kde · linux – 

Sometimes they come back: Danbooru Client ported to KF5 and C++

Some of you may remember a semi-complex application I wrote back in the days, namely Danbooru Client. Written in PyKDE4, it provided a semi-decent interface to Danbooru-style boards. It mostly worked and received little maintenance (also because I didn’t have that much time for maintenance).
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kde · linux · opensuse – 

Plasma 5.2 for openSUSE? You bet!

dennogumi.orgThe ever-amazing Plasma team from KDEjust put out a new release of Plasma. I won’t spend much describing how big of an improvement it is - the release announcement at KDE has all the details needed to whet your appetite.
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linux – 

Policy-based routing for single IPs using EdgeOS

I’ve found myself in a situation where my ISP, notorious for having problems with certain online services (not to mention putting everyone under a permanent NAT) started misbehaving with Sony’s Playstation Network: I was getting timeouts of all sorts with no reason (and reading online you see all sorts of attempts from people to work around the issue). When using my phone as hotspot, everything worked, as I went through my mobile operator’s network.
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kde · linux · opensuse – 

KDE Applications and Platform 4.14.2 available for openSUSE

Following up on KDE’s announcement of the latest stable release, we have now packages available for 12.3 and 13.1 (a 13.2 repository will be made available after it is out). You will find them in the KDE:Current repository. Current users of this repository will get the new release automatically once they update.
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general · kde · linux · opensuse – 

Latest 4.13, newest 4.14 beta and Plasma 5 in openSUSE

Congratulations to KDE (of which I’m proud of being a part of) for the newest release of the Plasma workspace! At the same time, the 4.x series has seen a new beta release, and the stable branch got updated, too.
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kde · linux · opensuse – 

Changes in KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 packaging in openSUSE

Since a couple of weeks the packages offered by openSUSE in the  KDE:Unstable:Frameworks repository have undergone a series of changes. In particular, the packages now install to /usr. For the libraries (KDE Frameworks 5) this will mean a transparent change for the userbase as they are expected to be co-installable, but the workspace components (Plasma 5) will confict with the existing Plasma 4.11.x installation.
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linux – 

New acquisition: ThinkPad X220

Recently I was looking for a laptop: the previous one I had (an Asus EeePC 900) was almost dead (the fan broke, and the idea of dismantling everything to get to it wasn’t appealing).
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