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First of all, i'm working in a Linux company, i use Linux for almost everything in my life except gaming. Second, my company sold like hundred thousand of linux machines all over the world. Third, it's obvious for any smart person that actually read regular information about computer world see that linux is growing A LOT. Then, suddenly, the bank that i use ( and many of my fellows co-workers ) decide the very smart move to include an security applet that simply makes mandatory the use of Microsoft Windows. And they tell this explicitely. They provide a telephone to users of "other operational systems" to inform then that they're not using MS ( maybe to tell then to use telephone operations ). Ok, would be barely ok if.. ..i'm outside my country. The only way i have to pay my accounts is by internet banking, as my family lives away from my city. And will not back until the terminal date od back change, 19 October. So, if some issue happens during my stay out my home, like pay the credit card debts, that i'm using here, to avoid lock, i'll be helpless, or use some non-personal computer with Microsoft Windows to deal with my money. Nice, huh ? To have security, i just need abandon my current security in favor of a use unsecure computer that i can't assure if is reliable. Maybe can i ask ABN to give me R$ 500,00 in my account to buy a copy of some non portuguese Microsoft Windows here to solve my issue :-P Read More

So I thought I would spend a tiny bit of time on the weekend trying to get khtml 4.0's gif decoder all finished. Yeah, right. Decoding the frames themselves is easy: giflib does it for us. The messy part comes when it comes to putting them together into an animation. Read More

There are some misconceptions floating around about openSUSE 10.3. Unfortunately uninformed people are still allowed to blog ;-) so let me pick up some I read: "No Live-CD! Every hobby distro has one. Why can't a huge company like Novell do one?" Read More

Let me share some hints for openSUSE 10.3 which just came to my mind: If you use GNOME and eg don't like the yast2-gtk package selector or miss the powerful Qt package selector, install the yast2-qt package and set in /etc/sysconfig/yast2 the WANTED_GUI variable to "qt". If you want the Crystal-style YaST icons back, replace the yast2-theme-openSUSE with the yast2-theme-openSUSE-Crystal package. If you miss the photo wallpapers, they have been moved to the desktop-data-SuSE-extra sub-package. For really old wallpapers, think SuSE Linux 9.1, install the gos-wallpapers package. And this seems to be the biggest complaint of some people: you can make the Geeko of the KDE start menu roll its eyes again: kwriteconfig --file kickerrc --group General --key KickoffDrawGeekoEye true">

Today, after ten months of work, openSUSE has 10.3 been released. :-) Francis did an excellent coverage of everything new so let me just relist his Sneak Peeks: Greatly Improved Boot Time, with Stephan Kulow 1-Click Install, with Benjamin Weber New Package Management, with Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Compiz and Compiz Fusion, with Matthias Hopf and Jigish Gohil KDE 4, with Dirk Müller SUSE-Polished GNOME 2.20, with JP Rosevear 1-CD Installation & Multimedia support, with Michael Löffler Virtualisation, with Frank Kohler A Plethora of Improvements, with Andreas Jaeger More screenshots and more detailed version list are available in the wiki. Get it here. Read More

While the Plasma APIs have been in flux (and is beginning to settle down now). I went about implement displaying the wind speed in metres per second as requested by a KDE person. It converts mph to m/s or km/h to m/s. This will become a configuration option once the applet code is started. Read More

So, Akademy 2008 will be in Belgium! Yay \o/ ! Some of you might have known this already if you'd have read the planet closely (troy leaked it already...), but still I'm terribly excited to be able to say it officially :) After all, I've been asking about Akademy (the yearly KDE Developer's Conference+Hacking/BoF sessions+eV General Assembly) coming to Belgium for like 4 years already... The location will be the De Nayer Institute in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, and the pictures I saw of the building we'll be in look pretty awesome.

As you probably know, I work on KOffice. Have been doing that since before the first release and I did most of the (flake)libs and KWord work in the sprint to the upcoming Koffice2.0 release. Read More

Kubuntu Gutsy Beta is out. The upgrade from Feisty is under-tested so if you are running Feisty please follow the upgrade instructions and let me know how you get on. The other part which needs testing is Strigi, it has a nasty habit of using up lots of CPU and of course disk space, do try it out and let us know if it should be kept on by default. Read More

Howdy KStars fans, Just a quick note to let you know that we are now in BugKill mode: no more new features for 4.0, just polishing and bugfixes. Here's what KStars looks like these days: Read More