Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Monday, June 9, 2014

Important: Sabayon x86 (32bit) is being deprecated

For Sabayon Users,

Hello users,
TL;DR: x86 (32bit) support is going away soon, if you use Sabayon x86_64 (64bit), you can ignore this.
in an effort of decreasing our computing and human capacity requirements, I am going to start the process that deprecates Sabayon x86 (32bit) images, package repositories and their support.
x86_64 (or AMD64) has been introduced one decade ago. Yes, it was 2004, pretty much the same year I started messing with a binary Gentoo-based distro.
It’s time to move on, free up resources and focus on what matters. 32bit is not important anymore and modern computers come with tons of GB of RAM. At the same time, I don’t see x32 going anywhere. Instead, I see the need to standardize on one single x86 architecture. Some distributions have started doing the same, for instance, RHEL 7 will not see any 32bit version. Windows 8, well, yes, said goodbye to 32bit as well. 
Read more at: http://www.sabayon.org/article/important-sabayon-x86-32bit-being-deprecated

Friday, June 6, 2014

qooxdoo 4.0 released

qooxdoo 4.0 released

We are happy to announce a new release of the framework, qooxdoo 4.0.
Many thanks go to the entire community for making this happen: the team of core developers, 1&1 as the supporting company, all contributors and users who brought in their suggestions and improvements.
qooxdoo 3.5
A major highlight of the current release covers all three GUI toolkits (website, mobile and desktop). Your qooxdoo-based app can now work with all kind of input devices. This is an awesome feature in this ever-growing multi-device world:

Friday, February 7, 2014

Fukushima News

Yoichi Shimatsu Radio Interview 06JAN14 Speaks With Jeff Rense
Shimatsu Editor at Large at 4th Media based Hong Kong.
Former Editor Japan Times Weekly.
[Transcript of Shimatsu's Contribution to the Interview.]
http://wyynd.tripod.com/ys2.txt

Other Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmRTwm2V5KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQ3Df2-xXY

Monday, December 23, 2013

Press Release: Oh, oh, oh! Sabayon 14.01

Sabayon 14.01 is a modern and easy to use Linux distribution based on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling release model.
This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories.
The ChangeLog files related to this release are available on our mirrors.
Linux Kernel 3.12.5 with BFQ iosched, updated external ZFS filesystem support, GNOME 3.10.3, KDE 4.11.4, Xfce 4.10,LibreOffice 4.1.3, UEFI SecureBoot support for 64 bit images (with bundled UEFI shell), systemd as default init system, a greatly improved version of the Entropy package manager supporting concurrent activities (like parallel installation of applications) and PackageKit 0.8.x support with backend parallelization enabled. Last but not really least, the integration of Steam and a new install profile called Steam Big Picture mode (also improperly known as SteamBox on my blog) that turns your computer into a powerful Linux gaming machine.
These are just some of the awesome things you will find inside the box.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Comet ISON, SECCHI images






Comet ISON: Your Half-time Report


I sit writing this at 38,000 feet as I head out to Kitt Peak to join my fellow CIOC-ers Matthew and Casey for perihelion observations of Comet ISON, and I find myself having an early moment of reflection.
When I first heard about comet ISON and its sungrazing orbit in September 2012, I though, "this sounds promising, but there's a long time between now and perihelion, and anything could happen. I'm not going to get excited over this one just yet." In January 2013 I found myself at a meeting in Washington DC in which ISON was discussed and the representative from NASA Headquarters recommended that maybe the science community orchestrate an observing campaign centered on the comet. Having lived through a similar event before with the observing campaign to support the NASA Deep Impact mission, Dr. Casey Lisse volunteered to lead the effort and immediately tapped a couple of attendees on the shoulder, myself included, to join the Campaign team.
I've never been involved in something like this, so I really wasn't certain what to expect of the Campaign or of the comet. What has unfolded is simply beyond any expectation I could ever have had.
SOURCE: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2013/1126-comet-ison-your-half-time-report.html

UPDATE: http://www.space.com/23591-comet-ison-visibility-naked-eye.html