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Alex Barrios: Instalando una distribución Linux paso a paso

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:55 +0000

Siempre he notado que existen miles de tutoriales en Internet para hacer instalaciones de Linux paso a paso, pero en algunos no se toman el tiempo de explicar varias cosas, y si lo hacen, pues la gente sencillamente no lee .

Por eso decidí crear este par de vídeos donde trato de explicar al público en general cómo instalar Linux, desde la preparación de la partición de Windows para ser redimensionada hasta el paso a paso del Instalador de openSUSE.

Acá los tienen, y recuerden siempre es recomendable hacer respaldos antes de realizar operaciones de cambios en cualquier disco duro.

Primera parte – Preparando Windows

Segunda parte – Instalando openSUSE

Luego de terminar la instalación les recomiendo mis tres artículos de “Cosas por hacer luego de instalar openSUSE”, Parte 1, Parte 2, Parte 3.

Recursos utilizados en los vídeos

Defragler: www.piriform.com/defraggler/

Página de descarga de openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/113/es

Pavel Machek: 2km in 8minutes

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:07:59 +0000

Can you beat that? Without using wheels :-)? And can you beat 600m in 2minutes?

And now, how do you generate such numbers from gpx track? No, gpsbabel is not tool for that job, and I could not find anything suitable. So there are now some tools in gtracks project, in the CVS.

I re-used existing "wherewasI" python script, and added custom "all_best_speeds" tool to generate "best speed on every possible distance" matrix. (Suggested usage is something like ./wherewasi.py --summary foo.gpx | ./delete_fast | ./all_best_speeds | sort -n | less). Closer look at all_best_speeds will reveal that it computes the matrix in something like O(N^3) time; I and of course the question is: can you figure out algorithm with better complexity?

And... is there some existing tool that can do this?

Andres Silva: Launching the Revolution: Kickoff's redesign ideas

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:04:00 +0000

The launcher menu paradox has almost been around ever since graphical environments were created. They provided a simple method through which users could access their applications pertaining to a particular task. Before the start menu, users had a folder view, generally, with the applications in a list. Earlier environments had to omnipresent shell which launched programs by just typing the name.

Later, along came Linux and graphical environments for it. Some of them have kept the basic idea of a start menu, like the one on Windows 95. KDE did it, Gnome did it and many others, even the high end ones like Enlightenment, did it. It should be admitted though that this is a very clever idea to work with. It is fast, simple, and very visually engaging. However, this launching model by todays standards seems outdated. At least, this is something that frustrates me every now and then because it is so common. It is time for a revolution, a change.

The first thing that we need to do in order to change the start menu is to understand it. I am sure that a lot of people have decided that it is just OK to imitate what others have done. This is not a bad thing, the launcher menu is something that's very clever already, but I want to see innovation. It is time to rethink the way we work with a launcher menu. It is important to remember that these ideas have developed in great length overtime and I do not intend to cover 100% of what has been done, but rather, focus on the things that saw the day of light. I will point out their strengths and weaknesses to ultimately work with the strengths to come up with the best possible idea about how to improve the start menu for openSUSE.
This is the main reason why I have decided to split this study into 4 parts. It is such a daunting task that as I was doing my research, I realized that it will take very long to work something out that is useful and better than what we already have available for Linux.
The first part will be an analysis of the many ideas and projects that launched "start menus." the second part will cover the good aspects developed for start menus; the third article will talk about the usability and design problems and finally I will conclude with a proposal for a launch menu. This will be my idea on what openSUSE should do with their Kickoff menu.

So, wait for this first article to come out. It will be soon.

Thank you for your support.

Anditosan

openSUSE News: SUSE Studio Contest – you have until the end of this month!

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:55:31 +0000

For those who didn’t know yet, about two weeks ago Novell introduced SUSE Gallery.com where you can submit your SUSE Studio Appliances for the world to see and download. Over the last year, the 400.000 appliances have have already been downloaded 3 million times and now they are available from the Gallery that number will surely skyrocket.

Together with the launch Novell started a contest with a grand prize of $10.000! Creative minds have until the end of this month to submit their crazy/cool/unique/useful appliance to SUSE Gallery.com and enter the contest. So those looking for Fame and Fortune, enter your software appliance into “The Disters” contest and see how you stack up to the rest!

If you haven’t registered for a SUSE Studio account, be sure to request an invitation to get signed up. It’s a quick and easy process and you’ll be able to get started with your appliance in minutes!

Andrés G. Aragoneses: Version Tolerant Serialization with Mono

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:05:29 +0000

(Zoot Woman - Lonely By Your Syde)

During the last months I've kept working {with|on} Mono, but not working for Novell anymore.

Today I'm proud to blog about a bit of work I've done on Mono towards a better Binary Serialization experience:

mono-api-info command now can output ABI instead of API if you append the flag --abi. It has been useful for us in LindenLab while working on binary serialization compatibility between versions (already upstream!, so will be available in Mono v2.8, even with a new man page).

If you ever wondered why your .NET code is no longer capable of deserializing some old binary object you had in your servers, instead of fixing the problem in a case-by-case basis, you can now see the whole picture by just diffing the output of mono-api-info --abi from your current and old codebase! A small TODO that I haven't completed yet is to deal with automatic properties (because we still don't use them) so that would be an exercise for the reader!

Fix for upstream Mono to act as .NET in regards to Version Tolerant Serialization, a patch to which I have just added a lot more unit tests (soon to be pushed hopefully).

You can see the patch of this quite old mono bug here. Disclaimer: to be honest you will only need the previous --abi tool if you use a Mono version prior this fix, because from my testing VTS in MS.NET works as if every new field had an [OptionalField] attached! (At least the BinaryFormatter, the TODO here for the reader is to test the SoapFormatter ;) )

On a totally unrelated note: kudos to the MonoDevelop team for making such a great releases lately (and fixing the bugs I report so promptly). I've been testing it the last months on Windows and I can say it's a great experience to see your favorite IDE working cross-platform and making you not depend on VS anymore if you need to work on Windows from time to time (I know the Express versions are free, and are great! but they do not support plugins :( ). BTW, I've been lately experimenting with the C language support in this IDE, and have had some problems, but the real culprit seems to lay behind some wierd behaviour of my gdb in opensuse. Taking advantage that I'm in opensuse planet, can I do a couple of lazyweb requests?:

a) If you're quite familiar with gdb, can you take a look at these 2 bugs in case it rings any bell for you? BNC#588175, BNC#459274

b) Can you try to reproduce those bugs in openSUSE 11.3? (I haven't migrated yet from 11.2 because I fear about the HALlessness of it :) )

PS: Wondered why the video on the top? Well, I like the trend that some people have about posting random photos in their blog posts even when they may be completely unrelated, but in my case I love music so I figured this would suit better. Of course I would rather embed a WebM video or, even better, something that can preview a song (without video) in a "normally-lower-quality-than-what-you-can-buy" way, so if you have any hints, those are welcome! I especially mention the latter in this case because the Album version of the song above is much much better (synth pop FTW!).

Baltasar Ortega: Entrevistas: Aleix Pol (I)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:19:12 +0000

Inicio una serie de artículos a destacados miembros de la asociación KDE España. Empezamos con el secretario de la asociación, Aleix Pol, que aúna juventud y trabajo para ser uno de los programadores más activos de la comunidad KDE en España.

Hola Aleix, ¿podrías empezar presentándote a nuestros lectores?

A ver, me llamo Aleix, tengo 24 años y soy de Barcelona. He pasado los últimos años estudiando Ingeniería Informática en la UPC, carrera que debería llegar a su fin en cuanto acabe mi proyecto fin de carrera próximamente. Aparte, soy un entusiasta de KDE, proyecto con el que he colaborado durante los últimos 4 años aproximadamente, sobre todo en los proyectos de KDevelop y KAlgebra.

¿Cuándo y cómo descubriste el software libre? ¿Y KDE?

Desde muy pequeño me interesó la informática, empezando por los juegos sin duda, pero un buen día mi padre me habló de que un compañero suyo de trabajo estuvo probando un sistema operativo nuevo llamado Linux. Siempre he tenido la sensación que desde entonces supe que lo usaría y, además, que quería ser bueno en ello, y de ahi las cantidades de horas que he dedicado al pingüinito, a los engranajes y a todo el movimiento en general.

¿Cuales han sido tus proyectos en el Software Libre? ¿Y en KDE?

La gran mayoría de mis proyectos han sido en KDE. La historia fue un poco así: primero me pasé a GNU/Linux pero ya había estado haciendo programas en MS Visual Studio y MS Visual Basic sobretodo (-.- sí… tengo un pasado oscuro) y necesitaba alguna plataforma que me ayudara a proseguir en mis proyectillos. Aunque usé KDE casi desde el principio, yo quería trabajar con interficies gráficas y para aquél entonces el ecosistema dejaba bastante que desear. Pasé por Mono, GTK, Qt y no fue hasta que empecé KAlgebra que me opté decididamente por KDE.

KAlgebra fue el primer proyecto en el que trabajé en serio y la verdad es que me fue muy bien. Era un proyecto que tenía bastante pensado desde el principio, era algo que quería hacer desde hacía tiempo, así que las cosas fueron saliendo y pronto empezó a empaquetarse y a ser distribuido en algunas distribuciones educativas. Esto para mi fue muy motivador, hasta el punto que el proyecto aún sigue vivo, más vivo que nunca.
Justo cuando KAlgebra entró en KDE, después de pasar 2 o 3 años en el limbo de KDE-Apps.org, fui aceptado por primera vez al programa Google Summer of Code para KDevelop donde empecé a trabajar en el soporte de CMake en KDevelop que me introdujo a este proyecto.
Estos son los proyectos más importantes en los que he trabajado, pero con el tiempo han salido otros como Kamoso, un programa que hice con Álex Fiestas para sacar fotos con la webcam, Talk, mi programa de presentaciones que hace que mis presentaciones se vean distintas de todas las otras y Kanban, un programa para guardar listas de las cosas que tienes que hacer.

