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Linux New Media to ship thousands of Fedora DVDs
F15 Multiboot DVD with GNOME and KDE As some of you might know I started writing for the German Linux Magazin in April. I am now in the lucky position to know quite a few people at Linux New Media and one of them asked me if I had an idea for the DVD they …
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New GNOME haz no friends
Me said it before and the internets have proved me right: New GNOME haz no friends, only old GNOME haz. P.S.: Bad troll post, I know but SCNR! 😉
Video thumbnails in Thunar
As you might know thumbnails in Thunar are generated with tumbler. For obvious reasons the tumbler package in Fedora cannot include the tumbler-ffmpeg plugin. By popular demand I now rolled an add-on package called tumbler-freeworld. When installed, this is what it looks like: If you are a packager at RPM Fusion, please review the package. …
GNOME developer quote of the day
I am no longer using GNOME but Xfce and this has nothing to do with GNOME Shell. I already switched a long time ago. But as the (co-)maintainer of several terminals in Fedora, I wondered how to enable users to easily switch their default terminal emulator in GNOME 3. In the past users could just …
Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.2
I’m sorry it took so long, but good things take a while. I am relieved the release is out because now that the problems with FreeBusy are solved, the 2.3 series offer the same functionality as 2.2.4 – plus much more of course. New features The update to postfix 2.8 brings a lot of new …
Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.1
Yesterday late at night I finished the the Kolab Server 2.3.1. Features There are not many new features because it is a bugfix release, but in the webadmin you new will find a new ActiveSync configuration. It will work for most users, however not completely for power-users with lots of nested and shared folders, so …
Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.0
For the plane in the fog, the mountain is unforeseeable, but then it is suddenly very real, and inevitable. Simon Forster, Minister for foreign relations [1] And so is the release of the Kolab Server 2.3.0. It was a bumpy ride and I’d apologize for the delays, but now we made it! Features The new …
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Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011 revisited
Last weekend I attended the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011, one of the biggest community events here in Germany. The reason I didn’t blog about it earlier is simple: I didn’t know what to write except: It was like every year. This doesn’t mean that the event was bad, by far not. It was just as …