User:Seife

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Stefan "seife" Seyfried

Stefan Seyfried is a member of the SUSE R&D Team Mobile Devices

Just a few words about my work for SUSE and on openSUSE. If you need to know more, feel free to use google :-)

blog

If you want to read about my totally uninteresting ramblings, you can visit my blog.

Buildservice Home Project

Up to date versions of some of my packages and backports / builds for older distributions can be found in my buildservice home project at http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/seife/.

Cross Compilers

For personal use, I'm building some embedded cross toolchains together with Torsten Duwe in the buildservice. Find them in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/seife:/cross / https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:seife:cross and http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/duwe:/crosstools / https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:duwe:crosstools If you have questions or suggestions on those packages, drop me a note.

Projects

suspend.sf.net

suspend.sf.net is a project with the overall goal of making suspend to disk, ram and to both "just work" on linux. There are some aspects to that:

• s2ram is aimed at making suspend to RAM "just work" out of the box on many machines.
• s2disk is the new implementation of software suspend (suspend to disk or "hibernation") in userspace instead of kernel. This enables us to easily use compression and encryption on the suspended image and with this make suspending to disk more secure and faster.

pm-utils

pm-utils is a project that is aimed at providing a cross-distribution, universal framework for running scripts (called "hooks") during suspend and resume. It replaces the powersaved suspend functionality in openSUSE 10.2. I am working on pm-utils together with Peter Jones from the Fedora Project, Holger Macht and other people from various distributions that are interested in a common infrastructure for suspend.

bluetooth

I am maintaining the "bluetooth core" packages bluez-libs, bluez-utils and some other bluetooth related stuff for SUSE. This does not mean that i have a deeper understanding of everything bluetooth related, but i try to keep current with the matter.

Up to date bluez-libs and bluez-utils packages for openSUSE 10.2 and newer are built in my buildservice repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/seife/, i don't know how good they work on older distributions, though.

UMTS / 3G / HSPA

I am working on integrating GPRS / UMTS / EDGE / 3G hardware better into the distribution. Right now as a start i have packaged umtsmon (sourceforge project page on http://sourceforge.net/projects/umtsmon) and comgt. These are only the first steps to a better integration of these upcoming network services.

Up to date umtsmon packages are available from my buildservice repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/seife/

powersaved

powersaved is the general power management solution for linux, for all aspects including suspend to disk and to RAM. My work on powersaved lately consists mostly of small fixes to its support scripts and the integration of s2disk / s2ram into powersaved.

Tuxbox

Lately i have been quite active developing software in the Tuxbox project which is about embedded settop boxes for digital TV (DVB), mainly the dbox2. I ported the neutrino gui to the dreambox 500 for example and made sure that kernel 2.6 can boot from flash, among other things. Now i just keep on fixing the various annoyances that come along while using the software.

Unison

I am the package maintainer of the Unison File Synchronizer tool. I do not know too much about it, but it just works for me :-)

mailsync

As with Unison, my maintainership of the mailsync tool stems from the fact that i use it daily, not from the fact that i know too much about it.

gkrellm-powersave

gkrellm-powersave is a small hack to replace the gkrellm battery monitor with a frontend to powersaved. It desperately needs some loving and i doubt it even compiles with recent powersave versions.

Kernel

I am occasionally hacking away on the linux kernel to fix the bugs and add the features that annoy me most. Usually the results are pretty amateurish but sometimes they inspire somebody else to fix it correctly :-)

General Interest

Apart from that boring stuff like "powermanagement", "bluetooth" and "suspend", which is of course interesting but where i also believe that it should "just work" already, i am looking into uses of mobile machines, synchronization of files from my notebook to my desktop workstation, working simultaneously on both machines and still being able to maintain a sane configuration and always access all data on all machines etc, the small things that annoy you in your daily use. Often these small things are unbelievably hard to resolve, so thinking about alternative concepts or just useful hacks to work around a specific issue sometimes might also take some time :-)

Have a lot of fun...