Eres un programador muy joven, que estás terminando tus estudios ¿Te ves pudiendo vivir del Software Libre?

Me gustaría mucho, de momento lo veo como un sueño. No es una tarea fácil y menos aquí en España, pero cada día hay más infrastructura e interés. Respecto al Software Libre así que soy optimista por el momento. Es más, hay gente que lo está haciendo ya, y confio en que habrá más de ellos.

Eres un miembro destacado de KDE España, ¿qué futuro le ves a la asociación?

Creo que la asociación está en un momento crucial ahora mismo. Hemos pasado una etapa en la que había más burocrácia que KDE, cada día superamos otro de estos peldaños y nos tenemos que preguntar a dónde queremos que vaya la asociación.
La presencia de KDE en España deja mucho que desear, hay un nivel de desconocimiento del software libre muy importante y sobretodo, por lo que nos respecta, mucho desconocimiento de KDE. Creo que KDE puede aportar mucho a España y, por lo que me incumbe, a Catalunya y creo que KDE España va a tener un papel fundamental en esta tarea de difusión y adaptación.

Continuará…

Sebastian Siebert: openSUSE 11.3 – Kernel 2.6.34.4 im Update-Repo verfügbar

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:29 +0000

Heute (08.09.2010) wurde für openSUSE 11.3 das erste Kernelupdate mit der Kernel-Version 2.6.34.4 veröffentlicht und ist ab sofort im Update-Repo verfügbar. Es wurden einige Fehler wie auch sicherheitsrelevante Fehler behoben.

Das Kernelupdate lässt sich über YaST2 oder per zypper einspielen:

zypper up

Hinweis für Besitzer einer ATI-Grafikkarte, die ATI Catalyst auf ihrem openSUSE-System installiert haben:
Nachdem man den Kernelupdate eingespielt hat, sollte man bei einem Neustart zuerst in den Runlevel 3 booten. Dann loggt man sich als root ein und anschließend den fglrx-Kernelmodul neu bauen lassen:

fglrx-kernel-build.sh

Danach mittels reboot neustarten.
Weitere Informationen: openSUSE 11.3 – proprietären Grafik-Treiber ATI Catalyst 10.8 als RPM installieren

Die offizielle Ankündigung von Marcus Meissner zum Kernelupdate:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00003.html

Ein Auszug der Changelog aus der RPM:

kabi/severities: Ignore changes in md, jbd2 and kvm.
ssb: Handle Netbook devices where the SPROM address is changed (bnc#617912).
novfs: backing device info initialization (bnc#623472).
novfs: Fix a memory leak that causes an OOM condition (bnc#610828).
ALSA: hda – Add beep mixer support to Conexant codecs (bnc#619727).
novfs: code cleanup for one case of novfs return value (bnc#624606).
novfs: Fix error codes for getxattr for novfs (bnc#529535).
x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used (bnc#623005).
drm/i915: enable low power render writes on GEN3 hardware (bnc#621598).
drm/i915: add ‘reclaimable’ to i915 self-reclaimable page allocations (bnc#621598).
drm/i915: Define MI_ARB_STATE bits (bnc#621598).
drm/i915: gen3 page flipping fixes (bnc#617530).
drm/i915: don’t queue flips during a flip pending event (bnc#617530).
Refresh due to acpi_power_register now properly defining the field values.
ALSA: hda – Add pin-fix for HP dc5750 (bnc#624118).
GFS2: rename causes kernel Oops (bnc#627386 CVE-2010-2798).
ALSA: hda – patch_nvhdmi.c: Add missing codec IDs, unify names (bnc#627212).
NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem (bnc#584720).
Char: nozomi, set tty->driver_data appropriately (bnc#619021).
Char: nozomi, fix tty->count counting (bnc#619021).
novfs: Lindent novfs sources. Added to keep SLE11SP1, 11.3, and master codebases in sync.
vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls (bnc#625339).
ALSA: hda – Add quirk for Dell Vostro 1220 (bnc#631066).
ALSA: hda – Handle pin NID 0x1a on ALC259/269 (bnc#631185).
ALSA: hda – Handle missing NID 0x1b on ALC259 codec (bnc#631185).
kabi/severities: Updated kABI severities to deal with some changes introduced by the -stable patches.
KABI-REVERT: perf_events: Fix races and clean up perf_event and perf_mmap_data interaction.
KABI: Guard struct firmware against kabi checker.
KABI: Guard against compat.h in fs/aio.c.
KABI-REVERT: wrong type for ‘magic’ argument in simple_fill_super().
kabi/severities: Ignore changes in usb_buffer_{,un}map_sg
blktap2: eliminate bogus clearing of PG_reserved (bnc#624814).
Update Xen patches to 2.6.34.4.
Fix kabi files (symsets were missing).
ALSA: Enable jiffies-check in xrun-debug as default (bnc#631319).
ALSA: emu10k1 – delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter (bnc#627310).
kabi/severities: ignore kabi change in previous emu10k1 fix
kabi/severities: remove snd-hda-codec
Fix kABI breakage for struct hda_codec in 2.6.34.2 stable changes.
Re-add inclusion of linux/inetdevice.h in netfront.c to preserve kABI.
fix Xen-specific kABI issues in Linux 2.6.34.2.
mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page (bnc#629908).
KABI: acpi: Guard acpi_processor_cx changes.
Removed ACPI from the whitelist. The granularity is such that even though it wouldn’t break anything once the module is loaded, the rpm dependencies wouldn’t be met.

Die folgenden Kernel-Changelogs sind die offiziellen Berichte zu den Änderungen von 2.6.34.1 bis einschließlich 2.6.34.4 vom Upstream kernel.org:
ChangeLog-2.6.34.1
ChangeLog-2.6.34.2
ChangeLog-2.6.34.3
ChangeLog-2.6.34.4

openSUSE.cz: Na slovíčko s Josem Poortvlietem

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:04:01 +0000

Linux.com, konkrétně Jack Wallen, si pozval na kus řeči nového komunitního managera projektu openSUSE, se kterým probral několik zajímavých témat, která se týkají především jeho bývalé práce u KDE, ale došlo i okrajově na jeho novou práci u openSUSE.

Ještě než se pustíte do pročítání tohoto rozhovoru, si něco řekněme o Jose Poortvlietovi. Ten byl začátkem srpna přijat Novellem na post komunitního managera. Předtím působil jako dobrovolník komunity KDE a tam pracoval na postu vedoucího marketingového týmu. Při tomto zaměstnání koordinoval a přispíval k práci kolem vydávání nových verzí KDE, tvorbě marketingových materiálů, navštěvování a organizování konferencí a udržoval kontakt s tiskem a médii. Ve svém "reálném" životě pracoval například jako obchodní konzultant pro Royal Bank of Scotland. Dále pak dělal pro holandské státní oddělení Vzdělávání a KPN a také pro holandského poskytovatele Telecom.

číst dál

SUSE Studio: Import KIWI and AutoYaST configurations easily

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:16:27 +0000

SUSE Studio offers nice user interface for configuring software appliances with many options. But what if you already had a configuration ready — for example a carefully tuned AutoYaST profile which your company uses for installing workstations? Or a KIWI configuration of your appliance exported from Studio (so that you could build that appliance on your machine) which you modified locally? Until now, there was no easy way how to apply it in Studio.

This is why we prepared a brand new KIWI and AutoYaST configuration import feature. If you enable it (more about that below), you can easily create an appliance based on your settings. Just go to your Studio home page, click the Create new appliance... button and select the Import icon instead of one of the templates.

You can then upload your KIWI configuration or AutoYaST profile. Studio will automatically detect which one you used and create a new appliance with the configuration settings applied.

Supported settings

KIWI and AutoYaST imports support the following settings:

Setting	KIWI	AutoYaST
Name	X	–
Architecture	X	(1)
Base system	X	(1)
Users	X	X
Repositories	X	X
Pacakges	X	X
Patterns	–	X
Network settings	X	–
Boot settings	X	–
Build scripts	X	–
Logos	X	–
Background theming	X	–
Overlay files	X	X

(1) The architecture and base system are selected by the user during the import. This information is not contained in the AutoYaST profile as the profiles are designed to be generic.

What about the settings Studio can’t import? In case of AutoYaST, we apply the unimported settings using AutoYaST itself when the appliance boots for the first time. You can edit the applied profile (with already imported settings stripped) in the Configuration → Scripts tab in the appliance configuration.

Enabling the imports

The KIWI and AutoYaST imports are still in beta — which means they aren’t enabled by default. To enable them, go to your profile page and click on the Enable experimental features button (this will give you access to all beta features we introduce).

As with all software still in beta, bugs are expected. If you’ll note anything not working as expected, let us know so we can look at the issue and fix it.

Jigish Gohil: KIWI-LTSP multiple image support improvements

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:40:24 +0000

Savin Alex has been busy working on improving kiwi-ltsp lately. The basic idea behind the new development is easier management of multiple LTSP images that can be served over NBD or AOE. Earlier Shrenik Bhura had added multiple image support for AOE, now it is also supported when using NBD.

