In order not to miss the 10th anniversary of such a long-lived octopus, new versions of the 3 Octo projects were launched: Octopi 0.15.0, OctoPkg 0.3.3 and OctoXBPS 0.3.2. On February 21, 2013 I was on vacation when I started a new QT project to better understand the Manjaro distro, my gateway to the Arch Linux world. Octopi was born,…
Today we are going to interview a busy member of an important BSD community, known for the amazing dragonflydigest project. Who is Justin Sherrill? I’m a middle-aged white guy in the tech field in the northeast US. I’m already a certain level of average just from that description. Tell us about your involvement with open source software. How did…
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the pervasive desktop paradigm. It seems it’s encrusted on every operating system UI these days. I believe that a menu, an icon area and a bunch of windows, one on top of the other, reached the end of their functionality / practicality. The alternative? Well, it has been around for a long time…
I remember it was the year 2000. I just can’t recall the month. I used the Windows 2000 operating system, so it should probably be March or later. My internet was accessed through a 33.6k US Robotics modem adapter, dialing a regular phone line. It was slow, but patience seemed to be a virtue most cultivated at that time. And…
For those of you who have always yearned for an easy to use file transfer tool for your home network, the search may be over. Enter GorgZorg, a client/server CLI tool written in C++, with the help of QtCore and QtNetwork libs, which enables file transfer between two computers on a local network without using shares. GorgZorg runs on Windows,…
Today I’m happy to interview Vermaden, a nice polish IT guy who is known for his passion for the FreeBSD operating system. He is the author of beadm and automount, two projects that speak for themselves. Can you introduce yourself to us? Hi, my name is Slawek Wojtczak but you probably know me better by my login name –…
For those using pacman based Linux distros and Qt >= 5.15, version 0.10.0 of the Octopi project was released with its own tool for obtaining sudo privileges (based on lxqt-sudo), support for checkupdates (which means Octopi is immune to partial updates), GNOME, Lumina, yay, pikaur, AUR package voting, new icons and many bug fixes. For those using FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD,…
Today I’m very happy to interview Tsu Jan, a LXQt developer – a lightweight desktop environment derived from LXDE and written in Qt. Read on and you’ll find out how active a developer could become. What is your name and where are you from? My name is Pedram Pourang (the first “a” is as in fAther, the second as…
Today I’m glad to interview Anke Boersma, a friend I got to know in 2013 thanks to my forays into the OSS world. Her contributions to the cause led to nothing less than the creation of a Linux distribution from scratch. Let’s find out a little about the history of KaOS creation. Who are the creator(s) of KaOS or…
