QOwnNotes for Debian
QOwnNotes is a cross-platform plain text and markdown note taking application. By itself, it wouldn’t be something to talk about, we have vim and emacs and everything in between. But QOwnNotes integrates nicely with...
Okular update for Debian
Update 20200304: okular is updated in Debian, so I rebased my packages onto the Debian work, added my tab-restore patch, and made new packages! The quest for a good tabbed pdf viewer lead me...
MuPDF, QPDFView and other Debian updates
Update 2020-02-24: The default Debian packages for pupdf and pymupdf have been updated to the current version (or newer), and thus I have removed the packages from my repo. Thanks to the maintainers for...
CafeOBJ 1.6.0 released
We have released version 1.6.0 of CafeOBJ, an algebraic specification and verification language. This release incorporates the following changes: CITP is officially renamed to PTCalc documents are not updated yet PTCalc(CITP) enhancements :init defined...
Debian package updates preining.info: Digikam (6.4 and 7), Elixir, Kitty, Certbot
Update 2020-02-20: I have removed digikam (version 6.4 and 7) since they are all now available in Debian itself. I have updated some of the Debian packages distributed at https://www.preining.info/debian/, the complete list as...
SUSI.AI release 20200120: Desktop and Smart Speaker
More than a month has passed, but the winter holidays allowed me to update, fix, and stream line a lot of corners in SUSI.AI. And above all, work on a desktop version that can...
Switching audio output devices for OpenAL based software
When playing a few rounds of Talos Principle, I realized I cannot get the sound output to my USB headphones. Selecting a different sink never worked. It was only in a forum post that...
Let’s Encrypt on Debian/Buster: switching from acmetool to certbot
I have been using acmetool on my Buster server for quite some time. When choosing a client I liked that it is written in Go, that it is small and not overboarding with features,...
Debian breaking Unison (again)
Congratulations – Debian/sid now contains a unison binary that is incompatible with Debian/buster, the stable release. That means, everyone who relies on unison for file synchronization across servers (running buster) and development machines (running...
Python 3 deprecation imminent
OSS Journal, November 2026. In less than two month, with the end of the year 2026, Python 3 will be deprecated and will not obtain any further security updates. Despite the announcement of deprecation...
SUSI.AI Smart Speaker release 20191105
After long and painful times due to the switch to buster, we at the FOSSASIA Team finally can release a new stable build of SUSI.AI for our RaspberryPi based smart speaker. SUSI.AI aims at...
Calibre 4.2 based on Python3 in Debian/experimental
Following up on the last post on the state of Calibre in Debian, some news for those who want to get rid of Python2 on their computers as soon as possible. With the finally...
Pleasures of Tibetan input and typesetting with TeX
Many years ago I decided to learn Tibetan (and the necessary Sanskrit), and enrolled in the university studies of Tibetology in Vienna. Since then I have mostly forgotten Tibetan due to absolute absence of...
State of Calibre in Debian
To counter some recent FUD spread about Calibre in general and Calibre in Debian in particular, here a concise explanation of the current state. Many might have read my previous post on Calibre as...
R with TensorFlow 2.0 on Debian/sid
I recently posted on getting TensorFlow 2.0 with GPU support running on Debian/sid. At that time I didn’t manage to get the tensorflow package for R running properly. It didn’t need much to get...
RIP (for now) Calibre in Debian
The current purge of all Python2 related packages has a direct impact on Calibre. The latest version of Calibre requires Python modules that are not (anymore) available for Python 2, which means that Calibre...
