linux


Jan. 30, 2023

How to be an awesome package maintainer

I wrote something for people who interested in becoming (Linux) package maintainers. It also collects nice tools, tricks and best practises. Read it over at GitHub awesome-package-maintainer.

Feb. 9, 2018

raymario

Last year I was in quite a Super Mario phase. Played the old games and finished them for the first time! Always wanted to write a similar game. My plan was to find an existing clone and play a bit with its code. After some googling I found a video on Youtube. raylib Raylib was the game library used by raymario. It didn’t have a package for openSUSE (or any other Linux distro for that matter) yet, I decided to start with creating one.

Jan. 30, 2018

newsbeuter

newsbeuter is my favourite RSS reader because I can save the config easily in a git repo and run the whole thing from a terminal, meaning I can access it from everywhere. The interface is quite clear and easy to use. All the info I need and want easily spottable. I stumbled upon it some years ago and use is almost daily since then. Without. Ever. Looking. At. The. Package! Last week, by coincidence, I came across a bug and then another one.

Dec. 12, 2017

Panini AppImage

Couple of weeks ago someone messaged me trying to compile an old Qt program called panini. He wanted to use to use it as an image viewer for 360 degree pictures, but couldn’t get it to built. The project was on Sourceforge, I looked at it and told him what to do. Later also messaged the author, who said he has no interest in developing panini any further. After asking him if I can create a new home for the project he agreed.

Aug. 6, 2015

The dotfiles

I store most of my configuration files publicly on GitHub. However there are some programs which contain passwords in their config files, among these are irssi, Pidgin and osc. It was very annoying to always configure those programs from the start on each computer. So today I took the time and created a small server out of an old netbook. I switch it on on days I know I need a service on it and leave it off if I don’t.

Jul. 21, 2015

Enable ssh on openSUSE

Okay, going to explain how to install and enable ssh on your openSUSE box here. Some people didn’t seem to get it to work altough there is an older article describing how to do it with SysVInit. My article will have the same format just with the new commands. On the openSUSE wiki they explain it via yast. Check if package is installed: zypper if openssh Install package if it isn’t installed:

Dec. 13, 2014

LXQt development on Funtoo

This post is about making Funtoo/Gentoo ready for developing on LXQt or just have the latest version installed for testing. Some people came with questions about this to the #lxde IRC channel, and since most of the LXQt developers run Arch Linux there is not always somebody online who can help with Gentoo questions. Note: I am doing this on Funtoo, but will use “Gentoo” from now on since it is the same procedure for both.

Sep. 4, 2014

Changing Flags

Since March 2014 I am running Funtoo Linux on one of my main machines. It’s a great distribution, I learn a lot while using it. Updating always went smoothly until yesterday, when I had troubles for the first time. I started my computer after the update and couldn’t connect through to my wifi anymore. I wondered what was the reason but didn’t find it fast enough, because I had to go to work.

Aug. 15, 2014

Participate in open source

On twitter and on some blogs there are quite some people describing themselves as open source evangelists and stuff like that. Some of whom I know personally. And all they do is running around and talking about how great open source is. Mostly because, they don’t have to pay money for using software. Which undoubtedly is a valid reason, but not the only one. Anyway I would appreciate if they would go deeper into the subject and inform themselves about the philosophy behind Free Software, participate in open source either by writing code, creating artwork, translating or creating documentation instead of only spreading the word.

Jul. 30, 2014

Canonical Launchpad

Through a tweet, I stumbled upon cool-old-term, a terminal emulator with the looks of an old cathode tube screen realized with QML. It was a funny idea and because I wrote a small QML Hello World example once, but didn’t dig deeper into QML,I decided to check out the sourcecode and give it a look. But again, I didnt’t spent much time reading the QML but rather looked at the C++ terminal plugin behind cool-old-term.