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30.000 downloads of yaVDR? We're nearly there!

02. March 2011, hepi - yaVDR

Since the first version of yaVDR was released in January 2010, yaVDR ISO images were downloaded 28.549 times until the end of February 2011... Therefore we expect to hit the 30.000 download mark this March.Counting internet downloads is an error-prone and imprecise craft. But our vanity and our sanity tell us to care for those numbers, and we try to count in a conservative way. It's a source of motivation, and it's also reassuring that what we do is somehow useful, for us and for other people.

30.000 downloads of yaVDR? We're nearly there!

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - is it yaVDR's cup of tea?

11. October 2010, hepi - yaVDR

You have most likely heard the good news already: Ubuntu 10.10 was released yesterday!

As we are all big Ubuntu fans, we are very happy to have a fresh new release to play with on our development PCs. But how does the "Maverick Meerkat" change the game for yaVDR? Let's look at this question from two angles: "yaVDR - the distro" and "yaVDR - the provider of easily installable VDR packages for Ubuntu".

 

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - is it yaVDR's cup of tea?

Announcing yaVDR 0.2

01. June 2010, hepi - yaVDR, Plugins, Sound/ALSA

We are happy to announce the release of yaVDR 0.2. It's based on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Migrating to the new Ubuntu version meant quite a lot of work, so thank you for your patience with us! During the last few weeks we were fighting the last bugs that suddenly showed up here and there and are now confident that the current state is stable enough to let you play with it. For your entertainment, there are - as always - hidden bugs and problems that want to be discovered. Enjoy! You can get the new ISO image from our download page.

For all users of yaVDR 0.1.1 who are wondering how to update their installation to yaVDR 0.2: Please allow us some more time to give you detailed instructions on how to get to yaVDR 0.2 via package updates. You won't find instructions in this blog posting. It is already quite long, because we would like to give you an overview about what new features, packages and changes you will get with yaVDR 0.2:

 

Announcing yaVDR 0.2

From VDR 1.6 to VDR 1.8: An ongoing journey

30. May 2010, hepi - VDR Core

If you imagine the yaVDR distro being a human body, its heart would most likely be the VDR (core) software package. The VDR core is mainly maintained and extended by its inventor, Klaus Schmidinger. yaVDR 0.2 will use the currently latest VDR developer version 1.7.14 as its "heart". Although many users of VDR are very happy with 1.7.14, the current stable version of VDR is still version 1.6 which was released back in March 2008. Version 1.6 doesn't contain support for HDTV and DVB-S2 cards, that's why it doesn't make sense for us to use it within yaVDR.

 

From VDR 1.6 to VDR 1.8: An ongoing journey

yaVDR developers celebrate SVN commit 1000

06. May 2010, hepi - yaVDR

The yaVDR developers have been quite active over the last few days - as you can tell from the diagram on the right. Eager to get the yaVDR 0.2 release ready for the masses, a lot of source code was committed to our source code repository (SVN).

Tonight we reached commit #1000! After a short but brutal fight about who would be the lucky guy to own this revision, we all relaxed and enjoyed this magical moment together in harmony. ;-)

We will give you an overview about the new features of the upcoming yaVDR 0.2 soon. It will be based on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and will impress with an even shorter boot duration than yaVDR 0.1.x. Stay tuned!

 



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