With the 10.2 release, openSUSE announced a switch from reiserFS to ext3 as their default filesystem format. The reason given was that development work on reiserFS-3 has come to a halt and SuSE was the only Linux distribution championing it. This gave me a twinge of regret as I had dwelled on this decision when […]
Yesterday I replaced my failing 1600×1200 monitor with a 2048 capable monitor. I expected X11/KDE to continue with a 1600×1200 desktop, but noooo. The new monitor was detected and the desktop was auto-magically reconfigured to 2048×1536. Fonts and icons were also scaled automatically. When I switched the resolution back to 1600×1200, icons and fonts became […]
Created a branch in my main repository yesterday after running trials on a sample repository. Things snapped into focus after reading Key Concepts Behind Branches from the SVN book, which reinforces the point that Subversion is a versioned file system, and a branch conceptually is merely a copy. svn copy http://localhost/svn/ll/trunk http://localhost/svn/ll/branches/gui cd wkgDirectory svn […]