Hacking SLOF Clients

SLOF includes a few clients. Especially the net-snk client is interesting as it allows one to add applications which can be started by specifying their name on the command line when booting the kernel.

In order to hack SLOF client applications, the sec-client target must be built in the clients/net-snk subdirectory of the SLOF source tree. Before this can succeed, the CPUARCH environment variable must be set, like this:

$ export CPUARCH=ppc970

Latest Version of KOMAscript

The Tex Live distribution Mac OS X is getting more outdated by the day. Maybe there’s a way to update it, but I didn’t bother to check.

For a reasonably good layout of letters without a footer I found that a recent version of KOMAscript is required. I’m using Version 2.98 obtained from http://dante.ctan.org/.

Installing the new version proved to be quite easy:

$ cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist
$ sudo unzip komascript.tds.zip
$ sudo texconfig rehash