something I will fix shortly all the same.

This code is now in trunk (r1154776) so feel free to try it out and report other bugs etc. This GUI is also included in Mandriva Cooker (I did want to include it prior to 2010.1 release, but the timing didn't work out - tho' it probably would have been OK considering the delays that cropped up in the release process). I expect this functionality to be included in any updated/backported versions of KDE for 2010.1.

For reference, in case you didn't spot it yourself, this GUI was heavily inspired by the gnome-speaker-setup utility.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 25-Jul-2010
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Banshee Updates TO 1.7.3 With Plethora Of New Features
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It is available for download on most of the popular Linux distros including OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Mandriva. It is also available for Mac OS ...

Processeurs : Microsoft étend sa collaboration avec ARM
ITespresso.fr
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Linux станет государственным
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Наиболее вероятными кандидатами на создание программы стали российская Alt Linux и французская компания Mandriva, совладельцем которой является российский ...
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Одним из претендентов называется французская компания Mandriva, известная одноименным Linux-дистрибутивом. Конкуренцию ей вполне может составить российская ...
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It has been 10 years since I joined a small company called MandrakeSoft at that time.

When I first arrived, I was asked "What do you want to work on ?" and I said "I don't know, I use GNOME at home..." and you know the story ;)

Now is a good time to change, so I'm leaving Mandriva at the end of this month (I'm already off, so don't search me on irc / mail ).

It has been a pleasure to work everybody in Mandriva company and community.

Jean Noël de Galzain, PDG de Wallix au secours de Mandriva
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Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth
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By Katherine Noyes Mandriva has stepped back from the precipice, but is it a canary in the coal mine for other Linux desktop distros? ...