For example, with very powerful hardware available, images of KDE, GNOME desktops or any other profile of your choice can be served as LTSP_FATCLIENT, this will enable images to use resources on the clients’ local hardware instead of traditional LTSP way of running all the client sessions on the server. Advantage of this way is making use of local hardware resources and central management of OS deployed in the entire network. LTSP can also be clustered to load balance and in case one of the servers fail.

New development also include easier way of managing PXE boot menu. See kiwi-ltsp-setup –intro for more.

Check out the detailed howto for using multiple LTSP images here. Start here to know more about LTSP and how you can get started with it in your network. openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVD comes bundled with KIWI-LTSP server and takes just a few clicks to get it up and running.

Sirko Kemter: Virtuelle Adventures

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:52:37 +0000

Vor nicht all zu langer Zeit habe ich über SUSE Studio berichtet, mit dem sich mit wenigen Mausklicks Live-ISOs für DVD,CD oder Sticks oder auch Images für XEN, KVM, VMWare oder VirtualBox erstellen lassen. Einloggen, Template auswählen, Software hinzufügen, konfigurieren, builden lassen und herunterladen und nutzen.
Auch unter ubuntu gibt es Möglichkeitenderartiges zu Erstellen. Für das Erstellen von Live-ISO gibt es das Ubuntu Customization Kit oder Remastersys, wie sieht es aber mit Werkzeugen zum Erstellen von Images für XEN, KVM oder ähnlichen Virtualisierungslösungen aus? Gefunden habe ich dafür zwei Lösungen den ubuntu-vm-builder und vmbuilder.
Ersterer ist gemäß den Hilfeseiten bei Ubuntu eigentlich veraltet, was mich dabei stutzig macht ist das, dass Paket trotzdem noch installierbar ist und seltsamerweise das neuere Werkzeug mit installiert.

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-extras debootstrap kpartx python-cheetah python-libvirt devscripts libvirt0 libxen3 libaio1 bridge-utils qemu-common seabios vgabios ubuntu-vm-builder

Ein paar weitere Abhängigkeiten werden dann auch noch mit installiert. Das Manual zu dieser Software ist nicht sehr umfangreich, aber es fördert immerhin zu Tage, dass man mit dem Aufruf ubuntu-vm-builder <hypervisor> <distro> –help Hilfe erhalten könnte. Mir neu mehr Hilfe in der Hilfe als im Manual zu finden.
Der Aufruf ubuntu-vm-builder kvm lucid erzeugt ein Image für kvm mit einem JeOS auf Lucid Lynx Basis und zwar mit allen default Einstellungen. Die allerdings herauszufinden war nicht einfach. Eine Suche in den Dateien unter /etc/vmbuilder brachte nicht wirklich viel zum Vorschein. Eine Suche bei Google brachte dann folgendes Onlineformular zum Vorschein, das nicht nur den ellenlangen Aufruf generiert sondern ganz zufällig auch die Defaultwerte enthält.
Das die Dateien unter /etc/vmbuilder/ eine Art Templates darstellen scheint wohl Fehlanzeige zu sein, so ganz zufrieden bin ich mit dieser Lösung nicht. Also habe ich die zweite Lösung ausprobiert.

sudo apt-get install python-vm-builder

Der Aufruf ist vmbuilder <hypervisor> <distro> also identisch zu ubuntu-vm-builder auch die Optionen sind identisch bis auf eine, aber entscheidende. vmbuilder akzeptiert Konfigurationsfiles. Und so kann ein solches Konfigurationsfile aussehen.

[DEFAULT]
arch = i386
ip = 192.168.10.100
part = vmbuilder.partition
user = user
name = user
pass = geheim
tmpfs = -
firstboot = boot.sh
firstlogin = login.sh

[ubuntu]
mirror = http://paketserver:9999/ubuntu
suite = lucid
flavour = virtual
addpkg = openssh-server, weiteres-paket, und-noch-eins
ppa = name

[kvm]
libvirt = qemu:///system

Der Aufruf wäre dann folgender.

sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu -c configuration.cfg

vmbuilder lädt dann alle entsprechenden Pakete von den angegebenen Servern herunter, daher empfiehlt es sich wenn man häufiger derartige Abbilder erzeugen will apt-proxy oder apt-mirror zu verwenden. Nach der Beendigung findet man in seinem Home-Verzeichnis ein Verzeichnis namens ubuntu-kvm, welches das Abbild und ein Startskript run.sh enthält, mit der man die Maschine direkt starten kann.
Das man statt eines JeOS mit Hilfe der Konfiguration auch eine Desktop-Maschine erzeugen kann ist einfach. Dazu einfach die folgenden Pakete installieren lassen.

ubuntu-desktop
language-pack-de
language-pack-de-base
language-support-de
language-pack-gnome-de
language-pack-gnome-de-base

Das Paket ubuntu-desktop ist ein Metapaket, welches alle benötigten Pakete als Abhängigkeit besitzt. Einziges Problem ist, dass es keine Option für das setzen der Locale gibt, aber dafür läßt sich ja die Option firstboot benutzen. Also einfach ein Skript schreiben welches setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant basic aufruft und unter /etc/default/locale/ den Eintrag LANG=”de_DE.utf-8″ setzt.

Bleibt noch zu erwähnen das man entsprechenden Platz auf der Festplatte haben muss, um die Images zu bauen.

Verwöhnt von openSUSE Tools wie SUSE Studio oder KIWI ist das eine recht abenteuerliche Art Images für virtuelle Maschine zu erzeugen, aber am Ende funktioniert es, wünschenswert wäre allerdings wirklich noch eine Spracheinstellung als Option angeben zu dürfen.

Sebastian Siebert: openSUSE 11.3 – GUI-Anwendungen per SSH (X11-Forwarding) remote ausführen und anzeigen lassen

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:52:16 +0000

In diesem Artikel behandele ich das Thema “X11-Forwarding” über SSH, um eine GUI-Anwendung (z.B. Thunderbird, OpenOffice, usw.) auf einem entfernten Desktop-Rechner auszuführen und z.B. auf einem Netbook anzeigen zu lassen. Das klingt sehr verlockend und die Einrichtung ist auch nicht so schwierig.

Bevor man eine Anwendung über das Netzwerk starten kann, muss man erst noch ein wenig vorarbeiten.

Auf dem entfernten Rechner (z.B. Desktop):

Man öffnet die Datei /etc/ssh/sshd_config mit einem Editor als root
Jetzt prüft man, ob die folgende Einstellung aktiv ist. Hinweis: Es darf keine Raute vorne weg sein:
```
X11Forwarding yes
```
Wenn man nur ein IPv4-Netzwerk (z.B 192.168.0.2) anstatt ein IPv6-Netzwerk (z.B. fe80::c0a8:2) verwendet, so sollte man besser den SSH-Server zwangsweise per IPv4 kommunizieren lassen. Andernfalls könnte es Probleme geben. Daher trägt man noch folgendes ein:
```
AddressFamily inet
```
Nachdem man die Konfiguration abgespeichert hat, muss man jetzt noch den SSH-Server neustarten:
```
rcsshd restart
```
Wenn der SSH-Server bei jedem Neustart mitstarten soll, so kann man dies im Runlevel-Editor ändern. Man ruft per ALT + F2 den Krunner auf und gibt ins Eingabefeld folgendes ein:
```
yast2 runlevel
```
Danach in der Liste den sshd aktivieren und mit Okay die Änderung bestätigen.

Auf dem Rechner (z.B. Netbook oder Notebook), von dem später eine Verbindung zum entfernten Rechner aufgebaut wird:

Man öffnet die Datei /etc/ssh/ssh_config mit einem Editor als root
Dann ändert man folgenden Eintrag
```
#  ForwardX11 no
```
in
```
   ForwardX11 yes
```
ab.
Abschließend prüft man noch, ob die folgende Einstellung aktiviert ist. Hinweis: Es darf keine Raute vorne weg sein:
```
ForwardX11Trusted yes
```
Diese Konfiguration speichert man nun ab.

Somit ist man jetzt mit der Konfiguration durch.

Wie baut man jetzt eine Verbindung zum entfernten Rechner auf und startet eine Anwendung (z.B. Dolphin)?

Zuerst benötigt man die lokale IP vom entfernten Rechner. Das kann man sehr leicht auf dem entfernten Rechner herausfinden und gibt in der Konsole folgendes ein:

ifconfig

Dann pickt man sich in der Ausgabe die IP-Adresse heraus
z.B. bei eth0: inet Adresse: 192.168.0.2

Man kann es auch über das Internet durchleiten lassen, jedoch benötigt man die IP-Adresse vom entfernten Rechner, die vom Internet-Provider zugeteilt wurde, und eine entsprechende Änderungen an der Firewall im Router (Port 22 von außen freischalten und zum “entfernten” Rechner umleiten) müssen auch vorgenommen werden. Jedoch würde ich für Linux-Neulinge abraten, diese Änderung am Router vorzunehmen. Wer daran interessiert ist, sollte sich besser zuerst mit dem Thema “Sicherheit unter Linux” auseinandersetzen. Das fängt mit der Stärke des Passwortes an und geht über Verwendung des SSH-Schlüssels und hört mit der Umlegung des SSH-Ports auf. (Dazu werde ich auch nochmal ein Artikel schreiben )

Jetzt geht’s ans Eingemachte und tippen folgendes in der Konsole auf dem Netbook (Notebook) ein, um z.B. Dolphin vom Desktop-Rechner zu starten und auf dem Netbook (Notebook) anzeigen zu lassen. (Bitte ersetzt hier den Usernamen und die IP vom entfernten Rechner):

ssh -X username@192.168.0.2 dolphin

Allgemein gilt folgendes:

ssh -X username@ip-adresse anwendung

Falls ein Firewall-Dienst auf dem entfernten Rechner aktiv ist, dann achtet darauf den SSH-Dienst (Secure Shell-Server) bzw. den Port 22 für externe Zugriffe freizugeben.

