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Planet Gnome is headed by a curious blog today, Miguel moving to Mac. "To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl." Read More

I get nice comments on IRC occationally, here's an especially nice one recently: Can I thank all the Kubuntu Ninjas for their superlative efforts with Raring (amazingly stable for Alpha 2), KDE SC 4.10 and KDE Telepathy.. it is amazingly smooth and stable, and uses a lot less memory than previous releases.. very impressed.. Read More

Sony, the company who created Audio CDs which installed a rootkit on Windows computer to try to stop people copying music has pirated KDE artwork. The preferences-system.png icon from Oxygen is on their Choose your Vaio webpages (next to configure) but impressively is also on the UEFI firmware should you boot up into Assist mode. Nowhere on their website terms of use does it list the LGPL 3 licence it may be copied under (It does say "Any unauthorised use or copying of site content, or use of site content which breaches these Terms (or their spirit) may violate trade mark, copyright and other proprietary rights, and have civil and criminal consequences" although it also says "You must seek and obtain the written consent the operator of this site before creating any link to this site" so I don't give that page any legal credit.) Should KDE e.V. and Nuno's Oxygen friends start a new business model by sueing them for everything they're worth? Read More

Microsoft have decreed that every new Windows 8 computer has to come with UEFI, a new firmware to replace the old 80s BIOS. They've also decreed that every new Windows 8 computer has to come with SecureBoot which means it'll only boot an operating system signed by MS. This is only for security of course, nothing to do with making it harder to make competing operating systems, oh no. So I had to hunt out a new laptop to test this on which means going to a real physical shop since no website will list which firmware a computer has it being a most uninteresting feature. My local Sony Centre found me the very last 13" cheapo Vaio laptop in the country to use as a test machine. Read More

Oriental and other input methods have long been fiddly in Kubuntu. I'm very pleased to see that ace Kubuntu ninja Michal Zajac has fixed the language packs to set up the input methods correctly when installing a language that needs it. Read More

Aaron's grumpy discussion of how Unity doesn't currently use Qt on the desktop made it to Slashdot got this nice comment in the /. discussion: 'I have been using Kubuntu -- the semi-official KDE Ubuntu -- for years. I like it, it's stable, and the interface with least surprise. It does what I want, when I want, and it doesn't try to "integrate" things that do not need to be, or should not be, integrated.' Read More

Just a quick update to tell you beta 2 of QtWebKit 2.3 has been tagged. I am planning to tag the release before the end of the month. I would like to already now thank for all the encouragement and backup I have received on the project, Qupzilla and rekonq developers have been very helpfully and are already recommending to use QtWebKit 2.3 beta together with their applications, and a handfull of linux distros have been packaging it. The only thing missing is more feedback from Mac or Windows developers. On Linux this beta could be considered release quality, but on Mac and Win, there are still some issues I hope can get ironed out soon. Read More

A nice e-mail I received about KDE SC 4.10... Hi there, Wasn't sure where to send this email but wanted to send a huge thank you to the Kubuntu team. I have no idea what happened in 4.10 but my God everything is fast!! Everything loads so quickly and so stable so far. This is by far the best release I have ever used for a linux distribution. I don't see windows 7 being used in the coming weeks. Please forward this to those who would really appreciate it!! Thank you again and please keep up the amazing work!! Cheers, Asa Read More

I've moved my blog to http://llunak.blogspot.com. As I no longer focus on KDE (and even previously my blogs were often more about openSUSE than KDE), I've moved to a more generic blog site. KDE-related posts will still be aggregated on Planet KDE.

Sorry, for posting this on blogs.kde.org, but I think it might help a few people out there having the same problem. So, if you want to get webex working on a 64bit Linux system, basically all you have to do is make sure that all necessary 32bit libraries are present. 64bit firefox with 64bit java are ok. When you join a webex session, a directory ~/.webex/ is created. On my system there is a subdir 1324/ in it, and in this directory there are a bunch of 32bit ELF plugins, named *.so. Run ldd on all of them, and check which shared libs are not found, and install them (the 32bit versions). Once I had done that, desktop and application sharing worked for me. It seems you can ignore the missing libjawt.so, everything seems to work fine without it. Read More