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chromium (the web browser) on Gentoo FAQ - Voyageur

Voyageur — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:01:36 +0100

Nice, I'll update the post with this! From my comments in the current ebuild, looks like I had found about the same list of "problematic" bundles too:

# -Duse_system_sqlite=1 : http://crbug.com/22208
# Others still bundled: icu (not possible?), hunspell (changes required for sandbox support)

I did manage to miss the one page in the wiki that was referering to Gentoo though, I'll fix that asap

chromium (the web browser) on Gentoo FAQ - Evan M

Evan M — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:00:01 +0100

I wrote a bit about the bundled software here:
http://neugierig.org/software/chrom...

BTW, please update that Chrome wiki page with any relevant Gentoo info!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/w...

chromium (the web browser) on Gentoo FAQ - Voyageur

Voyageur — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:09:42 +0100

Indeed, we concur on most of the points he listed! But luckily this won't go up to a clash, recently things got better (beta release effect?) and their distribs support metabug now lists most of the current problems (with most of the corresponding bug reports opened in the last 10 days). And with the title "Metabug for issues related to making a real release for Linux distros", that's one bug I'll really like to see closed

chromium (the web browser) on Gentoo FAQ - Viktor S

Viktor S — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:59:44 +0100

The rant by that Fedora-packager really hit the spot, I'm guessing you're pretty much pushing the same stuff as he is? He is pretty much right about everything there, too bad google doesn't seem to acknowledge his claims even though they are obviously correct. Seems more and more likely that it sooner or later will be a clash between distro packagers and the chrome/chromium people about these things?

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - Voyageur

Voyageur — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:56:46 +0200

For video/audio tags, it uses ffmpeg (and luckily for us it has a build flag to use system one!)

glurps, you're talking about chromium-bin? Just rename the ebuild changing the _p number to get a newer version (25902 right now). If a big bug got fixed since 25708, please tell me and I'll update it in portage

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - glurps

glurps — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:38:27 +0200

Where can I find any version >=4.0.208.0_p25708 in the official tree, your overlay or bugzilla. Where can I find such an ebuild? Or should I just copy and rename an existing ebuild?

thx

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - sylware

sylware — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:25 +0200

Hope, it does html5 video and audio.
(if gstreamer is used, then hope it does not pull the gconf gnome stuff)

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - Voyageur

Voyageur — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:25:13 +0200

Right now the full /var/tmp/portage weighs 897MB after compile and install phase (and the bz2 tarball I'm playing with for tests is around 117MB)

So it's still big, but already much better than compilation from full svn checkout!

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - gs

gs — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:37 +0200

Will the Chromium build need 10 Gig of disk space like the full source version?

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - vivo75

vivo75 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:25 +0200

thanks for 4 working on chromium and for the hint, tried using nouveau and it work great^W. for me it was bug #19995, which was difficult to associate to 16800.

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - Voyageur

Voyageur — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:45:53 +0200

Yes, session shadowing itself works (i.e you can attach multiple times to a session you created before), but local session shadowing (sharing your desktop) does not work yet. Full list of what's working (or not) is on the main page: http://code.google.com/p/neatx/

This comment indicates it should be easily doable though: http://code.google.com/p/neatx/issues/detail?id=1#c10

neatx and chromium in portage status updates - lem0na

lem0na — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0200

Hi
I am glad to hear that there is a working ebuild for neatx. I want to ask if shadow sessions are supported - if i remmember somebody asked this a few days ago in some issue on the project site and the answer was NO at the moment.

[ping] Yet another open-source NX server! - (mit hacksause)

(mit hacksause) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:42:31 +0200

Yet another open-source NX server! - Voyageur's corner

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Yet another open-source NX server! - januszzz

januszzz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:26:17 +0200

about 12 hours ago I've installed neatx on Gentoo. I've spotted several bugs and decided to report it today... but

since yesterday there was two new revisions (18 and 19)! I guess there is potential if some party sees a money in remote desktops

FreeNX future - januszzz

januszzz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:11:04 +0100

yay! great

FreeNX future - Voyageur

Voyageur — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:40:23 +0100

I've updated freenx ebuild to use tarballs from the the debian freenx team, so now I can work on moving some of the X2go ebuilds to portage

If it's not done today, you can still of course fill bugreports on the overlay packages, noting in the title they're from the overlay (something like "[NX overlay] bug in ...").

Oh well in fact I've already started moving base client and server to portage, so "real soon" is really "real soon" now

FreeNX future - januszzz

januszzz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:15:15 +0100

Hi, I've got some problems downloading/compiling those packages.

So... when exactly does it mean "real soon"?

I promise to be one of firsts who test those ebuilds!

FreeNX future - Voyageur

Voyageur — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:28:41 +0100

Of course! There are a few details in my previous post here. In addition to the pros and cons cited there, there's a thin client environment available (not tested though), its code is "cleaner" than freenx and easier to setup at ssh level (as it does not try to mimick nxserver, they built their own system on standard SSH login and NX libs), and they're adding some nice features (easy folder share via sshfs/fuse, pulseaudio tunneling in new client, ...)

For testing, it can be installed in parallel with freenx (as it does not use the nx user system)

That said, I'd love a version without postgresql requirement for small setups (like remote desktop from home)

FreeNX future - januszzz

januszzz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:52:16 +0100

Hi, could you post some more details about x2go? I use nxserver-freenx extensively and my job depends on accessing remote linux desktop so I'm very interested in any alternative I can have.

Of course, I can use nx overlay, but I would like to hear some of advantages compared to nxserver thanks.

NX servers and clients, old and new - Voyageur

Voyageur — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:19:08 +0100

Indeed, in fact in the beginning the net-misc/nx ebuild was multilib-only, as it was built in 32bit. Full 64bit support was added in 3.0.0 version, with NoMachine providing 64bit client and server, and providing sources for NX libs working on amd64.

So now, clients and servers (both closed and open source) work as well on amd64 than x86 I use it daily to connect to my home computer (sometimes just an app like pidgin, sometimes full desktop)