April 30, 2012

Long time no post, an update

by jmiahman — Categories: KDE 4, Packages, Synergy — Comments Off

I just pushed a ton of updates to the main repo this morning, they consist of kernel 3.3.1, KDE 4.8.2 and various other program and library updates. At this point I have been using Synergy for day to day home use. It is also running the server this site and my build machine are using. Granted there’s still some package additions I need to make and will as need arises. However for my own desktop use, Synergy, at least from my persepctive, has arrived.

I can print and setup cups with the system-config-printer-kde package. I can do word processing with LibreOffice. I can skype with family and friends using our skype package. Surf the internet using Firefox (though I need to update it). Listen to Music and watch videos with vlc 2.0. Download with qBittorrent or transmission, sync files with dropbox, watch Youtube videos with flash, organize pictures with digikam and even install most rpms from external sources like Google Music or Chrome and everything still plays nice.

What I would like to do further is, finish the work on a new installer and create a light weight qt only based LiveCD with Razor-Qt (or at least have it as an option), along with keep up to date with some of the more popular packages.

Currently there is breakage in the repository from previous Alpha releases. Hopefully this will be the only breakge we’ll experience. It was do to a pretty dramatic change in the filesystem, moving binaries and libs into /usr. This work is still on going as some packages still point to / instead of /usr however symlinks have been place and all should work fine during this transission as long as you’re running the latest Alpha ISOs. If you’re not and wish you upgrade it can be tricky and is not preferred.

March 29, 2012

Moving to /usr

by jmiahman — Categories: Applications, KDE 4, Synergy — Comments Off

Looks like some of the work has been done with moving all binaries and libs to the /usr folder. I have been able to get a bootable (and installable) ISO now for both archs. This move is pretty signifcant and actually breaks existing installs if you just try to update the rpms. Really I hope it’s the first and last time I have to do that. I love rolling release distributions, but I haven’t found a way to allow this to roll cleanly.  I have the base packages for KDE 4.8.1 done but still many more to do. I’m going just to move to 4.8.2 for a lot of those packages. On the Razor-Qt side of things they are talking about creating test releases which I will most likely start to package when/if they do. This will allow a little bit better stabilty then just doing a git pull and hoping all is well. Lately though I have been looking into how I can improve Synergy’s very simple installer. I really love the way Pardus organized Kaptan and I think the bones of Kaptan would allow for a pretty decent looking installer. So I have been playing with kaptan’s source a little and seeing if that is a viable option. I guess we’ll see. Test the latest ISOs and let me know if anything major crops up. Thanks.

February 24, 2012

Razor-Qt updated to 0.4.1 and on LiveCD

by jmiahman — Categories: Synergy — Comments Off

Razor-Qt has been updated to 0.4.1 and can be found on the LiveCD. It’s not the default option however, and requires a logout of KDE and to be selected in the Login Manager (KDM) and then for liveuser there’s no password, just press enter to login and try Razor.

February 22, 2012

Razor-qt Updated to 0.4.1

by jmiahman — Categories: Synergy — Comments Off

As I said in my update prior post. I have put KDE 3 on the back burner for now. Originally I was hoping to use it for the EeePC and other light hardware devices. However after running a few distributions running Trinity KDE 3 and reading up on the whole KDE 3 fork. I have been left rather unimpressed. This lead me to a little bit of searching for a more light weight environment, but something still very much Qt Based and I found razor-qt. Most likely if I continue on with importing KDE 3 it will be enterprise level rpms that have been patch for security and bugs rather then using a fork. So Razor-Qt has been updated to 0.4.1 and I am now offering openbox as well which will be needed for window management in Razor.

January 27, 2012

KDE 4.8 and EeePCLinuxOS.. I mean KDE 3 coming soon

by jmiahman — Categories: Synergy — Comments Off

Title Says it all ;)

 

**Update**

It may still be a bit I was going to try and do Trinity, but it’s a hot mess and something I care not to do. Most likely If I finish the KDE 3 Import it will be with Enterprise packages that will have security updates. Then again I may just have Razor-Qt be the default for lighter installs and call it a day.

