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Last week in Amarok
The last days working towards a release
We plan to release Amarok 2.4 at the end of this week and our developers have concentrated their efforts on fixing release blockers and eventual regressions. A lot of users helped us with …
Posted in Amarok, Bugs, Free Software, KDE
Tagged Amarok, Bugs, community, documentation, Free Software, KDE
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Podcast: Ian Monroe on KDE Masters of the Universe
Gamaral at Work. Image by Martin Cathrae
KDE developer and master conspiracy theorist Gamaral has recorded a new Podcast episode of KDE and the Masters of the Universe. This time, the main guest is Amarok developer Ian “THE BEARD” …
Want to test the phonon-vlc backend? Here you go :)
As some of you might have read in Mark Kretschmann’s blog, we now have a fairly good phonon-vlc backend that already works better in many ways than other available backends. It is still in alpha stage, but we would …
Posted in Amarok, Free Software, FSFE, Git, KDE, Kubuntu, Ubuntu
Tagged Amarok, Free Software, HowTo, KDE, Kubuntu, Phonon, VLC
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In an ideal world…
… every Free Software project should not only have developers, but also
graphical artists
usability experts
user support specialists
documentation writers/translators
software translators
bug triagers
marketing ninjas
community managers
release managers
website and wiki maintainers
unlimited funds…
Amarok is very lucky to have most of those. No, not the unlimited funds, …
Posted in Amarok, Free Software, KDE
Tagged Amarok, bugsquad, community, documentation, Free Software, KDE, translation
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User behaviour in the open and closed source world, and why I use Free Software
Funny how people behave sometimes:
I remember from the times I was still in the Closed Source user fraction, I sometimes send bug reports and/or wishes which were simply ignored, as I was a insignificant small user, not investing much …