Category: KDE 4

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

August 13, 2011

Synergy Linux 3 Nightly releases

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

I have been able to create a VERY early Synergy Linux 3 release. It’s basically just Fedora 16 pre alpha. So really it’s a pre Alpha based on a pre Alpha. The real difference right now is size, I’m only around 600MB, psmem is included, the Synergy Release file with Synergy repos, and my own semi-forked version of yum (just to allow Synergy and Fedora to have different versions but still one release source rpm). In any case new ISOs get built every night and every night the previous one is replaced. I am currently using tod’ays (12-Aug) to post this.

Included in these ISOs are the latest greatest Kernel 3.0 and KDE 4.7, along with a ton more updates that the Fedora team so far has done a great job on. I did have some issues installing from the livecd it took multiple times to get through setting up my drive. I just played with it till I got it too work. However this next nightly may not have the same issue, but expect issues never the less. I’m really not taking reports at this time too serious but if you would like to report something on the forums then please include not just your issue but also the time and day you downloaded the ISO as the ISO is updated daily.

Download:

ISO MD5

August 1, 2011

TakeOff – a full screen menu, added to repo

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

TakeOff  a full screen menu has been added to repo. Please test ;)

More information can be found on the project page:

https://code.google.com/p/takeoff-launcher/

July 6, 2011

New App, KDE Setup

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

There’s a new application I have added to the CD. It’s called KDE Setup. For some of you it may look familar. I borrowed it from Pardus (known as Kaptan, there) renamed it, took out Smolt, (for now) and I am integrating  the Synergy Feedback application into it. It works for the most part other then the wallpappers don’t show a preview image because the default Fedora wallpaper and Syenrgy wallpaper aren’t true wallpaper themes. I am going to see if I can fix this ie. have the application handle non wallpaper themes better. We’ll see. You can play with KDE Setup on one of the nightlys (more to come on that) by running kdesetup in konsole. You can also grab the rpm, it’s called kdesetup or compile it out of SVN.

 

July 5, 2011

Next release: FireFox 5 and Thunderbird

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

I caved.. The next release will have Firefox and Thunderbird, this all comes from getting a decent mail client. Claws-Mail in look and feel just wasn’t cutting it. I did my own version changing the icons etc.., but it still wasn’t mixing well with Oxygen-Gtk. I found a great IMAP PyQt4 based client called Trojita but it didn’t have Pop3 support (I may still package it). So finally I settled on Thunderbird which pulls in a majority of the requires for Firefox, so I just might as well include it. I Also tried to get LibreOffice Writer on the CD as well but that pushed me up to 780Meg well over what a CD can handle and a CD is where I want to stay (no DVD Releases in the near future) so LibreOffice (for now) is a no, but Firefox and Thunderbird is Yes. Kword will handle word-processing until I find something better or someone reading this gives a decent argument to change ;)

June 30, 2011

It’s Thursday, new Beta day

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

It’s been a few days since my last post. I’ve been hammering away at the next Beta (Beta 2) and I think it’s finally ready to be released. This Beta release come with a fix for NetworkWork Manager, it seems the latest version we were using had some issues that weren’t caught by upstream. I’m running the latest greatest packages for NetworkManager so that comes with some risks. However the issue has been reported to be fixed with this last update to NetworkManager and I have yet to have my CPU spike as it was before. We wills see though as further testing happens with Beta 2. I have also done some more branding (greening) various aspects of the System including kio_sysinfo and system-book marks (and little stuff). The more predominant future of this release is the Synergy Linux Feedback Application that will pop up on the LiveCD and ask you if you would like to leave feedback. It’s a very simple form, but it will allow us to get your thoughts, opinions and bugs reported. If publish worthy they will end up on the forum. I have also included QSynergy (and of course synergy) in this release, because it’s an awesome app with an awesome name.

 

 

 

The ISO can be found in the normal places:

Locally Hosted – 32Bit ISO (md5) and 64Bit ISO (md5)

Torrents – 32Bit Torrent and 64Bit Torrent (md5sums are included)

 

 

 

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