Ubuntu

So, I decided to upgrade to the new Ubuntu (9.04 - now in beta). The upgrade went flawlessly, which was kind of annoying because I didn't teach me anything new. So I also went for ext4 as my default filesystem, because that's supposed to be faster and you might even loose files.

Well that also worked out of the box - I did discover that if you really convert your ext3 to ext4 you cannot use the default Ubuntu kernel anymore (2.6.28) because that one does not fully support ext4? To convert ext3 to ext4 use the following

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/yourfilesystem

and

fsck -pDf /dev/yourfilesystem

So finally I upgraded my kernel to stock 2.6.29, which also works out of the box. See ramoonus.nl for more information.

Server move

I'm almost ready with configuring my new home server. I expect to move most services from my old computer to this new one in the next weekend.

A short guide on how to build the new notification system, which is scheduled for Jaunty, for Intrepid.

First download the source packages from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/notify-osd

You will need the .dsc and the .tar.gz files, then you need to follow the Debian way of building the package.

dpkg-source -x notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2.dsc
cd notify-osd-0.9ubuntu2/

One important tweak, otherwise it will not install in Intrepid and will complain about an human-icon-theme that is tool old

vi debian/control

And change to Depends: line of the package notify-osd to:

Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, human-icon-theme (>= 0.30)

Build your package, you may need to install any packages that might be needed for the build:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -us -nc -rfakeroot

Wait a little and then you should see a notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2_i386.deb in the parent directory. This can then be installed with a simple dpkg -i notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2_i386.deb

I've just release rdup 0.9.0, lots of changes and ditto fixes.

See the projects page for more information, or use the quicklink to download it right away.

I've used the Debian xfce pkg stuff to build Ubuntu packages of xfce 4.6.

The ... release ... rocks :)

You can find the debs in files/xfce/.

Be my guest...