Debian KDE/Plasma Status 2020-11-04
About a month worth of updates on KDE/Plasma in Debian has accumulated, so here we go. The highlights are: Plasma 5.19.5 based on Qt 5.15 is in Debian/experimental and hopefully soon in Debian/unstable, and...
Deleting many files from an S3 bucket
So we found ourselves in the need to delete a considerable amount of files (around 500000, amounting to 1.6T) from an S3 bucket. With the list of files in hand my first shot was...
KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-10-12
Update 2020-10-19: All packages are now available in Debian/experimental! More than a month has passed since my last KDE/Plasma for Debian update, but things are progressing nicely. OBS packages On the OBS side, I...
Plasma 5.20 coming to Debian
The KDE Plasma desktop is soon getting an update to 5.20, and beta versions are out for testing. Plasma 5.20 is going to be one absolutely massive release! More features, more fixes for longstanding...
Performance with Intel i218/i219 NIC
I always had the feeling that my server, hosted by Hetzner, somehow has a slow internet connection. Then, I did put it on the distance between Finland and Japan, and didn’t care too much....
Cinnamon for Debian – imminent possible removal from testing
Update 2020-09-30: The post has created considerable movement, and a PR request by Fedora developers to rebase cjs onto more current gjs and libmozjs78 is being tested. I have uploaded packages of cinnamon and...
GIMP washed out colors: Color to Alpha and layer recombination
Just to remind myself because I keep forgetting it again and again: If you get washed out colors when doing color to alpha and then recombine layers in GIMP, that is due to the...
Dealing with lost disks in a btrfs array
Last weekend I moved the intestines of my computer from one case to another bigger one, the reason being I needed to plug in my nvidia GPU card for deep learning. In the process,...
KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-09-03
Yesterday I have updated my builds of Plasma for Debian to Plasma 5.19.5, which are now available from the usual sources, nothing has changed. [Update 2020-09-03: KDE Apps 20.08.1 are also now available] On...
Multiple GPUs for graphics and deep learning
For long time I have been using a good old nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 for my display and deep learning needs. I reported a few times how to get Tensorflow running on Debian/Sid, see...
Social Equality and Free Software – BoF at DebConf20
Shortly after yesterday’s start of the Debian Conference 2020, I had the honor to participate in a BoF on social equality in free software, led by the OSI vice president and head of the...
Converting html to mp4
Such an obvious problem, convert a piece of html/js/css, often with animations, to a video (mp4 or similar). We were just put before this problem for the TUG 2020 online conference. Searching the internet...
TeX Live Debian update 20200804
The usual monthly drop of TeX Live packages. This time it took a few iterations to fix upgrade problems due to files being moved, but now we are there. All arch all packages have...
KDE Apps 20.08 now available for Debian
KDE Apps bundle 20.08 has been released recently, and some of the packages are already updated in Debian/unstable. I have updated also all my packages to 20.08 and they are now available for x86_64,...
Switching from KDE/Plasma to Gnome3 for one week
This guy is doing a great work, providing patches to improve kwin, and then tried Gnome3 for a week, 7 days. His verdict: overall, after one week of using this, I can say… it’s...
KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-08-13
Short status update on my KDE/Plasma packages for Debian sid and testing: Frameworks update to 5.73 Apps are now available from the main archive in the same upstream version and superseeding my packages New...
