blog/data/2010-10-24-software.txt

   1 Title: Software updates 2010-10-24
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian edu, multimedia
   3 Date: 2010-10-24 22:45
   4
   5 <p>Some updates.</p>
   6
   7 <p>My <a href="http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">gnash pledge</a> to
   8 raise money for the project is going well.  The lower limit of 10
   9 signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
  10 More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
  11 how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
  12 :)</p>
  13
  14 <p>On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
  15 about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
  16 generating code coverage stats without any changes to the source code.
  17 It is called
  18 <a href="http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html">kcov</a>,
  19 and can be used using <tt>kcov &lt;directory&gt; &lt;binary&gt;</tt>.
  20 It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
  21 after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
  22 libglib2.0-dev.  Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
  23 solvable.  I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.</p>
  24
  25 <p>Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for <a
  26 href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html">a
  27 new alpha release of Debian Edu</a>, and just published the second
  28 alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu /
  29 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>
  30 release.  Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
  31 school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
  32 client servers and diskless workstations.  A nice touch added
  33 yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
  34 clients to get a Linux desktop on request.</p>