Articles tagged with #debian




VFAT, UTF-8, KDE, HAL and the kernel/mount

(That title seems that I am shouting...) We (well, more precisely Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers' list) received a bug report about vfat devices with UTF-8 being mounted as case sensitive filesystems. I was trying to see what could be done, but as usual, Sune "pusling" Vuorela is much faster than …



On soft linking .kde to .kde4

As you might know, Debian's KDE 4 setup creates and uses \~/.kde4 instead of \~/.kde . After being using both of them for some time (I keep using twinkle, konversation and katapult, as krunner is too slow, and the great Amarok), I decided to move \~/.kde to \~/kde-old and softlinking \~/.kde …



Some thoughts about distro's releases and Debian

Today I was reading planet KDE and found a blog post from Jason 'vanRijn on how he went trough different distros, starting in OpenSuse and finishing in OpenSuse [0]. The difference: he started in 10.3 and finished in 11. At this point I asked myself since when I do …



Martin's names meme

I guess almost everyone said it, but in case you don't know the beginning of this meme, check here. The names of my machines are: dumbledore, hermione, luna. And pepesanchez, but that one isn't really mine, but an ISP's one in which I worked, and they had another scheme: pampero …