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There are two very nice events happening on IRC over the next few days:
Packaging With the openSUSE Build Service II
When: Friday, April 4th, 2008 through Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in every timezone.
Where: #opensuse-buildservice
Another good opportunity to get to grips with the openSUSE Build Service, the easiest way to package your applications for many distributions, in [...]

So the greatest FOSS event of the year has come to an end. Thousands of geeks, hundreds of talks, and just a really wonderful atmosphere everywhere (see the pictures flowing in). I caught up with my backlog of emails and feeds from Friday and the weekend in only 15 minutes, which pretty much sums up [...]

Apart from the openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 release coming this Thursday, there are a couple of exciting things happening in the openSUSE world:
openSUSE Membership
For a long time the openSUSE project had no fully defined way of distinguishing active and continuously helpful people in the openSUSE project. If you’re in the project then it becomes quite [...]

KGet, KDE’s download manager, was ok in KDE 3 but lacking in many areas.
KGet in KDE3
Below you can see a screenshot of KGet in KDE3 (taken from Wikipedia):

..and it had some nice things about it:

Easy to track multiple downloads and their speeds in one window
Integrates well with KDE

But it had a lot of [...]

I’ve now updated to the latest openSUSE KDE4 Packages and got another video (first one being: KDE 4.0 RC1+ Video Tour) to add, and it’s one all about the new KDE 4.0 KWin composite; that is, the new desktop effects that will be available with KDE 4.0.
The desktop effects are coming along nicely, with [...]

I got the chance to play a little more with KDE4 since the first release candidate was announced, so I made a brief video tour of a few things that particularly interest me. You can easily get going with the openSUSE KDE Packages, KDE 4 Live CD, or the new KDE4Daily QEMU image.
KWIN Composite (the [...]

Lately I’ve been playing a little more with KIWI — our amazing Image Creator — this time experimenting more with USB images. I made a nice 10.3 customised image (with codecs etc.), and a KDE Four Live USB image (believe or not, you only need to alter one line in the kiwi config.xml). Maybe the [...]

With a little bit of extra time, I thought I would try out KDE4 to see how it’s progressing; if you’re on openSUSE, all you need to do is install the latest KDE4 packages which are always available. Alternatively, you could always try the openSUSE-based (which can be easily created with KIWI) live CD: KDE [...]

The openSUSE team finally announced a quite highly anticipated release: openSUSE 10.3 :-). Aside from the distribution itself being technically great, the release itself also went really well and appears to have hit nearly all the major Linux News-related websites, as you would expect.
The torrents have many thousand seeders, the news story has had over [...]

Today I published the last in the Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3 series, and I think it’s gone really great. A lot more people have discovered and commented on the various new features, and there’s a nicely documented place to point to when people ask the inevitable question of “What’s new in openSUSE 10.3?” Our [...]

A discussion on #kde-devel reminded me of Bullet-Proof-X. As usual, there’s been a lot of hype from our friends in the Ubuntu camp over the Bullet-Proof-X feature which really, as Benji notes, utilises an existing feature in GDM; basically a failsafe mode, should X fail to start.
There must, however, be some light irony in [...]

Since we now have the nice new 1-Click Install technology, over at openSUSE-Community.org we’re making full use of it. You can help test it right away. The Restricted_Formats/10.3 page is now up and it gives you the appropriate links to the YMPs that you can use for installation of all codecs and restricted formats.
Presuming that [...]

openSUSE-Community.org, in order to stay beautiful and integrate more closely with openSUSE.org, has now been ported over to the new site layout:

All the credit really goes to Robert Lihm, who conceived the site/template layout, and Frank Sundermeyer, who implemented it all. It only needed a small amount of changes to go straight onto the [...]

I’ve been interested in the way different distributions handle boot time lately, and with openSUSE’s recent and very impressive boot time improvements I thought I’d make a few extra comparative statistics using bootchart.
Rules
To ensure that these results are reasonably fair, I’m posing a few restrictions, most of which are pretty obvious:

Use the same setup, my [...]

These last few days sure have given us a lot of news to talk about. If the general Novell news at LWE wasn’t enough for you, openSUSE turned two, the Beta 1 is out, and the first two People of openSUSE interviews have been published (a huge thanks to Anica), featuring Pascal Bleser and Stephan [...]

So Alpha 7 was released yesterday and it comes shiny with all the new green artwork:

Other great things include more improvements to Libzypp so YaST and Zypper package management is extremely fast in comparison. Many congratulations to the whole Libzypp team who have been continuously working on it throughout the 10.3 cycle! Below is an [...]

As we do most years, I spent some time again with family in Chalkidiki, Greece (pictures).

I had almost forgotten just how beautiful it was. For the majority of the time the beach was incredibly clear and calm. Other highlights included being zoomed away on ringos attached to a boat, watching the sun set on the [...]

We know that the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is incredibly popular in the SUSE world, but outside of it this is not entirely true. However, it is great to see that more information on the OBS is getting out more and more these days. Most importantly, information such as that you can trivially build packages [...]

I tend to regularly find myself in discussions or read blog posts where it is suggested that dark themes are “easier on the eyes” and hence a better way to go. While a darker theme means that there is less light entering your eyes, in general a dark theme can cause more problems.
Most desktop themes [...]