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Farewell for now, again.

Posted on November 15, 2023 by sgmoore

I write this with a heavy heart. Exactly one year ago I lost my beloved job. That was all me, I had a terrible run of bad luck with COVID and I never caught up. In the last year, I have taken on several new projects to re-create a new image for myself and to make up for the previous year, and I believe I worked very hard in doing so. Unfortunately, my seemingly good interviews have not ended in a job. One potential job I did not put as much effort into as I should have because I put

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KDE: Krita 5.2.1 Snap! KDE Gear 23.08.3 Snaps and KDE neon release

Posted on November 10, 2023 by sgmoore

Krita 5.2.1
Today https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.3/ ! I have finished all the snaps and have released to stable channel, if the snap you are looking for hasn’t arrived yet, there is an MR open and it will be soon! I have finished all the applications in KDE neon and they are available in Unstable and I am snapshotting User edition and they will be available shortly. Krita 5.2.1 Snap is complete and released to stable channel! Enjoy! I fixed some issues with a few of our –classic snaps, namely in Wayland sessions by bundling some missing wayland Qt libs. They should no longer go

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KDE: Big fixes for Snaps! Debian and KDE neon updates.

Posted on November 3, 2023 by sgmoore

A big thank you goes to my parents this week for contributing to my survival fund. With that I was able to make a big push on fixing some outstanding issues on some of our snaps. KDE neon: No major blowups this week. Worked out issues with kmail-account-wizard thanks to David R! This is now in the hands of upstream ( porting not complete ) Worked on more orange -> green packaging fixes. Debian: Fixed bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054713 in squashfuse Thanks for stopping by. Please help fund my efforts! Donate https://gofund.me/b8b69e54

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KDE: KDEneon Plasma Release, Unstable BOOM, Snaps, and Debian

Posted on October 27, 2023 by sgmoore

KDE snap Kamoso
While Yang our cat tries to lure in unsuspecting birds on the bird feeder, I have been busy working on many things. First things first though, a big thank you to all that donated to my Internet bill. I was able to continue my work without interruption. KDE neon: A busy week in KDE neon as https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.9/ was released! We have it ready to update in User edition or if you would like to download the new ISO you can find it here: https://neon.kde.org/download I highly advise the User Edition as Unstable is volatile right now with Qt6 transition and

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KDE: Snap transition complete, 23.08.2 released!

Posted on October 18, 2023 by sgmoore

I have completed the the ‘Big move’! There are still a few lingering MR’s, but I am sure they will be approved so I can merge soon. With the move I was also able to release 23.08.2 for most release service applications. Enjoy! You can find them all here: https://snapcraft.io/search?q=KDE I still need to raise a bit more to pay the Internet bill. If you can spare some change please consider a donation. Thank you! <script src=”https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/widgets/button.js”></script> <noscript><a href=”https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/donate”><img alt=”Donate using Liberapay” src=”https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg”></a></noscript> Donate https://gofund.me/b8b69e54

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KDE: Debian: Hopefully a short goodbye for now.

Posted on October 16, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells Az
I have been working around the clock and over the weekend trying to get the transition for snapcraft files in their respective repos. What does this mean for users? Faster releases for Snaps and closer collaboration between snapcrafters and application developers so bugs get resolved much quicker. Unfortunately, I have 2 days to finish before my internet gets cut off. I did not make enough to pay the bill. Seeing as this is the first time in a year, I am absolutely, positively grateful for all of you and your support over the past year. I know my work is

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KDE: Snaps move, KDE neon unstable broken OMG! Fixed, and Debian updates

Posted on October 13, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells Az
It’s that time of year already! We have hit our first freeze of the year. While the kitties keep warm by the wood burning stove, I have been busy with many updates and fixes in a variety of projects. KDE neon: It’s true, Neon unstable has been very unstable. Due to a few factors including a builder being out of space, timed with a new Qt release. There is a cost with living in unstable land with bleeding edge releases. It takes time and finesse to get everything happy, especially with major transitions such as Qt. The drive issue was

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KDE: Why KDE snaps Love KDE neon and the Big Move.

Posted on October 5, 2023 by sgmoore

KDE neon: KDE neon is extremely important to the KDE snaps eco-system as I briefly mentioned in my last post. Why? KDE neon is based on Jammy LTS which is the same as Core 22 base for snaps. Neon has a very useful continuous integration system in place that tests all the things, including dependencies, qml, cmake errors, debian packaging lintian tool and the list go on. This is very important to get packages out that don’t break things on user desktops. Once the packages are a lovely shade of green on the neon CI ( or at least all

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KDE: Another Busy Week! KDE neon, Debian, Snaps Oh My!

Posted on September 29, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells Az
I would like to welcome you to my revamped site. It is still a work in progress, so please be patient while I work out the kinks! I have also explained a bit more about myself in my About Me page for those that may have questions about my homesteader lifestyle. Check it out when you have time. My site is mostly my adventures in packaging software in Linux in a variety of formats ( mostly Debian and Ubuntu Snaps containerized packages ). This keeps me very busy, as folks don’t realize the importance of packaging. Without it, applications remain

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KDE: KDE Neon updates! Qt6 transition moving along.

Posted on September 22, 2023 by sgmoore

With user edition out the door last week, this week was spent stabilizing unstable! Spent some time sorting out our Calamares installer being quite grumpy which is now fixed by reverting an upstream change. Unstable and developer ISO rebuilt and installable. Spent some time sorting out some issues with using an unreleased appstream ( thanks ximion for help with packagekit! ) KDE applications are starting to switch to Qt6 in master this week, the big one being KDE PIM! This entails an enormous amount of work re-packaging. I have made a dent, sorta. To be continued next week. I fixed

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