After several months’ waiting, kernel 2.6.20 with suspend2 patch finally come into x86 branch. The upgrade is quite smooth except some bumps.

According to the experience of building the poor man’s wireless network, some exotic errors may happen if the .config is copied direct from kernel 2.6.18, so I went though all the configuration using make menuconfig. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is incomplete TODO list for better experience of current FVWM desktop

• Fix urxvt “Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘rxvt-unicode’” in remote machine
• Find a Mac OS X bar clone
  • Dynamic zooming
  • Integration of KDE menu
  • Drag-n-Drop customization
• Mac OS X style topbar to replace Kicker
  • Time
  • Battery
  • Bluetooth
  • Wireless
  • IME
  • Instant Message
• Redesign conkyrc with tree view
• Find the solution why scim lag X server
• Title bar redesign
• Add show Desktop
• Reorganize the layout of conky, topbar, icon, bottom bar
• Add expose support
• TwinView
• Hotkey w/ OSD support

And here is a longer TODO list for the whole system:

• Rsysnc Tiger $HOME with Monkey
• Traffic shape for Mldonkey using tcng
• Mldonkey plugin for Mozilla Firefox
• Cache-coherent MPD
• Zero conference of synchronzing Palm with Kontact w/ IrDA and USB
• KMail w/ GMail
• Compaq PA-10 support in Linux Kernel 2.6.x
  • Python binding for libusb?
  • Fuse support
• Yahoo Widget, Apple Dashboard porting
• Yahoo Music Unlimited in Wine, w/ Jack, mencoder to rip WMA music to MP3
• More VIM plugins
• Gelman developed by PyKDE
• PyAWS development