Polis - a FLOSS Tool for Civic Participation -- Issues extending Polis and adjusting our Goals July 21 2024 12:58:50 by Mike Gabriel Here comes the 3rd article of the 5-episode blog post series on Polis, written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH. Enjoy also this read on Guido's work on Polis, Mike Table of Contents of the Blog Post Series…
Weather Experts with Translation Skills Needed! July 17 2024 10:05:04 by Mike Gabriel Lomiri Weather App goes Open Meteo In Ubuntu Touch / Lomiri, Maciej Sopyło has updated Lomiri's Weather App to operate against a different weather forecast provider (Open Meteo). Additionally, the new implementation is generic and pluggable, so other…
Polis - a FLOSS Tool for Civic Participation -- Initial Evaluation and Adaptation (episode 2/5) July 3 2024 19:56:24 by Mike Gabriel Here comes the 2nd article of the 5-episode blog post series written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH. Enjoy also this read on Guido's work on Polis, Mike Table of Contents of the Blog Post Series Introduction…
Polis - a FLOSS Tool for Civic Participation -- Introduction (episode 1/5) July 2 2024 14:14:46 by Mike Gabriel This is the first article of a 5-episode blog post series written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH. Thanks, Guido for being on the Polis project. Enjoy the read on the work Guido has been doing over the past…
Debian Edu 12 - Call for Testing February 16 2024 07:09:38 by Mike Gabriel This is a call for testing of Debian Edu based on Debian bookworm. With the Debian 12.5 point release all required packages have landed in the Debian Edu ISO images that allow you to install a Debian Edu system based on Debian 12. ISO Image Downloads…
UbuntuTouch Focal OTA-1 has been released March 28 2023 08:46:36 by Mike Gabriel Yesterday, the UBports core developer team released Ubuntu Touch Focal OTA-1 (In fact, Raoul, Marius and I were in a conference call when Marius froze and said: the PR team already posted the release blog post; the post is out, but we haven't…
Call for translations: Lomiri / Ubuntu Touch 20.04 February 5 2023 19:50:28 by Mike Gabriel Prologue For over a year now, Fre(i)e Software GmbH (my company) is involved in Ubuntu Touch development. The development effort currently is handled by a mix of paid and voluntary developers/contributors under the umbrella of the UBports Foundation.…
Ubuntu Touch development - Wanna sponsor ARM64 CPU power for CI build infrastructure? October 20 2022 19:59:40 by Mike Gabriel What is Ubuntu Touch? (And what does sunweaver have to do with it?) With Ubuntu Touch, the UBports Foundation offers a truly unique mobile experience - a viable alternative to Android and iOS. The UBports community provides a free and open-source…
MATE 1.26 has finally landed in Debian testing December 23 2021 14:54:19 by Mike Gabriel For those, who haven't realized, yet: MATE 1.26 has now been uploaded to Debian and should be available in Debian testing to all happy testers. During December, me and the whole family, we had been infected with Covid-19. All of us have recovered…
Touching Firefox on Linux November 25 2021 10:01:35 by Mike Gabriel More as a reminder to myself, but possibly also helpful to other people who want to use Firefox on a tablet running Debian... Without the below adjustment, finger gestures in Firefox running on a tablet result in image moving, text highlighting, etc.…
