Category Archives: exherbo

Topics concerning the exherbo linux distribution

MPlayer, Matroska and you

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Anders

2009-08-17 11:49 This issue was fixed a few hours ago. I have bumped MPlayer in our tree to SVN rev. 29532 I bumped MPlayer tonight. Aside from a new VDPAU option and some miscellaneous fixes, the most important news item … Continue reading →

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The state of the Exherbo Onion

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Anders

Two perly things have happened in Exherbo recently. First of all, I pushed an exheres for 5.10.1-RC1 last night. I have tested to ensure that it should be possible to up- and downgrade between 5.10.0 and 5.10.1 without any issues, … Continue reading →

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ハ, パ… what’s the difference?

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Anders

We get a lot of patches from many people in our main #exherbo channel. When someone is around and have the time to pick them up it works very well but some patches tend to drown in the general noise … Continue reading →

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Error messages! READ THEM!!!

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Anders

Please refrain from wasting developers’ time because you don’t want to read the error messages you get on your screen. Read them, act upon them or ask about the specific error message, rather than giving vague statements such as “I … Continue reading →

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Topic repositories! Use them!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Anders

During his various talks Bryan has mentioned the use of unofficial topic repositories in Exherbo – repositories hosting packages related to a specific topic that are either mostly or completely maintained by non-developers (and by non-developers I mean people who … Continue reading →

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Exherbo in numbers

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Anders

Lies, damn lies and statistics… At the time of writing (Wed Feb 11 11:22:48 CET 2009), the following numbers might be of interest: 269 days since official announcement We’ve been working on Exherbo for longer than that but serious work … Continue reading →

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The worst thing…

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Anders

The worst thing about Open Source Days [danish] isn’t choosing which talks to attend (I never have time for talks anyway). The worst thing is doing weird LaTeX hacks to get their logo placed correctly in the agenda… Turns out … Continue reading →

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And it even works!

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Anders

How cool is that?

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Once upon a time…

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Anders

Storytime guys and girls! Once upon a time there was a prosperous kingdom built on the greatest hills, the finest plains and the mightiest forests, a kingdom where cunning wizards and valiant knights worked together to build the most magnificent … Continue reading →

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Squashing some rumours

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Anders

It’s been a little more than a week since Bryan announced Exherbo. The general interest was quite overwhelming and along with it came a lot of questions that had to be answered. I think most of it was covered quite … Continue reading →

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