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!
KDE/Plasma 5.19.2 for Debian
After the long wait (or should I say The Long Dark) finally Qt 5.14 has arrived in Debian/unstable, and thus the doors for KDE/Plasma 5.19 are finally open. I have been preparing this release...
KDE/Plasma Status Update
Some time has passed since the last updated of my KDE/Plasma packages. In the meantime KDE/frameworks 0.70 was uploaded to Debian/unstable, and everyone should have smoothly transitioned to the “official” packages by now. In...
Waste of resources – bye bye Debian KDE Team
Ok, I am giving up on the Debian KDE Team. After having updated about 200 packages and sent merge requests for all of them, most have been simply ignored, and the very same changes...
Multi-device and RAID1 with btrfs
I have been using btrfs, a modern modern copy on write filesystem for Linux, since many years now. But only recently I realized how amateurish my usage has been. Over the last day I...
Plasma 5.19 coming to Debian
The KDE Plasma desktop is soon getting an update to 5.19, and beta versions are out for testing. In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting and unifying designs of widgets...
Upgrading AMD Radeon 5700 to 5700 XT via BIOS
Having recently switched from NVIDIA to AMD graphic cards, in particular a RX 5700, I found out that I can get myself a free upgrade to the RX 5700 XT variant without paying one...
Switching from NVIDIA to AMD (including tensorflow)
I have been using my Geforce 1060 extensively for deep learning, both with Python and R. But the always painful play with the closed source drivers and kernel updates, paired with the collapse of...
Updating Dovecot for Debian
A tweet of a friend pointed me at the removal of dovecot from Debian/testing, which surprised me a bit. Investigating the situation it seems that Dovecot in Debian is lagging a bit behind in...
KDE/Plasma 5.18.5 for Debian
After the KDE Apps update 20.04, now the recently released Plasma 5.18.5 is ready for Debian. Furthermore, since the most recent version of the KDE frameworks have been uploaded to Debian/experimental, I have adapted...