Have a lot of fun!

Héctor Reyes Armenta: SIN IDEAS

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:10 +0000

Mucho días sin escribir, la verdad es que he tenido proyectos en los que he aprendido muchas cosas y que valen la pane escribir, mas como referencia para futuros proyectos en los que tenga que hacer algo similar :)

Estos días preparare algo y espero regresar a escribir con mayor regularidad, me siento mas productivo en mi blog que en facebook :headbang:

openSUSE-lernen.de: Septemberausgabe von freiesMagazin erschienen

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:57:37 +0000

Die Ausgabe 09/2010 von “freiesMagazin” ist fertig. freiesMagazin ist ein kostenloses, monatlich erscheinendes Magazin, das über Wissenswertes und Neues aus den Welten Freier Software, Open Source und Linux berichtet. Das Magazin kann von der Seite freiesmagazin.de als PDF-Datei heruntergeladen werden. Außerdem sind zwei für Mobilgeräte geeignete Versionen verfügbar die aber auch mit normalen Browsern betrachtet [...]

openSUSE.cz: Vývoj popularity nejznámějších distribucí Linuxu

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:34:24 +0000

Při brouzdání internetem a hledání námětu na další článek na tento server jsem narazil na hezky zpracovaný článek o vývoji popularity jednotlivých distribucí. Nejedná se ani tak o srovnání popularity ani počtu instalací, ale jde o srovnání výsledků vyhledávání jednotlivých distribucí prostřednictvím nejpoužívanějšího nástroje pro vyhledávání... Ano, je tu řeč o Googlu. K tomuto srovnávání byl použit nástroj Google Statistiky vyhledávání (Insights), který tvoří grafy, jež znázorňují počty dotazů na zadaný podmět v nastaveném časovém horizontu. Tento počet dotazů je vyjádřen škálou od 0 až po 100.

číst dál

Nelson Marques: OBS: the final frontier…

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:14:52 +0000

From a small chit chat on IRC the other day with Bryen and Sirko somehow I ended up with the task to providing an article about openSUSE Build Service. I have to say Sirko is awesome in Guerrilla Marketing, a cool proof could be the way how he got me into this. Anyway… though I’m not a journalist, every article should start with some basic research…

Checked out Build Service Portal;
Signed on opensuse-buildservice mailing lists;
Got 2 software packages not so visible on openSUSE:
- notify-osd (a replacement for notification-daemon) by Canonical, and the evil leolik patch;
- notifyconf (a tool to configure notify-osd if patched with leolik patch);
Packaged the stuff with my narrow knowledge (keep in mind that my stuff is actually marketing management and not computer science);
Consulted the opensuse-buildservice mailing list to get some feedback about the specs (DimStar was most helpful on this).

This was done so far… as personal interest and also as a way to get some qualitative research and knowledge about the topic I’m writing. I understand that there is some tremendous potential on openSUSE Build Service and that it can bring much to the openSUSE Community and to openSUSE as a GNU/Linux distribution (yes, I know some might not like the terminology from RMS, but I do).

My next steps are simple and will provide me the rest of the information I require to start writing the article:

Get a cool group for my 2 packages;
Try to push them into openSUSE:Contrib; (understanding that I will be responsible for their maintenance, lucky for me Canonical did a good job on them and I wont probably be subject of long wild goose chases… or bug hunts).

Once I get my reply from openSUSE:Contrib, this research process if finished for me, despite of the outcome, it really doesn’t matter if it’s accepted or not, the most important thing is to document it and take some qualitative feedback out of it.

I’ve also sent a small email to the openSUSE’s Marketing Team requiring help from Andreas Jaeger, the openSUSE Build Service liaison to get some materials that I am aware they exist and if possible to help me on this task.

My goal is to get this done shortly before the openSUSE Conference 2010. This project is my personal reply to Sirko claims that I’m a story teller! Thanks for the motivation Sirko.

Oh! I almost forgot… Do YOU have something useful for this article? Please feel free to share. My contacts are somewhere here.

Michael Meeks: 2010-09-07: Tuesday.

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:02:54 +0000

Up too early, got babes practised with time to spare; packed them off to school. Reviewed a PackageKit / zypp backend bug or two, compiled a new Python so I could build gobject-introspection, and thus PK. Prodded and merged misc. fixes.
Lunch. Considered DOS on Dope as a platform for a Web Office suite, particularly with it's lack of known scalability problems (the time-wasting perils of twitter strike again).

Mirosław Rogoziński: openSUSE 11.4 – roadmap

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:37:27 +0000

Na stronie projektu openSUSE pojawił się już wstępny roadmap dla wydania 11.4. Planowane jest wydanie 6 kamieni milowych, 2 wydań kandydujących, a ostateczna premiera wersji 11.4 miałaby odbyć się 10 marca 2011 roku.

czwartek, wrzesień 02, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1
czwartek, wrzesień 30, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2
piątek, listopad 05, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3
czwartek, listopad 25, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4
czwartek, grudzień 16, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 5
czwartek, styczeń 20, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6
czwartek, luty 10, openSUSE 11.4 RC 1 release
piątek, luty 25, openSUSE 11.4 RC 2 release
czwartek, marzec 03, openSUSE 11.4 Goldmaster
czwartek, marzec 10, openSUSE 11.4 Wydanie oficjalne

Mirosław Rogoziński: Zmiana klucza produktu w Windows 7

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:24:52 +0000

Ostatnio przeinstalowałem sobie Windows 7 z płytki firmowej Della od innego zestawu, tak więc po instalacji należałoby zmienić klucz produktu. Przy użyciu standardowej płytki instalacyjnej klucz produktu możemy zmienić poprzez funkcję Zmień klucz produktu w Mój komputer – Aktywacja systemu, jednak w przypadku instalacji z płytek Della system jest już aktywny i opcja ta jest niedostępna. W takim przypadku możemy skorzystać z narzędzia SLMGR. Narzędzie to służy do zarządzania licencjonowaniem systemu Windows. Aby z niego skorzystać uruchamiamy wiersz poleceń z podniesionymi uprawnieniami i wpisujemy:

smlgr -ipk twój_klucz

Przełącznik -ipk służy do zmiany klucza produktu. Po wywołaniu po chwili pojawi się okienko z komunikatem o pomyślnej zmianie klucza. Następnie wpisujemy:

smlgr -ato

Przełącznik -ato z kolei przeprowadzi ponowną aktywację systemu. Po wywołaniu otrzymamy informację o pomyślnej aktywacji systemu.

Thomas Thym: Hello Planet SUSE

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:12:21 +0000

Since many years I am an (open)SUSE user and spread openSUSE wherever I could in my private environment.
The openSUSE strategy discussion has scratched my itch and I started to contribute more to openSUSE.

What could you expect?
Don't expect much code from me. My experiences are more in the area of strategy, marketing and promotion. Perhaps I could also share some results from my researches during the last years about open source communities.

So be curios and stay tuned.
I am happy to join the openSUSE community and I am looking forward to know more of you.

Let's have a lot of fun!

Cheers,
Thomas

Baltasar Ortega: Entrada del día: Odisea de una Migración de GNU/Linux a Windows

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:52:07 +0000

Leído en Paraiso Linux, pero original de Angel Verde os os invito a leer un artículo donde un usuario de Linux decide migrar a Windows y se encuentra con bastantes dificultades.
De lectura obligada nos hace reflexionar sobre la libertad de elección, el respeto a los otros, la eficencia y las razones económicas de utilizar un sistema GNU/Linux frente a Windows.
Resalto solo un párrafo, por no hacer copia y pega, y os invito a leer el artículo completo.

OK, decidí que lo instalaría. Seguí las instrucciones de la pantalla, pero me puse nervioso porque no me pregunto si tenia otros sistemas operativos instalados. Se que en cada GNU/Linux que instalo, siempre me pregunta por crear nuevas particiones o cosas por el estilo. Le volví a llamar a mi amigo y el me dijo que Windows 7 elimina cualquier otro sistema operativo previamente instalado. Bien, OK, regrese a GNU/Linux y respalde todos mis datos antes de regresar a instalar mi copia de Windows.

Versión completa: Angel Verde

Masim Vavai Sugianto: Instalasi Aplikasi Denyhosts untuk Melindungi Akses SSH

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:04:51 +0000

Salah satu masalah utama jika akses SSH server dibuka untuk keperluan remote adalah adanya user lain (cracker, hacker) yang coba-coba mendapatkan akses masuk kedalam sistem. Hal ini bisa diantisipasi dengan berbagai macam cara, misalnya dengan mengubah port default SSH, tidak membolehkan akses root secara remote, hanya membolehkan host tertentu untuk akses dan lain-lain.

