After almost 20 years using Debian, I am trying something different, Fedora Silverblue. However for work I still need to use Debian/Ubuntu from time to time. In this post I am explaining the steps to setup Debian containers on Silverblue.

By default Silverblue comes with Toolbox which perfectly integrates …

Time for a change! Almost 10 years ago I was starting to hack on a Blog engine with two friends, it was called Alinea and it powered this website for a long time. Back then hacking on your own Blog engine was the pre-requirement to host your blog :) But nowadays …

A really nice feature every video player using GStreamer and playbin2 should have is media on-disk buffering. Even though it is supported only for Quicktime and Flash videos currently it remains one good improvement of the user experience if you are an avid consumer of Apple trailers and flv :)

Under …

Long time no blog, eh? Anyway I was today hooking up Telepathy Stream Tubes with GStreamer so that I could stream video over local-xmpp, go figure why… :)

Everything was fine:

• on one side, offer a stream tube in a multi-user room and setup a pipeline like this one:

  videotestsrc ! gdppay …

Just a quick post to say hi to the GNOME community. Thanks Jeff for adding me!

So I’m Philippe (philn on IRC), working for Fluendo on the Elisa MediaCenter, writing Python fluently during work hours for fun and profit and off work, only for fun :)

I regularly write news …

Two weeks ago I bought my N810 with the discount code kindly offered by Nokia for the Maemo development program. The device is really nice, the OS2008 provides a totally new user experience (compared to the version I used on my N770). So here are few remarks I have after …

So I was at FOSDEM 2007. Nice conf, many people and interesting talks. I crashed at Thomas’_ place for the week-end, thanks dude :-) Of particular interest:

• OLPC : laptops for children
• OpenMoko : open-source phone
• Metisse : not a 3D desktop!

I wish I could attend to OneTeam and Telepathy talks. Thomas …

After nearly 6 months spent living in Lyon, I headed south once more, to Barcelona :) I entered a new flat with 2 other frenchie fellows, we’ll be damn fine there!!

We still have some administrative paper work to do, but it can wait, we did the essential ones.. The …

This evening base-art.net, pythonfr.org and few other hosted domains should be un-available while we migrate websites to a brand new dedicated server. So, fellow readers, don’t be surprised ;-)

Things will come back up this night hopefully. I’m still reachable by mail, phil at base-art dot net …

Looks like Raster has been hacking on a media center thingy. So far it looks great, i’ve watched the demo video, installed rage in no time and got it running in, well, even less time :) I must say i’m really impressed by the look and feel of the …