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Canonical Software is the name of a company making a new Debian based distribution. I suspect there isn't much knowledge of this among KDE developers so here is what is known. Mark Shuttleworth is the man who used to do the company that become Verisign (and was the first African in space) has hired the best Debian, Gnome and Python developers to make a freely downloadable distribution which I suspect is supposed to be Debian made good (shorter release cycles being one of the main features). Read More

Why is everyone so surprised when I tell them I walk to the youth hostel from aKademy rather than take the bus or shuttle car? Really it's not that amazing. Of course I'd rather cycle (or take a rickshaw) but I don't have one with me. It only takes 40 minutes and it might work off that pizza you had earlier today.

One thing that people constantly seem to carp on about in Open Source circles is the frequency with which there are several apps that do the same thing. They then generally go on to say that the developers should work on whatever their favourite application is. The implicit assumption here is that having multiple apps is wasteful, but I don't agree that this is the case. Read More

This week at aKademy I asked Reinhold if he would be willing to take over the maintainership of KOrganizer and he said yes. So now after five years of being the KOrganizer maintainer I pass the torch to Reinhold. Read More

It's taken me two days solid but I'm down to 1 unread e-mail. It feels so satisfying. Today I went to the impressive KOrganiser on Windows demonstration. KDE programs on Windows would be a great way of introducing more people to Free Software and KDE. Read More

Here at aKademy Icecream is an essential tool. Compiling is just so much more fun when it takes no time. Today I finally managed to find the time do to some coding and implemented the long-outstanding feature of properly colored job halos in the star view. Take a look, update to the latest version and enjoy the hypnotizing effect of watching colored bubbles.

Sunday started off early at 9:00 with Avi Alkaday's talk on the Linux Registry project - he had some very nicely done slides and graphics, and explained it all pretty clearly. IBM had paid for his travel expenses from Brazil, and also lent him a nice lap top so he could hack on it while waiting for airplanes. And thanks to Big Blue for picking up the tab on today's lunch too.. Read More

Since mpyne's blog on planetkde doesn't allow comments I'll post this here: You are incorrect that KDE requires glib thanks to arts - use the ARTS_1_1_BRANCH like most of the core team. That way you can avoid glib entirely. glib is a major barrier to acceptance of gstreamer (and to other technologies).

... and the nice thing about it is that the final touches of the work has been done during the "Knoppix Remastering" tutorial at aKademy, held by Klaus Knopper himself. I am really looking forward to see the FreeNX server written by Fabian Franz running from CD. I guess a lot of people will be vexed about their own ignorance having so long dismissed NX for reasons which will now appear just ridiculous to everybody who looks at the actual source code of FreeNX server.

It was great to have the DevConf being fed by IBM sponsoring a "Free Lunch for Free Software developers". Actually, what the food voucher said was "Big Blue and Blue Angel happily invite you for a free lunch". If you dont know what "Blue Angel" is -- it is the translation of the name of the Bistro associated to Filmakademie... Read More