Contoh berikut adalah log cracker yang ingin mencoba masuk kedalam sistem :

Sep 6 23:44:33 myhostname sshd[22483]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:37 myhostname sshd[22488]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:43 myhostname sshd[22494]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:46 myhostname sshd[22499]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:48 myhostname sshd[22504]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:51 myhostname sshd[22509]: Invalid user operator from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:54 myhostname sshd[22514]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:56 myhostname sshd[22519]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:44:59 myhostname sshd[22524]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:02 myhostname sshd[22530]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:05 myhostname sshd[22689]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:07 myhostname sshd[22773]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:10 myhostname sshd[22904]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:13 myhostname sshd[22954]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx
Sep 6 23:45:15 myhostname sshd[22962]: Invalid user oracle from 119.6.62.xxx

Seperti bisa dilihat pada log diatas, pengakses mencoba dictionary attack menggunakan berbagai nama user untuk mencoba akses. Meski akses tersebut gagal dilakukan, server tetap terbebani karena terpaksa melayani request yang masuk.

Salah satu cara yang bisa ditempuh untuk melindungi akses SSH adalah dengan menggunakan aplikasi denyhosts. Aplikasi denyhosts melindungi ssh dengan cara memasukkan IP pengakses kedalam daftar blacklist jika beberapa kali salah memasukkan password.

Proses instalasi dan apliksinya sangat mudah. Berikut adalah proses instalasi pada openSUSE 11.3 :

Buka [http://software.opensuse.org/search openSUSE Build Service]. Cari aplikasi denyhosts. Sesuaikan versi openSUSE yang digunakan. Jika tidak ada aplikasi untuk versi openSUSE yang digunakan, silakan ambil paket untuk versi yang berdekatan, misalnya SLES 11 SP1 bisa menggunakan package untuk SLES 11 atau untuk openSUSE 11.1, 11.2 atau untuk openSUSE 11.3.
Install menggunakan one-click-install
Review file konfigurasi /etc/denyhosts.conf. Pada distro openSUSE, denyhosts secara default akan menganalisa file log /var/log/messages, namun mungkin saja kita perlu mengubah nama file log untuk dianalisa, misalnya jika menggunakan aplikasi Zimbra, denyhosts bisa diperintahkan untuk mengakses file log /var/log/zimbra.log. Check juga mengenai jumlah maksimum kesalahan pemasukan password dan pilihan lain yang tersedia.
Jika konfigurasi sudah sesuai, jalankan denyhosts dengan perintah :
```
service denyhosts start
service denyhosts status
```
Jika menginginkan agar denyhosts otomatis berjalan saat booting, aktifkan service denyhosts dengan perintah :
```
chkconfig denyhosts on
```
File log denyhosts bisa ditemukan di /var/log/denyhosts. Jika ada pengakses yang diblaclist karena memenuhi syarat (misalnya gagal memasukkan password sebanyak 5X), denyhosts akan memasukkan IP pengakses kedalam file /etc/hosts.deny

Berikut adalah contoh saat denyhosts memblacklist salah satu IP :

Sep 06 23:50:24 – denyhosts : INFO restricted: set([])
Sep 06 23:50:24 – denyhosts : INFO Processing log file (/var/log/zimbra.log) from offset (0)
Sep 06 23:50:25 – denyhosts : INFO new denied hosts: ['119.6.62.xxx']

Dan berikut isi file /etc/hosts.deny setelah IP diblacklist :

myhostname:~ # cat /etc/hosts.deny

# /etc/hosts.deny
# See ‘man tcpd’ and ‘man 5 hosts_access’ as well as /etc/hosts.allow
# for a detailed description.

http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL

ALL: 119.6.62.xxx

Denyhosts, aplikasi simple namun bermanfaat

Michael Meeks: 2010-09-06: Monday.

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Overslept, not into the 6:45am waking routine from the holidays yet. Fed, and hurried babes off to school. M. looking so tiny and sweet in her new uniform.
Back to the mail hill, admin, Clarity, tested bootchart2 pieces, merged branches and pushed out a 0.12.4 - with memory graphing from Dave Martin at Linaro, and lots more nice fixes and features from Riccardo Magliocchetti.
Started slogging through abstracts: I know everyone wants their simple calculator-app to be 'more a platform than an app' but apparently they now want to be virtual platforms - perhaps fair enough if it has at least some tenuous link to virtualisation; but if not ?
Dinner, baby stories, more mail thrash. Finished LotR in the evening while J. painted.

Baltasar Ortega: Movimientos de KDEPIM: Lanzada la tercera beta de la versión 4.5 y en preparación la versión 4.4.6

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:32:18 +0000

El equipo de desarrollo de KDEPIM, el gestor de información personal de KDE, sigue con su trabajo en dos frentes.
El primero, y más esperado, es la publicación de la tercera beta de la versión 4.5. Esta versión, evidentemente, es más estable que la anterior y ofrece más servicios (por ejemplo, KMail además de POP y disconnected IMAP, ahora soporta Push IMAP)(gràcies Aleix)
Si vais a actualizar, haced una copia de seguridad de vuestra información.
Más información: bash’s blog
Por otra parte, también se está preparando la versión 4.4.6, que parece que estará lista para el jueves 9 de setiembre.
Atentos a las actualizaciones de vuestras distribuciones.
Más información: awinterz’s blog

openSUSE-lernen.de: openSUSE Wochenschau Nr. 139 ist online

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:00:19 +0000

Die 139. Ausgabe der deutschsprachigen openSUSE Wochenschau ist nun online. Das Team hat wieder interessante Neuigkeiten rund um openSUSE und Linux für euch zusammengetragen. Unter anderem in dieser Ausgabe: openSUSE Connect Beta – die neue zentrale Benutzerdatenbank Neues von openFATE – ein Gemeinschaftsportal für das Feature- und Anfragesystem von openSUSE Tipps & Tricks für Desktopanwender, [...]

OMG!SUSE! team: Want to write for OMG! SUSE!?

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:18:17 +0000

As you might have noticed, except for a couple of articles by a few others, I have largely been writing the majority of content for OMG! SUSE!. It has been tremendously fun but the volume of interesting content is very much dependent on the amount of free time I have on the weekends, which is when I do the majority of my writing.

There are some events coming up which will likely gobble up a few weekends this Autumn and I'd like to ensure that OMG! SUSE! stays up to date during that time. This means that we want you! I'm hoping to get some other regular contributors that can write while I'm otherwise indisposed.

If you have ideas for an articles or tutorials you'd like to write for OMG! SUSE!, drop me a line and let's get it published! Even if you don't have any ideas but feel like helping out covering recent events in the openSUSE community, that'd be appreciated too.

If all else fails, OMG! SUSE! might go quiet for a few weeks in early October which might not be the end of the world (but it sure will be boring!)

Note: Image courtesy of tuxparty.org

OMG!SUSE! team: 10 Awesome Free Games for openSUSE

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Back in "ye olde days" of Linux, there were no games. If you wanted to entertain yourself, you either played nethack or you tried to compile Gentoo, neither of them terrifically fun. (In those days I played a game called "learn to program" which was probably the most entertaining game on Linux at the time.)

These days gaming on Linux is a completely different story, we now have everything from Minesweeper (KMines) to first-person shooters and flight simulators. While the gaming experience is far from perfect on the Linux Desktop, it's miles ahead of where it was just four years ago.

Today gaming on Linux is becoming increasingly popular, so much so that my pals over at OMG! Ubuntu! are launching a new site called Ubuntu Gamer before the year is out. I don't plan on launching a site called "openSUSE Gamer", but I did want to jot down a list of some pretty stellar games available for Linux users of all kinds.

The full list of awesome Linux games after the jump

Shooters

UrbanTerror is by far one of my all-time favorite Linux-based games. It feels like a slightly more dated version of Counter Strike with clients for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It continues to have a great online presence with hundreds of busy UrbanTerror (UrT) servers running around with plenty of skilled shooters and noobs galore. UrT offers a few different kinds of game play such as "Team Survivor" (when you die in a round, you're dead, last man standing wins), "Free for All" (no teams, everybody kills everybody), "Team Deathmatch" (two teams rack up kills against each other) and my favorite: Capture-the-Flag. The download is big and unfortunately not packaged for openSUSE but you can download 32-bit or 64-bit executables here.
BZFlag is probably one of the oldest 3D games still played on the Unix platform, developed originally in 1992 it is likely the oldest game on this list. Similar to UrbanTerror, BZFlag has a online multiplayer component which allows you to connect to various servers for different kinds of game play, the most common of which being Capture-the-Flag. Unlike UrT however, in BZFlag you're cruising around in a tank shooting at people, and depending on the map, you tank may be capable of incredible power-ups or even jumping/flying abilities!
Nexuiz is another first-person shooter based around a modified version of the Quake engine. Nexuiz offers very fast-paced but straight-forward deathmatch-style play, which I tend to suck at. If you ever dominated while playing Quake back in the day, Nexuiz might be for you.
Warsow feels very similar to Nexuiz to my unsophisticated gaming palate, unlike Nexuiz, Warsow has taken the speed and movement aspect of the game to the extreme. Just watching other people play Warsow wears me out, the best players sprint through levels gobbling up power-ups and shooting their opponents. Similar to some of the other games, Warsow includes a Capture-the-Flag, Team Deathmatch and a few other game types that the others lack, such as "instagib" which is effectively a one-shot kill. Like UrbanTerror, there isn't a native openSUSE package but you can download 32-bit and 64-bit executables.

Simulators

FlightGear. I have always been a sucker for a good flight simulator, it fulfills one of my oldest desires, to fly, without risking an untimely death due to pilot error/drunkeness. Realism is key in FlightGear, it offers real-time weather and environmental conditions for your location and lets you interact with your aircraft as if it were real, calculating fuel prior to take-off, communicating with the tower, setting up waypoints with the auto-pilot and so on. With such attention to detail, it's no wonder that there are folks building real flight sim cockpits around FlightGear. If the realism wasn't enough for you, FlightGear also operates in multi-player mode, allowing you to connect to FlightGear servers and fly with fellow aviation enthusiasts. If you're lucky, you might find me (callsign: dero) flying around the San Francisco area in my Beechcraft b1900d!
Oolite is modeled after the classic 80's space simulator game, Elite. Not too much I can say about oolite, it's based on a game that is older than I am and sits in a genre of computer games I rarely enter. There isn't a native oolite openSUSE package but you can download 32-bit and 64-bit executables.

