X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/c3477f071c5bd2233a6d774dc8a79c3f44d77577..2cba027b86a4c0e449905be1d62c86d618ba558b:/blog/archive/2018/02/02.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2018/02/02.rss b/blog/archive/2018/02/02.rss index eb6e6e8f42..add6faae5d 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2018/02/02.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2018/02/02.rss @@ -6,6 +6,40 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html + Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:20:00 +0100 + <p>Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the +traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until +systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD. +<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">The upstream +project still exist</a>, though, and up until today, the upstream +source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to +report that this just changed.</p> + +<p>The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three +repositories:</p> + +<ul> + +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git">sysvinit</a></li> +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git">insserv</a></li> +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git">startpar</a></li> + +</ul> + +<p>I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I +has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good +version control system to help those willing to move it forward.</p> + +<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> + + + Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html @@ -20,9 +54,10 @@ the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using <a href="https://webrtc.org">WebRTC</a> as its transport channel, allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique. -The network protocols are not identical, so a client supporting one of -them can not talk to a client supporting the other. I was a bit -surprised with what I discovered. Looking at +The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client +supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other. +I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look. +Looking at <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">the release notes</a> did not help answering this question, so I started searching the web. I found several news articles from 2013, most of them