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....
Author: Norbert Preining
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...
KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-07-30
Only a short update on the current status of my KDE/Plasma package for Debian sid and testing: Frameworks 5.72 Plasma 5.19.4 Apps 20.04.3 Digikam 7.0.0 Ark CVE-2020-16116 fixed in version 20.04.3-1~np2 Hope that helps...
KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-07-04
Great timing for 4th of July, here is another status update of KDE/Plasma for Debian. Short summary: everything is now available for Debian sid and testing, for both i386 and am64 architectures! (Update 2020-07-07:...
TeX Live Debian update 20200629
More than a month has passed since the last update of TeX Live packages in Debian, so here is a new checkout! All arch all packages have been updated to the tlnet state as...
Cinnamon 4.6 for Debian
After a few rounds of testing in experimental, I have uploaded Cinnamon 4.6 packages to Debian/unstable. Nothing spectacular new besides the usual stream of fixes. Enjoy the new Cinnamon!
