LukaRenko
Luka Renko
IRC: Lure (luka74)
Forums: luka74
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/lure
Email: MailTo(lure.net@gmail.com)
Me & Kubuntu
- First tried Kubuntu Hoary on my old notebook - impressed with how good laptop support can be out-of-box
Switched my work notebook completely to Kubuntu Breezy (using VmPlayer for remaining Win stuff I need)
- Started testing with Kubuntu Flight 2 and got hooked into improving it even further
- With Flight 5 switched to Dapper completely
Kubuntu Laptop Support
I am very interested in great laptop support in Kubuntu. Kubuntu is already best debian-based distribution in that regard, but there are some development that we need to follow closely to keep up-to-date.
Power Management
Ubuntu power management is based on hal, acpi-support scripts and powernowd. This is then controlled with gnome-power-manager (GNOME) and klaptop (KDE). Problem is that klaptop is quite buggy and unmaintained.
There is major work going on on [http://powersave.sourceforge.net powersave] & [http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29295 kpowersave] solution: see KubuntuPowersave for details.
Network Management
For mobile users, good network management is key. Kubuntu is currently lacking in wireless management tools (wifimonitor, knemo). There are some alternatives:
[http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net wlassistant] - accepted into Dapper Universe
- still no WPA support
[http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager networkmanager] - waiting for incluson into Main
- my notes on getting knetworkmanager on Dapper are on ["/KNetworkManager"] sub-page
Packages
As my main interest is KDE and laptop support, these are also the area where I have contibuted regarding packages:
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/powersave/ powersave] - improved integration with Ubuntu, sync with upstream, [https://launchpad.net/bugs/39215 UVFe]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kpowersave/ kpowersave] - sync with upstream, [https://launchpad.net/bugs/39221 UVFe]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager knetworkmanager] - worked on required patches for inclusion into Dapper, sync with upstream
Complete list of packages from [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+packages Launchpad]
Testing
- Kubuntu on my notebook: ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNW8240/Kubuntu"]
- Kubuntu on my desktop
Bugs
I do bug triage for Kubuntu specific bugs with focus on laptop support:
[https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs Bugs reported by me - Still Open]
[https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs?field.omit_dupes.used= Bugs reported by me - All]
[https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+packagebugs My Package Bugs]
Have worked on nailing down some strange regressions: [https://launchpad.net/bugs/34592 34592], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/31974 31974], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/34587 34587], [https://launchpad.net/bugs/32785 32785]