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Archive for May 16th, 2008

Redesign of YaST Expert Partitioner

May 16th, 2008 by

We are redesigning the YaST Expert Partitioner for openSUSE 11.1 and SLE11. The main idea is to have a navigation tree with all available storage devices on the left side and to display information on the right side along with buttons to perform appropriate actions. See the screenshot.

RPMs are available in the openSUSE Build Server in the repository home:aschnell. They are far from finished by you can already navigate in the tree and inspect you storage system. It should be possible to see where we are heading with the redesign. You can install them on your openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3.

Posted in Systems Management, Usability, YaST | 3 Comments »

Various Way for Promoting openSUSE

May 16th, 2008 by

openSUSE leaflet

Promoting openSUSE in Indonesia sometimes pretty hard and in another time is quite easy. Looks like a humor 😉 but it’s true. Why ?

Problem

There is a number of problem for promoting openSUSE. It’s not about openSUSE itself. In general it has a relationship with problem while promoting and implementing open source application in Indonesia. Most of the problem related with the point of view about open source. It’s about open source mindset. Some people usually asked, “is this quite easy to migrate our existing system into openSUSE ?”.

The piracy issue is the second largest problem. People used Windows application because they used it with piracy license. There is no license cost. It’s not for personal used only. Some of them are a company that should be used a legal license. In the past, I’ve found that various company, from small to medium company currently used piracy product for their system. If we asked them, “Hey, why don’t you buy a license for your commercial used ?”, the answer is, “It’s too expensive for us.”

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Posted in Marketing | 7 Comments »