While cleaning up the DNS entries for yoper-linux.org I’ve missed a few CNAME records that pointed to an A record I’ve deleted. As such ftp.yoper-linux.org and powerplant.yoper-linux.org will be unavailable for approx 24 hours until the updated DNS records have been globally redistributed. You can add these 2 entries to your /etc/hosts file to work [...]
Charged up from an excellent off time in Turangi and Pakiri Beach I was eager to get back into gear with Yoper. But acknowledging that I am not the person to enthuse the masses, but rather someone who likes to tinker I was looking for collaboration on an idea that had slowly evolved over the [...]
Lighttpd has served us well here in the past, but over the last couple of weeks it became obvious that despite tuning and tweaking it is just not up to the task. We’ve finally switched to nginx and I think the results speak for themself . Enjoy a smoother and faster stay on *.yoper-linux.org . [...]
The update to rpm5 looks promising . With plenty of help and guidance from jbj over @ http://rpm5.org/ as well as Anders F Björklund we now got an rpm5 version that will allow us a rather smooth transition period. I’ve got a working rpm5 version now that is almost a drop in replacement to rpm4 [...]
As some of you are aware the next development cycle is about to be kicked off. The guts of it is already done. A long overdue update to perl 5.12 and python 2.7 is included . There’s still quite some testing to do to make sure the upgrade procedure is stable. The kernel has been [...]
After an extended RC1 period and a few hiccups with our main server we’re finally happy to announce the immediate availability of Yoper Linux 2010. The RC2 feedback was a big thumps up from all sides. So what’s in it? A well tuned 2.6.33 kernel with focus on desktop interactivity and rich driver functionality. For [...]
I’ve been asked to provide a small how to how to build yoper packages. As a first step here’s a how to setup your build environment. We use a very structured approach to building packages. The goal is to achieve reproducibility. This will allow anyone who attempts to reuse our recipes to rebuild Yoper packages [...]
Actually now just a formality, we are happy to finally announce the availability of Yoper Linux 2010 RC2 . For download links please go to our download page. Seeing that we already received good response we aim to do the final release at the end of April. If you want to provide any feedback, please [...]
So, after much back and forth we now have the majority of the online presence of Yoper Linux relaunched. The main news portal is what you’re looking at right now. The forums will be available at http://forums.yoper-linux.org/ , wiki at … http://wiki.yoper-linux.org . The development interface is at http://powerplant.yoper-linux.org . The external page elements will [...]
The main software repository is now available at its final place and no further outages are expected on this end. The collaboration interface is at least up and running, but it lacks the content. I’ll still attempt to recover information from the database but it does not look to good at this stage. As you [...]