Migrating from Ubuntu/KDE to Devuan/XFCE

Ah, Devuan… the great migration begins. Leaving KDE and Ubuntu behind means learning a few new habits, and as opposed to that sucking really badly, there is actually quite a lot of good news: old-school GTK and Qt programs are pretty darn good these days and dramatically lighter weight than the KDE mainstays. Yes, KDE […]

Building Erlang 23.3.4.3 on Devuan/Debian/Ubuntu

Erlang R24 is out! …but there are, as usual with a version X.0 release, a few rough edges (enough of them around the important-but-annoying WX and OpenGL updates that I’ll be writing another post about that shortly…). In the meantime, R23.3.4.3 is excellent and quite reliable. The steps for building with kerl are nearly identical […]