Samsung: Welcome on Board
Today I have officially started working for Samsung. It does not mean anything bad for this website. It will not be closed soon. Who knows, maybe it will boost.
Today I have officially started working for Samsung. It does not mean anything bad for this website. It will not be closed soon. Who knows, maybe it will boost.
The glibc version 2.30 was released–according to the schedule–on August 1, 2019. The changes in the locale data are not big, most of them are related with but not limited to calendars support. Let’s look at the details, and also let’s take a look at the version 2.29.
Summer is not yet over (in my climate zone) but it’s time to think about the autumn. Yes, I mean the Linux Autumn, the annual Polish conference of Linux and free software enthusiasts organized by PLUG. I wrote about this event many times in the past, I don’t want to make you bored by the same things again. …
On 1 May 2019 a new era of the Japanese calendar will begin. Fedora is ready for this change. What This Is All About 1 December 2017 the Emperor of Japan Akihito officially announced that he would abdicate on 30 April 2019. From 1 May his successor Naruhito will rule which will also begin a …
During this year’s Linux Autumn we organized Fedora 29 Release Party. These kind of events are organized around the world after the new version of Fedora is released. It’s likely that it was the world’s first Fedora 29 Release Party (for this version) because the official poster design was not yet ready and nobody had asked for …
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Linux Autumn, the 16th annual conference of Linux and free software enthusiasts, organized by PLUG, was held from 9 to 11 November. This year, same as last year, we met in Ustroń, southern Poland, but we changed the venue: this time it was Hotel Gwarek. I must say that my report may be little biased because I was …
See also: glibc 2.26: New and updated locales, glibc 2.27: New and updated locales. New version 2.28 of glibc library has been released according to the schedule, that means on August 1, 2018. This time the changes in locale support are not revolutionary. Most of them just continue the works started and partially completed in the previous versions. Alphabetic Collation …
If you have ever wondered, like I have, whether there will be an autumn (the Linux Autumn) this year then the answer is: yes. Linux Autumn is an annual meeting of Free Software and Linux enthusiast from Poland organized since 2003 which means this year it will be its 16th time. This year it will …
For those interested: ffmpeg-compat package for Fedora is still alive. The package is a very old version of ffmpeg whose most recent release is 4.0.2 (as of September 2018). It was maintained by RPM Fusion but it has been retired since the release for Fedora 27 (the last supported Fedora version was 26). If you need this binary for Fedora 28, for example …
See also: glibc 2.26: New and Updated Locales. The new version glibc 2.27 has been released on February 1, 2018 (or February 2, depending on your time zone). This is the much belated report of the new changes in locale support. Collation Major rework has been started on the correct alphabetic sorting using ISO 14651:2016 standard (click here …