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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

KDE 4.2 was released yesterday, causing a busy day of last minute package fixes, poking build daemons to go faster, adjusting release announcements and then that the final exciting release moment when I have to update Dot News, Planet (ooh new 4.2 artwork), kubuntu.org and IRC topics all at once. Then sit back and wait for feedback. Pleasingly it's been really good with coverage on a lot of news sites, so give it a shot and let us know what you think.

KDE 4.2 has been released and gives "The Answer". With the usual openSUSE KDE4 packages available comes also a new release of KDE Four Live, the most comprehensive KDE4 Live-CD, with following changes: x86_64 version available for the first time kdelibs3 is not contained anymore, NetworkManager-kde4 is responsible for managing network connections qt3 is not contained anymore, as result YaST Control Center doesn't show icons and offer search currently the freed space is used for new stuff not contained before: kepas, krename, krusader, yakuake, ... kdebluetooth4 version working with bluez4 Have a lot of fun... Read More

I was going to make it "Konsole Tabs Are Session Managed Again" but it's a restored KDE 3 feature and all the kids know that commandline hacking is not cool. Read More

One of the many things I learned at linux.conf.au was about ack. Thanks to Paul Fenwick for bringing it to our attention. Spend a few minutes with me on this... If you are a fan of grep (especially with -drecurse), but hate seeing the .svn directories and contents of the object files, you need ack. Read More