So I somehow broke OpenGL on my Gentoo desktop yesterday. I noticed it because my screensaver stopped working. It’s the only thing that uses GL all the time. So I started trying various things to fix the problem such as good old revdep-rebuild. It immediately complains about freeglut having a problem and tries to emerge …
Category Archives: linux
Gentoo AMD64 bug
This Gentoo bug has caused me to waste a lot of hours. I can’t believe they haven’t fixed it properly yet. EDIT: The problem manifests itself after a fresh install of Gentoo on an AMD64 system. If you upgrade everything it will barf after glibc. You will start seeing errors such as libsandbox: Can’t resolve …
Linux.conf.au 2008
I’m currently listening to the keynote address given by Bruce Schneier. He’s not really saying anything I haven’t heard anything from him that I haven’t heard before. If you have never heard Mr. Schneier speak on security, I would recommend watching. One of these days I’m going to get myself down to linux.conf.au.