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How to install Google Gadgets on Ubuntu Linux

Ecco la procedura per installare Google Gadgets sulla vostra Ubuntu Linux (testato su Hardy Heron e Intrepid Ibex).

Here is the full steps to install Google Gadgets on your Ubuntu Linux (tested on Hardy Heron and Intrepid Ibex)

Thoughts about statsvn

Some time ago, I packaged statsvn, a pretty neat SVN repository analysis tool based on statcvs. To be truthful, I was quite amazed that no one had packaged it before, as I find it quite handy. It is currently in contrib, as it depends on statcvs that depends on libjfreechart-java that currently only works with Sun's java on AMD64 machines (at least, see the bug report).

Wine versus Vista for gaming

Another day starting well: apparently Wine is a better alternative than Vista for gaming (admittedly, this guy only tested four different games, but Wine was the clear winner). Great !

As for me, I finally got Morrowind working under Wine, which is one of the reasons why I haven't been that active for Debian recently.

NSLU2 + DWL-G122 = NAS with Wi-Fi

Our starting point is a Linksys NSLU2 with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (alias etch) and a D-Link DWL-G122 Ver. C1 USB Wi-Fi adapter. The Debian's Linux Kernel for the NSLU2 comes with no drivers for the DWL-G122, so it is necessary to compile them. The C1 version of the DWL-G122 has inside the rt73 chipset from Ralink and its source code can be found in the rt2x00 project page. They offer two types of drivers: 'enhanced legacy drivers' and 'next-generation rt2x00 drivers'. The next-generation drivers often fail to compile with not up to date kernel releases, so I decided to use the legacy ones.