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October 3rd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
You get an invitation!
Geeko place on SecondLife
Ladies & Gentlemen, months after the first virtual party [1][2][3] organized for 11.4 launch,
Françoise (aka Morgane Marquis) and myself (tigerfoot) organize 3 new parties on SecondLife [4] to welcome and fest our next release openSUSE 12.1, coming around the 11.11.11.
- Three virtual great Saturday: October 22th, November 12th and December 10th.
- From 6 to 8am Australian DJ Ariella is back again.
- From 9 to 11am (SL time : utc-9) we will have the pleasure to listen American DJ Esquivel.
You should take this opportunity to try Second Life, creating an avatar, coming to dance and drinking some beers with us at Geekos Place.
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Tags: 12.1, party, secondlife
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June 17th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.6 / fglrx 8.861 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
- Quick résumé :
- There’s no full changelog about them, but Catalyst 11.6 installer (pdf)
- Get the cheat-sheet 11.6 version
- Kernel supported up to 3.0x version
- Should be the latest version supporting 11.2
- Wrong (to my point of view) create an xorg.conf file which is unneeded if you work with /etc/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and have driver "fglrx" inside
Warning
Some instabilities could happen. In case of crash like no keyboard, mouse, and blackscreen on reboot. Try to shutdown properly your computer with the shutdown poweroff button (or remote ssh). On reboot, just add 3 at the end of grub line to restart in console mode.
Then with yast or zypper you can always remove the actual version and try the previous version available in the repos.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.6 article (German)
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.861 of catalyst 11.6 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.39 kernel and the driver is ready for kernel 3.0x, so until xorg change too much and then AMD support for the new version, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build.
The new package are called SUSE121 & no more SUSEFACTORY.
Stats Numbers ?
| Month |
Unique IP |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
|
Jan 2011 |
2355 |
6411 |
19688 |
35263 |
16.63 GB |
|
Feb 2011 |
2906 |
7719 |
26383 |
41142 |
22.37 GB |
|
Mar 2011 |
8055 |
21157 |
228494 |
258613 |
59.13 GB
|
|
Apr 2011 |
10592 |
29129 |
418281 |
437416 |
76.87 GB
|
|
May 2011 |
12511 |
36816 |
608350 |
626901 |
104.91 GB
|
All proudly served by openSUSE powered server! zypper dup from 11.2 to 11.4 in 45minutes last month
Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx, radeon, x-org
Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory, Kernel, lizards.openSUSE.org, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | 10 Comments »
May 14th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.5 / fglrx 8.850 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
At least after a wrong 11.4 version, and a first buggy 11.5 catalyst version, the new one is finally build and ready to install from the repo. Like for 11.3 I’ve clean up all previous version which are not xpic, so everybody can easily know which drivers he has to install.
I’ve resigned all rpm with my key. And the tests made show them working.
Warning
Some instabilities have been reported. In case of crash like no keyboard, mouse, and blackscreen on reboot. Try to shutdown properly your computer with the shutdown poweroff button. On reboot, just add 3 at the end of grub line to restart in console mode.
Then with yast or zypper you can always try the previous version.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.5 article
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.850 of catalyst 11.5 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.38 kernel and the driver is ready for kernel 2.6.39, so until xorg change too much and then AMD support for the new version, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build
Numbers ?
| Month |
Unique IP |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
|
Jan 2011 |
2355 |
6411 |
19688 |
35263 |
16.63 GB |
|
Feb 2011 |
2906 |
7719 |
26383 |
41142 |
22.37 GB |
|
Mar 2011 |
8055 |
21157 |
228494 |
258613 |
59.13 GB
|
|
Apr 2011 |
10592 |
29129 |
418281 |
437416 |
76.87 GB
|
All served by openSUSE powered server!
Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx, radeon, xorg
Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory, Kernel, lizards.openSUSE.org, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | 2 Comments »
April 25th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Fosscomm 2011
The event will take place in Patras this year. For those of you who don’t know, fosscomm is one of the major foss event in Greece.
I’ll go there and will make a presentation :
Amazing openSUSE : we, you, together a promizing future!
I hope to see all of you there! Come and meet the growing openSUSE Greek community, and most of the Greek ambassadors.
Follow them on Twitter. The official hashtag of FOSSCOMM 2011 is: #fosscomm2011
Official Patras city website
PS: The websites is also available in english 
Talk
Title :
Amazing openSUSE
We, you, together a promising future !
Talk Audience
general public, which would like to contribute in FOSS
No special IT knowledge is required.
Abstract
openSUSE project is open: there’s a place for everybody!
Come and (re)discover one of the oldest Linux distribution and one of the most youngest community.
This talk is about the community powering the whole actual openSUSE Project :
We will overfly openSUSE’s history, and the actual projects like open-build-service, susestudio, tumbleweed, evergreen, connect, openqa, and the near future a word about the openSUSE Foundation.
Follow us deeper inside with examples how collaboration works between contributors, users, across the borders with others distributions and upstream projects.
Want to be part of? Let’s talk about the “right” place for you!
Tags: Events, foscomm2011, Greece, Marketing, openSUSE
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April 10th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Gnome3 launch party in Zürich, April 8th 2011
ETHZ building
A group of 20 people met in ETHZ F26.3 room Friday afternoon (3pm to 7pm). To assist the Gnome 3 Launch party. We were expecting more people, but a so sunny weather, and a Monday off in Zürich doesn’t help to keep people inside after a long winter.
