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klik User's FAQ work continued. Today "Scope" section. The IT and Linux press is slowly becoming aware of klik. They visit us in #klik, ask questions, write us e-mails, want interviews, request articles, publish articles themselves. Like the nice one that is currently on Linux.com (even picked up by OSnews). -- Today's local preview: Read More

James Ogley writes: "NLD is Novell's enterprise desktop product, I'm pretty sure it's always used GNOME". James, you obviously don't know Novell's products well. Neither is GNOME the only desktop on Novell Linux Desktop 9, nor is it the default. And judging from the bug reports and hearsay there are customers using KDE on NLD. It will be interesting what Novell will tell them. Read More

I found on Hans Nowak's "Effectos Speciales" a mention of the map of SoC mentors and students This is the first time I see it. OK, no deep philosophical reflections on this, but let me put out a few observations: Read More

Work on the klik User's FAQ continued. This morning I completed the "Installation" section. This evening followed the "File Format" one. The plan to add at least one new section each day during the next two weeks so far is met. It will be hard to stay on target, because lots of distractions are scheduled already, and multiple days where I'm not sure to be able to be online. -- Today's local preview: Read More

Bonus not-FAQ: Q: What is the cool klik-ification of the week?? A: Without even the slightest doubt, this would be klik://amarok-svn-nightly. There are input ingredients to the recipe: Eean provides these, Debian Sarge packages. He builds them every night from current amarok SVN. The resulting .cmg contains an embedded Xine engine. Dependencies are drawn into the .cmg from ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/ pool, via the magic of probono's server-side apt. For me this snapshot of amarok-1.4-SVN worked great even over an NX session (250 km distance). The amarok-svn-nightly.cmg file is about 9.1 MByte in size. The amarok playing NX server ran on SUSE-9.3, the local speakers were attached to a SUSE-8.2 box. Yes, the .debs build on Sarge resulted in a single .cmg file, working well on an alien distro. klik magic! However, the embedded Xine engine was not auto-discovered. I had to go through the settings to make it work. More testers still welcome. (Remember, you have to type "ian@monroe.nu" to start the download.) Read More

Is it just me or do the blog categories on kdedevelopers.org never match what I want to say? Well, nevermind. The latest performance tip brought to you by SUSE KDE developers (don't ask, I very likely don't know anyway) is here: Read More

I'm working on getting the klik User's FAQ complete. The plan is to add at least one new section each day during the next two weeks. Today, I completed "Basics" and put it up together with probono's "Which are the supported operating systems?" -- So here is the local preview: Read More

Guess what I regard as the most important story around The Internet today? Right. It is the one that raises crucial questions about the future of the Linux desktop platform in general. A platform, which will be used as personal computing systems by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, within a few years. Read More

OK, I guess I should go back from my area where I've recently worked on data/project migration improvements (more about this at bottom of this page) and spend some more hours on scripting stuff. Read More

This week Kubuntu is in Montereal for the Ubuntu Below Zero summit. This is not a conference with lots of people giving talks, although we do have talks each morning and lightning talks in the evening, I took some notes in my usual style and there are videos on that page too. This conference is about specs. Lots of specs. We sit in small groups for an hour at a time and discuss the specification then go and write it up. This is not the usual way to do free software development and may seem somewhat harsh to outsiders but it works really well at defining what we are going to do for the next 6 months. My specs page has most of the Kubuntu ones. Read More