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March 26 2026 · Edited Mar 27, 2026

Mastodon Stories for systemd v260

On March 17 we released systemd v260 into the wild (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v260). In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses

by Pid Eins

August 10 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

St.-Pauli-Elbtunnel

I really like this photo I made in the St.-Pauli-Elbtunnel in Hamburg:

by Pid Eins

August 10 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Tiger Lilies

In the garden:

by Pid Eins

August 10 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi 0.1 Looming

Avahi 0.1 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi) is due in the next few days. The last missing piece is a simplifying C wrapper around the DBUS API. Though Avahi is currently pre-0.1 it is

by Pid Eins

August 10 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Linking pyblosxom to SVN

If you run a pyblosxom blog with auto-copied stories from SVN you are probably interested in getting stable story dates that don't change every time you update a story. The date of the initial SVN

by Pid Eins

August 11 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Simplified "Draft" Plugin for pyblosxom

The pyblosxom plugin registry links a plugin (http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/authentication/draft) which allows hiding "draft" stories before publishing them, so that only you can see

by Pid Eins

August 21 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi 0.1 Finally Released

We finally released Avahi 0.1 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi). Full release announcement here (http://bur.st/~lathiat/avahi/announcement-0.1). Avahi comes with a powerful DBUS API. Just

by Pid Eins

August 24 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Me too

I am on Google Talk now: poettering (at) googlemail.com

by Pid Eins

August 25 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi on Linux Weekly News

Seems today's edition of LWN (http://lwn.net/) features a front page story about Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi). It's actually quite nice, even though I missed an emphasis on the

by Pid Eins

August 27 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

GnomeMeeting Supports Avahi

Sebastien successfully completed porting GnomeMeeting to Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi). Therefore I declare him the first one to port a "real world" application to Avahi. Hurrah!

by Pid Eins

August 29 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi 0.2 Release

Yesterday we released Avahi 0.2 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi). Get it while it is hot! Full announcement here (http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/announcement-0.2). In related news:

by Pid Eins

September 8 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

KDE Ported to Avahi

Jakub Stachowski completed support for using Avahi as backend for KDE's KDNSSD subsystem. This means that you can use any Zeroconf-enabled KDE application (including Konqueror) with Avahi as mDNS

by Pid Eins

September 15 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Linux on the MSI S270 aka Cytron/TCM/Medion/Tchibo MD96100

I finally found the time to write up my experiences running Linux on my new shiny laptop. Read it here (http://0pointer.de/lennart/tchibo.html).

by Pid Eins

September 26 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi Gains "Wide-Area" Support

Yesterday in the late evening I commited "Wide Area" support to Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi) SVN, i.e. "DNS-SD over Unicast DNS". Only browsing, no "Long-Lived Query" support and

by Pid Eins

October 16 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi Gains Compatibility Layers for Apple Bonjour and HOWL

A short while ago I checked in to SVN two API/ABI compatibility modules which implement the HOWL (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/) and the Apple Bonjour (dns_sd.h) DNS-SD/mDNS APIs on top

by Pid Eins

November 1 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Hamburg Harbour

The Eurokai in the Harbour of Hamburg in the early evening:

by Pid Eins

November 17 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Avahi 0.6 in Beta

Unless we find any major bugs Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi) 0.6 will be released on friday. We ask everyone to do some testing for us: • Current Avahi SVN snapshort

by Pid Eins

November 18 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Mission accomplished

Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi) 0.6 is now officially released. Get it (http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.6.tar.gz) while it is hot! Read the announcement

by Pid Eins

November 20 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Introducing nss-myhostname

I am doing a lot of embedded Linux work lately. The machines we use configure their hostname depending on some external configuration options. They boot from a CF card, which is mostly mounted

by Pid Eins

November 29 2005 · Edited Mar 5, 2026

Fractals with Python

It's impressing how easy it is to draw fractals with Python. Using the ubercool Python Imaging Library (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm) and native complex number support in Python