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I often get the question what Flake is. And as the answer is getting clearer in the heads of the people designing it, I thought I'd write down an introduction. Read More

Another great feature release of KOffice and this time it fits fine into the release schedule of next upcoming openSUSE release: You can find fully functional rpms of it in Factory and for SUSE Linux 10.1. The koffice-illustration package for older SUSE Linux versions in KDE:Backports (a build service project which has the goal to not force you to update your system libraries or KDE to get the newest application versions) are missing Krita though as its developers explicitely disable the build of Krita because they think the version of libcms on these distros is too old/too buggy. They rather prefer to have less users than getting reports about some maybe seldom occuring bug caused by that libcms you would never notice.

I spent many hours the past couple months bug fixing two of my favorite KDE PIM applications (KOrganizer and KMail). And I'm not even making a small dent in the bug pile. Read More

This weekend sees the anniversary of 10 years of the Free desktop. Well done to Tackat for organising what looks like a great stream of talks and party. We've come a long way from that first announcement in 1996, but interestingly the task of "...createing a GUI for an ENDUSER, somebody who wants to browse the web with Linux, write some letters and play some nice games" was achieved many years ago, it's all been polishing since then. Read More

I really had a good time reading A leap back from Rob Weir. Its about how Ms let an implementation bug live on for years in the application and now its proposing that that mistake be standardized in the new (as of yet unused) fileformat! Read More

After a long waiting, KDEBluetooth 1.0 beta2 got released! Release hilights include compilation fixes, and now works with lastest versions of bluez and openobex Including also some stability fixes, and header exporting to allow other application to use kdebluetooth libraries. KMobileTools 0.5 will use them. Release notes Download files

Ten years ago tomorrow, I was sitting in my office at the university, at 1AM, and, tired of many hours of difficult coding, I decided to take a break and read some of my building up mailing list subscriptions. Read More

Last weekend we had a nice celebration based on the date of the first post about KDE. When we think about birthdays of humans we don't take the first "lets create one" message, but the date its "released" into the world. Which is more practical for several reasons. Read More

Seems it's up to me as nobody else blogs about it: SUSE Linux 10.1 "Remastered" CD and DVD ISOs are now available (if you have still the original ISOs around, there exist delta ISOs against them). These have all the online patches which were released since the original 10.1 "goldmaster" release already integrated. This means no more three times restart of YOU during installation. :-) And also a more stable, slightly faster and delta-rpms for online updates supporting package mananagment. Of course all security and other released fixes are also integrated. And because first people already asked: this doesn't include newer application/desktop versions. You have to wait for openSUSE 10.2 (soon entering the Beta phase) for that or adventure the unsupported build service repositories for that.

It's been quite a while since I've blogged. You know, life gets in the way... But this is a good time as any to say it: Happy Birthday KDE. May the next 10 years be more groundbreaking and memorable than the last 10. Read More