Simply GNUstep

The following packages have been updated:

Renaissance to 0.8.0
Addresses to 0.4.4
gnustep-gui (has a patch in it for themes, see below)
and
sgstep-meta-user (added the new VCFViewer from Addresses)

As usual, do a

apt-get update

and then a

apt-get upgrade


For those of you who want to try a new L&F for GNUstep, grab the 
sgstep-camaelon package (apt-get install sgstep-camaelon)

Please notify me of any problems.


Enjoy!

Chad

The repository has been updated.

Gorm has been updated to 0.5.0

StepTalk is now at 0.8.1

and
GSMBrowser has been updated (it doesn't have numbered releases)


Enjoy!
Chad

I've upgraded all the gnustep packages to the newly released versions.

Please try them out by doing an:

apt-get update

and then

apt-get upgrade



These new releases worked fine for me but please feel free to try them 
out and report any problems.


The gnustep-back package is still configure to use the x11 backend.  I 
think I will be changing that soon to libart soon though.


I'm currently working on Gorm-0.5.0, it should be ready within 24hrs.


Those RAID controllers are not in yet....

Enjoy!


Chad

Ok, I smashed out all the bugs I could find in the repository.

It seemed to work fine from a fresh install.  If you already have 
sgstep packages installed I don't know if it will work.  you may want 
to remove them first.

a apt-get remove sgstep-gnustep-make should get rid of everything

Anyhow, do:

apt-get update

and then
apt-get install sgstep-meta-user
and
apt-get install sgstep-meta-developer

if you want to try out some games do a
apt-get install sgstep-meta-games





Note, I had a problem with Connect.app (PPP app).  it always crashed 
GWorkspace.

If you want to try it out and see if it works for you do a

apt-get install sgstep-connect

and, using GWorkspace, go into the /Applications/Utilities directory 
(using the icon viewer) and see if it crashes

It doesn't seem to crash unless you set GWorkspace to view using icons, 
so it is probably a problem with Connect.app's icon file

to get rid of it do a
apt-get remove sgstep-connect

Lot's of nice apps are in /Applications/Utilities, notable 
Terminal.app, so if Connect.app gives you problems just get rid of it.




Enjoy!


Chad

I was so happy on Thursday because the hard drives for the servers came 
in the mail.

but :-(

Lat night when I tried to install Debian on the servers I found out 
something bad...sniff

You see, I had bought some motherboards with built in RAID, the plan 
was to use RAID-1 (mirroring).  Well, it turns out that the chipset on 
the motherboards (Promise) are not REAL RAID controllers!  they are 
actually simple IDE controllers which expect the RAID stuff to be done 
in software.  That complicates this tremendously and I could not get 
the servers installed.

So, last night I ordered some real RAID cards (3ware) and I hope to get 
those by Wednesday.  Sorry, looks like the server will not be up for a 
bit.


Chad

On Nov 16, 2003, at 9:19 AM, Justin Cutietta wrote:
>
> Hello. Well, yet another move is completed. Ended up
> leaving the dorms at my school due to problems in
> getting my work done. Oh well. I'm just starting to
> re-gear myself. Got Panther, also trying to get Sarge
> up and running with virtual PC. if you have it
> running, would you be willing to arrange a transfer of
> a disk image? or at least config files(I've had a
> bitch of a time with X11 >_< )

There is anew installer for sarge available.  It is still a little 
"tricky" though and may take more than one try to get it working.  A 
nice thing about the new installer is that it allows you to make reiser 
filesystems.


>
> well, that and I'm transfering to Network and
> Information systems, since Computer Engineering is
> killing me.

Whatever works!

>
> Anyways, Now that we are using debian sarge, I was
> wondering if the installer should change direction,
> and maybe start to wrap the debian installer, instead
> of running a few scripts.

I'm still not exactly sure how this should be done.  I won't have 
usable x86 machines till next week.  I'll take a look at it then.

Debian itself has packages for making install-cds.  Maybe we can grab 
those and modify them for sgstep.  Debian Sarge uses a different boot 
method than before.  It now works very similar to how we where doing it 
by having a heavily modularized kernel and an initrd image.  Which is 
good.

The new Debian installer is still text-based, I would prefer to change 
that.

I'll get back to you later when I can explore this more.

Later!

Chad


>
> Justin.
>
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Hello,

First of all I'd like to apologize for the mess with the packages right 
now.  I'm currently setting up dedicated servers for simplygnustep 
(simplygnustep.com/org/net and sgstep.com/org/net) but I'm still 
waiting for the hard drives.

Hopefully I'll have the hard drives by Friday and I'll be able to fix 
the packages.  Until then... sorry, no machine to use (except for this 
eMac, which doesn't help here)

I'd also like to announce what the servers will be:

simplygnustep.com/org/net will be a traditional www and anonymous ftp 
server.  It will have the repository and the install disc images when 
available.  Hopefully it will be mirrored a lot to reduce the 
relatively low upstream bandwidth I currently have.

sgstep.com/org/net will be something like .Mac.  The goal is to 
integrate the distro with the services from sgstep and charge a small 
fee (most likely $25 a year, 1/4 of what apple charges)

Initially I will be trying to get the server to work right and I plan 
to make the services free for that time period.  So stay tuned if you 
want an account, I will announce when I'm ready to start testing the 
thing.
Sgstep.com will have email (pop, smtp, IMAP, secured if desired), and 
some type of "iDisk" type thing, webdav seems the natural method for 
doing that.  More things will come down the road like personal web 
pages and stuff.



Laterz,

Chad


P.S. I'm gonna try and get my hands on a machine before then and fix 
the packages.


On Nov 15, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Johannes Rohr wrote:

> Am So, den 02.11.2003 schrieb Chad Hardin um 03:11:
>> Thanks!  I did not catch that one!
>>
>> I'm still not sure how that one popped in there, it was not in the
>> control file.  I'm using the ssarge branch of Debian, maybe that's how
>> that popped up cause none of the other apps had that problem.
>
> Just for the record: sgstep-meta-user still remains uninstallable. If
> you can't tame sgstep-addressmanager, I suggest, you drop the 
> dependency
> from the meta package for the time being.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Johannes
>
> -- 
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>
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> arguments
> to the Berkeley UNIX version of `ls'?"
>         "I, er.... AIIIEEEEEE!"
>
>
>