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Server move stuff - NL.lunar-linux.org

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:07:35 +0100

I'm about to retire nl.lunar-linux.org from active duty. The server has been up for ages but I want to take down all active services from this machine. This means that a few things will move to other locations and people will need to adjust URL's for some stuff.

The blogs will migrate to espresso, and since I'll keep the 'nl' part pointed to the same website this should not affect anyone - nice.

The torrent-tracker will move to http://foo-projects.org:6969/. This might impact a lot of people - I'll try to inform everyone asap when things actually get unplugged.

The lunar download area already was removed a while ago. A redirect already got you to the proper location.

Spamcop and SORBS blacklist Gmail.com

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:45:53 +0200

It appears that both SpamCop and SORBS are blacklisting part or all of Gmail's outgoing SMTP servers for sending mail to spam traps. This means that effectively gmail users will be deprived of the chance to send their e-mails to our servers, and possibly very large portions of the internet too.

I've done some lookups based on hits on my mailservers and it's pretty bad, feel free to complain to Gmail and spamcop and SORBS about this, as the automated spamtraps from those two groups do not distinguish between traps and lured trap hits - and this is looking very suspicious to me. Someone is trying to screw with gmail.

Lookups:
http://www.us.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?72.14.204.200,
http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=72.14.204.206.

Xfce server move planning

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:10:07 +0200

The Xfce server mocha has been picked up by the shipping agent UPS. This means that it should be delivered tomorrow afternoon to pollux. Thanks to Jasper, perldude and Jean-Francois for donating the required funds to pay for the shipment.

The plan is now to get it hooked up asap and migrate all http services (except anonsvn) to mocha once it is connected and ready. From there on we will slowly migrate services 1 by 1.

New projects

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:20:24 +0200

We're happy to see the community is growing; I have just finished setting up two new projects. stormchild (nothing to see yet) is a hybrid ircd fork project aimed to create a more tailored irc daemon. The Xfce project also spawned InstallIt, the sucessor of the old single-file installer. This program is aimed to provide a complete software manager for Xfce programs, goodies, plugins etc. Good luck to you all!

Sponsorship for a new server

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:04:25 +0200

2x.com has sponsored a server for the Xfce project. The new machine, a nice 1U rackmount raid-1 box will be hosted at the University of Namur, Belgium. It will provide the Xfce project with an even more reliable and redundant setup for hosting their project and developers.

Together with the server at Schiphol, the Netherlands, which hosts both lunar-linux and Xfce and some smaller projects, foo-projects is growing out to be a small network of Open Source projects. The new server should be operational before the end of July. Most Xfce developers will not notice the change except for some DNS and layout changes, but they should prove trivial.

SVN and HTTPS works in progress

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:53:37 +0100

Foo-projects is currently in the works of getting a properly setup SSL site. In the future we will be using this to serve our (also future) SVN repositories to developers with write access. This increase the flexibility that developers have to limit and open access to part of the repository to other people.

I also applied for a free go-daddy SSL certificate. The https site will be run on https://foo-projects.org/ to reduce the number of entry points for SVN to fewer addresses.

We're pretty much ready for moving Xfce to SVN now. Tests have been done to verify their CVS can be moved over. Even svn-commit-mails are setup already!.

lard?

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:05:07 +0100

Don't laugh... it's a Logging And Rotation Daemon written by yours truly. Visit the lard homepage for downloads and stuff ;^). Lard can replace syslogd+logrotate on typical unix systems.

Xfc website online

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:14:28 +0100

Jeff Franks did some major work on the Xfc website, which is now completely filled. For those who do not know, The Xfce Foundation Classes (did I spell that right?) allow people to write native C++ programs that use the Xfce core libraries. This will spur the development of Xfce applications using C++, making it more accessible to developers who want to do this. The Tutorial on how to write C++ apps for Xfce/gtk+ is now online. /me grabs his vim.

edit: it's foundation not foundry :^)

FOSDEM - report

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:34:16 +0100

Fresh back from FOSDEM 2005 in Bruxelles! The Xfce team and Lunar developers enjoyed two days of interesting talks and other activities. Meeting amongst eachother was a valuable experience for all of us, and we feel sorry for those who could not make it. We hope next time more of you can be there!

Meanwhile, we're slowly uploading our photo's to a gallery I setup. All developers can upload their crappy photos to espresso and let me know where they are ;^).

A lot of plans have been discussed in the weekend, over the course of the next few weeks we hope to give some of these more body. Stay tuned!

FOSDEM 2005

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:03:34 +0100

About 10 developers from foo-projects will meet at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels this weekend (26/27 Feb). If you're interested in Xfce, lunar or meeting up with the people behind these projects then come around!

New (sub) projects!

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:21:09 +0100

It's quite busy on the developers from here at foo. A couple of new sub-projects have been started up and interesting development is taking place!

Thunar is the codename for an Xfce file manager. This one is seriously being worked on, the project outline and design stage is taking form as wel speak.

Xfc implements C++ bindings for the core Xfce libraries, and will allow people to write C++ Xfce applications. (no site yet!).

We're also setting up a 'directory.xfce.org' site. This will be a rather growing site where people can report new themes, applications and other xfce-related material. It will become a library of all that is Xfce.

Mailing lists have moved!

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:57:43 +0100

The mailinglists have moved! Although the physical addresses are still the same, the information and administrative pages are now served under the foo-projects.org domain instead of lunar. This will make it clear that resources are shared and all projects use the same facilities.

The url is now http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/.

The URL's on lunar's and xfce's website have been adjusted already. Other projects should adjust their webpages tooto make sure everyone can find these pages in the future.

4.2.0!

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:52:02 +0100

Foo-projects.org is pleased to announce the survival of slashdot. Thanks to Striker for serving images on the www.us.xfce.org mirror, espresso has served up to 80.000 hits per hour during the slashdot effect.

Congratulations to the Xfce team with this fine release. We look forward to the 4.4.0 version already!

zengarden - new project

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:08:48 +0100

Milosz is back, he's busy rewriting installwatch to be more safe, fast, flexible, errr and some more. Check out the w3c-compliant html at zengarden.foo-projects.org.

US xfce. mirror

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:54:53 +0100

Jon South alias Striker has offered a high-bandwidth mirror of www.xfce.org for ziltch. I always like getting stuff for ziltch as I have enough of that. Go and visit the US Xfce mirror.