There’s been a number of new commits that have been pushed on the development branch. It has been some time since I’ve worked on this project so it’s most definitely time to get back onto it. One area that is seriously lacking is documentation but getting this up to date opened an unexpected can of… Read More »
This was supposed to be the announcement for the 1.6 release but unfortunately as soon as it was released a nasty bug that only allowed one user to connect reared its ugly head. So a couple of hot-fix minor releases came out quickly afterwards. The 1.6 release is mostly feature updates to the lchat client.… Read More »
I’ve been doing a lot of clean up behind the scenes and got behind on several things. I never got around to announcing a proper release for 1.5.4 and now I’m releasing 1.5.5. There’s not a lot to note with these releases with the exception that CTRL-R now manually redraws the chat client. This should… Read More »
Local chat 1.5.3 is another bug release. When a client disconnected unexpectedly it caused the lchat daemon to run away using a large amount of the CPU. Now when a client disconnects suddenly it is properly detected and the connection cleaned up as expected. Also with this release there is now a Debian repository available… Read More »
It has been some time since I’ve posted anything to the site but I have been busy behind the scenes. A new bug release, 1.5.2, for lchat is now available. This release is fairly significant in the terms of the project. First a couple small bugs turned out to be pretty substantial so a lot… Read More »
This is a bug fix release Fixed new messages being dropped when scroll buffer is full. Updated documentation about badly behaving bot that don’t read their input. The home page for the project can be found here.
This release is a more polished version of the software. The lchat client has been given a new status bar. The auto scroll feature can be turned on and off with the CTRL-A key combination. Also the text input has been improved by implementing the delete key and the insert key now toggles the input… Read More »
This release adds scripting utilities to the lchat client. This includes sending messages to the local chat room and the creation of chat bots. The message, -m, option This allow scripts and programs to send messages to the local chat room. For example: lchat -m “That’s it, I’m all done” The chat bot, -b, option… Read More »
This is just a small update to the lchat client that reduced CPU usage while making it more responsive. The home page for the project can be found here.
Recently, Linus Torvalds made some comments on why Linux has not found the level of success on the desktop as it’s rivals Microsoft Window and Apple. Much of his reasoning comes down to fragmentation, to many desktops competing with each other giving to many options for its users. Apparently, this competition and diversity has been… Read More »