Arcade

Frozen Bubble mimics one of my all-time favorite casual games: Snood. While the game dynamics aren't exactly the same, that's what I think of every time I fire up Frozen Bubble. The game sits somewhere between "arcade" and "puzzle" as far as genres go, unfortunately I can't explain how the game really works without sounding utterly ridiculous so I recommend you install it and just give it a whirl!
Crack Attack. Based off the classic Nintendo game Tetris Attack, Crack Attack brings the fast-paced puzzle game to Linux. As your stack of colored blocks grows from the bottom of the screen, it is your solemn duty to clear blocks as fast as possible such as the stack doesn't reach the top of the screen. To add difficulty "garbage" will fall from the top of the screen, heightening your stack and adding extra layers of difficulty. With multiplayer and solo mode, Crack Attack is quite an easy game to fall into and sink hours if not days into mastering.

Strategy

OpenTTD is an open-source clone of the popular game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and a quite an addictive one at that. In the game you set out to build a transportation empire with train systems, buses, trucks, planes and ships. The goal being to build the most profitable and efficient operation possible, while transporting people and goods around the map to and from various factories, farms and mills. When I first started writing this article, I started playing this game and then managed to waste an entire Sunday on it. The game's only downfall in my opinion is how heavily mouse-based everything is, then again, it's likely not meant to be played for 12 hours straight. While OpenTTD allows for multiplayer, I couldn't figure out why or how it worked within the game play, it's far easier to be a Tycoon when you're playing a solo game!
Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn-based strategy game with a heavy fantasy theme incorporated into the game. Like OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth can be played solo or multiplayer, in both modes you can build up an army to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth or engage in a number of different "sagas". The graphics are a little old-school but the developers have chosen to make up for it with a plethora of scenarios to play out, such that the graphics quality is not going to matter the deeper and deeper into Battle for Wesnoth you get. While it's not quite my cup of tea, I can certainly respect the immense amount of work that's gone into making such an expansive strategy game like this.

Update: karltuxstadt pointed out on Twitter this great openSUSE games directory which you can peruse even more great games for openSUSE!

Note: I apologize for the poor list formatting, I couldn't get Markdown lists to cooperate.

Michael Meeks: 2010-09-05: Sunday.

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Up early, J. off to West Suffolk to have dressing changed, (why does she so frequently get ill when I'm away). Tended babes.
Off to NCC, ran the creche, which (despite the loss of M.) is more packed with fun-sized people than before.
Home for lunch, with Andre and Lottie - good to get to know them a little better. J. slept a while, while I disappeared into the Lord of the Rings and the babes watched cbeebies.
Dinner, put babes to bed and read to them; J. went out to meet up with Myriam, while I read ever more.

Baltasar Ortega: Lanzado openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:28:03 +0000

Tampoco se queda atrás mi distribución favorita, OpenSuSE, que ya lanza su primera beta, llamada por ellos mismos Milestone 1.
Tenemos pocos datos a nuestra disposición pero los que tenemos son los siguientes:

La siguiente Milestone será para el 30 de septiembre

El lanzamiento definitivo de OpenSUSE 11.4 será en Marzo de 2011.

Traerá mejoras en el gestor de paquetes Libzypp, que será más rápido y eficaz.

Esta Milestone ya presenta mejoras como la inclusión de XOrg 1.9, KDE 4.5 y GNOME 2.32.0 Beta 1.

Si queŕeis podéis ver línea temporal de desarrollo en el siguiente enlace.

Vía: OpenSuSE News

openSUSE News: openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 139 is out!

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:36:19 +0000

Now we are ready. We’re pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News #139. Enjoy it!

In the issue 139 you can read

Content:

Announcements

openSUSE News: Software Freedom Day is Coming!

“On September 18, it is international Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to celebrate Free Software and the people behind it. It wants to spread the word about Free Software and help people find each other.”

openSUSE Announce First 11.4 Development Milestone With Improved Package Management Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME

“openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 is available today, Thursday, September 2 for developers, testers and community members to test and participate in the development of openSUSE 11.4. M1 starts off openSUSE 11.4 development at a cracking pace with performance improvements in the package management network layer and version updates to major components. This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. These will improve both repository refresh and package install and update performance. Metalink allows the multi-channel download of packages by downloading the individual blocks of a package in parallel from multiple servers. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update. The new Curl-based zypp backend also gives libzypp and therefore zypper and YaST better support for network proxies, by using the same proxy configuration as the rest of YaST instead of its own, and adds support for HTTP BASIC password-protected repositories. And as an added bonus, MultiCurl should eliminate slow and hanging package installations that occurred due to bugs in the old MediaAria backend.”

openSUSE Connect Beta

“As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and meet collaborators.”

Strategy sucks

“Over the last weeks there has been a lot of disussion, both internally and externally, about the strategies which have been proposed. However, we also missed a lot of voices from our community. We take responsibility for leaving many of you behind by focusing on a very corporate-management solution to the initial question which prompted this process. A question we think still is relevant: The identity of openSUSE both as a Community and as a Project. Initially our goal was to answer: ”Who is openSUSE and what does it (want to) do?” prompted by the discussion about the default desktop at the openSUSE conference last year. In five years the openSUSE project has evolved from a fully company-driven project to a communty project where everybody can contribute. This has brought uncertainty and a lack of direction. The current lack of a clear ‘story behind it all’ is hampering our ability to establish a common identity and sense of security. From a marketing point of view, it becomes an uphill battle…”

Status Updates

Distribution

CFDGeeko is coming…

“CFDGeeko is a live distribution based on openSUSE 11.3 – 64 bit, whose purpose is to provide easy and immediate access to open-source scientific tools, in particular for computational fluid dynamics. The live distribution was created with SUSE Studio, whose team was very helpful in the process of solving some small problems during the setup. Almost all the packages provided in the images were prepared by openSUSE developers and community volunteers, to whom most of the merit should go.”

SUSE Studio: More secure SUSE Gallery

“This week we introduced an important feature to SUSE Gallery — the appliance security summary. It is displayed for every published appliance and is designed to help you better understand what the appliance contains. This is useful for security reasons as you can easily see if the appliance contains any sources where undesirable code might slip in. It also provides a quick overview of the appliance’s contents.”

Team Reports

Art Team

Sirko Kemter: openSUSE T-Shirt motive

“A week ago asked michl on opensuse-artwork list for a design for the next genereation of tshirts. Interesting since then the most doing t-shirt motive for the openSUSE Conference. Javier had a nice idea putting the shape of Nuremberg in the background. And thats what I have in mind right now as shirt for openSUSE Conference.”

Build Service Team

osc 0.129 release

Updates from the new osc client.

Nelson Marques: openSUSE:Tools for Fedora 13

“I’ve been looking around openSUSE:Tools for Fedora 13 and found the naming could be more Fedora friendly. I’ve made some small patches to the .spec files in order to achieve that and made them available. In addition I’ve also recompiled the stuff using the new spec files and uploaded them for x86_64 only to my fedorapeople.org user space (and made out of it a YUM repository for Fedora 13 users). So far for a Fedora user there is a problem with this packages… xdg-utils has to be brute force installed requiring dangerous wizardry from the user side… it conflicts heavily with the version from Fedora 13 which has a huge amount of dependencies that shouldn’t be messed with. I’m wondering if anyone in the community could help me in overcoming this problem.”

GNOME Team

Federico Mena-Quintero: Mon 2010/Aug/30

“Rooting the file chooser: Christian Hammond has been working on a very cool branch of GtkFileChooser to let you define roots for the file dialog. Normally, this is what my file chooser looks like — it lets me browse anything on my file system:”

Atri Bhattacharya: What’s cooking in openSUSE’s GNOME for 11.4

“The openSUSE GNOME team has launched itself full throttle into preparations for openSUSE 11.4, which will be released with GNOME 2.32 as one of the desktops. Along the way, we decided on our focus points for the upcoming release:- * New packages: More applications for a richer desktop experience While there are a large number of excellent GNOME/Gtk-based apps in openSUSE already, this looked like a great time to start getting more apps catering to a variety of requirements into the GNOME:Apps and GNOME:Factory build service projects. Since deciding on this, several new packages have already been worked on and are now available in the corresponding repositories. The status of new applications is tracked here. Many of these applications will, subject to review, reach Factory and a few might even become part of the default openSUSE GNOME desktop. You are welcome to request the packaging of applications you have found particularly useful or impressive, and if you are in earnest, why not join us at #opensuse-gnome and start packaging them for yourself? Requests for new applications may be made through comments here, on the mailing-list or at irc, but the best way to do this would be to open a feature request and tag it as “gnome-wishlist-packages”.”

KDE Team

openSUSE KDE meeting 20100819

Meetingminutes

openFATE Team

#310448: Linux Desktop Responsiveness Patches

“Large I/O operations result in poor interactive performance and high iowait times https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309 possible solutions http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODU0OQ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3OQ ”

#310449: A simple way to turn off nouveau

“With OpenSUSE11.3 nouveau is used be default. In order to turn it off you must add nomodeset to the kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst and turn on no_kms_in_intrid in the sysconfig editor. So why not add a simple option on the sysconfig editor to do both?”

