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Wednesday 22 September 2010

Mageia : a new GNU Linux distribution

By philippe on Wednesday 22 September 2010, 08:55

A new GNU Linux distribution is born : Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork.

So why speak about this here ?

First, Firebird packages need a maintainer and as I am the one in Mandriva, I will do the same in Mageia

Second, this story remind me a little the Firebird story

Third I'm enthusiast to contribute (may be more than only Firebird related packages) to a such challenging adventure, and in this one, there are people that I really trust.

Long live Mageia : http://www.mageia.org/

Friday 11 July 2008

VmWare and Linux

By philippe on Friday 11 July 2008, 11:15

Found on the web : http://jaysonrowe.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/vmware-server-tipsntricks/

Seems that the following kernel boot parameters will help performance and stability using Linux 2.6 as a guest:

noapic nolapic apci=off clocksource=acpi_pm elevator=noop

Friday 7 December 2007

Mac OsX Tiger and Leopard

By philippe on Friday 7 December 2007, 23:20

Last year , since I needed a laptop and that nobody made the Q/A test for Firebird on MacOsX, I bought a MacBook

Nice laptop, even if I prefer Linux to MacOsX, but that another story.

I have Tiger on my MacBook, but Leopard is here. The problem is that for Firebird we need a build on Leopard and another on Tiger, since the build made on Leopard by Paul Beach don't run on Tiger (see Paul's blog)

So I did the build on Tiger.

The problem I have is that I don't wanted to do Q/A test on the box that did the build, the other problem is that I can't do VmWare virtual machine with MacOsX on it.

So here the solution :

I get a external Firewire disk (this one : Disque dur LaCie d2 Quadra 500 Go)

I formated the disk connected via firewire with the MacOsx tool and I choose a GUID table
I made two 50go volumes (one for Tiger, one for Leopard) and one other big (can be use for
backups or the Leopard time machine software )

after that, still with the Firewire plugged, I reboot with the Tiger Install disk (alt
keyboard key hold down during the boot process)
at the beginning, it propose me to choose the disk I wanted to use for the installation,
and that's all

now, when I wanted to use my fresh Tiger install, I plug the disk and during the boot
process I hold down the alt key so I can choose the disk I wanted to boot on.

This way I could do the build, the test and have Tiger and Leopard, nice.