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Ish Sookun

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Mauritius

DevCon is free to attend. How to register?

DevCon attendance is a free of charge. It is an event full of business opportunities and professional networking. Attendees can learn about latest software development technologies, methodologies, as well as cloud features and infrastructure.

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openSUSE

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.

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openSUSE

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.

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Mauritius

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.

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Rust

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...

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openSUSE

oSLO Conference 🐧

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

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openSUSE

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.

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LibreOffice

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.

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Kopano

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.

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