This is a short summary of my first visit to the Kieler Linux und Open Source Days in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany's north.

Kieler Linux und Open Source Days is a regional exhibition and conference aiming at new users of Free Software and GNU/Linux in particular. The conference takes place in the "KITZ" (Kiel Center of Innovation and Technology) which is currently home to more than sixty companies (closed- and open source).

While Floschi attended the OpenWorldForum , i happily accepted to give the keynote in Kiel, talk about LiMux, Linux in general and last but not least: Do some networking.

The keynote went pretty well, not to mention the fact that OO Impress ate some of the pics in my presentation. Some extra laughs for the audience ;-)

Many pepole were interested in the details of our project, what the main problems are and how we solved them. I got some nice input and hours of chat and discussion flew by so fast it was a blur! The Wollmux was interesting to some attendees, also. One might think the Wollmux userbase will grow soon.

Reminder to all:
If you have any questions regarding the Wollmux, we have an official Mailinglist for all WollMux-related issues, including end-user and developer questions: http://www.wollmux.org/index.php/Mailing_Lists

Thank you for the warm (not as in weather, but nevertheless) welcome!

Finally, i hope the event will be taking place next year again and get some more attention of the local university (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

As usual, my slides will be available from planetlimux.org.

While testing some crappy windows software with Wine, i realized the version included in Backtrack 4 (Wine 1.0.1) is not working for me. Thanks to the new Backtrack 4 Debian core (Ubuntu 8.10 / intrepid), this can be fixed easily. In case you've been living under a rock - Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.

What i wanted was a more recent Wine version for my Backtrack installation. Winehq lists Wine 1.1.28 as latest development release. For some reason, the official winehq repositories are offline. But luckily, the Wine Ubuntu Team provides a separate repository for intrepid.

Warning:The packages here are beta packages. This means they will periodically suffer from regressions, and as a result an update may break functionality in Wine. If the latest stable release of Wine (currently Wine 1.0.1) works for you, then you may not want to use these beta packages.

Installation

1.) Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

2.) Add the following key to your keyring (verify!):
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9CB8DB0

3.) Update your package cache
# sudo apt-get update

4.) Install Wine packages
# sudo apt-get install wine

Have fun!