Manifestation of life

It's been so long after my last post. It's because of our busy schedule for the release of Pardus Linux. We have lots of things to do with a small but qualified team.

Nowadays we are working hard on our package management system PISI. I know it sounds banal, "A new distribution and a new pkg system". But I'm pretty sure we'll fix some bits in current packaging systems. Okay, others said so too, but one way or another we'll have our simple and smart system working with our configuration manager which is also in development currently :).

Yesterday we've reached pre-alpha stage providing the bare minimum package system functionality; package creation and installation. Didn't release any code to public for now. But we will release the system with GPL like all work we do.

Today after doing some work on PISI, I didn't feel like coding/documenting anymore. First we went out with my wife to the Bosporus and ate fish. We walked for a while searching for a new apartment to rent, but couldn't succeed :(. Coming back to home I made a call to the public for Turkish KDE translations with a small how-to. We need more hardworking translators. Now after the call we are waiting in our cave for newcomers :).

Soo... I didn't have time for KDE works in the last two/three weeks. I just had chance to touch some Turkic locale problems. And that is all... Ops! I've forgot to mention about my LyX plugins for KDE, but that's to small amount of work and not finished yet :).



I'm pretty sure upcoming days will be same too. But I'll try to be more responsive :).

I've forgot to add... Now we have two KDE developers in our team at Pardus. Some of you may remember Eray Ozkural (exa) :). It's a pity that we can't do any KDE work for now, but we will after our dear PISI :)...

This is what I call, a contemporary art

Aaron mentioned me about this class=showonplanet attribute. I'm ashamed, I was the only one in this planet who doesn't know about it :(.

I've quickly prepared an image for testing. I wanted it to give a message, so I used our beloved PardusMan character that I'd created. In this shot, you can see PardusMan with his friend Konqi :).

Today I've attended to a radio program called NetLife talking about Uludağ Project and our national GNU/Linux distribution Pardus. It took over 15 minutes and was fun.

Grab a brush and Put a little makeup

Kicker... Ops, did I say kicker? I meant to say plasma. It is very exciting with its marvellous logo. Being a newbie KDE developer, I've started to work with kicker too. Starting with baby steps, I got the KickerTip for clock applet work. It has some more work to do...



Application of the month is anounced with Turkish translations for the first time.

I gave flickr a try. It is working pretty well with my blogger account. I'm getting used to it. But infact, these web services are not my type. I can consider using my home brew software for this blog too. It even has a gui coded with PyQt.



About the title? You really should listen Chop Suey from Richard Cheese :).

after the festival

I couldn't write just after the festival but it was great. Had chance to met
lots of old friends. Bu it was tiring. Joining the talks, talking with
people, dealing with our project's stand, little but some organizational
stuff, and others... We even could hardly find time to make an adminitrative
board meeting. As a matter of fact, on the way back to Istanbul I got ill and
got better after a few days.

Anyway it was great! :).