It was the turn of the millenium when I got my first computer fresh at university. Windows seemed uninteresting, it was impossible to work out how it worked or write programs for it. SuSE Linux 6.2 was much more interesting to try and opened a world of understanding how computers worked and wanting to code on them. These were the days of the .com boom and I went to big expos in London where they showered you with freebies and IBM competed with SuSE and Red Hat for the biggest stall. IBM s...| jriddell.org
It was the turn of the millenium when I got my first computer fresh at university. Windows seemed uninteresting, it was impossible to work out how it worked or write programs for it. SuSE Linux 6.2 was much more interesting to try and opened a world of understanding how computers worked and wanting to code on them. These were the days of the .com boom and I went to big expos in London where they showered you with freebies and IBM competed with SuSE and Red Hat for the biggest stall. IBM s...| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
I did the Open Water Coach Training for Stand up Paddleboard. Here’s my notes for my own use and anyone else who wants them.| jriddell.org
I did the Open Water Coach Training for Stand up Paddleboard. Here’s my notes for my own use and anyone else who wants them.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
I reverted my name back to Jonathan Riddell and have now made a new uid for my PGP key, you can get the updated one on keyserver.ubuntu.com or my contact page or my Launchpad page. Here’s some pics from Akademy| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
https://openuk.uk/openuk-september-2024-newsletter-1/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7238138962253344769/ Our 5th annual Awards are open for nominations and our 2024 judges are waiting for your nominations! Hannah Foxwell, Jonathan Riddell, and Nicole Tandy will be selecting winners for 12 categories. ? The OpenUK Awards 2024 are open for nominations until Sunday, September 15.. Our 5th Awards again celebrate the UK’s leadership and … Continue reading "OpenUK Awards ...| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-pass/| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop. It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources. This 6.0.0 release requires to be built with extra-cmake-modules from KF 6 which is not yet released, distros may want to wait until next … Continue reading "Oxygen Icons 6 Released"| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
This project is creating a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoap library.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
Ruqola 2.1.0 is available for packaging.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
Ruqola 2.1 Beta (2.0.81) is available for packaging and testing. Ruqola is a chat app for Rocket.chat. This beta release will build with the current release candidate of KDE Frameworks 6 and KTextAddons allowing distros to start to move away from Qt 5. URL: https://download.kde.org/unstable/ruqola/SHA256: 2c4135c08acc31f846561b488aa24f1558d7533b502f9ba305be579d43f81b73 Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.orghttps://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
It’s a pleasure to be on the OpenUK New Year’s Honours list for 2024. There’s some impressive names on there such as Richard Hughes of Packagekit and other projects at Red Hat, Colin Watson who was at Ubuntu with me and I see is now freelance, Mike McQuaid was previously of KDE but is now trying a startup with Mac packager Workbrew for Homebrew.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
KTextAddons is a library with Various text handling addons used by Ruqola and Kontact apps. It can be compiles for both Qt 5 and 6 and distros are advised to compile two builds for each until Ruqola is ported to Qt 6.| Jonathan Riddell's Diary
KDiagram 3.0.1 is an update to our charting libraries which fixes a bug in the cmake path configuration. It also updates translations and removes some unused Qt 5 code.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
An updated stable release of XWayland Video Bridge is out now for packaging.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
I did my Surf Kayak Leader assessment with Paul Bramble in south west Wales and pleasingly I passed. I booked on not quite knowing what to expect, there wasn’t much pre course information and it was mostly because because the date was convenient. Turns out Wales is beautiful and has great surf beaches, the geography allows for some more access to the Atlantic waves and it feels like there’s more of a community down there than in Scotland where surf can be so sporadic.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
KDiagram is two powerful libraries (KChart, KGantt) for creating business diagrams.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
KWeatherCore is a library to facilitate retrieval of weather information including forecasts and alerts.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
qqc2-breeze5-style is a theme used by Plasma Mobile. This alpha release is a re-bundling of the Plasma/5.27 branch of qqc2-breeze-style. It is for use by distros shipping alpha releases of Plasma 6 so that Qt 5 apps continue to be themed appropriately.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop.| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary
This project is trying to create a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoap| Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary