Loren Bandiera’s weblog

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The next phase of the move is to finish the re-design of our sites. Over the coming weeks you’ll see changes being made.

I’ve released Sussen 0.14. This release was about cleaning up the code base and improving the OVAL interpreter.

Changes since 0.13:

• Improved OVAL interpreter
• Various bugfixes
• Code cleanup

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (SuSE 10.0) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo)

I’ve released LDAP Administration Tool 0.9. Assuming no bugs are found in this release (say within 2 weeks), it will become v1.0. If there are more changes required to be made, then I’ll make another 0.9.x release and we’ll start the process again.

Changes since 0.8.2:

• Show in process list as ‘lat’ not ‘mono’
• Set program icon in all windows and dialogs
• Make sure message dialogs are HIG compliant

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (SuSE 10.0) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .ebuild (Gentoo)

I saw that Banshee 0.10.5 was released the other day. I’m currently happy with Rhythmbox so the application itself isn’t that interesting to me but I like to see what other Mono developers are up to.

I was reading the release notes and something caught my eye:

• Banshee now shows up in process listings (top, gnome system monitor) as ‘banshee’ (not ‘mono’); and ‘killall banshee’ will now work.

I downloaded the release and looked at the code. The way Aaron fixes this problem is by calling the function prctl(2) from libc. It’s a good idea. I haven’t thought of the problem until I saw this. I’ve made the necessary changes to LAT and Sussen. I’ll get around to IIE at some point.