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Developers Conference 2021 - Call for Speakers announced
The Call for Speakers for the Developers Conference 2021 has been announced. Yes, DevCon 2021 is knocking at the doors already. Preparations have begun and if you would like to be a speaker at the most...
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Candidate slate for the openSUSE Board Election 2020
Last night the nominations and applications phase of the election reached an end. We received six applications and the names of the candidates are:• Axel Braun • Gertjan Lettink• Mark Stopka• Maurizio...
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Ubuntu Mauritius
Last week, Chittesh and I were discussing about Ubuntu 20.10 and we shared how things are effortless and boring. I installed Ubuntu on my personal laptop the previous week-end. I was indeed impressed...
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RGB and RGBA in CSS
RGB is one notation through which colors may be set using a style sheet for a webpage. The rgb() function takes three numerical values separated by a comma and each representing the colors Red, Blue...
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openSUSE community elects Axel, Gertjan and Neal to serve on the Board
The election lasted for two weeks and it ended last night at 23h59 UTC. The results were published today at mid-day (for me).The complete election results are:Axel Braun — 142 votesGertjan Lettink —...
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Happy New Year 2021
It is with a lot of hope that we've welcomed this new year.Deep down we know that a numerical increment in the year won't magically change all the bad that has been happening since the pandemic. Yet, I...
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Mauritius Public Holidays 2021
On the 6th of July 2020, the Prime Minister's Office published the public holidays for 2021. .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg...
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SOGo calendar synchronization breaks due to emoji in the event title
An emoji can break a calendar. 😳I am using the SOGo Groupware. I noticed that certain emojis in the event title would prevent calendar apps from synchronizing using the CalDAV protocol. I checked the...
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RHEL no-cost* vs openSUSE Leap
Ever since Red Hat announced that they are changing the development model of CentOS and making it an upstream project rather than downstream, it left many CentOS users frowning. No matter what argument...
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Grab a cool wallpaper for your Linux desktop
I tweeted about a blog post which I published on opensuse.mu, explaining how I configured the GNOME desktop theme Yaru (by the Ubuntu community) on my openSUSE Tumbleweed machine. The tweet got a lot...
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Developers Conference 2021 postponed 🙄
We are living in uncertain times. A lot that we had planned are being impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Although, Mauritius does not currently count any local case of COVID-19, the authorities have...
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Videos from the Virtual Developers Conference 2020 are up on YouTube
The impact of COVID-19 caused last year's Developers Conference to be converted into a virtual event. It was a successful event, albeit with some technical hiccups on the first day, from which we drew...
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How to host a free 1 year server running UBUNTU in AWS?
In this tutorial we are going to get you started with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You'll learn how to launch, connect to, and use an Ubuntu instance.First and foremost you will need to...
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openSUSE distributions dedicated page
Previously, it would take someone new to the project quite some time to learn about the distributions and understand their differences. Not every new openSUSE user would know that it's ideal to use...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Quarantine Period extended till 31 May
As per the Cabinet decisions published on the Prime Minister's Office website today, the cabinet has decided to extend the quarantine period in Mauritius to 31 May 2021. The prohibition of entry of...
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MSCC Summit 2021 announced
It's March and we're having the first MSCC Summit on Saturday 27th at the Middlesex University, Coastal Road, Flic-en-Flac. The announcement of MSCC Summit 2021 was made on the various social media...
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Data on 848,558 Facebook users from Mauritius leaked online
So, what actually happened here? Let's rewind to a few years back until you remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you can't remember then I suggest you watch the Netflix documentary The Great...
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Questions people are asking about COVID-19 related deaths
Photo by De an Sun on UnsplashDr. Gaud and the Minister of Health, Dr. Jagutpal, during the last few press conferences of the National Communication Committee (NCC) on COVID-19, announced the deaths of...
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ICT Authority's proposal to monitor the Internet, in a nutshell
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) invites the public to comment on a Consultation Paper on amendments to the ICT Act which the authority proposes in order to regulate...
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ICTA says only public posts on Social Media will be archived — Wrong!
On 19 April 2021, the ICT Authority issued a communique to bring some clarifications after people started commenting and reacting on social media about the Consultation Paper that ICTA had published a...
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