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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarok, bugsquad, community, documentation, Free Software, KDE, translation
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Kubuntu 9.10 is out!
Long awaited, finally here: the brand new Kubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala is out and ready for download. It comes with KDE 4.3.2 and, of course, a brand new Amarok 2.2 🙂 Check out the release notes and download the … Continue reading
Travelling to Buğday?
The KDE bugsquad will organize a bugday for Phonon on November 8th. To make sure not to forget that day, I duly entered it into my Google calendar. But I must say that the mail I got today from Dopplr … Continue reading
Amarok,KDE and Kubuntu at OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland
Another edition of Openexpo in Winterthur is over and I owe you a (not so) short report: Eckhart, Andi and Adriaan held a booth for KDE, Mark and Sven were manning the Amarok one and I tried to be at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarok, booth, KDE, Kubuntu, Swiss Team, Switzerland
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Compiling Amarok from git locally – full summary updated
/* */ Last update: November 13, 2013 As we have more and more questions for support on how to install Amarok 2.x from GIT, I thought I might make another synopsis on how to install a local build. Apparently linking … Continue reading
Preparing for another conference: OpenExpo in Winterthur next week!
It’s this time of the year again where I prepare for attending OpenExpo in Winterthur. This important Free Software even is held on September 23 & 24 in Winterthur, Switzerland. This year I helped organizing more than one booth: Amarok, … Continue reading
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How to install 2.2-git in your home (an update)
Since Amarok switched to Gitorious, those of you running a local SVN build with markey’s instructions will have to do some changes to stay up-to-date:: First, you need to install git, which is in the package repositories of your distribution. … Continue reading
Free alternatives to proprietary PDF readers now easy to find
I suppose we all have come across that “red button” on websites asking you to download Acrobat Reader to read a PDF document. Even free for download, it still is a proprietary solution and in no way a Free Software … Continue reading
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Tagged FSFE, KDE
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Mom-compatible KDE 4
Since Mark of Amarok fame is living here, people in the house are in awe about the man sitting in front of his desk all day long, “programming computers”. Of course, we have been asked a few times to give … Continue reading
It has been a while..
since my last blog here. But sometimes life just prevents you from doing quite a few things. Anyway,update: The last year I was busy at work, health was almost good (besides a minor accident in December and a heavy cough … Continue reading