[en] Welcome to euroquis.nl. Originally intended as a site for a European source-code-quality project, it now serves as the hub of my online presence. Most of what happens here goes on on the blog.
[nl] Welkom bij euroquis.nl. Dit was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als site voor een Europees code-kwaliteitsbeoordelingsproject. Nu is het centrum van mijn online aanwezigheid. Er gebeurt vooral wat op mijn blog.
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Laptop Linux Considerations
I have a laptop – a Framework 13, AMD CPU – which I received for the purpose of making KDE-on-FreeBSD good on it. For KDE Akademy Reasons, that laptop is covered in stickers: bicycle stickers, KDE, RUN BSD .. and it got three Linuxes installed on it next to FreeBSD. I mentioned that KDE Akademy is people, and I’d like to thank Doug (openSUSE), Neal (Fedora) and Harald (KDE Linux) for helping me get the bits in place. Here’s some brief notes about the resulting systems.
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KDE Akademy 2025
This year, 2025, the KDE Community held its yearly conference in Berlin, Germany. This makes me happy in various ways – I like Berlin, and visit the city more often than, say, Amsterdam, which is a lot closer to my home. Here are some of my notes (wall-of-text) from this year, posted on the day of KDE’s 29th birthday.
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New Calamares Languages
Calamares is a Linux system installer used by a wide range of distro’s. It is in “community maintenance” mode, which means it depends on downstream code submissions and careful bug reports. Sometimes I have time to work on it, outside of any particular distro. It would be correct to say it is “slow going”. But that doesn’t mean there are no changes! Just this week a new language was requested, Luganda, bringing the total to 79. Not all of the languages have enough coverage to be included in the language drop-down, but all of them have translators working on bringing the installer to their locale. Welcome!
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KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD
This year, 2025, the KDE Community held its yearly conference in Berlin, Germany. On the way I reinstalled FreeBSD on my Frame.work 13 laptop in another attempt to get KDE Plasma 6 Wayland working. Short story: yes, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD works.
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Jekyll Publishing on FreeBSD
I switched to static website generation with Jekyll in 2019 (probably because of Carl Schwan, who is somehow my guiding-spirit in webulous things even if he does Hugo things nowadays). That means Ruby, and I’ve got various bits-and-notes documents saying things like “When Ruby breaks again, …” This blog post is my attempt to document for myself, once-and-for-all, my setup.
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