FreeDict is a project to provide truly free translation dictionaries for any use case scenario. I'm proud to announce that our dictionaries are now available for you as a "takeaway" using Aard2, a modern dictionary client for Android. In this article, I'm going to give an overview what has been …
Last weekend I attended a Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg, at which I applied as Debian Maintainer. In contrast to my usual blog articles, I want to comment this time on the social side of free software hacking and show that fixing bugs is actually a lot of fun …
I have started working on a port of Rust to L4Re, Fiasco.OC or simply to the L4 variant of the TU Dresden. It's a third-generation microkernel with many nice features, most notably strong safety guarantees through complete isolation of components and virtualisation of processes, but it lacks Rust support …
When working with texts in different languages, the reliable identification of them is problematic, because of conflicting standards. For instance, Wikipedia uses ISO 639-1 codes (with two letters) and FreeDict uses three-letter codes from the ISO 639-3 standard. Converting between those can be tedious and retrieving an English name even …
Sometimes applications simply crash and then it's often hard to submit a useful bug report to get the issue resolved quickly. This article walks through the steps to get a meaningful backtrace, which can be submitted along with a bug report. It is meant as a gentle introduction to debugging …
GitHub is a very useful platform to host free and open source software. For Git users who use the command line for managing their repositories, it can be much quicker to use the command line to also manage their development issues. This article introduces git-hub, a really useful utility to …
The Lenovo Yoga 700 is a laptop with a 360° rotatable touch display and comes with Windows 10 preinstalled. This article is split into two parts. The first part walks through the installation and set up of Debian Jessie GNU/Linux on this machine and what needs to be done …
i have just released GladTeX 0.6, a maths preprocessor for HTML documents. In this article, I will introduce the new features of GladTeX and will give practical examples on how to use GladTeX, i.e. to render MarkDown files with formulas.
GladTeX is a preprocessor for HTML files …
This article reviews the installation process of Debian 8.0 on a ThinkPad X250. It is not meant to be a step-by-step guide and is more a review of how the installation currently works and what to expect from it. It also details some fixes to issues encountered after installation …
I am generally no friend of continuing "dead" technology, as GNOME 2 was termed. I payed little attention to the rumors that Mate, a GNOME 2 fork, was under active development. Since in recent Debian Unstable, the GNOME Shell accessibility experience is very poor and GNOME-shell seems to have a …