openSUSE community welcomes new board member

The results of the openSUSE Board election were published on 1 February 2020. However, ten days later, Sarah stepped down, leaving a vacant seat on the board. Under such circumstance and the board election rules, the sitting board may appoint someone until the next board election.

DRM Plugin crashes after openSUSE Tumbleweed update

Netflix requires the DRM plugin in Firefox to be able to play encrypted videos. The plugin would crash due to a bug in Firefox 73. While this bug affected not just openSUSE users, but everyone using Firefox 73, it became apparent to TW users as v73 landed in the Tumbleweed repo.

DevCon 2020 is just about a month away

The annual Developers Conference of Mauritius is happening on 2 - 4 April. A bunch of DevCon regulars met today during Code & Coffee at Mugg & Bean, Bagatelle, to attend to tasks related to the website, discuss about sponsorship, review talk proposals etc.

Anatomy of a generic function in Rust

It can handle different input types and thus it's called a generic function. The generic type is represented by the capital letter T in this example. T is an arbitrary placeholder. It could be have been another letter, X, Y or V...

oSLO Conference 🐧

oSLO is short for openSUSE + LibreOffice. The two projects are celebrating their 15ᵗʰ and 10ᵗʰ anniversary respectively in 2020.

openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 result

The openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 reached an end on the night of 31 January 23h59 CET after running for two weeks. 281 out of 500 eligible members voted in this election.

LibreOffice dark icons

Whether using dark themes in GNOME or KDE I am usually left with a not so pleasing toolbar in LibreOffice. I thought of changing that and to my surprise it was just a few clicks way.

Kopano: Unknown MAPI Error

If you're thrown an Unknown MAPI Error: MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND when logging with a newly created account on Kopano, it is mostly because the user does not have a store.

AFRINIC WHOIS database tampered?

AFRINIC CEO, Eddy Kayihura, informed the community that following allegations of fraudulent manipulation of the AFRINIC WHOIS database, the matter has been referred to the Central Criminal Investigation Division (CCID) of the Mauritius Police Force for further investigation.