Work Update

May 30, 2006 10:42 am General

It’s been mostly uneventful at work over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been helping to make sure that GNOME 2.14 goes through ARC ok, along along with great help from Brian and Irene. It went pretty smoothly, and apart from having to ARC a few bits separately, we’re still on track.

So on track, that in fact the next Solaris Express release you’ll install [if that’s your thing], you’ll see a new 2.14 based desktop. Packages have been built, and they’re somewhere on a server in Sun just itching to get into the Solaris Nevada WOS [wads of stuff]. It’ll almost certainly give you the willies though – the quality is pretty good, though we didn’t do as much QA as I would have hoped for a first integration build, but there’s a lot of change – it’s 2 years of community development, and we’ve got a pretty attractive non purple theme. We haven’t moved much from vanilla GNOME, by design, and hopefully people will be pleased with the result [if you can suffer the occasional bug].

Course, if you have a spare T2000, you could try running Ubuntu on it.

Otherwise, really looking forward to my trip to GUADEC this year – apart from having to present, it’ll be a good opportunity to catch up with my GNOME friends, and spend a couple of days with my sister who’s living in Barcelona. Then a short stop home to Ireland for a week, back to NZ for a couple weeks boarding, over to OSCON, and then down to HQ for a couple of days. Nothing that I could ever consider ‘work’.

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