All Freehackers News

2008-07-20 - Indent Finder 1.3 released

Indent Finder is a handy script that adjust your editor indentation setting with the files that you open. This version adds support for mixed indentation detection and improves the detection algorithm.

Indent Finder

2008-06-04 - New laboratories

Freehackers now has a place to develop both private and public projects. We selected redmine to handle projects homepages, bugtrackers, forums and much more. The previous bugtracker (mantis) has been migrated.

Freehackers'labs

2008-03-11 - Version 1.0 of GentooDepBrowser is released

This release fixes some glitches from the 0.9 (most notably an ugly segfault on startup on most platforms..). It contains the basic stuff i wanted for 1.0 : you can browse, up and down, the dependencies. The next releases will display the same kind of meta information as eix/esearch.

Gentoo Dependencies Browser homepage

2008-03-02 - First release of GentooDepBrowser

Gentoo Dependencies Browser is a graphic tool to browse through portage dependencies, in both ways (forward and reverse dependencies). Portage is the build system for gentoo

The version 0.9 can be downloaded from the Gentoo Dependencies Browser web page

2008-01-30 - Release of a small Python toy for playing with mesh objects

Python Mesh Viewer is an academic tool that creates or loads an object made with triangles or quads (a mesh), and it displays it without the help of any hardware or opengl stuff. All with software.

2008-01-02 - Release of Opale 0.8.3

• fix several minor display bugs
• menu reorganisation
• updated translations

2007-11-16 - Release of Indent Finder 1.2

An indentation checker script was introduced, to validate a source tree for consistent indentation.

Download it on the Indent Finder Homepage

2007-08-28 - Release of Opale 0.8.2

• An important bug was fixed
• Estonian translation updated

2007-08-13 - Release of Opale 0.8.1

Here's another minor release for Opale, featuring important fixes:

• translations are back : handled by code and installed
• updated french, german translations
• install fix: some files were not installed (icons, images)
• some important bug fixes

2007-08-01 - Semantik-0.5 : first beta released

Half the way toward 1.0, after several previews not officially announced, here is the first beta of semantik, the mind mapping tool for linux. The information page at kde-apps.org gives more information, as well as screenshots.

Semantik is the follower of Kdissert, developed on top of Qt4, and soon KDE4.

New features in 0.5 include a brand new style system for the document creation, improvements to the interface, and translations. Not all features are finished already, but this beta is the first version that can be used. It is even actually used in professionnal environment.

2007-08-01 - Another article on hard disk recovery

Three days ago there has been an electrical surge. (This is the first time I see that happening in Paris). Two computers had their power supplies destroyed, and one hard disk began to loose sectors. Of course there was some really important data on it and no backup. Here is what I did to mostly recover the files (without the name).

There was another previous article about the same kind of recovery.

2007-07-30 - Release of Opale 0.8

A new version of Opale has been released. The 0.8 brings new pie charts, improved interface for graph window, and some other minor enhancements. There is also a new web page.

From a developer point of view, Opale switched to cmake and mercurial, and uses the new Automated Builds provided by freehackers.

2007-07-26 - Automated builds at freehackers

We needed some automatic builds and tests tool to help develop our projects. After some time spent comparing what exists, we finally are very happy with our Automated Builds.

2007-07-21 - Zeta-0.6 released

Zeta 0.6 was released today. The kernel used is 2.6.22, gcc was updated to 4.1.2, and a new handbook appeared. Along with the usual minor fixes.

You can find it on the Download Area.

2007-07-11 - Handbook preview available

A preview of the zeta handbook is available ! It is far from being finished, of course, but still, it contains a lot of useful information for those interested in Zeta.

2007-06-28 - New website for freehackers

We are now using mediawiki to handle the main freehackers.org website.

2006-12-05 - Linpacker 0.7.0 released

Linpacker is a tool to to handle 2d objects placement within a rectangle. It helps to solve the following problem : how to find the better way to pack a set of rectangles within a container. Linpacker displays the rectangles, and provides several algorithms to optimise the placement. With this release, the application has been ported to Qt 4.2, and now has a much more intuitive graphical user interface. Also, the solutions are now shown in real time during the search.

2006-11-02 - Waf 1.0 Released, quickly followed by 1.0.1

The Waf build sytem has finally reached a stable version and become a project of its own, following the "release early, release often" policy. Initially started as an experiment to make Scons faster, the tool has quickly evolved in a more complete build system with a leaner architecture, and many more features. The latest release is 1.0.1 The project page is hosted on http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/waf.html To make contributions easier, the svn repository has moved to google code: http://code.google.com/p/waf/

2006-10-02 - Boson 0.13 Released

The actual user-visible highlights of this release:

• New fog of war. In addition to the original fog of war that covers the whole terrain until it has been explored by a unit, we also have "fog" that covers all units that are outside the players’ sight range.
• Icons for distant units: Units that are very far away from the camera position are replaced by a constant-size icon showing unit’s type and it’s owner’s status toward you (friendly/neutral/enemy). This makes it possible to still recognize units that would otherwise be a small dot on the screen only.

2006-09-04 - Zeta 0.5 Released

0.4 was about having a stable toolchain. Now, the 0.5 release provides a graphical interface for the virtual machine. This is not only to look better, but it helps development and debugging a lot, believe me. Still, the main reason for this release is that a lot of work has been done on porting the kernel : it now boots almost up to starting the userspace init. Some important bugs in the emulator, binutils and gcc have been fixed to reach this point.

• BINUTILS_VERSION = 2.17
• GCC_VERSION = 4.1.1
• KERNEL_VERSION = 2.6.17