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I did some performace tuning today on my laptop, so i can make Kubuntu start up faster. It was mostly about disabling startup services I don't need and optimizing KDE startup performace according to the performace tips from wiki.kde.org. I did not tried to use the patched fontconfig or do something like that. I just have the standard kubuntu debs installed. The system was prelinked, but it was before I even started to optimize it, so it is not really relevant. I will not go into the details, but here are some figures. The laptop is a PIII-500Mhz (actually this is written on the box, but every application, including the POST screen says it's a 550Mhz one), 192MB SDRAM 100Mhz (261MB/s), 6GB disk, Trident video adapter, 15" monitor, working in 16bit colors. hdparm -t /dev/hda shows 13.22 MB/s. Not too much... Read More

Coming soon to a Kubuntu near you, zeroconf support! Thanks to Jakub for making KDE zeroconf support, now with all Free Avahi. For those who left comments on my last blog asking for Kubuntu CDs, I can't do much without a postal address (and remember you need a good excuse like doing a talk or a KDE stand at an exhibition, this isn't shipit). Read More

Lets talk SWF. A lot of people seem to be mentioning Gnash today. Some seem to think it's a giant step for FSF. I think it's really funny. It's really funny (or sad - it depends how you look at it) how a giant win for FSF is taking a wonderful Public Domain project and basically just releasing it under GNU GPL. Read More

My, what a lot of Kubuntu CDs. Let me know if you're doing a KDE talk at a LUG, having an install day, running a KDE stall at an expo or otherwise have a good excuse and I'll send you a box. Read More

Last day of the Osnabrück meeting. Some people already have left and I'm also about to catch my train back to home. The meeting once again was great, fun and productive. We came up with an architecture for Akonadi, the PIM Storage Service for KDE 4 and also discussed a lot of API issues today. We all have the feeling that we really made the step which makes it possible for us to create a backend for the PIM apps which allows us to solve many of the problems we couldn't solve with the old one and to implement some new cool features. Without this meeting I'm not sure we would have achieved that. It's amazing how satisfying and successful teamwork can be. I love this community.

To get my Python skills up to scratch I ported hal-device-manager to KDE making KDE HAL Device Manager. Python is so much nicer to code in than C++ in almost all respects. The only part I'm not convinced about is variables that aren't static typed, static typing adds a lot to the readability of the code. Unfortunately the pyuic compiler for Qt Designer doesn't like working with KDE widgets so no KListView stripes or searchbar for now. Read More

Oh hell.. why not. Maybe if I say I'm going to do something on public forum, I'll actually get it done :) Of course, I shouldn't give myself the entire year to do some of these things, so maybe I should set an expiration on each item. Read More

We are making progress here in Osnabrück at the KDE PIM meeting. We had lots of interesting discussions yesterday, throwing around crazy ideas and collecting all kind of requirements for the new PIM Storage Service. During this process we also came up with a mission statement and a name for the project: Read More

In a follow-up to clee's recent blog, I'd like to add I'm in a similar, but not exactly equal situation. I've quit my current job this Monday and I'll be moving to Norway in a couple of weeks to work for Trolltech. And I'm also waiting for the second half of Battlestar Galactica's season. :-) Read More

I have to admit that I'm a big SuSE fun and used SuSE exclusively for the last 6 years or so. For me SuSE had and has several advantages over the other distributions and these are: Read More