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It's been a long time since the last time I blogged around here, so this will be a bit long, but anyway, I'll try to be brief to not use too much time writing. I've been wanting to write for many days, but always had many other things to do with more priority. Today I've thought "now or never", so let's try to explain everything that happened in the last weeks. Read More

Lack of information about the user is one of the largest hurdles towards OSS usability. User research hasnt been a typical part of the KDE development process, software is available for download anonymously at no cost, and not many marketing or demographic studies are done. Read More

Cycling around Montreal on the back of a Brompton me and Sladen discovered you can get very very large pumpkins very cheaply after Halloween. Montreal is on an island and has long bridges that take a good while to cycle over. For that authentic North American experience we went to college (called a school) and hung out with the anime club who have nice sofas. We discovered the original buckyball and found that their artworks make for very challenging climbs. Read More

I will make a general presentation of KDE for the public that will attend the events of SQIL (Semaine Québécoise de l'informatique libre - Quebec's Week for a free computing). I was very kindly invited for this by LINUQ the LUG of Québec City. Read More

Sometimes I like such challenging questions (who cares? journalists are sometimes more extreme). Let's look a bit closer at "new" MS's Riboon GUI. If you just want to know who can be sued, and by who, simply jump to the last section of this entry and save some your time. Read More

To complete the KDE 3.5 RC 1 release efforts there is now also a Klax Live-CD with KDE 3.5 RC 1 available. Now let me see if someone left something from this weekend over for me.

Apparently there was a kangaroo in our back yard this morning. Given that just after that we saw a (probably domestic) rabbit, I wonder it it might have been a Were-Rabbit, rather than a 'roo. Read More

KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is finally released. Updating the Konstruct build script was easy, but creating the SUSE packages in time did cost me some hours of sleep which I in my current state should have better spent in bed.

Continuing with the klik User's FAQ today. This time: the sections dealing with "klik and the Base System", "klik and Package Management", "klik Application Wishlist" and "klik Recipe Maintainers". -- Today's local preview: Read More

Maybe you haven't heard this yet as international pr[ess] is slow: After last week's reports that Novell plans to not ship the KDE desktop anymore on Novell Linux Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server products, the company got lots of feedback from its customers. And as is reported in the press (German) Novell listens to them and reconsidered its desktop strategy: Novell will continue to ship KDE also in the enterprise products as supported option and it's said that it will be easy to choose KDE as your desktop. :-) Read More