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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Skolelinux/Debian-edu gathering infiltrated by Gnash people
Gathering I spent this weekend at a Skolelinux/Debian-edu gathering in Oslo. 8.5 hours by bus each way. I got to meet some of the people shipping a customized Debian for schools. As it was a gathering related to educational software,…
KDE and internal storage
Looking at KDE4 and related technologies, a few things about data storage hit me. Not that I know anything about it, but that does usually not prevent me from trying to be clever about it. Several parts needs to either…
maemo + packaging + kde4
maemo sdk seems to come with a cdbs, debhelper and dpkg-dev too old to make it easy to build several debian unstable packages like kde4. maemo seems to come with glibc2.5 and debian/armel kde4 packages depends on 2.7 or greater.…
akademy keysigning
I ended up skipping the akademy keysigning, although I was signed up and looking forward to it. I think the organizers should have kicked people that didn’t bring their own copy of the list instead of providing spare copies and…
kde / java / packaging
The following is not a joke: KDE4 needs java for best performance more precise, soprano, used by nepomuk (semantic desktop thingie), has a sesame backend (java) and a redland backend (c++). According to upstream and others, the sesame backend is…
Sometimes I feel like …
… I’m discussing colors with someone who doesn’t know what a atomic power-plant is.
What I done this weekend …
Updated the debian packaging and debian patches of KDE4 to the 4.0.84 tarballs Pushed kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-runtime and kdebase-workspace 4.0.84 to experimental Prepared the rest of the packages ready to be pushed to experimental when the auto-builders have built this…
reply to reply to KDE 4.1 experience
Fathi blogged a reply to Peter in where he kind of “tagged” me to also reply. So I will. you can’t configure size and appearance of the panel. This is a long-standing problem, but I thought it was fixed. You…
playing with plasma
Now that kde4.1 is beginning to really take shape, I have also upgraded all my computers to kde4. Bye bye kde3. I can’t live without a few kde3 apps though, particularily amarok. But my amarok usage was mostly controlled by…
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