Monday·18·September·2006
Goodbye Woody, Welcome Sarge (Penultimate Part) //at 16:17 //by abe
Since security support for Woody ceased recently, and with Kazehakase I’ve found a reasonable successor in Sarge for Galeon 1.2.x, I’ve dist-upgraded my 10 years old Pentium I ThinkPad bijou to Sarge this weekend. Even the XFree86 4, which made so much hassles in Woody by not regcognising nor configuring the graphics card correctly, worked fine from scratch. Well, at least after installing xfonts-base and xfonts-75dpi — the -transcoded versions somehow gave only the error message “default font ‘fixed’ not found”.
So goodbye Galeon, goodbye GNU Emacs 20, goodbye XFree86 3.3. I hope, I won’t miss you. Only my desktop gsa at home still runs Woody, but will be dist-upgraded soon, too.
What though still stayed on my laptop from Woody is Siag Office, since there is no adequate replacement for such a nice office suite with such a low resource footprint.
But it has also an impact on the talks I hold. I held all talks with a patched version of lynx (e.g. with LSS support) as presentation tool on that laptop because initially I didn’t get X running on that box. What started as a makeshift became my hallmark…
But I didn’t manage to get Sarge’s lynx patched so that it gives me the same output as my old version did. So either I would have to reoptimise the layout of my talks for a new lynx version or just start with something new.
Madduck recently showed me python-docutils, which he uses for presentations. Maybe I’ll use that although I have a severe aversion against Python. So it may also be that I’ll stick with WML, but get some new ideas from python-docutils how to use HTML for presentations.
Update: Found out that the interesting part of his presentation
technic wasn’t python-docutils but S5: A Simple Standards-Based
Slide Show System which in entirely written in XHTML, CSS and
JavaScript. S5 is really cool stuff, one of the first cases of useful
use of JavaScript, and will surely be used for my next presentation
— with Debian Sarge and Kazehakase on a Pentium I ThinkPad. ;-)
Tagged as: bijou, CSS, Debian, dist-upgrade, Emacs, Galeon, gsa, JavaShit, Kazehakase, Lynx, Madduck, Pentium I, Python, python-docutils, S5, Sarge, Siag Office, Talk, ThinkPad, Website Meta Language, Woody, X
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