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That’s right, kvm-70 just hit portage.  Go hit a rsync mirror near you!

What’s kvm, you ask?  Some kind of virtual keyboard/mouse thingy?  No, it’s the Kernel Virtual Machine.  It’s basically like vmware.  It’s actually a modified qemu that uses hardware virtualization (and only hardware virtualization; if you don’t have Intel VT or AMD-V, then use qemu or something else).  It’s fast, it’s featureful, but it’s not exactly user friendly, at least not without help.

In the coming weeks, the Gentoo Virtualization team will get libvirt and the associated front ends working for it.  That should up the user-friendly factor a fair amount.

Thanks Cardoe (cardoe) and Tiziano (dev-zero), the kvm co-maintainers with me, who did a lot of the work getting this ready for the tree.

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Okay, so you can’t have a middling epic fail. However, it’s certianly a middling fail, either in UI design or in features.

See, I’ve been reading all about decibel on the planet, and I thought I’d give it a try now that it’s in portage. I emerged it, started it, and it said to pick a location. Apparently, it can only find music in your homedir. If (like me) your music is elsewhere, tough.

Ah well. I didn’t really need a new music player anyway…

EDIT:

Okay, it’s only the minor fail of being undiscoverable.  Thanks to nightmorph, it actually works (with a few minor caveats).  I suspect I won’t change from rhythmbox to it any time soon, but you never know.  If someone were to write a library plugin based on tracker, I’d probably switch.

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Okay, since all the cool kids are doing it, I’ll bite:

[09:40 athena] ~> history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
52 cd
45 vim
32 sudo
29 git
29 emerge
26 ls
26 eix
21 rm
21 ebcd
10 ll

Note, the next couple are:

10 equery
9 vcs
8 svn
8 genlop
7 ssh
7 gecd

Apparently, I do tons of Gentoo work…

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