Debian KDE/Plasma and Digikam Status 2021-04-07
Two months have passed since the last status update, but not much has changed since Debian is more or less frozen for the release of Bullseye, and only critical bugfixes are allowed. As reported...
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Debian KDE/Plasma Status 2021-02-18
Lots of time has passed since the last status update, and Debian is going into pre-release freeze, so let us report a bit about the most recent changes: Debian/bullseye will have Plasma 5.20.5, Frameworks...
Debian KDE Status for Bullseye
A long journey has come to nice finish. 9 month ago I switched to KDE/Plasma, and started to package newer versions of it than available in Debian. Since then I have packaged every single...
KDE/Plasma and Cinnamon updates in Debian
It is the time of the year when we all are searching for some peaceful time, but the pre-release freeze of Bullseye is putting a higher burden than usual on us 😉 So here...
Debian KDE/Plasma Status 2020-12-02
Another 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/unstable and testing, Plasma 5.20.4 is waiting to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