Marcus Moeller showed us a deep overview of the whole Gnome 3 desktop, with the strength and weakness (non yet finished features or controversial ones).
Then there’s some talks about features, what will happen unity/ubuntu/gnome etc …
On my side I did a late presentation about what’s openSUSE project is, and its associated SUPER COOL tools like OBS and susestudio.
It was supposed to last 15 minutes long. I was asked only Tuesday night to do it! But in fact we spend more than half an hour demoing obs and susestudio. Really was cool to do.
A special thanks to Biju Gopi Thilaka for setting up that party.
Biju Gopi was kind enough to share his slides with us, so keep reading …
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Tags: Gnome 3, openSUSE 11.4, zürich
Posted in Artwork, Base System, Contrib, Desktop, Distribution, Events, GNOME, lizards.openSUSE.org | Comments Off
February 14th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Successfull RC1 launch!
Dear followers, after the official announcement, we test yesterday the place, and check how fun and cool it can be with several attendees.
The danse party Pop/Rock music themed was animated by DJ Yazz (Brittany Haefeli). Starting at 8:30 CEST the party was crowded during it’s 2 hours and a half. More than 50 people came and visit us during that time. Great that was twice what we expected !
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Tags: 11.4, openSUSE, secondlife, virtual launch party
Posted in Distribution, Events, lizards.openSUSE.org, Marketing | 3 Comments »
December 31st, 2010 by José Oramas M.
The first Kokoa and Friends meeting took place the 20th of December at the Computing and Electrical Department of ESPOL.
This meeting supported by the openSUSE community, gathered people from different levels of the Kokoa community and the ESPOL university. From students that are just getting interested in using FLOSS (a.k.a. newbies), students who are “candidates” to join the Kokoa community, the current “active” members and the experienced “senior” members.
In this event different topics were discussed covering FLOSS usage in the academia and the industry. Stories of success and guidelines were shared with people interested in going forward in the world of FLOSS.
Special thanks to Cristina Guerrero, Nervo Verdezoto, Marisol Villacrés, and from Jarflex, Adonis Figueroa and Jessica Zuñiga the speakers of this meeting and specially to Arturo Tumbaco, who helped me with the logistics to make this event possible.
Here some pictures about the meeting.
Posted in Distribution, Education, Events, lizards.openSUSE.org, Marketing | 1 Comment »
October 21st, 2010 by Adrian Schröter
Yet another foto stream from the openSUSE conference. You see the desktop leads from KDE and Gnome (Cornelius Schumacher and Vincent Untz) giving a talk about the past and future of the free desktop, Stephan Kulow about the future of the distribution, Bernhard Wiedemann about QA testing and so on.
Most important may be the presentation of the openSUSE board (mainly by Pascal Bleser) how they plan to found an independent foundation for openSUSE as non-profit organization. An important rule of that foundation is that it is independent of any company (no majority of Novell here) but can handle sponsoring, partnering and trademark questions.
We had also very filled rooms during the OBS talks, but I was unable to take pictures at that point of time unfortunately 
Posted in Board, Build Service, lizards.openSUSE.org | 2 Comments »
October 17th, 2010 by M. Edwin Zakaria
Yogyakarta is one of the tourism destination in Indonesia. The unique Javanise tradition blend with some acculturation from outside culture. Recently I was asked by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and Office of Education, Youth and Sport of Yogyakarta to help them to prepare the computer lab for elementary and junior high school in Yogyakarta Province – Indonesia.
Well, this is the tough job. I work with some expert, teacher and education strategist to prepare the e-learning system. We should prepare learning/teaching material in digital format, train the teacher to use authoring tools and operating system, and prepare the schools to be ready to receive the PC’s. This government initiative will involve 500 schools in 3 years. Every school that involve in this program will receive 21 PCs.
We select openSUSE Li-f-e as the operating system in every pc. The selection is not because I’m an openSUSE member but we come to the conclusion that openSUSE Li-f-e is the most complete and well prepare distribution for education (well, I convince other expert, some of them are Ph.D, he..he…). This year there are 110 schools involve in this program, this means another new 2310 openSUSE installation and more than 4000 new users if we assume that every PC will be used by 2 students.
Not only give PC to schools we also should connect the schools to the provincial data center. This is really challenging task, some areas of this province is covered by hundred of hills with karst topography and with no terestrial internet connection. Many of the schools is in that area. The road ahead still far away and difficult, but see the face of the children who really enthusiast with the openSUSE make me really happy.
There are more picture on my picasaweb
Tags: ambassador, Education, Marketing
Posted in lizards.openSUSE.org, Marketing | 7 Comments »
October 1st, 2010 by Andreas Jaeger
The new design of lizards.opensuse.org and news.opensuse.org is up and I’d like to thank especially Henne and Robert for the fresh look!
I noticed one thing: Some users have besides their names a nice picture, the so-called avatar. The avatar is not only show here but also on other sides like build.opensuse.org. To show your avatar, go to the global avator side, register, upload a small picture and associate it with the email address you have given when registering for using the openSUSE infrastructure. Next time you visit, your avator should be shown besides your name.
Posted in lizards.openSUSE.org | 3 Comments »
