Does /tmp have a split personality?
Today I had my first real encounter with the new Linux world, with namespaces, cgroups and systemd. As it turns out, old wisdoms like "an absolute file path ...
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On Reviewing Technology
Within the whole Debian init system debate, within all the heat and personal attacks, Russ Allbery managed to publish a couple calm and insightful posts very...
FOSDEM 2014
As for some years now I'll be at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend. But this time is special, I'll give a talk about the project I'm working on most of the tim...
Firefox OS (Boot2Gecko) for Raspberry Pi
Two weeks ago my Raspberry Pi finally arrived. Immediately I started looking around for a way to get Firefox OS (formerly Boot2Gecko, B2G) running on it and ...
Contribute to openSUSE: Update a package
I'm sure many openSUSE users have already heard about the goodness of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). But how many have already tried to use it as develope...
Using the the Sun/Oracle Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV)
I regularly work with more or less complex XML Schemas, and debugging those requires some tools with command lines I usually forget after a while. So I decid...
The Future of Mozilla XForms
I received a couple mails and comments lately about Mozilla XForms not being available for Firefox 5 (or on addons.mozilla.org for Firefox 4). I also have be...
Make VirtualBox USB Support Work in openSUSE 11.4
VirtualBox and its USB support always have caused some trouble. Since VirtualBox 4, the USB support is not part of a different binary any more (PUEL vs. OSE)...
Skype, KDE4, OpenSUSE 11.3 and PulseAudio
This combination seems to be a bit hard for openSUSE. While PulseAudio solves many problems Linux users have with audio (and creates others), openSUSE seems ...
Preview version of Mozilla XForms for Firefox 4 available
A lot of improvements went into Firefox 4 that also affected compatibility with the Mozilla XForms extension. We have been trying to keep up with the develop...
Mozilla XForms for Firefox 4 - we’re coming!
Firefox 4 will come with a lot of under-the-hood changes that affected XForms as well. Fixing those issues wasn't trivial and took quite some time (the first...