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Using Linux in a Microsoft based business

Using Linux in a Microsoft based business

Can I use Linux at work?

The Hunt for a Wireless Desktop Experience

The Hunt for a Wireless Desktop Experience

Is wireless desktop the way to get a cleaner desk?

Server Upgrade

As previously mentioned in a blog post, my home server has been a Raspberry Pi 8 GB for some years now. I finally took the plunge and started the process of building a new home server. After hearing about the Odroid H3 on some podcasts from Jupiter Broadcasting I listen

I no longer work for Manjaro

Since the beginning of 2021, I have been contracted by the Manjaro company to work on Manjaro ARM. It was a bumpy ride at first, to understand what work was for the community and what was for the company, but I think I got a grip on what was what

Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0

Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0

Manjaro ARM is proud to present the packages for Plasma 5.27.0 together with the packages for Plasma Mobile Gear (soon to be regular Gear) 23.01.0 for the mobile devices. These packages are currently being tested in our Unstable branch and will soon be transferred to Testing

Fosdem 2023

Fosdem 2023 on February 4th and 5th 2023.

Plasma 5.26 and Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 in Manjaro ARM

Plasma 5.26 and Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 in Manjaro ARM

New images for PinePhone and Pinephone Pro with Plasma 5.26 and PlaMo Gear 22.09.

Upgrade Ghost with SQLite to MySQL

This blog is running Ghost. No big secret there. Recently Ghost did a minor release update, breaking support for the lite SQLite3 database format, which this blog was using. When I set up the blog, I chose to use SQLite3, because it's lightweight, simple, but still performed pretty good. I

Quartz64 development

Quartz64 development

Since the beginning of July 2021, Manjaro ARM has booted on the Quartz64 from Pine64. We have been using the kernel source from Peter Geis (pgwipeout), which is where Peter upstreams all the stuff from. So it has been working really well. In the end of July 2021, we managed

This Month in Manjaro has moved

If you are wondering, why there has been no new monthly Manjaro blog post here, it's because it has moved to the main Manjaro Blog at blog.manjaro.org. The reason for this is that the Manjaro blog is new, so it needs some posts to "activate" it, so to

This month in Manjaro (May 2022)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (April 2022)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (March 2022)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (February 2022)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

How to get Blurays to play on Manjaro

I had to set this up for my wife recently and in doing so I became aware of how much of a hassle it is to do under Linux. This guide is for Manjaro Linux, but I imagine it would work for other distributions as well, by changing the install

This month in Manjaro (January 2022)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

How to test Plasma 5.24 beta on Plasma Mobile

The beta of Plasma 5.24 has been released and as such people running Manjaro ARM with Plasma Mobile might want to test it out. So here's a step by step guide on how add update your system to beta 5.24. Reversing this is not easy and is not

ClockworkPI DevTerm

ClockworkPI DevTerm

The Clockwork development team was kind enough to ship out a couple of dev units for the Manjaro ARM team and I was lucky enough to get one. The DevTerm is an rk3399 based small formfactor computer with a screen and keyboard. It has 4 GB of RAM and built

This month in Manjaro (December 2021)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (November 2021)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (October 2021)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (September 2021)

This is my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as a Manjaro Podcast,

This month in Manjaro (August 2021)

This is the beginning of my periodic posts on whats going on in Manjaro land. It's a small collection of notable changes, updates and community news in and for the Manjaro community. As I am a Manjaro ARM developer, some of the information will probably be ARM-biased. See this as

Ryzen 7 2700 + RX 560 vs. Ryzen 7 5700G

Ryzen 7 2700 + RX 560 vs. Ryzen 7 5700G

I just got a new APU, because I wanted to switch out my old setup for a new CPU, that is more energy effecient and a fan that makes less noise. I read online that the Ryzen 7 5700G would be a great way to do this, for my current

My Home Server setup

My Home Server setup

I have been running a home server for about some years now. And no, it's not an Intel dual-Xeon or anything crazy like that. My home server has actually always been an ARM box. The first one I ever did, was with the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B with 512