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I learnt a something new about XML today, a part of the specification that deals one of the many edge cases that exist in every file format. To illustate this, lets take a look at a few examples. Why is this XML document well-formed : Read More

Today when I entered the office I found a welcome present in my mail folder that made my day: David Roberts had sent me a patch to put our Marble Earth directly into the spotlight of our G2V Main-Sequence Star (also known as "sun" among non-astronomers). That's totally awesome because this feature will allow kde-edu users to visualize things like seasons. This feature always has been on my personal TODO but I haven't been brave enough yet to start work on it myself because it deals with the (non-trivial) texture mapping code. So I'm thrilled to see that someone else has started to work on this! Read More

The Lenovo Thinkpads with SLED 10 SP1 preloaded start to ship these days. Not yet available via web today you can already order the first 6 configurations (R61/T61 with 14.1" screens) via phone in the US. The availability in other countries can differ a bit, eg the R61 is said to start shipping in Germany on 22th January. More 14" T and R series models and selected T61 15" models with SLED offers will follow in February. :-)

Yesterday we had an IRC meeting to plan our activities on Strigi for the near future. It was good to have an IRC meeting again after having been practically offline for over two months. Read More

As one of the archive admins for Ubuntu I often get to see programmes which are in some way improperly licensed. Often the licence text itself is missing, and sometimes it doesn't match the header file. So I end up having to care about licensing. Read More

KDE 4.0 was released yesterday and of course openSUSE complimented with packages for openSUSE 10.2, 10.3 & Factory and the version 1.0 of KDE Four Live CD. For reactions see openSUSE News, Digg or look at screenshots - many readers seem to understand the nature of this "1.0.0 release of KDE4". :-) Read More

With the release of KDE 4.0, it's time to start maintaining both trunk and branch versions of the code, so that bugfixes can be backported to the branch. If you use the cs/cb/cmakekde scripts to manage your build environment, it's fairly easy to switch the context of these between branch and trunk. Read More

Busy day today, in a few hours something amazing starts..

The nice thing about a community event is the way it brings everyone together. I just gave a presentation to all my colleagues at the SUSE office here in Nuernberg on KDE 4.0, what it brings to the table and where it's going in the future. It was great to have our two largest meeting rooms joined together, with a capacity audience. For the last few weeks Dirk, Stephan, Lubos and I on the KDE Team have been working all the hours we can to add the final polish to 4.0 and to make sure the openSUSE packages of KDE 4.0 are the freshest and highest quality KDE binaries available. Read More

First of all, on behalf of all Mandriva KDE team ( me, Gustavo Boiko, Danilo César and our main contributor Nicolas Lecureuil ), we want to to say a big thanks for the enourmous efforts and the present result named KDE 4.0.0 ! Been for some time in the last years actively involved in KDE development in many ways considering distributions and even the amount of rants and talks on conferences, i'm proud to be the small part of this huge project that prove in many ways that we can deploy desktop on opensource with quality. If users are looking for Mandriva packages, we have it at http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.0.0/Mandriva/ Read More