Last weekend I attended a Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg, at which I applied as Debian Maintainer. In contrast to my usual blog articles, I want to comment this time on the social side of free software hacking and show that fixing bugs is actually a lot of fun …
The Lenovo Yoga 700 is a laptop with a 360° rotatable touch display and comes with Windows 10 preinstalled. This article is split into two parts. The first part walks through the installation and set up of Debian Jessie GNU/Linux on this machine and what needs to be done …
This article reviews the installation process of Debian 8.0 on a ThinkPad X250. It is not meant to be a step-by-step guide and is more a review of how the installation currently works and what to expect from it. It also details some fixes to issues encountered after installation …
In the last months, quite a few changes went into Debian, especially because Wheezy will be released soon. At this point a short overview about activities from me or about things which I've translated in the Wiki and are noteworthy to mention.
In this article, I will summarize here what is needed to build Bitlbee 3.0 for 64 bit and how to rebuild a package in general.
For proper building of a package, you should have "dpkg-buildpackage" installed, which you can get using
aptitude install dpkg-dev
Then you should install all …
I now have packaged another program for Debian (and for Ubuntu), which will eventually tripple down into the next release: AccessODF. The web site describes it as follows:
AccessODF is an extension that can be used in OpenOffice.org Writer and in LibreOffice Writer. It enables authors to find and …