GNU/Linux Development and Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 03, 2024

• Barry Kauler ☛ PKGget help page updated

  The PKGget (PPM) window has a help button, that brings up a HTML page. I clicked on it, and realised that it is way out of date. It was last edited in 2013. Updated, and here it is:

  https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/blob/main/easyos/easy-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/local/petget/help.htm

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora Magazine: Contribute at the Fedora GNU/Linux 40 i18n Test Week

    The i18n team is testing changes for Fedora GNU/Linux 40 (ibus-anthy 1.5.16, IBus 1.5.30 and many more). As a result, the i18n and QA teams organized a test week from Tuesday, March 05, 2024, to Monday, March 11, 2024. The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate.

• K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

  • Volker Krause ☛ OSM Hack Weekend February 2024

    Last week I attended the bi-annual OSM Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe again, hosted by Geofabrik, focusing on indoor routing as well as Transitous.

    Structured Email / Semantic Web

    But first to something different (skip to the next section for OSM content).

    While traveling to Karlsruhe anyway I used the opportunity to meet with people working on Structured Email, something that has a lot of overlap with the travel document extractor used by KDE Itinerary.

• R

  • Rlang ☛ insufficient Gibbs sampling bridges as well!

    Antoine Luciano, Robin Ryder and I posted a revised version of our insufficient Gibbs sampler on arXiv last week (along with three other revisions or new deposits of mine’s!), following comments and suggestions from referees.

  • Rlang ☛ Apply Now! R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Open for Proposals! [Ed: It's not what it seems]

    Help build R infrastructure! We’re opening the call for proposals for the 2024 Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program.

• Python

  • TecAdmin ☛ Write a Python Program to Identify Leap Years

    In the world of programming, solving practical problems with efficient and elegant code is a skill highly prized. One such problem, seemingly simple but fundamental, is determining whether a given year is a leap year.

• Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh

  • James Just James: Bash $PATH filtering

    As most modern GNU+Linux distro users already know, you get a lot of tools included for free! Many of these may clutter up your $PATH and make bash tab completion more difficult than it has to be. Here’s a way to improve this!

• Java

  • TecAdmin ☛ Write a Java Program to Check Leap Year

    In the realm of programming, understanding how to work with dates and times is crucial for a vast array of applications, from scheduling systems to historical data analysis. Among these tasks, determining whether a year is a leap year is a common challenge.