Busy with cxacru
A few days ago I started working on a ppp 2.4.3 package, but I got sidetracked again by one of my obsessions when I noticed that a new maintainer started again working on the old cxacru driver for Conexant-based USB DSL modems, cleaned it up and integrated it with the usbatm kernel code.
The driver will be merged soon in the mainline kernel tree, so I requested for my old xdslusb package to be removed. This means that sarge will not ship with the driver, but downloading and building it is trivial enough that I do not consider worth the effort to create a source package for the new driver, and users will want to upgrade to a recent kernel anyway.
My new modem has costed me 9.90€ (and came with a filter and an USB cable), is much smaller than my Alcatel SpeedTouch ethernet modem and I'm sure also uses much less power. So much for clueless people who keep saying that USB modems suck.
While hacking on ppp I discovered meld, an awesome package which graphically shows differences among two or three source trees. I have been looking for a package with these features for years, and finally I have found the right tool which I know will save me a lot of time in the future. While dirdiff is interesting, its usability is not even close to meld and Tk cannot compete with a polished Gtk2 interface.