Oh Look ... SCO Where Wrong ... Now There Is A Surprise!

This is a link to the news that Novell have, once again, been confirmed as owners of the Unix copyrights. Therefore, the cheap and plain wrong accusations made by SCO regarding Linux and code contained within the kernel have been proved to be as valid as a glass hammer.

So anyone want to buy SCO for $1??

KDE SC 4.4.2, "Colibri", Released.

Today the KDE community released the second maintenance release of the 4.4 series.



The full release note can be read here and the change log can be read here.

New IDE UI

This is a link to a project that has been looking at designing a better IDE. The video is well worth a look.

Almost makes me want to work in Java!

KDE 4.4.1 Released

Doesn't time fly when your having fun ...

The KDE project has now released the first in the monthly updates to the 4.4 release.



Codenamed "Clara", the 4.4.1 release notes can be found here.

pacman -Syu to happiness.

Vi Bindings For Chrome!

These are Vi bindings for Chrome.

Arch KDE SC 4.4 Upgrade For KDevelop Users

Further to other fun and games with the Arch KDE SC 4.4 upgrade I hit upon a problem tonight with a virtual box I use that has the following repository in the /etc/pacman.conf file :

[dstr-repo]
Server = http://dimon.homeftp.org/repo/i686

This is the repository that I use at present for KDevelop4. It seems there was a clash with certain files.

In order to get KDE SC 4.4 to upgrade I found I had to resort to pacman -Syuf which got it working.

Arch Upgrade To KDE SC 4.4

So the hero's over at the Arch website had already flagged the fact that the upgrade to KDE SC 4.4 was not going to be a simple pacman -Syu. In fact I found I had to jump through a couple more hopes than those listed in their post (above) and so thought I would share how I got to -Syu to KDE SC 4.4.

The following commands should be run as root (or sudo if you have it installed):

$ pacman -Sy --asdeps qt
$ pacman -Su
$ pacman -Sy kdepim-runtime
$ pacman -Sy kdepimlibs
$ pacman -Syu

That got my upgrade underway. Hopefully this might help others. If you are still stuck let me know the errors you are experiencing and I will try and provide some help.