People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II

Tuesday, 15 May 2001  |  Inorog

Packaging is one of the activities in our project that requires much discipline, dedication and patience. In this week's People Behind KDE, Tink interviews Ivan E. Moore II, who has held the office of Debian Packager for our project for a long time. He maintains the principal KDE packages for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Come and enjoy as Ivan entertains us with his answers.

Comments:

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - Matt - 2001-05-15

I don't use Debian, but I still think Ivan is a hero. I follow the CVS mailling list and I'm amazed by the amount of quality work he spends on KDE for Debian. The Debian folks are happy to have a guy like him.

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - ac - 2001-05-16

I agree, Ivan rocks. He provides terrific KDE support for Debian. This kind of contributor is the most valuable for KDE. Rock on, Rev Krusty!

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - Luigi Genoni - 2001-05-21

I do complitelly agree, Ivan makes just his work the best way it could be done.! Sometimes i am suprised how kind and good at his work he is.

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - john - 2001-05-15

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you is?" That was a good question - never heard that one before...

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - Shawn Gordon - 2001-05-16

Ivan is a great guy, he has helped us out a few times getting Debian packages together. I can't say enough good about him :).

Debian packages? - anonymous - 2001-05-16

Hi, I tried to apt-get install task-kde a litle bit ago, and there is no "startkde" program installed. all the other kde packages are installed, but just not that file as far as i can tell. so how to i initialise KDE from my .xinitrc script? when i build KDE from scratch, i just type startkde into my .xinitrc, but when i do this after apt-getting task-kde, the file is not found. I did a locate for it(after updatedb), and it is just not there.. do you know if this is a bug? or is there something special i need to do to get KDE to work by default? I heard someone say something about a program called "usekde" or something that will make kde be the default desktop, but i cannot find any such file. thanks for any help

Re: Debian packages? - ac - 2001-05-16

Try 'kde' instead of 'startkde'.

Re: Debian packages? - tix64 - 2001-05-16

well, startkde is in the package kdebase. you could aswell put /usr/bin/kde2 into your .xinitrc tix64

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - beerman - 2001-05-16

hehe he sure is scared of his wife ;-) j/k thanks for all the work!

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - kernel - 2001-05-16

Thanks Ivan! I'm always enjoying the fast an easy apt-get even in unstable.

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - Kris Kringle - 2001-05-19

I am very thankful that someone saw the importance of bringing together KDE and Debian. Together they are a potent force for Linux. Thanks again to Ivan for doing this much needed work.

Re: People Behind KDE: Ivan E. Moore II - gnome 1.4 has it too - 2001-05-23

good for free software :)