Title: Software updates 2010-10-24
Tags: english, debian, debian edu, multimedia
-Date: 2010-10-24 214:45
+Date: 2010-10-24 22:45
<p>Some updates.</p>
<p>My <a href="http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">gnash pledge</a> to
-raise money for the project are going well. The lower limit of 10
-signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 12 people have signed it.
-More signers and fund are most welcome, and I am really curious how
-far we can get until the time limit of December 24 is reached. :)</p>
+raise money for the project is going well. The lower limit of 10
+signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
+More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
+how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
+:)</p>
<p>On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
It is called
<a href="http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html">kcov</a>,
and can be used using <tt>kcov <directory> <binary></tt>.
-It is missing in Debian, but built just fine in Squeeze after I
-installed libelf-defv, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and libglib2.0-dev.
-Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is solvable. I hope it
-make it into Debian soon.</p>
+It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
+after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
+libglib2.0-dev. Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
+solvable. I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.</p>
<p>Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html">a
new alpha release of Debian Edu</a>, and just published the second
alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu / Skolelinux
release. Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
-school, including central servers, workstations, thin client servers
-and diskless workstations. A nice touch added yesterday is RDP
-support on the thin client servers, for windows clients to get a full
-Linux desktop.</p>
+school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
+client servers and diskless workstations. A nice touch added
+yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
+clients to get a full Linux desktop.</p>