Author Archives: Evan Sosenko

VMware OpenGL 3D acceleration with vmwgfx in Kubuntu Linux

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I’ve been waiting for OpenGL 3D in VMware for Linux guests for a while now and I’m happy to say I finally have it working. This guide has been specifically tested for the following setup:

  • Windows 7 Professional x64 host running VMware Workstation 8
  • Kubuntu 11.10, 64bit guest

This guide is based on the original post by khogan, 3D hardware acceleration in Linux. Hello GNOME 3, and the guide by Joost, VMware Linux guest with 3D accelerated graphics.

  • This seems to work out of the box on Kubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2, 64bit! Simply update your packages and install VMware tools. (I needed to run a package update twice; the second time included the new mesa drivers. Also, you may want to reboot after each step just to be safe.)
  • OpenGL 3D acceleration works out of the box on Kubuntu 12.04!

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Overview

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Kit is a framework for making simple management tools called kits. Each kit keeps track of a set of objects (the bits) and info about them. Actions of different types can be queued as tasks and run separately. Bits are put into groups so that code for each action type can be different for each group. The tasks are stored in a separate database, so the permissions for adding tasks and managing bit meta information can be set separately.

Install or develop Kit

Kate-Get

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Kate-Get is now depreciated since Kate removed the external tools plugin.

Kate-Get is a little Ruby gem I made after I switched over to using Kate and Git for development. When working on web applications, I often find myself running several developments sites running on remote servers. I like to edit the remote files over SFTP directly so that once I save them I can see the changes applied immediately. I might have many files open in Kate at a time like this, but once I’m happy with the current state of them, I want an easy way to pull them into my local git repo to commit the changes. Kate-Get does this with rsync and can be configured for multiple remote sites through a simple YAML config file.

Install or develop Kate-Get

New site style using Sass and Compass

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This is pretty much my first post since the soft launch of my site several months ago. I’ve been busy with other projects and I wanted to hold off on working on the site until I had a chance to become more familiar with git and decide on what web development tools to code the site with. The new style is still a first draft but I really like how it turned out. It’s now running on the technology I will be using for any future work on this site; here is what I’ve decided on so far:
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