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Wow, so yet another FOSDEM lies behind us. As always, it was quite fantastic; those who decided not to come were clearly mistaken ;) So, other than the obligatory KDE Group Picture, here are some impressions from this year. Let's start with the biggest surprise of all: Boudewijn Rempt was able to make it to FOSDEM! Read More

So, of course there's a lot of interesting things going on at FOSDEM here. Just like last year, we had a nice group picture on the grass field next to the KDE devroom. Thanks to all people who could make it. If you look verrry closely, you can even spot the GNOME person in it ;)

It is often said that many open-source-software is not enterprise-ready. But in order to be enterprise-ready, software must first be user-ready. I want to give you a feeling what I mean. Read More

Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.0 packages now updated for both i586 and x86_64. A standard urpmi repository is available. README for some detailed information. Some reference to a corrupted l10n packages will be verified and fixed this weekend, but not affects regular usage. Read More

I'm doing my last preparations for FOSDEM right now. Together with the other SUSE guys I will go to Brussels later today. On Saturday at 17:00 there will be a presentation about SUSE Studio in the openSUSE Track. Daniel Bornkessel and me will show you how to create openSUSE based software appliances with just a few clicks. As special guests we will have Andrew Wafaa and Jordi Massaguer Pla at the talk. They will tell a bit about what they have done with Studio so far. Read More

Germany, land of Kinder eggs, regional sausage varieties and underground spaceship themed hacklab-bar community collectives. I'm in Berlin for the Canonical Platform Team (previously called Canonical Distro Team) week long sprint where we have taken over a floor of the very large East Berlin Holiday Inn. East Berlin is a cubist painter's delight, all the buildings are large and cube shaped. 60 geeks on a 3MBit ADSL line is painful, especially downloading CD images to test alpha releases, the pain is mostly over now though and the alpha should be out in the next hour or so. Read More

With the next Akademy and GUADEC being co-located in Gran Canaria, I thought it would be nice to do a bit of 'cross-desktopping'. My Gnome friend, Alberto Ruiz, is organizing the Gtk+ 3.0 Theming API Hackfest with some GTK hackers along with Jens Bache-Wiig from Qt Software. That is really good news as it means they'll be thinking about making the toolkits apis compatible at the look and feel level right from the start. Read More

After quite a while of not doing much maemo related, I finally found the time to build a bit more up-to-date kde packages for maemo. I've now uploaded kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase from KDE 4.2.0 (more modules will follow), and also the just released koffice 2.0beta6 (unfortunately no kspread yet, as I couldn't get it to compile with the old gcc version in scratchbox). If you want to play with kde and/or koffice on your maemo powered device, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://93.157.1.37/~marijn/maemo binary/, and install kde and/or koffice related packages (you probably don't want to install them to the small rootfs, as the packages are still a bit big). The state of maemo/hildon integration for kde applications hasn't changed much since my previous packages (for example applications still don't have a correct icon in the taskbar), but I hope to be able to spend some time in that area as well. Read More

Thanks to a good earphone playing lots and lots of loud and good trance music, i'm providing Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.0 packages. For now only i586 packages are available, x86_64 packages will be provided after initial feedback. A standard urpmi repository is available. README for some detailed information.

The implementation of the Ruby runtime in the new 1.9.1 release is a complete rewrite based on a virtual machine, YARV, instead of interpreting the AST directly and slowly like the previous version. So I was expecting that there would be a lot of changes required for QtRuby as it has a fair amount of C interface code. However, it turned out to be not so bad at all, and I'm pleased to announce that the QtRuby, Korundum and Wt::Ruby projects will all now build against Ruby 1.9.1 as well as the older 1.8.x versions. Read More