http://francis.giannaros.org/blog openSUSE and open source related musings Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that I've started coding a lot more, I've been extensively using vim. I made a cheat sheet with an upload of my config and plugins for a few friends, so I thought I might as well share it with everybody. They include: a commenting plugin, a buffer explorer plugin, a ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2010/01/15/vim-cheat-sheet-and-config/ If you compiled the NVIDIA driver on openSUSE 11.2, while you had all the relevant packages installed (kernel-source, kernel-default-devel if you have the default kernel), you might have been getting this error: The kernel header file '/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2009/10/18/nvidia-on-11-2-kernel-header-file-usrsrclinuxincludelinuxversion-h-does-not-exist/ A couple of advancements have been made available in the SUSE distribution images world, which are worth a mention. KDE 4 Reloaded Live CDs / USBs Firstly, the Build Service recently acquired a functionality to generate your own system images from the build service, and the KDE guys quickly generated openSUSE 11.1 ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2009/09/08/kde4-reloaded-live-cdsusbs-suse-studio/ We just completed our first openSUSE project meeting with a newly added plugin to bugbot called MeetBot. This plugin helps with meetings by: Logging the meeting and automatically converting it to a more readable HTML file Automatically generating minutes by listening to specially selected commands (click the link to see an ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2009/08/27/create-minutes-and-logs-for-your-meetings-with-bugbot/ Encouraging article from the Beeb: "President Obama has said he is prepared to go through the budget "line by line" to cut wasteful spending..." McNealey, asked to write a report on the advantages, comments: "It's intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary software," ..."Open source does ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2009/01/23/the-open-source-president/ With the huge work done by Dirk and others to get Bugzilla to the shiny new version, there is a new feature that I have been able to enable with bugbot: it can now report new bugs from $KDE-product into your channel. For a preview of how this happens, join ... http://francis.giannaros.org/blog/2008/08/20/bugbot-for-your-kde-irc-channel/ 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/