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Sunday, December 25, 2005

From the bottom of my heart




...merry Christmas to:
  • the amaroK's
  • Linus 'father of Linux' Torvalds and family
  • the K-family
  • the GNOME-family
  • the OSDL
  • freedesktop.org
  • Google
  • Heineken
  • _all_ supporters of Linux and OSS
  • _all_ personal friends
  • _all_ developers out there
  • _all_ users
  • _all_ human beings - as in the (k)ubuntu slogan ;-)
  • _all_ penguins
  • some others
  • not Novell
  • but it's employes who aren't that much anymore :-(

What the heck!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE
who cares :-D

And now my xmas wish, as eternal do-gooder: Knock at your neighbor's door and say "Merry Christmas" to him/her, never mind if you like him/her or not.

-> Finally <-



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Sunday, December 11, 2005

live with an ubuntu




Space: 116.5 GB
Kernel: 2.6.12-9-686
KDE: 3.5
Qt: 3.3.4
GCC: 4.0.2 20050808
amaroK: 1.4-SVN
Media Player: amaroK + Codeine = World Domination :P
Status of config-merging: KDE -> 85% | system -> 30%

That's my kubuntu's current status, after approx 3 days of usage (well, I used a 5gig test installation for 2 weeks).

So what's the main difference to suse?
I really don't know, since I mostly only use(d) KDE apps I havn't used yast at lot and therefore I don't miss it a lot. Though there are times _any user_ would be happy about an YaST like application.
For example the X configuration: kubuntu doesn't yet have an application to easy configure the X server, so you have to hack xorg.conf yourself, which is compared to the 5-click-configuration of SaX2 a lack of usability IMO.
Another problem is home-server-configuration: SUSE = not starting http module in YaST ;-) | Kubuntu = bunch of serverside solutions
The easiest way to configure a apache (for example) is to install webmin and it's apache module, this wouldn't be bad if webmin wouldn't be a serverprocess which is 1st: a security risk 2nd: running always and therefore using memory.
So YaST/SUSE got an big advantage in home-server solution (however I have to note that webmin is designed for an even deeper configuration)
Another point of criticism is the security.
Kubuntu doesn't ship a firewall configuration tool or a virus scanner (default installation). Well, there aren't real 5-click-firewalls out there and klamav+clamav which would be a virus solution isn't installed (well klamav isn't in the repos at all, it's probably not compiling - like on very much other distros too).
So it's mostly not Kubuntu's fault, there are just no useable solutions out there.

BUT there's potential ;-D
Kubuntu's KDE is sometimes if more adapted than SUSE (which isn't always an adavantage -> example <- something is missing!). I really love it's concept of cleaning-up the interfaces, since I'm sometimes a real minimalist but removing menu entrys is a evil thing (at least for me) I now have to use shortcuts for things I've done for 3 years by using the menu :-/

Let me sum up before I start writing a novel:
Installation: Easy, but bad looking (thanks debian :P)
System's Configuration: can take some time because of manual editing
Usage: Well, KDE - light interface edition ;-)
Server Configuration: only non-kde/qt applications
Repos: w00t all the good software ;-) .. but the officials are missing codeine :|
And since kubuntu is a quite young distro we can expect great proceedings.

btw, I'm now also ircing in #kubuntu and #kubuntu-de



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Saturday, December 03, 2005

KDE Blogspot Design




Finally the KDE-Blogspot-Blog-Design is finished.

Version 1.0 is available at KDE-Look:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=32117
I also added it to THE Base:
http://www.google.com/base/a/sitter.harald/13504741019893100422

While my first version was a lot based on a default template from blogspot, the new one's style is based on kde.org and the code of version 0.5.

So what's the idea behind?
Having a default style for K's blogging on blogspot, based on the default kdeorg style which means that the corporate identity is enhancing ;-)

The style is (like kdeorg) using tables for content differentiation, this makes it really easy to introduce a left sidebar (if one needs to) or adding a new box to the existing one. The style is actually including most of kdeorg's css code plus the code for content as well as some classes/ids needed by blogspot (for the profile box).

I really hope that you apply it to your blog and maybe get some feedback for me :-)
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Thursday, December 01, 2005

State of miKration




Now that I've choosen Kubuntu to be my next life-base, I started to prepare my suse for removal.

Btw, that's even more work than you'd think.

So what does one have to do if he's leaving a 3 years used system? Well, a holy lot of crap,
  • like looking for important things such as amarok-db-backups ...
  • and you have to note your self-compiled software so that you can build it again on the new system ...
  • search for secure (or maybe easy) way to move the stuff from the one to the other system -> google:kamion+kde;google:konserve+kde ...
  • sort out the garbage so that you don't loose time when moving the home's 30 gigs + other important stuff's 20 gigs -> google:filelight ...
  • prepare the partitions -> google:qtparted ...
  • search for a external storage -> froogle:external+hdd+wd ...
  • take a backup of /etc &&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; /var && /root && /home to the free storage ...
  • shrink your less than 1 month old windows installation so that your new distro will have even more space than the last -> google:remove+partition+qtparted ...
  • study nasty things of the new system so that you can avoid them on your new installation -> google:kubuntu+bugs ...
  • post about the current state of migration (btw, vienna currently has 250 machines with winux) ...
  • try to keep things running while you do all this (probably the hardest part)

The really damn part about moving is that you have 2 not properly working systems:
box:/home/me # firefox
(firefox-bin:9275): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must have a colormap
(firefox-bin:9275): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory
(firefox-bin:9275): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must have a colormap
(firefox-bin:9275): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory
(Gecko:9275): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules
were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means
there was an error in the creation of:
'/etc/opt/gnome/pango/pango.modules'
You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.
/usr/bin/firefox: line 265: 9275 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG

... just when I wanted to blog this :|
btw, seamonkey works :-P

So what else have I done?
  • Set-up a draft of the kubuntu system - will be named "morpheus" and be part of the my new "matrix"-domain (which will also include the amaroK-nightly-build-server-for-suse-and-tarball)
  • Tested kat on kubuntu (selfbuild) - had problems archiving the stuff
  • Wrote a script to get kubuntu use kcontrol instead of systemsettings - link
  • Browsed kdenonbeta - awesome stuff there
  • Started work with dpkg - looks like debs are easier to build than rpm?!
  • Installed KDE 3.5 - first time I saw a lagging KDE.org O.o

hopefully great things will happen in feature although my todo is growing of time wasting but important stuff :|
like promoting #konqueror

so please do me a favor and add #konqueror to your freenode's auto-channel list in konvi and suggest it to others :-D