Synergy Linux

KDE 4.5.0
Has been finished for a while and is currently being synced to a “safe” directory on the build server at which point the current kde4 directory will be moved too another location and the newly synced folder will replace it. For a week or so the old KDE 4 directory will be kept in a non public place in case there are any issues. If there are no issues then it will be deleted after this period.

This release offers:
kdepim 4.4.5 (4.5 Beta 3 is in Synergy test and more stable then previous versions)
Amarok 2.3.1
Clementine 0.4.2
Qt 4.7 Beta (will soon be updated to Qt 4.7 RC)
BlueDevil (New Bluetooth Management)
Wally 2.4 (Wallpaper Downloader)
and other fun Goodness

A short and final announcement will be made on the mailinglist and here when the sync is done. After the announcement give it time to propagate through the mirrors.

Once sync is complete work will go underway on the Synergy mirrors for 4.5.1.

Ouch yeah the title says it all. The worst part is I was in the middle of backing up rpms (haven’t gotten to scripts yet) to my offsite server. I should have ran my backup script much earlier. The Hard drive died. It was the Hitachi DeathStar errr Deskstar.. Actually I can’t complain about it as it was era 2005. Time for a larger faster drive (most likely a redundant raid just haven’t decided what to go with, and some better backup scripts. It’s going to be a bit before I am fully back online. It all depends on when I can get the new drives. I may have to resume some operations on my netbook, that is plenty capable. Kinda crazy when I think about it. Running a webserver off a netbook. This means I start from scratch though, which is a real bummer because I had some stuff I needed to submit to Unity SVN and it’s gone also some kdebuild scripts that was making life a lot easier. This means though my scripts will need to be rewritten, which just means they will end up being friendlier and have more features. I don’t appreciate the time though having to go back and do it all over. I guess that’s my fault though. Sorry if everyone has to wait a week or so, I’ll keep everyone posted. I am still having issue with the System Tray and a kded service maybe it will do me some good to start from scratch and build from their. Here’s to being caught with your pants down for lack of a better analogy.

If some of you have noticed I have not announce the KDE 4.5.0 release that is on the repository currently nor have I announced it’s safe to test. The reason being is their has been _a lot_ of changes from 4.4.x to 4.5.0. In fact the KDE team has decided to delay the release a week to furthers test and implament patches and fixes that would not have made it into the 4.5.0 release but we very much needed. You can read more about this on Aaron’s blog I fully agree with this decision and wish them the best. The current rpms are usable in the repository but have some quirks already being reported. I plan on waiting this time until the official release is announced instead of trying to get ahead of the game and grabbing the tagged released out of SVN. Thank you all for your patience. I will announce when testing should begin so we can get this rpms moved over to Unity Linux main.