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Debian/KDE status

So. Finally, we got KDE 4 series in Debian/Testing, more accurate, KDE4.2.2. Thanks to the rest of the Debian/KDE team for working on this, including sitting on their hands when wanting to fix bugs, and a special thanks to the

Debian KDE bugs

So. On Sunday, we worked through some of the bugs filed against KDE in Debian. Mostly, we cleaned up in old cruft, and a few bugs got forwarded. A bunch of the Debian KDE people participated, and some KDE Bugsquad

playing with debian kde bugs – anyone up for it ?

This sunday, the 19th of april, at 11 CEST, I will start work my way thru many open filed against KDE in the Debian Bug Tracking System that really belongs at bugs.kde.org – or just doesn’t apply anymore. Feel free

Missing phone backup plan

My mobile phone recently stopped working, I handed it in for repair under warrenty. They fixed it, and flashed it with new firmware, removing all my settings and most importantly, my phone book. So, dear all of you, please send

Good stuff comes …

KDE4 is now finally fully in Debian unstable, including the fabulous settings migration tool known as Kaboom. (At least for amd64 and i386 – the rest follows when the autobuilders catches up, S390 is taking the lead) Celebrate.

n810 && usbhost

easy. http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001CX5G8K/ + https://garage.maemo.org/projects/usb-otg-plugin/ + random usb thingie + n810 == success.

Playing with gnash

Recently, a new version of Gnash was uploaded to Debian by Miriam Ruiz. The most important thing in the changelog from my point of view is the following: Using KDE4 instead of KDE3 So I kind of had to test

VPS with large storage

Dear Lazyweb I’m looking to retire my basement server. It is a athlon 700MHz processor with 384mb ram and 200G harddrive (of which 40 or so is used) I don’t currently need a more beefy machine for this, so I

This time of year again

/me++ Or in a bit longer words, today is my birthday and I got a nice present from Debian – a release sent from Samoa. For all the KDE/Debian users, this is also the beginning of something special: Pushing KDE4

Is something wrong with KDE patch backport policies?

Or Is distro’s backporting of features a good thing or Distro A is much better than Distro B because of the cool features So. Advantages when backporting features Your distro is part of the “cool ones” amongst the users Disadvantages:

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