Fedora 10 and MingW

I upgraded to Fedora 10 a few days after it came out. This looks like the best Fedora release ever. Upgrade went very well and the few issues I used to run into with Fedora 9 (sound, mostly) have vanished.
Plymouth, the tweaked boot process works like a charm on my Macbook Pro, which surprises me since I thought anything other than ATI chipsets got a text based boot.

One thing I am especially excited about is the integration of MingW for cross-compiling. Right now, it's not officially supported but it's enabled me to port the bulk of Pinot's source code over to Windows without having to jump through the many hoops that installing Windows+compiler+dependencies would have involved. I love the idea of compiling for Windows without Windows ;-) As a result, Pinot 0.90 will very probably include a beta-quality Windows port.

Congratulations to all Fedora developers !

Pinot goes nuclear

Funny... Every week I run the Web logs through a script of mine that geolocates visitors and queries whois. It turns out that pinot.berlios.de has got a lot of visits from people at the French and US Departments of Nuclear Energy, namely the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique based at Gif-sur-Yvette, France and the Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research at Germantown, MD, USA.
I would like to know what is up with that and if/how these two research labs are using Pinot :-)

Pinot on the OLPC ?

Two weeks ago, I got a pleasant surprise. C. Scott Ananian, a OLPC hacker, used Pinot for his work on the next generation Journal program and gave a talk on this. Screencasts, slides, audio and video are available here.

Target for Pinot 0.90

Based on my tasks list for Pinot 0.90, I reckon it won't be ready before the end of the year. Most likely, it will be released sometime in January.
Besides fresh ideas I got from talking to people on the mailing list, there's a bunch of features I meant to implement for a while that really ought to go in. I hope I'll have time to refresh the UI as well as enhance the daemon.

Moving...

I am moving my blog from the old BerliOS shared blog to here. Stay tuned.