KDE PIM changes in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Short version: the KDE PIM in openSUSE Tumbleweed is moving from 4.14.x to the KF5 based version. More details below. Some history As you may know, up to now the default PIM suite for Plasma 5 in openSUSE Tumbleweed was the KDE PIM 4.14, based on kdelibs 4.x. While upstream KDE has offered a KF5-based version since Applications 15.08, it has been originally marked as a technology preview, so we (the openSUSE community KDE team) thought it would be more prudent to stick with the 4.

January 2, 2015

Policy-based routing for single IPs using EdgeOS

I’ve found myself in a situation where my ISP, notorious for having problems with certain online services (not to mention putting everyone under a permanent NAT) started misbehaving with Sony’s Playstation Network: I was getting timeouts of all sorts with no reason (and reading online you see all sorts of attempts from people to work around the issue). When using my phone as hotspot, everything worked, as I went through my mobile operator’s network.

October 15, 2014

KDE Applications and Platform 4.14.2 available for openSUSE

Following up onKDE’s announcement of the latest stable release, we have now packages available for 12.3 and 13.1 (a 13.2 repository will be made available after it is out). You will find them in the KDE:Current repository. Current users of this repository will get the new release automatically once they update. Why you should upgrade? You can take a look at the list of changes to get an idea. These fixes touch many important KDE applications, including KMail, Okular and Dolphin.

July 16, 2014

Latest 4.13, newest 4.14 beta and Plasma 5 in openSUSE

Congratulations to KDE (of which I’m proud of being a part of) for the newest release of the Plasma workspace! At the same time, the 4.x series has seen a new beta release, and the stable branch got updated, too. I’m betting a few people will ask “Are these available for openSUSE?” and of course the answer is yes, thanks to the efforts of the openSUSE community KDE team and the Open Build Service.

June 28, 2014

Changes in KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 packaging in openSUSE

Since a couple of weeks the packages offered by openSUSE in the KDE:Unstable:Frameworks repository have undergone a series of changes. In particular, the packages now install to /usr. For the libraries (KDE Frameworks 5) this will mean a transparent change for the userbase as they are expected to be co-installable, but the workspace components (Plasma 5) will confict with the existing Plasma 4.11.x installation. What does this mean in practice? If you want to use Plasma 5 you will not be able to use a 4.

May 25, 2014

New acquisition: ThinkPad X220

Recently I was looking for a laptop: the previous one I had (an Asus EeePC 900) was almost dead (the fan broke, and the idea of dismantling everything to get to it wasn’t appealing). When looking around, I had the following requirements: It needed to run on Linux well. No exceptions. _Portable: _ at home and at my workplace I have rather powerful machines, so a desktop replacement was not needed.

April 26, 2014

Notes to self: nginx Piwigo rewrite rules

This was inspired by this forum thread on the Piwigo forums. Set up rewrite rules in nginx where “piwigo” is the path the gallery lies in: location @rewrite { rewrite ^/piwigo/picture((/|$).*)$ /piwigo/picture.php$1 last; rewrite ^/piwigo/index((/|$).*)$ /piwigo/index.php$1 last; # The following is needed for batch operations which use i.php rewrite ^/piwigo/i((/|$).*)$ /piwigo/i.php$1 last; } location /piwigo { index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite; } location ~ ^(?

April 25, 2014

Unlocking KWallet with PAM

Requests to unlock KWallet automatically on login (assuming the wallet password and user password are the same), like gnome-keyring can do, have been going on for years: in fact, bug reports requesting this feature are quite old. Recently, thanks to the efforts of Alex Fiestas, a PAM module, which interfaces KWallet to the system authentication methods, has been developed. In parallel, the necessary glue code has been also added to the various parts of the KDE workspace so that it could make use of it.

April 24, 2014

KDE:Current and 4.13 packages for openSUSE

This is a guest post by Raymond “tittiatcoke” Wooninck, with contributions from myself and Hrvoje “shumski” Senjan In the next hours the [KDE:Current]({{ site.url }}/2014/03/being-current/) repository will publish the latest release from KDE (4.13). As that this release comes with a big change (the new semantic search), we would like some simple steps in order to perform the right upgrade. Before the upgrade In order to migrate data automatically from the Nepomuk store to the new format, you will need Nepomuk up and running, and just for the time needed for the migration.

March 31, 2014

Being Current

It is not news that openSUSE, through to the effort of the openSUSE community KDE team, offers several third-party repositories for those who want the latest software from KDE. Since a while, stable releases were offered in the KDE:Release:4x repositories, created with every major release of KDE software. These were meant to offer the latest and greatest to the users without having them to track KDE:Distro:Factory, which is instead used to track packaging for the next openSUSE release and is more in a state of flux.