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.…
Improbability of a million, lintian thinks... November 19 2021 07:08:51 by Mike Gabriel An interesting mindset overcome by reality... Also, lintian does not differentiate between between 100.000 and 1.000.000. W: ayatana-indicator-display: improbable-bug-number-in-closes 1000143 N: N: The most recent changelog closes a low-numbered bug…
Call for Translations: Ayatana Indicators 0.9.x Release Series November 4 2021 14:38:42 by Mike Gabriel We (Robert Tari, the UBports developers team, myself) are very close to releasing Ayatana Indicators 0.9.x. The work on Ayatana Indicators is currently nearly completed funded by the UBports Foundation and over the past half year, many many changes,…
X2Go, Remmina and X2GoKdrive September 18 2021 17:04:49 by Mike Gabriel In this blog post, I will cover a few related but also different topics around X2Go - the GNU/Linux based remote computing framework. Introduction and Catch Up For those, who haven't come across X2Go, so far... With X2Go [0] you can log into remote…
Chromium Policies Managed under Linux August 15 2021 10:09:25 by Mike Gabriel For a customer project, I recently needed to take a closer look at best strategies of deploying Chromium settings to thrillions of client machines in a corporate network. Unfortunately, the information on how to deploy site-wide Chromium browser…
BBB Packaging for Debian, a short Heads-Up June 20 2021 19:51:14 by Mike Gabriel Over the past days, I have received tons of positive feedback on my previous blog post about forming the Debian BBB Packaging Team [1]. Feedback arrived via mail, IRC, [matrix] and Mastodon. Awesome. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, folks...…
New: The Debian BBB Packaging Team (and: Kurento Media Server goes Debian) June 11 2021 21:35:35 by Mike Gabriel Today, Fre(i)e Software GmbH has been contracted for packaging Kurento Media Server for Debian. This packaging project will be funded by GUUG e.V. (the German Unix User Group e.V.). A big thanks to the people from GUUG e.V. for making this packaging…
Linux on Acer Spin 3 June 11 2021 06:31:39 by Mike Gabriel Recently, I bought an Acer Spin 3 Convertible Notebook for the company and provided it to Robert Tari for his daily work on Ayatana Indicators (which currently is funded by the UBports Foundation via my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH). Some days ago…
UBports: Packaging of Lomiri Operating Environment for Debian (part 05) June 7 2021 12:23:23 by Mike Gabriel Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian. Since 27th Feb 2020, Unity8 has now become Lomiri. Recent Uploads to Debian…
