http://francis.giannaros.org/blog openSUSE and open source related musings Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:32:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the free (to all testers) openSUSE 11.0 box came today, and it's looking pretty stylish and even comes with a couple of stickers: So far I've been really impressed with the latest release. Not only have the reviews been pretty much consistently positive because of some of the shiny new ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/07/09/opensuse-110-kde-41-improvements/ Worth a read is the recently published Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE article (digg), which also features a good interview with openSUSE/KDE developer Stephan Binner. It goes over the media changes, the versions of KDE available, and the work done over the last 9 months in the upcoming openSUSE ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/06/17/opensuse-kde-sneak-peeks/ Two short announcements: Amarok Neon Amarok Neon packages are now being built for openSUSE in the openSUSE Build Service. Join #amarok.neon to help join the testing! http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/06/13/amarok-neon-and-ati-drivers-for-opensuse/ Since openSUSE 11.0 has just gone gold, Stefan Dirsch has created NVIDIA RPMs for openSUSE 11.0, so they are now all available via 1-Click-Install. See the wiki page for the link and details (it's the same YMP for openSUSE 10.3). The repository also appears in the community repository list, so you ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/06/13/nvidia-drivers-for-opensuse-110/ With the exams (and University!) having come to an end, I managed to create an updated version of the 1-click-installation for codecs in the latest openSUSE 11.0 RC1. This will be at the exact same place at the old link, as 1-click-install gives you the possibility for different preferences for ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/05/30/1-click-install-for-codecs-in-opensuse-110-rc1/ Digg.com can receive an awful lot of submissions, so subscribing to the feed of all its stories (or even just stories from one particular section) can be pretty undesirable. Fortunately you can subscribe to feeds from digg based on keywords; the openSUSE one being: http://digg.com/rss_search?search=opensuse So subscribe to the feed and ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/05/05/tracking-opensuse-stories-on-digg/ 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 ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/04/03/cross-distro-packaging-day-ii-kde-bug-day/ 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, ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/02/25/fosdem-2008/ 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 ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/02/05/news-opensuse-membership-community-manager-joe-brockmeier/ 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 ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/02/02/kget-kdes-download-manager/