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I thought I share a few interesting links: Gnome switches to git: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-March/msg00086.html But not everybody does so, e.g. Python is switching right now to Mercurial: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087931.html Eric Sinc has an interesting blog about DVCSs: http://www.ericsink.com/ Read More

The beta for our forthcoming 9.04 is available for download and testing. It features improved graphics and more slick applications. To see what's new and how to download go to the beta information page. You can upgrade from 8.10 or from 8.04. Let us know what you think on the feedback page and report bugs to Launchpad.

Drkonqi is nice and friendly, but some apps (e.g. kded or krunner) have a crash handler so that they restart instead of annoying the user with crash dialogs. As developers, we want to see backtraces of crashes in all cases; and to be in gdb in order to be able to print variables etc. Solution: asking for core dumps. That part is easy: Read More

Want to see how to crash almost every KDE application? In your favorite KDE application, open any modal dialog, e.g. the configuration dialog. Quit the application using D-BUS, like this: qdbus org.kde.kontact /MainApplication quit Chances are high that your application just bit the dust and you're greeted by Dr. Konqui. Read More

Kubuntu Jaunty Beta is in two days time and we need as many people as possible to help test installs. You can get the candidate CD and DVD images from the cdimage server . We need tests of live and alternate installer and Wubi the Windows installer. Read More

I was happy to see both KDE and OpenChange (and some lesser projects :-)) were accepted for this year's Summer of Code project. OpenChange is progressing quite well - Julien now has a server running that supports Outlook logging in, and returning the folder list. If that is the sort of thing you'd like to be involved in, check out the list of ideas. Read More

We finished the conference with a final marathon Q & A session. The questions had changed from basic "Does Kubuntu run the same apps as Red Hat" to the sort of thing I can't reliably answer "Can you run a pre-installed OS on a virtual server" (probably). Read More

Nigeria! What a country, what a conference, what a great bunch of lovely people. We rocked the town. I've never had to have a bouncer keeping people from swamping me at a conference before, but then I've never been mobbed my so many people asking for photographs and autographs. Read More

Yes, sounds strange. Why should i did it ? Well, first is known among the distros that qt-creator in first release is not the most friendly to packaging. Not only beacuse qmake, but because some distros rely on things like splitted packages or 32/64 bits coexistent libs and plugins. Second, was quite a challenge for me do this, because i need to learn some new tricks ( thanks dfaure for automoc4 help ). Third, dressing my packager hat, i would love to see qt-creator been in the main Mandriva distro, compliant with our policies, and been adopted as well i expect for kdevelop4 when be released. Qt Creator is one of the amazing IDE's around and i thought that worth the effort to give some love in buildsystem to have it in a full Mandriva way, including our flags and standard cmake build. During the process, i could manage to fix all bugs open in our bugzilla about packaging, and at same time enable the "most wanted" feature here, the designer plugin, which for some reason was not enabled in our qmake previous compilation. Read More

New KDE Four Live CDs with KDE 4.2.1, KOffice 2.0 Beta 7 and much more are up. They were built within openSUSE Build Service's KDE:Medias project in which also automatically Live-CDs with KDE trunk snapshot packages (currently 4.2.65) from KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE repositories are built. The ISOs appear (without prior testing by anyone) here.