The GWN staff would like to remind all Gentoo Developers that there is very little time left for voting. The elections for the 2007 Gentoo Council will close at 0000 UTC on the 17th of September. For some developers, this may be your first year voting. Dont let the process intimidate you; voting is rather simple when get right down to it. Do not miss out, make your voice count!
Code Listing 1.1: How to vote |
$ ssh dev.gentoo.org (Create your ballot) $ votify --new council2007 (Edit your ballot by listing the nominees in your preferred order) $ ${EDITOR} .ballot-council2007 (Verify your ballot) $ votify --verify council2007 (Submit your ballot) $ votify --submit council2007 |
Note: Please rank your choices in order, first at the top and last at the bottom. You can put choices on the same line to indicate that you have no preference between them. Any choices you omit are automatically added at the end. |
Trying to remember just who you wanted to vote for? Review the nominee manifestos or the GWN interviews.
The Gentoo Screenshot Contest has drawn to a close and we have our winners. The jury, which was formed by four Gentoo Developers (Davide Italiano, Christian Faulhammer, Christoph Mende and Dawid Weglinski), has selected seven winning screenshots from over forty submissions. While they were all impressive enough to post on the Gentoo screenshots page, the jury only awards three rankings: first, second, and third. Each judge rated the screenshots in accordance to their own personal interpretation, then awarded each screenshot a number, ranging from 0-10; those figures were tallied up to determine the winners. And here they are:
Congratulations!
This weeks Tips and Tricks covers an application who's time has come: Synergy. This handy application is a software KVM, allowing you to use one keyboard and mouse across multiple machines with their individual monitors. Synergy even works cross platform (with copy and paste!) between Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Setup and use of Synergy is very basic and straight forward. Select which machine will be your primary mouse and keyboard, this will be configured as the server and the remaining as the clients.
Tip: When running synergyc (the client) on a multi-monitor machine (laptop with an external monitor for example), you will need mutiple instances of synergyc. One launched per display, one instance launched per each respective display, passing a name along with each display beyond 0:0.
Trick: Synergyc assumes the hostname of the machine when connecting to the server instance. So for any display beyond 0:0, append a number to the hostname and specify that when connecting to the server instance. Then use that syntax on each display, launching synergc from each display. Two monitors, two instances of synergc, one with no name specified running on 0:0 and the other with a name running on 0:1.
Here is a sample config which includes how to launch the instances on the dual monitor machine, which we will call wlt, along with the server, ws2, and another workstation, ws1. Please note, the Windows install includes a GUI, however for OS X and Linux a simple text file is created. This sample is that text file.
Code Listing 2.1: Sample configuration |
# List the computer names that Synergy will run on
section: screens
wlt:
wlt1:
ws2:
ws1:
end
# For each system, state how it correlates to the other systems
section: links
ws2:
left = wlt
right = ws1
ws1:
left = ws2
wlt:
right = ws2
left = wlt1
wlt1:
right = wlt
end
|
Normally Synergy wants to run "in the background." It detaches from the terminal and doesn't have a visible window, effectively disappearing from view. Until you're sure your configuration works, you should start synergy "in the foreground" using the -f command line option.
Code Listing 2.2: Start Synergy |
On the synergy server: $ synergys -f --config synergy.conf On the synergy clients: $ synergyc -f server-host-name |
Note: If synergys or synergyc are not in your PATH, then use the full pathname. |
Code Listing 2.3: The system wlt with dual monitors is launched like this: |
On wlt 0:0: $ synergyc -f ws2 On wlt 0:1: $ synergyc -n wlt1 -f ws2 |
We understand that this is just a high level over view; for more information, please check out the Synergy site.
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MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilites have been found in MIT Kerberos 5, which could allow a remote unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement
This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
| Package: | Removal date: | Contact: |
| kde-misc/kxdocker | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| kde-misc/kxdocker-configurator | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| kde-misc/kxdocker-dcop | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| kde-misc/kxdocker-i18n | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| kde-misc/kxdocker-resources | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| kde-misc/kxdocker-trayiconlogger | 03 Sep 2007 | Daniel Black |
| net-firewall/fireflier | 05 Sep 2007 | Markus Ullmann |
| www-apache/mod_xslt | 08 Sep 2007 | Benedikt Boehm |
| dev-ruby/switchtower | 09 Sep 2007 | Hans de Graaff |
| Package: | Removal date: | Contact: |
| net-dialup/bpalogin | 02 Oct 2007 | Stefan Schweizer |
| dev-python/logging | 06 Oct 2007 | Ali Polatel |
| sys-auth/tfm-fingerprint | 08 Oct 2007 | Mike Frysinger |
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 02 September 2007 and 08 September 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 9769 currently open bugs: 10 are labeled 'blocker', 104 are labeled 'critical', and 341 are labeled 'major'.
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
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