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.…
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…
