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Debian Etch Wallpaper

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:12:43 +0000

Last time i messed around in Inkscape I started doing a wallpaper celebrating the (upcoming) release of Debian Etch. (It could be used as a logo or for some promotional material too).

I don’t think I will get around to finishing it, so I will simply post the SVG file here and now if someone want to use it. It’s licensed under the GNU GPLv2. Click the thumbnail above for a larger image and the SVG.

For Make Benefit Glorious Operating System of Debian

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:15:02 +0000

I was recently given the privilege to work with pkg-gnome, the Debian GNOME maintainers and was even given commit rights to the SVN archive. With a little help, I closed my first RC bug. Great success. :)

Shameless self promotion

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:46:05 +0000

November has been an interesting month in many ways. I’ve gotten not one, but two patches commited to free software projects. One for the Debian package of Einstein Puzzle.

einstein (2.0.dfsg.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

[...]
* main.cpp, res/resources.descr, debian/icon.bmp.uue, debian/rules: Window
icon.  Closes: #396113.  Thanks to Sven Arvidsson .

-- Bart Martens   Sun,  5 Nov 2006 13:32:08 +0100

And one patch for nautilus-cd-burner in GNOME(!).

2006-11-20  William Jon McCann

* src/burn-extension.c (nautilus_burn_get_file_items):
Try to burn cue for x-cdrdao-toc mime types.

Patch from Sven Arvidsson
Fixes #366909

They are both very, very tiny contributions, and the window icon for Einsten needs more work, still, it makes me pretty happy about myself.

Encrypted Home Directory

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:25:54 +0000

I finally set up my laptop to use an encrypted home directory. This was easy enough using dm-crypt and LUKS for loopback mounting a file to use as my home dir. I simply followed Rene Mayrhofer’s short HOWTO.

This solution is a little bit hackish. When I log in and out from X, it does not seem to unmount the loopback device, log in from SSH is not possible (no support in libpam-mount), etc. I was also not surprised to find out that it is about three times slower than normal. (This is of course a very old computer, 333 MHz. A modern machine should be considerably faster).

Since only my home dir is encrypted, application startup time is not affected. I will use this setup for a while and see if it becomes painful or not. Either way, I will probably choose another solution (less hackish) in the future.

Edit. It seems the trouble I had with unmouting after using GDM was a configuration error in /etc/pam.d/gdm and as I don’t run SSH by default on this machine, that is a very small problem.