KDE: Season of KDE 2021, Craft, and KDE Itinerary

• SoK Final Update

  Hello again everyone, I wrote my last update related to Season of KDE in January, and now is the time for the final update. I am sorry I couldn’t write blogs in between. The 3 months passed by like at supersonic speed. So I was selected to work on Calamares project under Adriaan de Groot. Most of my work revolved around the functionality of sending the installation logs to paste server online. This feature would help distro maintainers, calamares developers as well as the end users to pin point the errors that possibly may have caused installation to stop (if that happens).

• Sok : The beginning after the end

  Season of KDE 2021 officially concluded on 9th of April 2021 but this is just the beginning of the long road that I have to go with kockatoo. In this post I will write a short summary and a description of what went down during the Sok time period

• Building Android release packages with KDE Craft

  One of the probably biggest gaps to make KDE Itinerary widely usable is the fact it is not available as a released package in any of the major APK stores such as F-Droid or Google Play. Unlike on Linux platforms there are no distributors handling this for us on Android-based platforms, we need to take care of that ourselves. Current Situation So far there’s only of a few KDE applications with release packages for Android, namely KDE Connect which is special in the technology and build system it uses compared to most other of out applications, and Krita, which uses a custom build script. On the other hand we do have the nightly debug builds, provided via a spearate F-Droid repository, which are build by a common infrastructure for more than 25 apps. Besides tracking the latest development branches of the apps and their dependencies, those are fairly heavy packages due to all being based on a common base build and thus including a number of unnecessary content. At the same time those are not complete either and for example miss translations.

Lightweight Desktop LXQt 0.17 Released. This is What's New.

LXQt 0.17 is released. The lightweight desktop environment brings its latest version LXQt 0.17 with moderate improvements across modules and their components. This is what's new.

today's howtos

• What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols

  While working on this, I had the pleasure of learning about this exciting world of hardware MFA devices, like U2F keys. OK, it’s not really that exciting, but I’d like to share some things I learned along the way. Hopefully, this will save some poor soul out there some time.

• Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments

  I like boot environments (BE) on FreeBSD. They were especially handy when building the AWS host for FreshPorts, since I had no serial console. I would create a BE saving the current status, then make some changes. I’d mark the current BE as boot once, so I could boot back in the known good BE. Worst case, I could mount the storage onto a rescue EC2 instance and adjust the bootfs value of the zpool.

• How to Remove Packages from Ubuntu & Debian – TecAdmin

  The APT (Advanced Package Tool) is a powerful package management tool for Debian based systems. It provides powerful command-line tool like “apt” or “apt-get”. Which is used to install, upgrade or remove a software package on your Debian system. In this tutorial, you will learn to how to uninstall or remove packages from a Ubuntu or Debian Linux system.

• How to Find UUID in Linux

  UUID (Universally Unique identifier) is a 128-bit unique number standardized by the Open Software Foundation. UUID helps to identify partitions in Linux systems. It is generated by using the libuuid library (used by e2fsprogs) which is part of util-linux available by default in Linux from kernel version 2.15.1. UUIDs are unique among all UUIDs created on the local system, and among UUIDs created on other systems. The benefit of UUID comes If your system uses many data storage such as SAN, ISCSI, etc. Each time you move storage you don't have to worry about updating /etc/fstab. In this tutorial, we will learn how to find UUIDs of storage drives in the Linux system.

• Fix LibreOffice Looks Ugly on Deepin 20

  Continuing similar issue fixing for KDE, it is now apparent that LibreOffice looks also "ugly" on Deepin 20 and later. This means its visual appears ancient unlike what users expect and look unmatched with the Deepin desktop themes. To solve this issue, follow these instructions.

• How To Install BlueMail on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install BlueMail on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, BlueMail is a free, secure, universal email app, capable of managing an unlimited number of mail accounts. You can integrate any number of e-mail accounts from any provider, for example from Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, etc. It comes with a simple and easy-to-operate interface but with many functionalities such as push notifications, unified Inbox, Dark theme, calendar, Group Mail, Encryption and Security, and plenty of options for sorting and managing mail. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of the BlueMail on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.