I had the awesome opportunity to attend Akademy in Vienna this year. First off, a big thank you to the organising team for pulling off this years Akademy without a hitch. This Akademy was a bit more special, since it was decided to switch up the format, which in my opinion worked quite well. There […]
Launching Netrunner 18.03 for the Pinebook
The team over at Netrunner have just announced the launch of Netrunner 18.03 Idolon for the Pinebook. This is the direct result of a year of collaboration between the Netrunner, Pine and KDE Communities in a effort to drive down memory consumption, fix glitches in the graphics stack and enabling accelerated video decode, all of […]
Plasma on ARM: State of the Union
For the past year at Blue Systems my colleagues and I have been working on getting Plasma 5 ready for ARMv8 systems such as the Pinebook. If you were at QtCon this year, you might have also seen our awesome team demo’ing these systems at the KDE booth along with Plasma on ARMv7 systems such […]
My filesystem has too many bits
I’ve been hacking away on a ODROID-C1 for the last few months and last week I ran into something quite interesting. My C1 refused to boot a new image and I simply couldn’t figure out what was going wrong. After acquiring a serial cable I started to debug what was going wrong. It seemed like the ODROID […]
A clockwork carrot
This weekend I had the opportunity to travel to the yearly LiMux sprint to spend some time with my fellow kubuntu devs and talk about the potential issues we’re facing with the CI system and improving the Debian CI system to be more robust. Some of the more important issues that were discussed included figuring out a […]
Legalese is vague: Always consult a lawyer
Jon recently published a blog post stating that you’re free to create Ubuntu derivatives as long as you remove trademarks. I do not necessarily agree with this statement, primarily because of this clause in the IP rights policy : Copyright The disk, CD, installer and system images, together with Ubuntu packages and binary files, are in […]
An alternative to Linaro’s HWPacks
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing with a variety of boards, and a single problem kept raising its head over and over again, I needed to build test images quickly in order to be able to checkout whether or not these boards had the features that I wanted. This lead me to investigating […]
On featuring and writing clickbaity articles
I recently came across a very click bait’y article on the front page of Hacker News which advocated why users should use RHEL or CentOS over Ubuntu. As a Ubuntu contributor I found this article offensive and quite outright absurd. I’m not going to link the article here since that would mean just driving more […]
Plasma5 : Now more awesome as a Kubuntu ISO
The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Plasma 5 flavor of the Kubuntu ISO which can be found here (here’s a mirror to the torrent file in case the server is slow). Unlike it’s Neon 5 counterpart , this ISO contains packages made from the stock Plasma 5.0 release . […]
The KDE Randa meetings need your help
The Randa meetings provide an excellent opportunity for KDE developers to come across for a week long hack session to fix bugs in various KDE components while collaborating on new features. This year we have some amazing things planned, with contributors working across the board on delivering an amazing KDE Frameworks 5 experience, a KDE […]
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