KDE Frameworks 5.61, Applications 19.08 in FreeBSD

Recent releases were KDE Frameworks 5.61 and KDE Applications 19.08. These have both landed in the official FreeBSD ports tree, after Tobias did most of the work and I pushed the big red button. Your FreeBSD machine will need to be following current ports – not the quarterly release branches, since we don’t backport to those. All the modern bits have arrived, maintaining the KDE-FreeBSD team’s commitment to up-to-date software for the FreeBSD desktop. The one thing we’re currently lagging on is Qt 5.13. There’s a FreeBSD problem report tracking that update.

Dev branch moving towards Qt 6

As you know, Qt 5.14 will be branched pretty soon. After that I would expect that most new development work would start to be aimed towards Qt 6. As it looks right now, 5.15 will be a smaller release where we polish what we have in 5.14, and prepare some things for Qt 6. To reflect that and help us all understand that the development focus is now towards Qt 6, I would like to propose that dev becomes the Qt 6 branch after we branched away 5.14 (and we merge wip/qt6 back into dev). We can then either create a 5.15 branch at the same time, or slightly later, once 5.14 has stabilised a bit more (e.g. after the beta or RC). Also: Qt's Development Branch To Begin Forming Qt 6

Today in Techrights

• Openwashing Report: It’s Getting Worse, Fast. Everything is Apparently ‘Open’ Now Even Though It’s Actually Proprietary.
• GitHub is a Dagger Inside Free/Open Source Software (FOSS); This is Why Microsoft Bought It
• Microsoft Grows Within and Eats You From the Inside
• Computer-Generated Patent Applications Show That Patents and Innovations Are Very Different Things
• Concerns About IBM’s Commitment to OpenSource.com After the Fall of Linux.com and Linux Journal
• Electronic Frontier Foundation Makes a Mistake by Giving Award to Microsoft Surveillance Person
• Caturdays and Sundays at Techrights Will Get Busier
• Why Techrights Doesn’t Do Social Control Media
• Links 18/8/2019: New KNOPPIX and Emmabuntus Released
• Links 17/8/2019: Unigine 2.9 and Git 2.23

How to Check Which Debian Version are you Running

Wondering which Debian version are you running? This tutorial teaches you several ways to check Debian version in the terminal.