Seems mms has been used for the greater good of scamming people into buying some lame links or software package. Mms is used to show how you can get great movies from around the world. Although at the end of the auction it does tell you that the screenshots are not of the real products you will receive 🙂
Link to screenshot (when the auction ends :))
I have begun working at Iola, a new company I have started with some friends from Uni. Currently it’s a bit slow as we get everything up and running but it’s going to be a lot of fun once this first fase is over.
So arch has had two major implementations: tla and bazaar. Bazaar was a fork of tla and for a while was actively maintained by Cannonical. That was until they decided that the future was in bzr. That’s their right, but it left the users with a big void. Tla was not really maintained anymore since everyone was more or less using bazaar and bzr was not nearly stable enough to put your sensitive data into. It was still changing repository format 😉
Furthermore it causes big problems for distributions when upstream just suddenly disappears. What happens when critical external libraries are updated in a non-compatible way (libneon anyone?) with no way to SLOT them.
Luckily someone has picked up tla again and it is slowly putting out releases again, but bazaar is completely dead. I tried contacting the former maintainer but he doesn’t even respond to emails anymore it seems.
I have updated my free software patches page with the patches from Gentoo. It might come in handy for other people.
So what’s the future? bzr, git? I don’t know, but I don’t have a lot of faith in Cannonical with the bazaar stunt they pulled.
I finished my degree about a week ago and has since been enjoying the summer. I’m starting a company in Aalborg with two from my study in about three weeks time.