#310451: Improve KDE startup

“OpenSuse has done a fantastic job in improving boot time. Today, if we consider the total time required from switching-on the computer up to the moment when the desktop is ready for the user, we can see that the bottleneck has become now the KDE startup time. (…)”

#310463: QT-CREATOR 2.x.x

“I really think this would be a strong help to those with writing software in c++. i am currently learning, also a good program to learn as well as you find out what works and what doesn’t. very powerful language”

#310464: Changer text console color

“Feature for yast change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log.”

#310469: New Category on news.opensuse.org

“The openSUSE-Education Community wants to consolidate their current posts under a more specific category than “Communities”. It would be great if we can get a subdirectory Communities -> Education for our posts, so people can easily see what happens in our area.”

#310472: Make automatic installation of gstreamer codecs work

“PackageKit has some magic to install codecs when needed. However, this requires some Provides in the rpm containing the codecs. We need to add a script that will create those provides and change rpm to call that script if it exists.”

More information on openFATE

Translation Team

Localization

Daily updated translation statistics are available on the openSUSE Localization Portal.
Trunk Top-List – Localization Guide

In the Community

Bruno Friedmann: Come on ! Join the Bacula developer conference

“I love to see all of you, devs, packagers or just curious on the Bacula developer conference held in Yverdon-Les-Bains Switzerland on September 26, 27 & 28. Direct information : bacula.org conf page You don’t know what bacula is ? Well I would summarize it as an one of the essential component in enterprise IT. It not only backup your data, it give you them back when needed ! Don’t smile, many backup solution failed (even proprietary solutions) in this last crucial point.”

Events & Meetings

Past:

Upcoming:

You can find more informations on other events at:

openSUSE News/Events – Local events

openSUSE for your ears

The openSUSE Weekly News are available as Livestream or Podcast in the German Language. You can hear it or download it on http://blog.radiotux.de/podcast.

From Ambassadors

Nelson Marques: The Plan: Portuguese speaking community census!

“After a long talk with Carlos Ribeiro, Ambassador from Brazil and a devoted member of the openSUSE Community we realized that it is important to get some more data about our Portuguese speaking user base. We will accomplish this by running a questionnaire open to all the Portuguese speaking community that uses or knowns openSUSE Linux.”

Nitin Sookun: openSUSE Mauritius

“I’m getting the support of some fellow linux users to organize an openSUSE marketing event at the University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu). I’m getting the collaboration of UoM’s students’ union. We’ll set up a booth with a few laptops with Internet connection. The event will take place inside the university’s campus, and we hope to get the attention of mostly students from the faculties of engineering and computer science. (…)”

Kostyantyn Ovechko: FOSS 2010 Conference in Kharkov, Ukraine

“My students prepare for FOSS Conference at our University (KSTUCA), Kharkov, Ukraine. Presumably it will take 2 days – 15th-16th of December 2010 (see http://kmit.110mb.com). We would like to see your suggestions and everyone is welcome to participate ! (…)”

Peter Michl: Reply of Promotion DVD`s of Open SuSE 11.3

“I just want to give a short reply about the received promotion DVD`s. I work at school with this and it is a great pleasure for me to do so, because my pupils are able to get one DVD from Open SuSE. They are now in the position to install the software we use at school and to train any matter we discussed. Also I get replies from pupils who already left school. They have an eye at Open SuSE and work further on with it. Therefore I want to thank OpenSuSE for the great supply for my pupils.”

openSUSE in $COUNTRY

“Details”

New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE

lightspark 0.4.4

“Lightspark is a FLOSS Flash player entirely rewritten from scratch based on Adobe’s released SWF documentation. Lightspark features: * JIT compilation of Actionscript to native x86 bytecode using LLVM. * Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shaders (GLSL). * Very good and robust support for current-generation Actionscript3. * A new, clean, codebase exploiting multithreading and optimized for modern hardware. Designed from scratch after the official Flash documentation was released.”

OMG!SUSE! team: Inkscape updates abound!

“Scalable Vector Graphic fans of the world rejoice – Open Source’s premier vector drawing application Inkscape has been bumped up to 0.48, adding lots of fixes and features for artists to get excited about in the process.”

OMG!SUSE! team: Google Video Chat for openSUSE

“Thanks to a tip from our friend @decriptor, it looks like the Google Video Chat browser plugin is now available for openSUSE!. If you visit the download page you can download an RPM for a 32-bit or a 64-bit openSUSE installation. The plugin should allow you to use video or voice chat to talk to all your GMail contacts straight from your web browser. Since I don’t use GMail, I can’t verify how well the plugin works, but I have successfully held a video chat with a friend using it via my n900.”

You can find other interesting Packages at:
Packman – OBS

Security Updates

To view the security announcements in full, or to receive them as soon as they’re released, refer to the openSUSE Security Announce mailing list.

SUSE Security Announcement: kernel (SUSE-SA:2010:038)

Package: kernel
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:038
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
Vulnerability Type: local privilege escalation
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
SUSE Default Package: yes

SUSE Security Announcement: kernel (SUSE-SA:2010:036)

Package: kernel
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:036
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: SUSE SLES 9
Open Enterprise Server
Novell Linux POS 9
Vulnerability Type: remote denial of service
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Security Announcement: acroread (SUSE-SA:2010:037)

Package: acroread
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:037
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.1
openSUSE 11.2
openSUSE 11.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

Kernel Review

Rares Aioanei: OpenSUSE kernel news – 04.09.2010

“Hello world and welcome! Let’s dig into this week’s latest news regarding kernel development… -Eric Paris has some fixes for the notification tree, as he explains (“The most serious bug (and only one affecting inotify and dnotify rather: than requiring fanotify to break something) was actually fixed accidentally in “fsnotify fix ignored mask handling between inode and vfsmount marks”. It was possible for inotify to get events it didn’t request or even events with a 0 mask.”

Tips and Tricks

For Desktop Users

Scott Photographics: How to make a Cosmic Wallpaper in GIMP

“This tutorial will hopefully help inspire you to create your own custom wallpapers and produce a great results in the GIMP. (…)”

Danny Kukawka: How to calibrate your TabletPC

“Since a while e.g. the X11 driver for Wacom tablets should work out of the box, no calibration needed. I didn’t test other tablet/touchscreen drivers in the last time, but I assume also some other should work out of the box. But sometimes you still need to calibrate your device. But how do you calibrate e.g. your wacom tablet on a openSUSE 11.3 or Factory, since there is no wacomcpl anymore in the package, which was used in the past? And how about a evdev based device? Simply use xinput_calibrator. You can get the package for openSUSE from my openSUSE buildservice repo. ”

For System Administrators

IBM developerWorks/Roderick W. Smith: Resizing Linux partitions, Part 2: Advanced resizing

“Linux systems are often installed on multiple partitions, each of which has a fixed size. As your needs change, though, it is often necessary to resize partitions to suit your changing needs. Several tools exist to do this in Linux, but there are a number of potential pitfalls and restrictions that can make the task more difficult than it might at first seem. This article covers advanced partition resizing issues, including using Logical Volume Management (LVM) features, troubleshooting, and alternatives to partition resizing. Part 1 of this series covered basic partition resizing.”

IBM developerWorks/Federico Kereki: Three locks for your SSH door

“Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists. Applying these techniques can make life much harder for possible intruders, who will have to go past three unusual barriers.”

Linux.com/Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier: MySQL 101: Working with the MySQL DB on Linux

“Some people are born to be a database administrator, and others have database administration thrust upon them. If you’re in the former group and you need to perform some very basic operations, like creating and backing up databases, you’ll find it’s much easier than it sounds. Let’s take a look at some very basic MySQL administration to get started.”

Planet SUSE

OMG!SUSE! team: What openSUSE can build for you?

“Ever heard of OBS, also known as the openSUSE Build Service? You may not recognize the acronym, but if you’re using openSUSE you’re certainly using software built by OBS. The build service provides an invaluable tool for developers to overcome some of the challenges caused by the slight fragmentation between the various Linux distributions. The OBS provides developers of all your favorite apps with an easy to use tool for creating and distributing packages for openSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora on a number of architectures. The idea of it all being that a developer can upload their code to the OBS and it will produce packages such as .rpm or .deb packages which are ready for openSUSE/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian respectively”

SUSE Studio: Featured appliance – MiniSUSE

“As promised, we have a new featured appliance this week and it belongs to Horváth Gergely J.. He will be receiving his Amazon gift card real soon! ”

OMG!SUSE! team: Sprichst du open source? Check out the openSUSE Conference

“This coming October in the beautiful German city of Nuremberg, the second international openSUSE conference will be held. Before get out your jump to conclusions mat and assume this is just for openSUSE folks, it should be mentioned that the conference isn’t just for lizard-lovers but also for all members of the open source community that can attend. The “call for papers” has finished meaning the conference organizers are hard at work preparing the program for the event, which plans to bring folks together from various areas of the open source universe such as the Mozilla and Debian projects. The conference should be interesting for hackers and users alike with Bird-Of-a-Feather sessions, open discussions and of course, plenty of hacking on open source!”

