In our last Core-Meeting on Sunday night we tried to win first perspectives for our 2nd release, siduction 2012.1 ‘Desperado’. Up to now it is just vague ideas, but as feature freeze is on April 1, we have to substantiate these ideas soon. We are testing Network-Manager at the moment …
Due to totaly unexpected, but nonetheless positive things popping into my private life, I have not been posting for some days now. On the other hand, there was no immediate need to do so. So today lets see what is new. Our donation-sprint was an overwhelming success, thank you all …
Last week i stumbled upon a interesting project: The liberation of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook. The goal of the project is described best with their own words: Liberate the Debian Administrator’s Handbook The Debian Administrator’s Handbook has been written by two Debian developers who are keen to share their knowledge. …
Since KDE SC 4.7 transition ist still blocked in Debian, preventing 4.7.4 moving from experimental to unstable, this leaves unstable users with an unsatisfying KDE SC 4.6.5. For our first release, we had used the debian-qt-kde repository, which at the time had KDE SC 4.7.2. Soon after, KDE SC 4.7.4 …
We have upgraded our installation to Chiliproject 3.0.0. Our congratulations go to the people behind ChiliProject. What’s new? new design, better look-and-feel a flexible templating system called Liquid a huge stack of smaller improvements making it more flexible, easy and fun to use What’s included 3.0.0 includes 24 new features and …
I had myself a jolly good time yesterday, when writing an essay named ” Parting of the Ways – The Birth of a Distribution”, which of course tells the story of how we set up siduction from point zero. It will be printed, together with an introductory article to siduction, …
We had some time after the initial release to think about where we want to go from here. This is whats on the agenda so far: KDE SC will for sure see 4.8.x in the next release, that much is clear. Unclear is still, if the kdepim-suite will be updated …
A little over 2 weeks have passed since our first final release, and things are moving along rather smoothly. We shipped no grave bugs, we did forget a few packages though. A lot of work went into the manual in the past weeks and i am proud to say, the …
In April 2011 i had written an article in German on how to set up and drive SSD under Linux and never found the time to translate it. As there is still quite a few pitfalls to this endevour, Don Boyd, that is known as <dibl> on our forums, has …
We need translators and language-maintainers for the bluewater manual. Languages in need of help are Dansk, Dutch, Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Ukranian, These translations of the manual are mostly done 99%, but need to be reviewed and adopted for siduction and maintained from there on. We …
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