I have a python script that I run all the time as part of my process for emailing out "your patch has been accepted" messages when I accept a Linux kernel patch into one of the many different development trees I maintain. This script's goal is to merely determine the character encoding that the email needs to be sent in, either "UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-1" or "ANSI_X3.4-1968". It's really simple which is great, but it is slow when fed a file of any real length. For example, the Linux kernel Makefile takes almost 2 seconds to run through this file, even if the file is in the...

My previous plea for help worked out very well. The resulting video of the talk can be seen here, with one of the highlights being the phrase, "It is cheaper to work upstream in the kernel" from Dirk Hohndel who works at Intel. There's a summary of the talk on lwn.net over...

Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo: the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level tracking the upstream stable 2.6.38 releases. lxde (and its sub-packages) was added calibre was added other smaller packages were added KDE update seems stable and working. It's in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed:KDE repo if anyone wants to test it out now. I'll be working next few weeks to merge this into the main openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo as my bandwidth allows. There is a GNOME 3.0 Tumbleweed repo at openSUSE:Tumbleweed:GNOME. It's properly building right now, but the same caveats...

Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo: the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level a number of multimedia packages and libraries were updated to their Factory level Banshee 2 is now in the repository LibreOffice 3.3.2 is in the repository. I'm considering adding GNOME:3.0 to openSUSE:Tumbleweed when the openSUSE GNOME developers release it. It's building in a...