CK’s BFS patches apply cleanly to the nouveau tree. No idea if the desktop is more responsive or not. More and more projects are moving away from traditional version numbers, going scm. This is good, but they should tag versions as stable more often (i’m looking at you, subtle. Is there any way to remove ~/Desktop permanently and tell all xdg-aware apps to use ~/ as ~/Desktop? OpenSSH setup on openWRT, will cover configuration in a separate post. Interviewed Scott Shawcroft of OSWatershed.org . Maybe an exherbo scraper could be whipped up.