Developers Conference 2021 postponed 🙄

The Developers Conference by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community is the largest gathering of software developers, sysadmins, engineers, geeks, tech enthusiasts and other like-minded individuals on the island.

Grab a cool wallpaper for your Linux desktop

Digital Ocean released a bunch of really nice wallpapers in 2016. Not all of all of the wallpapers are Linux themed but there are a few cool ones featuring the Linux mascot, Tux.

RHEL no-cost* vs openSUSE Leap

TL;DR. Red Hat allows its clients to use RHEL for free on up to 16 machines. On the other hand, openSUSE Leap boasts binary compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise and comes without any restriction on usage.

SOGo calendar synchronization breaks due to emoji in the event title

Recently, I encountered an issue with the SOGo CalDAV synchronization. If an emoji is inserted in the event title, then the calendar would stop synchronizing across devices.

Mauritius Public Holidays 2021

As job resumes, many would be planning their year ahead. That in mind, people are usually looking for the public holidays to plan their leaves.

Happy New Year 2021

Since many years now, it has become customary for my family to spend the first day of January visiting the village temple and then head to Ganga Talao.

openSUSE community elects Axel, Gertjan and Neal to serve on the Board

openSUSE members were called to vote in the Regular Board Election on 15 December 2020. Five candidates ran in this election for three available seats.

RGB and RGBA in CSS

I learned about RGB and RGBA while reading how to define colors in Cascading Style Sheets.

Ubuntu Mauritius

In 2021, we are going to sort out a few things and make the Ubuntu Mauritius group active again. Chittesh has agreed to take on the reign. He is already the team's go-to person. Expect to see more purple desktops next year!