Another one of those very very short posts. If you have moblin installed on your netbook, and want to develop rpms on it, you can type in this command:
sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
It should install all tools necessary for basic Moblin development. Ciao.

Don’t ever let yourself be put down because other people say it can’t be done.

This is a simple story of how leveraging open source technologies can bring you to heights and depths you thought you could never reach.

Another short post.
I added some forums to my blog. Nothing much – if you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to talk away, feel free to do so.

From a comment in one of my blog articles, WINE 1.1.40 is now available on the official aLinux rpm repository. Please update your aLinux 12.9 through synaptic now!

For those who don’t know what Gambas is, it is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions. I call it like VB on linux. You can make GUI programs in Qt or GTK+ and save your compiled application in RPM format.

I’ve been experimenting with linux since mid to late 1990s and started with single 3.5 linux disks. I remember fondly downloading for over an hour using dialup trilinux and monkeylinux and experimenting with the command line on such curiousities for hours on end.

Just a short post.
I’ve been working on getting my small, but hopefully growing moblin (but soon to be meego) rpm repository hosted somewhere. It’s still not final yet, but I’ll keep you posted.
Exciting times indeed.
Update: The kind guys at ibiblio have decided to host my little repository on their mirror list. I’ll be [...]

A quick post on Moblin repository updates. I added wine 1.1.38 on my small Moblin repository.

Hi there guys,
I noticed moblin’s repository of packages are quite limited. Yes, I know, moblin is gonna be meego in Q2 2010, but for the moment, I need my application fix.
Presenting a little moblin rpm repository until I meego comes, or whatever…
Two applications are in there, GFtp and Gnumeric. Those applications fitted my [...]

Well, it’s a short post.
Since I was around the area and was more or less free during the time, I attended a short meeting with a local Linux Users Group at the G2iX Techbar, IT Park, Cebu City, of which I am a member.
There was basically a short talk on Liferay, an Open Source Portal, [...]