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12. December 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The Atom page says: “Atom and all repositories under Atom will be archived on December 15, 2022″. The “hackable text editor for the 21st Century”, developed by GitHub — “[…] had not had significant feature development for the past several years” and that GitHub has therefore “[…] decided to retire Atom” in favor for “Microsoft […]
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11. July 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | 8 Comments on Frescobaldi on Ubuntu 22.04: with pip or apt
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, you can ‘google’ for the cause — or read the following lines:
6. July 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
After having updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I recently wanted to reactivate my music work environment. But when I installed Musescore‑3 and let it play my music score, I got an ugly mess of background noises. And I could not add any soundfont. Obviously, I faced two obstacles that I had to overcome
21. August 2020 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In 2000, I released the Gnu Template Generation Tools, also known as gtgt. It instantiates a set of sources that were readily prepared for being developed, compiled, and installed with the GNU ‘Autoconf/Automake’ development environment. A few years later they were passed — by new languages, techniques, and tools. But now — in the context […]
9. August 2020 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | 2 Comments on Atom on Ubuntu 20.04
I am a loyal soul. But my patience is limited. Ubuntu 20.04 displays the tips from Eclipse in black on black. Hmm. Markdown editors are cumbersome. Oops. And the ‘spell-check’ for German-English texts still doesn’t work. Grrr. So, it is time to conquer new frontiers: everyone is already talking about ‘Atom’. Let us give it […]
16. June 2020 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Today, the German Corona-Warn-App was released as Open Source Software. You may know it as CWA. The journalists mostly received it positively, even those of Spiegel and Welt. The German government wanted to release it as open-source software. That should increase the acceptance of the app by the German people. Unfortunately, there is still some […]
