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Katesql is a useful plugin facilitating the connection to databases directly from Kate’s interface. It also adds SQL query support and a table output.

Unfortunately, the current version of Kate, 24.02.0 under KDE Plasma 6.0.1 has not even this module listed.

After searching the file list of package in the official Arch Linux website:

It is not even there !!
I suspect it got deprecated, as this commit set Qt 6.5 as the deprecation level.


https://kate-editor.org/2010/07/29/katesql-a-new-plugin-for-kate
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NVIDIA becomes the third most valuable company.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-becomes-the-worlds-third-most-valuable-company
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Running DBeaver with Java version 21 had the folloing output:
“Version 1.8.0_211 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 18 or greater is required.
The issue was solved by setting the default environmental Java variable with archlinux-java utility.


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“Reflector is a Python script which can retrieve the latest mirror list from the Arch Linux Mirror Status page, filter the most up-to-date mirrors, sort them by speed and overwrite the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.”

In my case I use the command:
reflector --country Germany,Austria --age 12 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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I came across this bug after selection btrfs compression during an installation with archinstall 2.7.2-1. Default parameters such as zstd=5 compression are not taken into account. compsize utility confirms 0% compression.
cat /etc/fstab output is as follows:

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“Common Base Linux” (CBL) Mariner had a name transition in GitHub.
CBL-Mariner was the Microsoft’s in-house Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes.













