KStars has entered BugKill mode for 4.0
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Howdy KStars fans,
Just a quick note to let you know that we are now in BugKill mode: no more new features for 4.0, just polishing and bugfixes. Here's what KStars looks like these days:
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Man Pages for API Dox
Thursday, 27 September 2007
I like man pages.
So today I wrote a little script called kdedoxyman.sh that uses doxygen to generate API Dox in man page format from our KDE source code.
To use: % cd trunk/KDE/kdelibs % ../kdesdk/scripts/kdedoxyman.sh -d /path/to/kde/share [...Wait...]
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OpenPrinting summit in Montréal
Monday, 24 September 2007
The Linux Foundation organizes this year's OpenPrinting Summit in Montréal.
I will be there on Monday and Tuesday, trying to represent KDE.
When the traditional way of thinking gets into your way
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Sometimes, usually on weekends, I award myself the luxury of checking websites that might have interesting stuff to read.
Yesterday one of these sites has been Dell's IdeaStorm portal which probably all of you know because of the Ubuntu/Dell stories.
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free software in dutch government
Friday, 21 September 2007
2007 has seen huge events for Free Software. The java source code was (mostly) released by SUN, ATI/AMD opened up to the Free Software community, and the Dutch government has started using the term Free Software (vrije software) in its plans.
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Software Libre in La Laguna
Friday, 21 September 2007
This week I've been at the Jornadas de Software Libre conference in Tenerife. One thing that struck me was that the Spanish don't have a word for 'Open Source', which would be something like 'Codigo abierto'; they always use the term 'Software Libre'. The conference program even had the four freedoms of Free Software written on the back, along with an explanation.
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openSUSE 10.3 RC1
Thursday, 20 September 2007
After all the sweat just the important links: Announcement, Screenshots, KDE Live-CD (i386), KDE Install CD (i386), other ISOs/DVD/Torrents.
Epilogue: Trolltech is listening
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Not even 2 days after out meeting in Berlin, there is an epilogue of the story: Qt/Windows Open Source Edition will support VS Express.
Big thanks for considering this!
There are always many comments about boundary between free and non-free tools. I can give two notes here:
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More blogs from me
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
You can find more blogs from here at this space; labs.trolltech.com
Parley interview
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Now that was quick! I got interviewed about KVocTrain/Parley today. Read it on blue-gnu.biz.