MidnightBSD Developer Journal

xfce

Today, I added an xfce port to mports.  It is only version 3, but the missing gdk-pixbuf dependancy was finally fixed.  In case anyone is curious, I had to use our port of libtool to get it to build properly with shared libraries.  xfce 4 is very large so I don't know about supporting it right away.  This was done after a user request for xfce. I don't care for it.

flock

linux-flock was updated to 1.2.5 today.  This includes several security fixes and feature enhancements. For instance, Digg was added in 1.2.  It also includes a working copy of flash player so you can enjoy youtube without much hassle.

twitter

I added a new port, deskutils/twitter which is a shell script that allows you to update your twitter account from the command line.  usage is like: 

# twitter username password "my entry here"

midnightbsd-backgrounds

Another port of interest is the x11-themes/midnightbsd-backgrounds that installs desktop wallpaper with the MidnightBSD logo.  There are several variations created by myself and "smultron".  We'll be adding more to that port at a later time.  It currently installs in a way that KDE can pick up.  We'd like to get gnome aware at a later time.  

bind 9.5.0-p2

I've updated our bind 9.5 port to p2.