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The Bazaar team released version 1.0 of the world's finest revision control system. Congratulations to them all. I think the best explanation of the power of Bazaar is the workflows page, you can use it in the old central repository mode if you wish but there's a number of others ways of doing revision control and bzr's strength is that it works well with all of them. Read More

Two weeks ago I moved again and it took until yesterday that I got internet access again, now using cable. This actually rocks, it is really fast, 6 Mbit/s. I still can remember, I think it was in 2001 I still had an analog modem with 100something kbit/s. That's really an incredible increase in speed in just 6 years ! Read More

After my previous blog about openSUSE News numbers I became curious and installed StatPress. Of course the site is mostly visited by SUSE Linux users (~53%), followed by just under 30% MS Windows users (XP outnumbers Vista by factor 7). But the positive surprise is that 40.4% use Konqueror to visit the site beating all Firefox versions by 0.3% (Internet Explorer 6+7 sum up to 12%). An outstanding number: 96% of the visitors use Google as their search engine. Among the most popular search terms are "opensuse 11[.0]" and "kde 4". :-)

You may (or may not) know that Okular can read the Oasis Open Document format (aka OpenOffice.org text format or OpenDocument). It doesn't render the document exactly as oowriter would, but it is quite a bit faster to start up :-) I tried to open an encrypted document with it though, and it failed. A couple of evenings later, and I have a patch that "fixes" Okular. Read More

Torsten, the evil marble-mind tries to take over the world, but that's old news (pun where?). He talked me into getting hot new stuff support into Marble. That was real easy... except of course that marble has all this custom stuff to be a pure qt app. Well it works now. You can get a very nice map of crustal ages of the earth there now. Don't ask me what it actually shows, I guess the legend has to be adjusted a bit ;) Read More

Defining more than one pattern for a Build Service project finally works after some bugfixes by Michael. :-) [image:3152 size=preview hspace=50] Above you see how we use it in the KDE:KDE4 project, eg "KDE 4.0 Build Dependencies" lists all packages you need to have installed for compiling KDE 4.0 from source.

[image:3150 align=left size=thumbnail hspace=20] As you can see in this image, I managed to get plasma to run on a Neo1973 phone (using an openmoko image for the rest of the software). The only changes I needed to make to kde code where changes related to qreal not being a double on an ARM processor (except of course some hacks to actually make it cross compilable).

Good Morning Friends, do join us in a few hours for these fine IRC tutorials. And congratulations to Trolltech for including parts of Qt in KDE's svn for the first time. Even closer cooperation with our favourite framework authors is worth getting up early in the morning to publish the story for.

One picture is worth more than 10 words, but that's the limit for a blog entry :)

I posted this to k-c-d a couple days ago, but it generated zero response, so I thought I'd post it to the ol' blog in case any non k-c-d types might be interested. Read More