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May 9th, 2013 by Jigish Gohil
Here is a new image for your armv7l powered phone or tablet(any recent dual core device should work), you can get openSUSE 12.3 XFCE running on it without the need for repartition, formats, bootloader hacks or sacrificing your nicely running latest android on it. What you need is rooted device with busybox, Android VNC and terminal app installed and 4GB free space on sdcard(internal or external).
Instructions to run it are same as mentioned earlier. In addition to those you can also use LinuxonAndroid app with patched bootscript.sh. Replace /data/data/com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid/files/bootscript.sh on your device with the patched one and follow the directions shown here(last 3 images):
Tags: linux on android, openSUSE@ARM
Posted in Architectures, Base System, Distribution, XFCE | 7 Comments »
May 8th, 2013 by Jigish Gohil
openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1, this first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Li-f-e incorporates latest stable versions of all popular desktop environments such as KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon, it includes wide range of softwares catering to the needs of everyone, selection from openSUSE Education repository, multimedia from the Packman repository, development tools, KIWI-LTSP allowing normal PC or diskless thin clients to network boot from a server running Li-f-e and lot more. To summarize, everything you need to make your computer useful is available right out of the box as soon as Li-f-e is installed on it. (more…)
Posted in Derivative, Desktop, Distribution, Education, GNOME, KDE | 2 Comments »
February 20th, 2013 by Jigish Gohil
Thanks to the fantastic work by openSUSE Arm team, you can get full desktop on your armv7l powered phone or tablet(any recent dual core devices should work), without the need for repartition, formats, bootloader hacks or sacrificing your nicely running latest android on it. What you need is rooted device with busybox, Android VNC and terminal app installed and 4GB free space on sdcard(internal or external).
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Tags: ARM, linux on android, openSUSE
Posted in Architectures, Base System, XFCE | No Comments »
February 14th, 2013 by Jigish Gohil
Here is a new tool that provides a simple zenity based GUI frontend to live-fat-stick script. The live-fat-stick script allows you to create multi boot USB stick/HDD which has vfat partition on it without formatting or removing existing data on it, it uses whole ISO images to boot so the image is still usable to create more live USB sticks or burn CD/DVDs. In live mode the device’s vfat partition can be mounted to access/modify and save files.
Currently live CD/DVD isos of openSUSE 12.2(and derivatives) including all from susestudio, Mint, Ubuntu(and derivatives) and Fedora are supported. Fedora iso is not copied but is extracted on the USB device instead as it does not support booting from iso image yet.
Here is Live USB GUI in action:
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Posted in Derivative, Desktop, Distribution, Systems Management, Usability | Comments Off
September 27th, 2012 by Jigish Gohil
Recently, came across x2go packages maintained by Jan Engelhardt for openSUSE and other distributions on open build service. As openSUSE Education Li-f-e has great LTSP integration thanks to KIWI-LTSP, I decided to check out how x2go can fit in with this existing thin-client computing solution.
“x2go is an open (GPL/AGPL) source “server based computing” project. Combining the advantages of existing systems it features ease of use, performance and scalability. x2go provides you with access to your desktop – from within your own network and via the internet. x2go is not limited to particular hardware, it supports a variety of devices and architectures.” -from their website.
Some of the features/benefits of x2go that are not available on LTSP are:
* Remote login from within local lan and internet from any OS
* Session persistence, you can disconnect session from one client and continue where you left off from any other client
* Low bandwidth usage
* Session sharing with other users
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Posted in Build Service, Derivative, Desktop, Education, Network, Server, Systems Management | Comments Off
September 15th, 2012 by Jigish Gohil
With the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.2, we also have new KDE waiting in the official update repository. To resolve a couple of conflicts you will need to add Education:update repository before running yast2 online_update.
Follow these steps:
- Add Education:update repository by using this 1-click install, remain subscribed to the suggested repositories or via command line:
zypper ar obs://Education:update/openSUSE_12.2 Education:update then run yast2 online-update.
- select replacement for kioaudiocd
- select deinstallation of yast2-qt-branding-life
- Proceed with the update
Posted in Derivative, Distribution, Education, Software Management | Comments Off
September 14th, 2012 by Jigish Gohil
openSUSE Education team once again presents Li-f-e (Linux for Education) built on hot new openSUSE 12.2 including all the post release updates. As always this edition of Li-f-e comes bundled with a lot of softwares useful for students, teachers, as well as IT admins of educational institutions. Apart from stable versions of KDE and Gnome, Cinnamon is also available.Sugar desktop suite makes a comeback thanks to the work of Xin Wang packaging it. Li-f-e also give full multimedia experience right out of the box without having to install anything extra. The live installable DVD iso stands at 3.3G as an incredible array of softwares from open source world are available on it, we have not just bundled them in, but have tried to integrate it with the distribution to give everything a seamless feel.
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Posted in Derivative, Desktop, Distribution, Education, Server, Systems Management | 6 Comments »
September 13th, 2012 by Jigish Gohil
So you got a bunch of different openSUSE 12.2 live isos downloaded, to test them on a real machine you have to either burn them to CD/DVD or create live USB stick. Creating CD/DVD is a total waste after booting it once or twice. Creating bootable USB stick is a better thing to do, however openSUSE Hybrid iso creates USB stick that is not usable for any other purpose and the remaining space is locked till you make another partition, and even then the partition is not available on windows(tm).
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Posted in Base System, Derivative, Distribution, Education | 8 Comments »
