Windows 10 as Virtual Machine Guest not Host

The Problem Most companies I’ve worked for in the last decade end up giving me a laptop with Windows on it. This is great for productivity software (Email, Word Processing, etc.) but it’s really horrible for anyone used to Linux and Open Source tooling to do their jobs. In today’s market, Docker, Kubernetes and containerisation …

Which firewall rule?

Identifying firewall rules which are hit by packets more often than not can help with performance at both ends of spectrum. From small scale CPE (Customer Premises Equipment), i.e. Routers to large scale servers which have even more traffic to handle, every packet and every byte counts. Performance? I’ve found myself reviewing performance a lot …

Tracker – What do we do now we’re stable?

Over the past month or two, I’ve spent time working on various feature branches for Tracker. This coming after a 1.2 stable release and a new feature set which was added in 1.2. So a lot has been going on with Tracker internally. I’ve been relatively quiet on my blog of late and I thought it …

tracker-search gets colour & snippets!

Recently Carlos added FTS4 and snippet support to Tracker. We merged that to master after doing some tests and have reduced the database size on disk by doing this. I released 0.15.2 yesterday with the FTS4 work, and today I decided to add a richer experience to tracker-search. Below you can see me searching for …

Lanedo is hiring

We’re currently looking for anyone who has LibreOffice experience and is interested in working on the project. If that sounds like something you would like to do, get in touch with us. Additionally, if you or anyone you know has experience running an open source business, please get in touch. We’re looking for someone that …

Tracker Needle with improved tagging

Given there have been a number of improvements to tracker-needle recently, I thought I would make a video to highlight some of them. A quick summary: Searching for “foo” now finds files tagged with “foo” Searches are limited to 500 items per category/query (to avoid abusing the GtkTreeView mainly) A tag list is now available …

Improved Tracker Preferences for Indexed Locations

Something I have been meaning to do for a long time, is to update the preferences dialog for Tracker to easily add locations which are special user directories (as per the GUserDirectory locations). I wanted to do this in such a way that: It was really easy to toggle locations as recursive or not The …

Tracker 0.12.0 Released!

Given we (the tracker team) want to try to fit into the GNOME schedule for 3.2, we decided to bring the release of 0.12.0 ahead early. The roadmap is mostly complete anyway. The official announcement can be seen here. Thank you to everyone involved! Recently I also updated the GtkSearchEngineTracker implementation to not use hacky …