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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

Hi, in the good old times(TM) using Linux was simple. If you wanted to access some drive, e.g. CD-ROM, floppy disk (you know these 3.5" square plastic things which could hold a whopping 1.44 MB of data, if you formatted them with special tools you could push even a bit more on it), you just had to know the device file and the file system and if you knew that, it just worked (TM): Read More

I'm nearly ready to move NetworkManager-kde4 to kdereview now, after a crazy week of rehashing the connection layer (the bit that writes your configured connections to KConfig (and optionally KWallet) into something that I actually want to support for a few years. Read More

Another epic owl release! Granted, not as epic as Eigen 2.0, but still very nice. Strigi 0.6.4 gives some nice index speed-ups and fixes a few annoying bugs. There is one new feature: LZMA support. Read More

This week I have been working on an Akonadi tutorial targetted at application developers. Compare to the Akonadi Resource Tutorial this was rather difficult. Resources have a well defined task and a tutorial can being with a basic implementation and move on to more complex scenarios later on. Read More

Björn of the FSFE initially triggered the organization of a joint KDE 4.2 Release Party and FSFE Fellow Meeting in Stuttgart. I'm very happy that our local team grew quickly so everything went very smooth. So Friday it was time to meet and celebrate. At this point we had no idea how many people would show up. Read More

Rodney Gedda of Computerworld Australia has written an article about my talk at linux.conf.au 2009. You can see it at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/274883/openchange_kde_bring_exchange_compatibility_linux?fp=16&fpid=1 and http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/274883/openchange_kde_bring_exchange_compatibility_linux?pp=2&fp=16&fpid=1 (sorry for the ads, but presumably that is what pays for the site). Read More

It is of course a bit late to announce, but this sunday (february first), there will be a KDE 4.2 release party in The Netherlands. Everyone is welcome to join us at De Commanderie van Sint Jan in Nijmegen, starting from around 14:00.

We did it! Congratulations to everyone who made this possible! It's this kind of spirit that makes me want to shed a tear of joy. For those looking for the weather forecast plasmoid (that's the official name of it), it's now in extragear for the KDE 4.2 post-release so distros can now package it. Read More