Long time, no updates. Well, lots of news for here.
First, I quit my previous job. I left amicably w/ the company, but I doubt I would ever want to work there again. I have started working again on all of my pet projects. Most notably Fluid, Sasteroids, and the Linux distribution. (Fluid is going to be really Nifty for all of those X people out there.)
Finals are over, and I now have my grades, which means: I GET TO HAVE SOME TIME OFF. It’s about time too. I though I was going to go mad. I’m chillin right now, but I’m also working on a couple new articles(living with Xinerma, and an entire new bunch of SDL tutorials.)
For those that noticed, the past week or so, I’ve had my articles page here instead of the news. Quiet simply, I accidently overwrote this page with a school assignment(topic/etc.. not chosen by myself), sorry to everyone that showed up here and got confused… đ
Tag: SDL
3/19/2002 Entry
Got SDL Sasteroids working today, I’ll be posting it up in the software section sometime between now and Sat most likely. Working on a new scrolling tutorial.
Vacation is over, it’s back to work.
3/18/02 Entry
Sorry about the recent errors in the tutorials, you try to fix one thing and ten more seem to pop up. Apparently google has spidered this page(rather unexpecatedly, I might add) before I was fully ready to unviel the SDL series – my fault for putting them up. All is good now, as I believe I’ve found all the errors in the first one, and am on the lookout for people visiting now. Thanks to everyone that emailed me encouragement to continue the series – I plan to, although a bit more carefully. I don’t want to spend my life editing tutorials instead of writing them.
I’ve gotten a bit bored with the site look and layout, and since I plan on posting a couple new projects, expect to see some changes shortly. I’ve started moving toward generating all these pages via scripts(but keeping them static on the server), to make editing news, and adding tutorials a bit easier. The next set is in the works, but after I put them up(there are 3 more), I’m going to take a timeout to make this site a bit more managable – in addition to reformating the older tuts.
Distro news, not much new to report here, except that I’ve decided I hate RPMs. I hate that the LSB requires RPM compatibility. SPEC files are the devil.
2/26/02 Entry
I’ve gotten true type fonts working with XFree86 and KDE3, antialiasing is disabled in the shot though.
Big structural changes in the distro going on, HaX and I are busy at work trying to get things setup for a wide BETA, and trying to get other things setup for current Beta testers.
I’m working on setting up a NICE set of default fonts, an area that Linux is sometimes (needlessly) lacking in. The fonts running in the screenshot are in general toyfonts though. Hehe.
On the tutorial front, I’ve been pretty busy lately, but tuts 4 and 5 are on their way, so keep an eye open.
2/14/02 Entry
Evil_Messiah has been kind enough to provide the distro with an uber-l1337 background. (I’ll be updating the screenshot on Saturday.) HaX and I have launched mission make Linux usable for real.
Next, I’m busy trying to move these pages over so that they are all dynamically generated. This will not change anything here though. This will allow me to update these pages a bit more regularly.
I’ve started work on an SDL tutorial that will eventually cover all of SDL. The first 3 installments are up right now. I’m currently working on the fourth(alpha blending and color keying).
More distro news. We are currently moving to RPMs and trashing our own system. We’ll be handling the move in what I feel is an interesting and easy to manage way, but we are still doing it. This does NOT mean we are basing our distro off of RedHat or any other – look at SuSe vs. Mandrake. Both use RPMs.
This series of structural changes to the distro, started with my original base-redo, has definatly been for the better, albiet they were all very time consuming, and frustrating. To respond to gcc-3 concerns: yes, gcc3 is by default the default compiler. Yes, it’s possibly to revert to gcc-2.95. This does not mean that everything is compiled with gcc-3, or even most things. Just enough for compatibility, and those items which are stable, secure, and tested with gcc-3 are being compiled. (This means the kernel/glibc aren’t getting 3’d.)