January 21, 2012

Graphical installer works, but aint pretty.

by jmiahman — Categories: Applications, Packages, Synergy — Comments Off

Friday I placed what I currently have for a Graphical installer onto the LiveCDs I have been making. It works but it sure is not pretty. I have also been able to build both 32 and 64Bit ISOs. Things are slowly progressing. The installer is written in PyQt4 and has a built in auto partitoning option (auto-part) that works but could use a lot more work as well. In the next few days as things improve I will post these as projects on dev.synergy-linux.com and give them a SVN commit.

Another thing I have been working on is razor-qt in what spare time (like now) I have found. In case you don’t know razor-qt is a desktop environment written for Qt4 and is light very weight. My hopes are this will work even better then KDE4 on EeePCs and I can make it an option much more sooner then something like kde3. In fact it may even replace a need to build kde3 if it’s stable enough. We’ll see.

January 7, 2012

It’s ALIVE!

by jmiahman — Categories: Synergy — Comments Off

Posting from the little EeePC running Synergy Linux (Code named: GreenTooth). This is on what will be Synergy Linux 3. We’re still very pre Alpha still but things are coming along. This release is not just for EeePC’s don’t get me wrong but still feel like I have some loose ends to tie up from the EeePCLinuxOS days. So far I have the compressed install working with a changes overlay (with some intervention) all I need to do now is change some media creator code and do some more testing, then I will work on the rather large task of still trying to use anaconda for a normal install. After that I hit Alpha status and then go into the more organized tasks on dev.synergy-linux.com of porting Mandriva Control Center and various other major packages I may be missing (Java, libreoffice etc..). So here goes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 9, 2011

Google Plus Synergy Linux Page

by jmiahman — Categories: KDE 4, Synergy — Comments Off

Synergy Linux now has it’s own page on Google Plus, this has much more recent updates to packages and ISO builds then the blog or the forums. Check it out:

Synergy Linux on Google Plus

 

***Attention***

You don’t have to have a Gmail account to see the status, however you will need one to leave feedback or comment on the Synergy Google Plus page.

 

December 5, 2011

Updated Personal Blog

by jmiahman — Categories: Synergy — Comments Off

After many months I finally updated my person blog.. only for it to be about Synergy Linux..

http://jmiahman.wordpress.com/

THought it would be relevant to post the link here. After all it is a little progress.

November 28, 2011

First window Manager DWM

by jmiahman — Categories: KDE 4, Packages, Synergy — Comments Off

We have had the ability to build a CLI based ISO for a while now. However install has been rather tricky. This is because Syenrgy Linux does not offer any selinux packages. We have completely stripped out SELinux from our core packages. Up until a few weeks ago this meant a broken anaconda and a broken install. Also we do not offer FCOE (FibeChannel Over Ehternet) which is built into Anaconda and if not found will crash anaconda. A few weeks ago though I put a little work into stripping SELinux and FCOE out of anaconda and was able to do a CLI install. So to take my own medicine I installed a CLI version of Synergy on my home machine. Now I still have a few laptops running older Synergy Respins (Synergy 2) based on Fedora 15 so I’m not completely KDE less. Even though having one machine being all CLI wasn’t much of a hassle to make things even better I packaged DWM a very lightweight window manager (with few dependencies) and was able to get Firefox 8 up and running. So now my desktop machine is still pretty much a desktop machine and as long as I leave a Firefox window open is still pretty much functional for the rest of the family. I have built 3 Xorg drivers ATI, Vesa and Intel, nouvea is coming here shortly. Intel, Nvidia and ATI cards pretty much have the market so those will be my focus for testing when I get something a little more desktop intensive (ie. KDE 4.8) done.

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