Texts for friends. Irrelevant stuff.


  • HP Color LaserJet 3600dn an Max OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

    After my good old Brother black & white laser printer died some months ago, I decided to buy a HP Color LaserJet 3600dn after a huge market comparison and literary study. I am quite happy with the printer. It is working perfect using CUPS on Linux on all of my favourite distributions out of the [...]

  • My first week with KDE4

    Being a Gnome user in my department made me a kind of outsider. Nearly all my colleagues use or even develop KDE. After half a year harassment, I finally decided to switch to KDE4 with my update to openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4.

  • More than 50% already casted their vote

    After five days (including about one and a half day downtime) more than 50 percent (120/237) of the eligible voters already participated in the openSUSE board election.

  • Perspektive Open Source

    As some of you may have heard LinuxTag acts as consultant for Messe Munich for Perspektive Open Source within the Systems trade show. My friend and colleague Wolfgang Drotschmann handles all Free Software projects’ booths at the open source pavilion. As a last call for participation I post his announcement again:

  • Deliciously awesome

    Quendor’s success story on baking hist first muffins reminded me of two interesting blogs I have read some days ago.

  • Google’s Android

    This Tuesday I followed Google’s invitation to ICC Munich to their product marketing event err developer days.

  • openSUSE election status update

    A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update.

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This is the blog or weblog of Marko Jung, who works as an it consultant supporting medium-sized businesses and public authorities in migrating and consolidating their whole infrastructure to Free Software. In addition to this he works as student trainee for SUSE Linux Products GmbH writing his thesis on integrating a trust system into the openSUSE Build Service.

In his free time, he is covering a non profit function as Free Software Community Manager for LinuxTag, Europe's leading conference and exhibition on Linux, Free Software and Open Source, where more than 12.000 Linux professionals, developers and enthusiasts share their visions on the future of the Open Source movement.

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