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by Alexander Bokovoy and Andreas Schneider FOSDEM 2025 is just behind us and it was a great event as always. Alexander and I had a chance to talkabout the local authentication hub project. Our FOSDEM talk was “localkdc – a general local authentication hub”. You can watch it and come back here for more details. But before going into details, let us provide a bit...
KDE had a feature a lot of people didn’t know about. You could run a command when a notification triggered. The feature wasn’t very well documented and nobody really blogged about it. However with the release of KDE Plasma 6, the feature was removed. I learned about it by accident, as it is tracked by Bug #481069. I really need the feature and I re-implemented...
At the beginning of December 2023 gdb version 14.1 was released. The feature I’ve waited for is support for the the Debug Adapter Protocol. Today I finally looked into this and got gdb working with nvim-dap. If you already have setup nvim-dap, it is pretty easy to add support for C/C++ with gdb. First you need to enable DAP for the filetype. I load DAP...
Development / Linux / Samba
The git versioning system has two really nice features you might already heard about. One of them is git-worktree and the other are bare git repositories. This makes my life a lot easier working on Samba as often I have several feature branches I’m working on. Some features often take several months to finish. I don’t want to compile them again and again every time...
Development / Linux / Samba / Uncategorized
A new version of socket_wrapper has just been released. In short, socket_wrapper is a library passing all socket communications through unix sockets. It aims to help client/server software development teams willing to gain full functional test coverage. It makes possible to run several instances of the full software stack on the same machine and perform locally functional testing of complex network configurations. New in version...
TL;DR SMB3 file transfer with encryption will be 4-6 times faster with Samba 4.12 Samba is getting out of the crypto business GnuTLS >= 3.4.7 required FIPS compliance ahead Introduction More or less since the beginning of Samba, it implemented the cryptography it needed to talk to Windows on its own. One reason is that Windows didn’t follow the standards or used ciphers nobody else...
I’m happy to announce version 1.1.2 of cmocka, a unit testing framework for C with mocking support. ChangeLog Added function to filter tests (cmocka_set_test_filter) Added new mocking example (uptime) Fixed fixture error reporting Fixed compiler flags detection Some improvement for API documentation
I’ve written an article about “Profiling a camera with darktable-chart” which has been published at pixls.us. The article is about how to get the same color profile of you camera for your raw developing process. If you wonder what darktable is, it is a raw developer software for photographers.
I have an AMD grahpics card and use the great Open Source driver which comes with my Linux distribution. However for image processing I want the OpenCL support of my graphics card. Currently that’s only provided by the amdgpu-pro driver. However it is possible to just extract the files needed for OpenCL and use them. Here is how to do this: Go to https://support.amd.com/en-us/download Select...
Development / KDE / Linux
Jakub Hrozek and I are proud to announce the first release of pam_wrapper. This tool allows you to either simplify testing PAM modules or your application using PAM to authenticate users. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a layer of abstraction on top of Unix authentication. For testing PAM-aware applications we have written a simple PAM module called pam_matrix. If you plan to test a PAM...
