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I'm very disappointed by the sad state of Django libraries/modules, however do you want to call them.
For example, let's look at django-mptt. It's an essential piece in many projects, it works great ( when you patch it, and bring it up to date ) but the project is barely managed. The latest released version is almost 2 years old, there're over 65 issues. I can understand that both of the leaders ( insin and brosner ) are very busy developers, and they don't have time to update and manage a "small" project like django-mptt, but I think that projects like that made the difference for django community at large. My first programming teacher said to me, that the best language is not the one with nicest syntax, good performance, good tools, but the one with good libraries. I really hope, brosner and insin will once commit some time to this project, or at least give the steering wheel to someone else. It's sad to see a project dying like that.
And if you're thinking "it's open source, fork it" - I have done it already. I needed openid functionality, and I forked then badly maintained django-openid to my own project django-openid-consumer. The project never got many users, but it just works the way I want. And I hope I helped someone, at least I learned a lot.
It's really sad to see good projects die because of lack of interest and time. At least some other projects, like django-tagging are getting at least some love.

And then we come to another interesting effect I see in django community. "Hidden" and unpropagated projects. For example, I'm cooperating with kiberpipa.org people on "our" intranet project. It's django based, quite advanced and frankly quite buggy, but nevertheless interesting piece of software. Released under BSD, but probably noone outside kiberpipa heard about it. What a shame.

So I finally got my first laptop. I decided to get a Dell Studio 1555 (N81639). For now, it work very well. But I had some hiccups with Arch Linux instalation and drivers/settings ( I'll blog about my take on Gentoo vs. Arch in another post ). So, a quick breakdown how I got things working.

Video

My model came with ATI HD4570 card and I found out that xf86-video-ati performence is piss poor, so I'm now using xf86-video-radeonhd driver, that works preatty decent I must say. I'm planning to test the proprietary catalyst driver soon.

Touchpad

I had slight problems with touchpad, but the anwser lies with synaptics driver ( which needs to be loaded, d0h )

Wireless

Wireless setup was amazingly straightforward. The card identified itself as Broadcom BCM4322 therefore I installed the broadcom-wl drivers from AUR and loaded the correct modules. More info on Arch Wiki cripticly named Broadcom_BCM4312

Sound

intel_snd_hda is quite well supported in linux kernel, I'm using an ALSA + PulseAudio setup.

Webcam

Webcam is supported by linux uvcvideo driver, so load the module and rock and roll. (Arch users, be sure to set the correct permissions - 666 - on /dev/video0 )

CPU

cpu frequency scaling works thru acpi-cpufreq and cpufrequtils

Bluetooth

Bluetooth works out of the box with the bluetooth and btusb kernel modules and bluez (and gnome-bluetooth ) on the userspace.

Misc. stuff

I had to toggle the keyboard backlight with the F6 key, and now it works flawlessly.

I still need to test out other components, but it looks like that this laptop works very well with Linux ( even tho it came with Windows 7 Home Premium )
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- 17.12.2009 19:36 - Added Bluetooth information

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