Ladislav Bodnar compared different package management systems on the major Linux distributions out there, like apt-get, urpmi and yum. Debian is the overall winner, but Mandrake's urpmi had some very good points too. Interesting quote about Redhat/Fedora : Although yum is now in rawhide, I don't expect to see it in a released version of RHL or RHEL. Why do I say this? Because the newest up2date that will ship with the upcoming RHEL and RHL now supports remote "yum" and "apt" repositories in addition to the native "rhn-style" repositories. Since up2date now speaks all languages (rhn, apt, yum) there is no need to ship those other tools.

I have uploaded a new Bluecurve GDM theme package (version 0.1.1-1). It contains a bugfix where my hostname was hardcoded into the Bluecurve-Debian.xml file, and a new lightrays background which I took from redhat-artwork-0.73-2 (default one in Redhat9).

It seems to have taken ages, but finally there's an (unofficial) Debian ThunderBird package created by Soren Overgaard. Let's hope it'll make it soon into unstable. Have a look at some splendid alternative Fire/ThunderBird icons, too.

I'm enrolled at work in some weeks of heavy Perl coding. But once I'm busy coding, it's hard to stop myself : I have written my own version of the dying XULChannels, called DarkChannels. And I've Perlified the shellscript that I use to generate this site from a local PHPNuke engine.

I have packaged the GDM Bluecurve theme in a convenient .deb package. The package installs in /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve-Debian, and contains a screenshot.png file, so you'll have a nice view from the gdmconfig program. The package also contains some information files, and my contact address. Feel free to comment.