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Happy 5th Birthday Rudix!

Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 22, 2010. The packaging system and software distribution Rudix is 5 years old.


I still remember the early days of Rudix sitting in front of my iBook , elaborating the first Makefiles revenue of the first packet. Yeah, time goes fast!

As the name suggests, is Rudix egocentrically the addition of my name (Ruda) with the term Unix, the same as it did Linus Torvalds with Linux. If he can do it, why can not I? :) Originally the

Rudix would be the perfect Linux distribution ever made in the entire history of mankind . I changed my operating system, Linux to Mac OS X, and I noticed that some software was not available. For example, wget does not come by default in Mac

looked for solutions that will hand me over wget compiled but not like what I saw, they kept the complications of inherited packaging of Linux. I decided to do a simpler system, so that I could apply what they had learned with Linux on my Mac was then that (re-) baptized Rudix the project.

What is Rudix?

The Rudix consists of two parts, a construction system and software packaging, which is called port system of or build system, that part is usually reserved for developping, but the first version of Rudix ( 2005r1) was the only delivered to the user.

Rudix The other part of the software is precompiled and packaged for distribution, and this is what many people demand and that has been popular at Rudix. I usually distribute Rudix as "massive package," in which all software can be installed all at once, the massive package has been downloaded over 3,000 times in the 2010 version. Optionally allows the Rudix install packages individually , for example, Midnight Commander is champion with 1,000 individual downloads! downloads, followed by wget. The Differential



But what differentiates Rudix from other systems? The Rudix seeks to maintain fidelity to the standards of behavior that Mac OS X requires. First, the software was installed as packages (. Pkg on Mac) independent and self-sufficient. This means that there is no dependencies on other libraries, unless the Mac's own native

The Rudix never replace the original components of the Mac and not "contaminate" the original installation. Seeking to keep the installation packages within the established directory / usr / local / , instead of inventing a crazy option, as / opt / rudix / .

By keeping the way "Mac OS X friendly" to be, I believe that Rudix has a guaranteed place for a public demanding but at the same time, does not like to lose a lot of time thinking about dependencies and builds.

Certainly 5 years is a milestone for the project. Long live the Rudix!

Trivia

Rudix stable versions are hosted on SourceForge , and the project is under development at Google Code .

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WindowMaker


In 2000, my work Conectiva required in using Linux with the build tools and development, because of that, I felt comfortable just working in text mode. With the emergence of interesting ideas on the Web, I had to make the transition to work on the console to the graphical mode.

was only with the WindowMaker is that I fell like using the Linux graphic color. The WindowMaker is a window manager for X, and was developed by Alfredo Kojima, I had the honor of working at Conectiva and still keep in contact # d00dz the Freenode. The WindowMaker

demand imitiar graphically the behavior of the NextStep environment, following the line of the year 90, the components are square, and use dark colors like black and dark gray, and the default background (which is me) purple. For those unaware, the NextStep evolved into what is Mac OS X today.

Curtia the WindowMaker Dock, which is where you shoot most used applications. In the Dock is possible to have several mini-applications such as mini prison windows, such as the classic CPU meter, memory and network.



The application menu and control was suspended and was obviously not fixed as in other environments, something cool desktop in 800x600 or 1024x768 because it freed up space for the application window principal who wanted to run, for example, the Netscape browser.

The WindowMaker is easy to use only that is very different from the behavior of Windows and maybe it was not very popular with users of traditional PC. All that remained was a "something else" that WindowMaker was the perfect environment for the Linux desktop.



And for that there was a project funded by the FSF in the year 1990, the API and porting environment using NextStep / OpenStep, GNUstep called for GNU / Linux. Too bad it was never taken seriously by his great helmsman. To tell the truth, the great helmsman fell into a wordy and Mexican bought the idea for the Gnome project, to fight against the evil and (then) owner of the KDE project, so the GNUstep was ostracized.

Gnome or KDE never interested me and I got my WindowMaker widower with GNUstep. The dream is over for me and now use Mac OS X that is the evolution of what I said. I was told that a French group continues to play the GNUstep project, but the reality is the Linux Gnome or KDE.

For me, it was a good memory and longing for WindowMaker with Linux, worth Kojima! The