Matthew Ehle: openSUSE 11.3 Impressions

“While openSUSE is my preferred distribution for server installations, my desktop use of it has been somewhat more sporadic. However, while reformatting my laptop from Mint to a Windows 7-Linux dual boot, I decided to give 11.3 a try. Here is a short post about my experience and impressions: Network Installation I have tried this in the past and have generally gotten poor results. However, I really like the concept of network installations, so I thought I would see if any improvements were made with 11.3. Alas, my experience was similar to how it was with previous releases. The first attempt failed entirely, so I tried it again. The second network installation finished, but I could only boot in failsafe mode after it was done. It seems that some packages get corrupted or don’t install at all. With this kind of success rate, it still just isn’t robust enough for real world use. Onto a different installation method…”

Jos Poortvliet: Banshee & GNOME

“Since a couple of days I’m using the Banshee music player. Last sunday I installed openSUSE with GNOME on my desktop system to play around with it. Banshee surely stuck – I installed it on my laptop with Plasma desktop as well. It’s a very nice player with only one weird thing: it really really likes Opeth. Often I set it to play some electronic music at random, then it suddenly starts moves to metal – Opeth usually. Not that I greatly dislike that, I just have no idea why it does it ”

OMG!SUSE! team: Bringing the tribes together to help each other

“Last July, following GUADEC there was some amount of controversy going on in the greater Linux community after Canonical, the company driving a large amount of Ubuntu development, was criticized for number of contributions it has made to the GNOME project. Penguin HUGS! The resulting number of backlash amongst open source backlash-mongers led Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth to write a great post on tribalism.”

openSUSE Forums

Back Using openSUSE

“If you have ever spent time away from home, you’ll know how the OP feels here. openSUSE is just like that. All warm and cosy. ‘Hygge’ as the dutch might say.”

Crash When Changing Theme

“Typically, upgrades don’t always go that well. Crud from the old user account can conflict with the new OS. There are some simple steps to take in order to identify the problem area.”

Google Video/Chat Plugin

“There is a lot of interest in this and the ‘call phone’ feature. But I wonder how long we will have to wait for the .rpm. I tried it in Mint 9 and it works nicely though.”

openSUSE Recognizes my Primary HD as sdb not sda

“Multiple HD’s can be a cause for confusion. Not only the BIOS settings, but sata socket order, and perhaps if one is sata and the other pata/ide – all this just adds to the confusion.”

On the Web

Announcements

KDENews/Sebastian Kügler: KDE Releases 4.5.1

“Today, KDE updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1, new releases bringing a number of important bugfixes on top of 4.5.0. 4.5.0 was released only three weeks ago and receives monthly service updates. 4.5.1 is the first in this series of bugfix and translation updates. These releases improve stability and the user experience further, while not bringing major new features or bigger changes to the user interface. 4.5.1 is a safe upgrade for anybody running 4.5.0. 4.5.1 has been dubbed “Cronjob” as it is one of the regular releases published by KDE, just like a cronjob does. This release will make 4.5 users lives more pleasant by adding a number of important bug fixes, bringing more stability and better functionality to the Plasma Desktop and many applications & utilities. Check the changelog for details about many of these improvements.”

KDE News/Sebastian Kügler: Help Test the Next Generation of KDE’s Kontact

“The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications. While the first bits of Akonadi integration already made their entry in KAddressBook as delivered with 4.4, this beta includes Akonadi versions of most of the other Kontact components, including email using the new KMail2. As the Akonadi-based Kontact marks a major step in the evolution of KDE’s groupware apps, the KDE PIM developers decided to apply a feature-based release schedule to this port. It will be released when it’s ready, which is realistically still this year. In order to achieve this, we rely heavily on community feedback, so please give this beta a run and get back to us with your feedback, preferably in the form of bug reports on bugs.kde.org.”

VMware and Novell Deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware®

“Today at VMworld 2010, VMware and Novell announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware®, the first step in the companies’ expanded partnership announced in June of 2010. The solution is designed to reduce IT complexity and accelerate the customer evolution to a fully virtualized datacenter. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware®, customers who purchase a VMware vSphere™ license and subscription also receive a subscription for patches and updates to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware® at no additional cost. Additionally, VMware will offer the option to purchase technical support services for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware® for a seamless support experience available directly and through its network of solution provider partners. This unique solution benefits customers by reducing the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining an enterprise operating system running on VMware vSphere.”

Sign Up To Watch LinuxCon 2010 Conference Videos

“The Linux Foundation is pleased to offer video presentations of all keynote and select conference sessions from LinuxCon 2010.”

Call for participation

Phoronix: 2010 Linux Graphics Survey

“For the past three years we have hosted an annual Linux Graphics Survey in which we ask tens of thousands of users each time their video card preferences, driver information, and other questions about their view of the Linux graphics stack. This year we are hosting the survey once again to allow the development community to get a better understanding of the video hardware in use, what open-source and closed-source drivers are being used, and other relevant information that will help them and the Linux community.”

ApacheCon North America 2010: Registration is OPEN!

“ApacheCon, the official user conference, trainings, and expo of The Apache Software Foundation, returns to Atlanta with dozens of technical, business, and community-focused sessions at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. The theme of this year’s ApacheCon is “Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation”, featuring highly-relevant, professionally-directed presentations that demonstrate specific problems and real-world solutions.”

Reports

The Register/Cade Metz: SUSE Linux hitches ride on enemy hypervisor

“VMworld Strange bedfellows VMware and Novell have officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, a version of Novell’s open source OS that piggybacks on every copy of VMware’s vSphere hypervisor.”

OStatic/Lisa Hoover: What’s Next for Google Wave

“Google Wave is kind of like the Snuggie. You either immediately see its genius or can’t figure out why anyone would bother. When Google announced plans last month to shut down development of Wave and open source its code for anyone who wants it, some users were crushed while others just yawned. If you fall into the “I love Wave” camp, then you’ll be glad to know the Google Wave team has new plans for the now defunct project. Software Engineer Alex North announced Wave in a Box, an application that will allow users to run their waves on their own servers and hardware. While the app will work out of the box, so to speak, its usefulness and future features will depend on what developers and enterprising hobbyists want to build out from it.”

TheEthicalHackerNetwork/Wardell Moteley: Maltego 3: First Look

“Maltego, developed by Roelof Temmingh, Andrew Macpherson and their team over at Paterva, is a premier information gathering tool that allows you to visualize and understand common trust relationships between entities of your choosing. Currently Maltego 3 is available for Windows and Linux. There is also an upcoming version for Apple users that has yet to be released.”

LinuxWeeklyNews/Josh Berkus: PostgreSQL 9.0 Release Candidate 1

“The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is now available. Please download and test immediately so that we can move rapidly towards final release. All known bugs should be fixed, so users should promptly report any bugs which they find.” Original Post can be found there.

M. Fioretti: OpenOffice.org Conference 2010: preparing the next ten years

“The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field. The opening session was a cool moment, both for the location (the Hungarian Parliament) and for the content. We started in the very hall of the Parliament. Incidentally, the first thing I noted there has nothing to do with OO.o but is a general problem of the FOSS and programming worlds: of about 150 people in the hall, no more than 10% were women, even if OO.o and FOSS users aren’t certainly 90% males, are we? But I digress. (…)”

Reviews and Essays

InfoWorld/Simon Phipps: Gnu/Linux: Finally, it’s really free software

“Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may come as a shock, but all Gnu/Linux distributions to date have been built with essential software under a license that clearly meets neither the open source definition nor the Free Software Foundations’ requirements for a free software license. The tenacity of a Red Hat hacker has finally solved this problem for everyone, however, and I’m proud to have played a part, too. (…)”

Warning!

ZDNet/Ryan Naraine: Malware hosted on Google Code project site

“Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers, according to researchers at Zscaler. The researchers found a malicious project hosted on the free Google Code site with about 50+ malware executables stored in the download section of the project.”

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Alex Barrios: Instalando una distribución Linux paso a paso

Pavel Machek: 2km in 8minutes

Andres Silva: Launching the Revolution: Kickoff's redesign ideas

openSUSE News: SUSE Studio Contest – you have until the end of this month!

Andrés G. Aragoneses: Version Tolerant Serialization with Mono

Baltasar Ortega: Entrevistas: Aleix Pol (I)

Sebastian Siebert: openSUSE 11.3 – Kernel 2.6.34.4 im Update-Repo verfügbar

openSUSE.cz: Na slovíčko s Josem Poortvlietem

SUSE Studio: Import KIWI and AutoYaST configurations easily

Supported settings

Enabling the imports

Jigish Gohil: KIWI-LTSP multiple image support improvements

Sirko Kemter: Virtuelle Adventures

Sebastian Siebert: openSUSE 11.3 – GUI-Anwendungen per SSH (X11-Forwarding) remote ausführen und anzeigen lassen

Héctor Reyes Armenta: SIN IDEAS

openSUSE-lernen.de: Septemberausgabe von freiesMagazin erschienen

openSUSE.cz: Vývoj popularity nejznámějších distribucí Linuxu

Nelson Marques: OBS: the final frontier…

Michael Meeks: 2010-09-07: Tuesday.

Mirosław Rogoziński: openSUSE 11.4 – roadmap

Mirosław Rogoziński: Zmiana klucza produktu w Windows 7

Thomas Thym: Hello Planet SUSE

Baltasar Ortega: Entrada del día: Odisea de una Migración de GNU/Linux a Windows

Masim Vavai Sugianto: Instalasi Aplikasi Denyhosts untuk Melindungi Akses SSH

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Michael Meeks: 2010-09-05: Sunday.

Baltasar Ortega: Lanzado openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1

openSUSE News: openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 139 is out!

In the issue 139 you can read

Announcements

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Team Reports

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In the Community

Events & Meetings

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openSUSE in $COUNTRY

New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE

Security Updates

Kernel Review

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Planet SUSE

openSUSE Forums

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Warning!

Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved

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