Some of you might know that I was and in part still am a Gentoo user as well. I always found something reassuring in watching terminal with compilation going on. It is a nice sight. Compiler crunching all those sources and preparing something new for you. On some conference I even saw Gentoo guys showing a recording of Gentoo installation – a lot of compilation in there. I really liked it and I thought that it would make a nice screensaver.

Lately I have been playing a lot with some cool technologies. I had a lot of fun, so I want to share some of it and at least point you to the interesting pieces of technology to check out. And it also inspired me to my new project which I would like to introduce with this blog post. ZeroMQ & friends Lets start with ZeroMQ. It is lightweight messaging library with really nice API.

You might have noticed that I decided to run for the openSUSE Board. And as we shortly have a new year and everybody is evaluating the past and the future, I will do the similar, mainly focusing on few of the challenges that I see laying in front of the openSUSE Board in 2015. SUSE/openSUSE relation I heard it being mentioned several times over and over. SUSE and openSUSE are two different things.

Hi everybody, openSUSE elections are just around the corner and I decided to step forward and run for the seat in The Board. For those who don’t know me and would like to know why consider me as an option, here is my platform. Who am I? I’m about 30 years old, live in Prague and I love openSUSE (and Gentoo 😉 ). SUSE 6.3 was my first Linux distribution, I went through som more and I actively joined the openSUSE community more than six years ago.

In September I visited Akademy in Brno. It was close and sounded interesting (and it was). I met there Bruno and Francoise and tried to help them a little bit with openSUSE booth they organized. It was cool, wasn’t sure how many people I will know there, but I met Cornelius on my way to the venue and when we arrived there, there was already openSUSE booth – really great surprise 🙂 But getting to the point of this post (which is not the Akademy), there was a lottery where people could won Raspberry Pi.

I was browsing around the Internet (don’t remember what for) and I accidentally found one cool aspect of MariaDB. There is a feedback plugin and this short post is meant to encourage you to use it! Ok, so what it does and why should you opt-in to be spied on 🙂 It takes some information about your MariaDB server including it’s usage and it will send it to the MariaDB folks.

One of the things, that I really like about Jolla is the technology to write applications. C++ is my favorite programing language and I always admired Qt. At least big parts of it. So when I got my Jolla, I started playing with SDK and writing some simple applications. It was kinda harder than I expected, but I’ll write about there in separate blog post. This one is dedicated to the applications I wrote and to show what do they do.