I have started working on a port of Rust to L4Re, Fiasco.OC or simply to the L4 variant of the TU Dresden. It's a third-generation microkernel with many nice features, most notably strong safety guarantees through complete isolation of components and virtualisation of processes, but it lacks Rust support …
When working with texts in different languages, the reliable identification of them is problematic, because of conflicting standards. For instance, Wikipedia uses ISO 639-1 codes (with two letters) and FreeDict uses three-letter codes from the ISO 639-3 standard. Converting between those can be tedious and retrieving an English name even …
Sometimes applications simply crash and then it's often hard to submit a useful bug report to get the issue resolved quickly. This article walks through the steps to get a meaningful backtrace, which can be submitted along with a bug report. It is meant as a gentle introduction to debugging …
GitHub is a very useful platform to host free and open source software. For Git users who use the command line for managing their repositories, it can be much quicker to use the command line to also manage their development issues. This article introduces git-hub, a really useful utility to …
As some might have noticed, I have rewritten my internal blog handling to make the appearance more uniform with the general web site design and to allow comments in the future. Since I now have switched „full-time” to Python 3.x, I had some real problems with encodings in Python3-CGI …
I wanted to experiment with more up-to-date software while preserving my stable working environment. Of course a frequent desire. Therefore I build a Debian unstable chroot and tried to get X running. But I didn't want to run chroot manually. In this article, I want to show you how I …
I keep translating the Debian wiki page about accessibility into German. This helps me following the latest accessibility developments within the project. This way, I recently learned about accessible virtualization, which I am going to introduce here.
I already knew about the -curses
option for QEMU/KVM to start a …