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Another two section for the klik User's FAQ done today. This time "Troubleshooting" and "Tipps + Tricks". Enjoy. Troubleshooting Q: I got a dialog saying "Error while trying to run xmule". What does this mean? A: This could mean there was a network outage and the server providing the input files to the klik recipe could not be reached to download the ingredient packages. Read More

Well, SQIL came, has been, and passed. As I was saying, I presented KDE yesterday afternoon at the Laval University chapter of this pan-provincial manifestation. I dare say all went well. The assistance was not numerous, but despite my inept management of presentation time (which made me do the planned 1h presentation take in fact 85 minutes), nobody left (on the contrary) and, above all, I've got 40 minutes of questions afterwards. Read More

People who know me understand that I'm a big fan of LLVM. Well, big news... Apple has hired the main developer and is now urging LLVM to be integrated as an alternative backend of the GCC compiler suite. Read More

Due to obligations at Uni, I was unable to attend all days of Linux World Expo and Conference in Frankfurt this year. However I spent most parts of Tuesday and all of Thursday at the the KDE booth. Read More

In case you have upgraded your fontconfig packages to those I provided in my blog entry about new fontconfig version, you may have run into KDE bug #116176 with the KDE3.5rc1 packages. Well, I warned you. That sometimes happens with unstable versions. I suggest you downgrade again or do your own build of newer fontconfig version or do whatever you want to do, but I'm not going to provide newer packages. It's still an unstable version after all. Read More

The development snapshot SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 has been released yesterday and of course it contains the latest release candidates of KDE 3.5, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and X.org 6.9. If you are a developer you may be interested to learn that SUSE is the first distribution which has switched its development to and is based on the upcoming gcc 4.1 compiler and this Alpha offers nice ways (upgrade, http/ftp installation, ISOs) to play with it.

It's been a long time since the last time I blogged around here, so this will be a bit long, but anyway, I'll try to be brief to not use too much time writing. I've been wanting to write for many days, but always had many other things to do with more priority. Today I've thought "now or never", so let's try to explain everything that happened in the last weeks. Read More

Lack of information about the user is one of the largest hurdles towards OSS usability. User research hasnt been a typical part of the KDE development process, software is available for download anonymously at no cost, and not many marketing or demographic studies are done. Read More

Cycling around Montreal on the back of a Brompton me and Sladen discovered you can get very very large pumpkins very cheaply after Halloween. Montreal is on an island and has long bridges that take a good while to cycle over. For that authentic North American experience we went to college (called a school) and hung out with the anime club who have nice sofas. We discovered the original buckyball and found that their artworks make for very challenging climbs. Read More

I will make a general presentation of KDE for the public that will attend the events of SQIL (Semaine Québécoise de l'informatique libre - Quebec's Week for a free computing). I was very kindly invited for this by LINUQ the LUG of Québec City. Read More