Ok, this blog is not really KDE related (well, it makes the network installation of a KDE developer more convenient, so...), but anyway here we go.
Main purpose is to get the compatibility information out there, so others can find it.

So, I recently purchased a QNAP TS 109 Pro.

I'm just trying to compile Battle of Wesnoth (yes, for me gaming means compiling games... ).
I just built it with CMake, which first complained that it didn't find Lua 5.1. I checked, it really wasn't there. So I downloaded the sources for lua, make, make install, and now lua is in /usr/local/.
Then I run cmake again on Wesnoth and it happily finds Lua, so CMake now succeeds and I can build Wesnoth.

To have more fun, I'm trying right now the autotools build for Wesnoth:

I thought I share a few interesting links:
Gnome switches to git: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-March/msg00086.html

But not everybody does so, e.g. Python is switching right now to Mercurial: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087931.html

Eric Sinc has an interesting blog about DVCSs: http://www.ericsink.com/

Hi,

today at work I noticed something strange. My box there has kUbuntu 7.10 (yes, I know, quite old, but does what it is supposed to do).
I have an awk script which I want to use to process a text file consisting of 4.2 million lines, something like 600 MB.

Now, 7 years ago, computer were smaller and slower, and I can remember that I was using awk back then for some heavy text processing. Now, the same should be possible today, just faster. Or so I thought.

Hi,

in the good old times(TM) using Linux was simple.

If you wanted to access some drive, e.g. CD-ROM, floppy disk (you know these 3.5" square plastic things which could hold a whopping 1.44 MB of data, if you formatted them with special tools you could push even a bit more on it), you just had to know the device file and the file system and if you knew that, it just worked (TM):

$ mount -tiso 9660 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom

Hi,

just out of interest, where is Gnome heading these days ?
I'm a bit confused.

Hi,

great events are coming closer: the release of KDE 4.2 is due in two weeks

To celebrate this, Claudia is organizing a (small) release party Friday, January 30th in Frankfurt/Main, details here:

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE%204.2%20Release%20Party#_Germany_Frankfurt

Hi,

in KDE 4.2 we have quite a few changes regarding the buildsystem compared to 4.0/4.1. Also we require at least CMake 2.6.2 now, which alone brings a lot of new features.

So, if you want to know what has changed, IOW, if you are a
KDE developer or a packager or somebody writing about it, you can find a (hopefully) full list on TechBase:
Changes in the buildsystem with KDE 4.2.

Alex

Since some August or so we are now requiring CMake 2.6 for KDE svn trunk.

One thing was has been added and which is very nice support for the new environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. It's purpose is to help with getting CMake to find what you want it to find.

Usually a software package is installed to some "prefix" directory, in the lib/ subdir of that prefix go the libraries, in the include/ subdir of that prefix go the headers, and in the bin/ subdir of that prefix go the programs.

I think we are getting one step closer to World Domination (TM) of Linux !

How come that I think that ?
Have a look at that page (it's german):
http://www.dm-digifoto.de/gratis-download.html