Screen shot Dragora 2.2

Screen shot Dragora 2.2

Usual openbox rox-filer and tint2

Being lazy and using fbpanel for a quick menu

Wood pile!

Just finished getting the wood pile ready for processing for winter after next and beyond.

Better get on it as it's blocking up the driveway!

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Drinks

Drinks!

Now a real drinkd :)

The birth of free-software

From: RMS@MIT-OZ@mit-eddie.UUCP (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.usoft
Subject: new UNIX implementation
Message-ID: <771@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT
Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA

Free Unix!

Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it.  Contributions of time,
money, programs and equipment are greatly needed.

To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to
write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker,
assembler, and a few other things.  After this we will add a text
formatter, a YACC, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of
other things.  We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful that
normally comes with a Unix system, and anything else useful, including
on-line and hardcopy documentation.

GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical
to Unix.  We will make all improvements that are convenient, based
on our experience with other operating systems.  In particular,
we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof
file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent
display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through
which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen.
Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.
We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol,
far superior to UUCP.  We may also have something compatible
with UUCP.


Who Am I?

I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS
editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.  I have worked
extensively on compilers, editors, debuggers, command interpreters, the
Incompatible Timesharing System and the Lisp Machine operating system.
I pioneered terminal-independent display support in ITS.  In addition I
have implemented one crashproof file system and two window systems for
Lisp machines.


Why I Must Write GNU

I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I
must share it with other people who like it.  I cannot in good
conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license
agreement.

So that I can continue to use computers without violating my principles,
I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that
I will be able to get along without any software that is not free.


How You Can Contribute

I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of machines and money.
I'm asking individuals for donations of programs and work.

One computer manufacturer has already offered to provide a machine.  But
we could use more.  One consequence you can expect if you donate
machines is that GNU will run on them at an early date.  The machine had
better be able to operate in a residential area, and not require
sophisticated cooling or power.

Individual programmers can contribute by writing a compatible duplicate
of some Unix utility and giving it to me.  For most projects, such
part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the
independently-written parts would not work together.  But for the
particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent.  Most
interface specifications are fixed by Unix compatibility.  If each
contribution works with the rest of Unix, it will probably work
with the rest of GNU.

If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or
part time.  The salary won't be high, but I'm looking for people for
whom knowing they are helping humanity is as important as money.  I view
this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote their full energies to
working on GNU by sparing them the need to make a living in another way.


For more information, contact me.
Arpanet mail:
  RMS@MIT-MC.ARPA

Usenet:
  ...!mit-eddie!RMS@OZ
  ...!mit-vax!RMS@OZ

US Snail:
  Richard Stallman
  166 Prospect St
  Cambridge, MA 02139

loqui

Loqui gtk irc client.

I really like the way it scrolls all the channels your logged into in the main window "Common Buffer". The fact it's light using only about 8MB loaded and Gpl'd  If I was being picky I'd like the channel list on the left.

https://launchpad.net/loqui

IRC Client for Gtk2

Loqui is a IRC Client that has following features:
 - Connect to multiple servers
 - The view that outputs all messages on other channels (call "Common Buffer")
 - Window has 4-views (Message of the current channel, nick list, channel list, "Common Buffer")
 - Multi-protocols (beta)
See the sites:
  https://sites.google.com/site/loquiircen (English)
  https://sites.google.com/site/loquiirc (Japanese)

Guess the distro?

Just in-case it wasn't to obvious....

fancy wdm splash

logo license:

 https://www.gnu.org/graphics/runfreegnu.html

save it as a an .xpm file. You need to save this it /usr/share/pixmaps/ for it to work with the wdm config below

The background is from here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F16-alpha-wallpaper-standard.png 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Artwork#Submissions

as far as I can tell all fedora art is  Licensed: CC-BY-SA

wdm con-fig

! /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config
!
! resources specific to wdm itself
DisplayManager.authDir:        /var/lib/wdm
DisplayManager.errorLogFile:    /var/log/wdm.log
DisplayManager.pidFile:        /var/run/wdm.pid
DisplayManager.keyFile:        /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-keys
DisplayManager.servers:        /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers
DisplayManager.accessFile:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xaccess
DisplayManager._0.authorize:    true
DisplayManager._0.resources:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xresources_0
DisplayManager._0.setup:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xsetup_0
DisplayManager._0.startup:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xstartup_0
DisplayManager._0.reset:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xreset_0
DisplayManager*resources:    /etc/X11/wdm/Xresources
DisplayManager*setup:        /etc/X11/wdm/Xsetup
DisplayManager*startup:        /etc/X11/wdm/Xstartup
DisplayManager*reset:        /etc/X11/wdm/Xreset
DisplayManager*session:        /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession
DisplayManager*userPath:    /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
DisplayManager*systemPath:    /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11

# Don't listen for XDMCP
DisplayManager.requestPort:    0

! wdm specific configuration ; documented in wdm(1x)

! wdm doesn't display any help text with the default Locale, C
! so we'll set a specific one here
DisplayManager*wdmLocale: en_US

DisplayManager*wdmLogin:        /usr/bin/wdmLogin
!DisplayManager*wdmBg:           solid:Black
DisplayManager*wdmBg:          pixmap:/usr/share/wallpapers/splash2.jpg
DisplayManager*wdmLogo:       /usr/share/pixmaps/gnu-run-free.xpm
! DisplayManager*wdmLogo:        /usr/share/pixmaps/wdmDebianSwirl.xpm
DisplayManager*wdmReboot:       /sbin/reboot
DisplayManager*wdmHalt:         /sbin/halt
DisplayManager*wdmVerify:       false
DisplayManager*wdmRoot:         false
DisplayManager*wdmAnimations:   true
DisplayManager*wdmLoginConfig:  /etc/X11/wdm/wdmlogin.conf
DisplayManager*useSyslog:    true
DisplayManager*syslogFacility:    LOG_AUTHPRIV
DisplayManager*terminateServer: true

! Load wm list from file auto-generated by update_wdm_wmlist

#include "wdm.wmlist"

! BEWARE: the wdmWm setting in that file will be overwritten on every wdm
!   (re)start and reload. If you want to hardcode your choice, uncomment the
!   line below and set your choice, to be processed after previous automatic
!   definition.

! DisplayManager*wdmWm:         twm:wmaker:afterstep

! Please see wdm.options(5) for info on disabling automatic generation.

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