mesa 18.2.1 now on padoka stable

Greetings commander, the new mesa 18.2.1 compiled with llvm 7.x is now at your disposal at padoka stable. fly free and proud.

mesa 18.3 git now compiled with llvm 8.x

Padoka PPA git (unstable) now compiles mesa 18.3 git with LLVM 8.0 (7.0 was forked a couple of days ago). enjoy!

padoka stable and padoka git updated today

Hi/2 all… Padoka stable was updated to latest mesa 18.0.0, built with llvm 6.0.1 and drm 2.4.91. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa/ Padoka git should have today git as soon as llvm today git finishes compiling (mesa has some new includes that requires the latest llvm git). https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa Enjoy!

Padoca is back and a little KDE 3D treat

So, after a long hiatus, Padoca is back to life. Like in the past, i pretend writing about all open source and free software, and talk about what’s going on in the software world in general and the free/libre one in particular. Kicking the tires of the new, improved padoca (nah, its the same old one) […]

KMix, Veromix, QML and other stories…

I’m very happy as of late, you know? Why? Well, one of my favorite pet disgruntles with KDE KMix (kde default audio mixer) was that it felt that the poor thing was abandoned. Is felt old and misplaced compared to Mac or Windows 7 Mixer, or even gnome audio sound applet, with all the fancy […]

Linux Browsers GPU (2d/3d) support review (firefox/chrome)

Firefox 4.0 beta 9 was release a few days ago and Chromium (chrome) 10.x is coming along nicely, showing that things are starting to stabilize while developers ready their code for 2011 releases. So i decided to fire up both of them, and give them a good spanking of 2d/3d tests, to see how far […]

Amarok 2.2 – Review de lançamento (portuguese version).

O amarok 2.2 acabou de sair, e com ele, uma miríade de novidades que tornarão a sua vida musical maior, melhor e mais colorida. 🙂 Segue uma análise de algumas das novas funcionalidades que seguem no novo lobinho. Para começar, podemos observar que os desenvolvedores de vez em quando até escutam os seus usuários, e […]

Amarok 2.2 – Reloaded, revamped, rethinked, reeverything!

I have a little secret to share with you, Amarok 2.2 Beta 1 is almost out!! shhhh, don’t tell anyone, it might scare the little puppy 🙂 Are you curious to what incredible and life changing goodies it will bring to your life? Do you? Then keep on reading… First off, i’m pleased to announce […]

Consertando a webcam que usa v4l ao invés de v4l2 no seu (k)ubuntu 9.04

Eu tenho uma Webcam antiga que comprei do matusalém quando ele mudou de máquina, é uma Pixart PAC207BCA que utiliza o famoso módulo gspca, mais precisamente o gspca_pac207. Acontece que no ubuntu jaunty e superior, a maldita não funciona corretamente com aplicativos que usam v4l. Se vc usar o ekiga, cheese e outros que usam […]

1 Bilhão de raposas! Parabéns Firefox!

E disseram que não seria possível! AH! enjoy!