Zend Framework, FAI and other Ubuntu news
- October 15th, 2009
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First of all, I’m running Karmic now for some time, and I’m really impressed regarding the outstanding graphical changes our Art Wizards did. It’s shiny, feels more comfortable and gives me a really professional touch, comparing to other graphical environments. Oh well, I have to admit, this is about our Ubuntu GNOME Desktop.
The changes on Ubuntus KDE Desktop are also great, because of the work of our famous KDE Gurus, but honestly it doesn’t feel so integrated then GNOME. I must say, it could only be me, but some things are still not working out of the box. For example, I have two screens attached to my ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series card.
Inside Gnome, I’m using the screen applet and move the screens to the correct sides and I have a large desktop with a virtual desktop size of 2560×1024. It feels nice.
On the KDE side, I can’t use the screen admin util (inside systemseetings). It detects both screens (DVI-0 and DVI-1) but I can’t move it around. Using the "Multiple Screens" page, it tells me: "No, you don’t have that setup". Using Xrandr magic via CLI but I can get what I want.
Dear KDE People, actually it’s time to give stupid people like me a way to setup dual screen or more screen setups more easily without using xrandr or any other xorg,conf magic. Why can’t we get something out of the box for both Desktop Environments?
Enough for the rants about desktops ;)
Other important stuff:
First of all, all Zend Lovers will get Zend Framwork 1.9.4 inside Karmic, eventually there is another release of ZF before Ubuntu release, but I doubt it. Furthermore, the zf.sh issue should be solved by now in version 1.9.4-0ubuntu1.
Secondly, after having several discussions with FAI Upstream Fame, Thomas Lange, we decided to remove FAI (sources and binaries) from Karmic.
It was a hard decision to make, because I’m using FAI, several other famous Ubuntu + Debian Devs are using FAI, too. But we hadn’t the time to push in a new version of FAI and make it work with New World Order of Ubuntu.
This will be done in Karmic+1, we are trying to push new and working versions of FAI into some PPA or on the FAI homepage. Anyways, if you wonder why FAI is gone from Karmic, that’s why. Thomas and I didn’t want to have a broken and old version of FAI in Ubuntu Repositories.
I was wondering if you knew any good easy to follow tutorials for the Zend Framework. To be honest I was on the Zend site and i saw this tutorial about creating a blog or something like that with Zend and that had to be the most newbie-unfriendly tutorial I had ever seen. Considering that it was written by a newbie as well I suppose it’s all right. But Zend I think should make easy to follow tutorials such as that on the Ruby on Rails website.
FAI removal is a very BAD news… Hope it will be back in 10.04…
back in 10.4 we are working on it :)