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Developer Profiles and Other Stuff

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 28, 2007 - 4:28pm

Now that Steve, Ryan and Marko are on board and several others will soon be, I'm thinking we need to have some developer profiles in the development or about us section. Just a quick bio. Maybe a headshot. Link to their blog on here (which will be re-introduces soon... finally), Etc. That way, we can be sure folks are getting proper recognition... and it will be handy for folks when applying to university or a job to show experience on a large project like this. Any thoughts on this? Or thoughts on other ways to be sure folks get recognized for their work?

Closing the programs

Submitted by mik991 on September 28, 2007 - 3:59pm

Hey I checked the forums for a solution but couldn't find anything. I was wondering if there was a way that all of the programs running off of the jump drive would close, once I pull the drive out of the computer? I'm asking because I'm using the apps at work, and I want a quick fail safe that I can pull to protect myself.

Release Categories (For New Developers)

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 28, 2007 - 3:07pm

I've been thinking about how we can make things easier on getting new developers on board, since there's more and more interest. So, what I'm thinking is we'll do a couple things. First, we'll make it easier to host new apps on the SF project. Second, we'll let the release techs be able to post these new apps. At the moment, Ryan and Marko are release techs (in addition to me).

TOTALLY NEW TO THIS

Submitted by SIRHENRYTHEGREAT on September 28, 2007 - 1:51pm

I am totally new to all of these, so if I sound ignorant that is because I am. The main reasons that I want to download the portable apps to my pocket hard drive is because I do not wish to inadvertently be infected with virus and spywares from the Internet, and because I often need to use the computer in the local libraries and I do not wish to leave traces of my personal info there. Please bear with me. I have several dumb questions to ask you:

WANTED: QEMU Compilation Help (C Developer)

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 28, 2007 - 12:01pm

While I have a working package of Damn Small Linux in PortableApps.com Format that doesn't have an extra command line window ready to go, the QEMU included with DSL has a closed library (FMOD for sound) which means that it doesn't qualify as Free Software and, thus, can't be hosted on SourceForge.

So, I'm looking for someone who can recompile it without FMOD. If that means no sound, that's fine for now.

QEMU is written in C and compiled with GCC.

Please Stick to Open Source

LOGAN-Portable's picture
Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on September 27, 2007 - 4:01pm

Upon reading some discussions I seen some mentioning of including freeware / shareware portable apps. I would vote against including it to the applications pages for several reasons:

- Other sites already doing this
- Freeware could always switch license or restrict usage somehow
- Open Source more likely to keep support

Using PortableApps with the same USB drive in both Windows and Linux?

Submitted by vavroom on September 27, 2007 - 12:15am

I did a search and from what I read, it appears that there really isn't anything viable at this point for PortableApps in Linux. Could someone confirm this for me? If I'm wrong, I'd love a link to a working distro Smile

Also, I am in a situation where I have to go from Windows on a Desktop to Ubuntu on a laptop, back to Linux on another desktop. Is it conceivable that using the same stick I could do this (assuming that there is indeed a linux distro working?)

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