Present Perfect

Dave/Dina

In the final throes of getting an .iso out. After a lot of work, the installer is updated to anaconda 9.0, and customization has been done everywhere where it was needed. There are still too many hacks to get where I want. For example, instead of trying to teach anaconda how I want the grub.conf to show the two different boot partitions, I just don't write grub.conf from anaconda and let an rpm install a new grub.conf

But for a first release, these hacks work. I think I eradicated Red Hat from almost any place where it made sense, except maybe for init. I'm still kind of confused by the legalities of this, but the people at Red Hat I know tell me that it really is the purpose of the license to have third parties remove all links to Red Hat from a forked product.

Anyway, some minor tweaking in the install packages should get us finished. And then we have an installer that works, but it's pretty dumb too. I turned off most of the hardware autodetection because I have yet to figure out how to handle it properly in all cases. But I'm happy I'm getting where I want, and I hope to attract some new people once the .iso is out.

Music

I've listened to the Twilight Singers pretty much continuously for the last two weeks straight. It is that good. I hope they get their ass to Europe sometime soon this time around.

As for the move, I've posed myself an interesting problem, the classic desert disc question. I'm going to allow myself to take 20 CD's with me to Barcelona. Of course, I'm cheating like there's no tomorrow, with over 1200 CD's on my Dave/Dina system that I'm taking with me as well. But for general playback, car playback, or falling asleep with the stereo, only 20 CD's. I'll post a list when I'm done fretting over which to take.

mach

Cleaned up a hack I put in for Matthias. Now I need to release something for Fedora Core 1, but I'm having silly perfectionist issues with what names to use for the distros now that fedora means both the old fedora.us stuff as well as the new fedora core stuff. I'll deal with that tomorrow so I can release.

glibc update

A recent glibc update on my RH9 machine caused my immense worries. rpm was completely screwed, I couldn't build install images for Dave/Dina anymore, mach failed, ... It seems the latest glibc update had some issues with custom-built kernels. It seems to be a known issue, and reverting fixed it for me for now. I'll deal with this when I'm done moving.

Life and Moving

Only ten days left. Time to get some stuff in order. Need to order a server for apestaart. Need to go to the dentist one last time. A week ago, I went on a very relaxing weekend with friends. And last Friday, we threw our going away party. For some reason I got a huge and heavy penguin.

As for the move itself, we're leaving next week on Friday morning. The whole house is a mess, boxes everywhere, stuff flying around, tables being broken apart. A sad affair. I'm going to miss this big house of ours, and I'm going to miss living together with a bunch of guys. It's fantastic to always have someone home when you come home, and have people around to do stuff with. I love my girlfriend, and I'm sure we'll have a great time in our new apartment, but it's going to be different... The end of an era.

Growing up is letting go.

For the actual move, we'll rent a small truck and we have two friends who want to drive it there and back again, with some days in Barcelona inbetween...

Dave/Dina In the final throes of getting an .iso out. After a lot of work, the installer is updated to anaconda 9.0, and customization has been done everywhere where it...