Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

Yet another great song released by The Sharp Things under a Creative Commons license. From the "A Moveable Feast" album here's "Cruel Thing".

Song: The Sharp Things - Cruel Thing (4:02 min, 3.8 MB)
License: CC-by-nc-nd 2.0 Music Sharing License
Source: thesharpthings.com
Purchase from: Artist

A nice song from Seldon Plan's album "The Collective Now". Enjoy!

Song: Seldon Plan - Colored Lenses (3:44 min, 2.2 MB)
License: CC-by-nc-sa 1.0
Source: magnatune.com
Purchase from: Magnatune

FYI, if you're not using xdm/kdm/gdm but are instead starting the X11 server manually with startx (which is what I usually do) you might have experienced brokenness in Debian unstable recently:

Fatal server error:
Unrecognized option: /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc

This is already reported as bug #482425 and #482527 and should hopefully be fixed soon, but in the meantime this patch against /usr/bin/startx should work around the issue:

--- /usr/bin/startx.orig 2008-05-26 18:21:26.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/startx     2008-05-26 18:21:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@
 if [ x"$server" = x ]; then
     # if no server arguments or display either, use rc file instead
     if [ x"$serverargs" = x -a x"$display" = x ]; then
-       server=$defaultserver
        serverargs=$defaultserverargs
-       display=$defaultdisplay
     else
        server=$defaultserver
     fi

Hope that saves some people out there lengthy investigations and hassle.

From the VA-Moments of iBuzz Pleasure 2 album, here's "Never stop the carnaval", a very nice disco-club-ish track!

Song: Oilboy's aftersun - Never stop the carnaval (7:10 min, 3.3 MB)
License: CC-by-nc 3.0
Source: archive.org
Purchase from: ?

Quick newsworthy item related to coreboot, which I wanted to mention a lot earlier, but then forgot about it: Silicon Mechanics is shipping their Rackform nServ A236 with coreboot pre-installed if so desired by the customer.

From the coreboot News page:

Chris Watson at Silicon Mechanics says: "We will commit to offering coreboot preinstallation on the Rackform nServ A236 with a specific set of hardware and software. In the future, we may expand the program to additional platforms based on customer interest."

The A236 is a nice 1U server with 4 drive bays and a dual Opteron board (Supermicro H8DMR), which is supported in coreboot v2.

Nice to see more and more vendors shipping their products with coreboot pre-installed...