It's been a relatively productive year for the packaging of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, in Debian. My minimum expectations for the Buster release scheduled in mid-2019 are that all necessary C/C++ libraries to build the latest versions of Kiwix are in Debian. libzim is at v4.0.4, and basically ready…
git.legoktm.com is now open for hosting free software projects, providing git hosting, issue trackers, and basic wiki functionality. It runs the free software Gogs: "a painless self-hosted Git service". You're welcome to host any freely licensed projects on git.legoktm.com. I've been running git.legoktm.com for two years now, mainly using it…
The 2018 spring semester started last Wednesday. I think I've set up a pretty good free software toolkit for a successful year: Operating system: Fedora - latest software with stable releases Browser: Firefox - what else? :-) Note that our school and most California universities and colleges have adopted the…
Originally posted on Twitter. Saying that the install process is intentionally bad so you don't get poorly written bug reports from non-technical users is a terrible excuse. Free software needs to be accessible and usable by all.
Originally posted on Twitter. After nearly three years of adventures, my laptop is heading back to Lenovo for some repairs. Come back in one piece please!
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to…
