It’s now possible to install openSUSE if you only have a serial line (without additional tricks). Our graphical bootloader frontend used to ignore serial input. That’s now (starting with 11.1 beta1) changed.
In the default setting it monitors com1/com2 (the first two bios configured serial ports) for input. Baud rate is autodetected (you have to press a few keys until it catches on). Output is sent to all lines it receives input from.
When it works, the first screen looks like:
I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.0.0.3.1 packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project. They are the fitst release candidate of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 version.
We kindly ask for testing. Please, try and report bugs.
Note: They might still include bugs and are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …
In a coordinated effort with Manfred Tremmel, the xine maintainer at Packman, we’ve reworked the xine spec file. Most of it can now be shared between Packman and openSUSE Factory so packaging work doesn’t need to be duplicated. The spec file now makes heavy use of conditional build macros to enable or disable certain features. (more…)
My name is Alexander i`m a trainee at SUSE.
In my blog i will write about my experience with learning YCP (YaST Control Language)
First of all, most important part of learning is to have a good manual.
Here you have some links to start:
YCP book ->must read! (up to date)
YCP User interface referece book
Later i add additional info …..
Programming a GUI version of “Hello, World” is easy in the YaST programming environment, no matter if it’s YCP (the YaST-specific scripting language), plain C++, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
But if dialogs become more complex, it can get demanding to make them look good and – equally important – to behave well as the user resizes dialogs:
The YaST UI (user interface) engine now features a new debugging tool to make life easier for developers: YDialogSpy. In the Qt version, hit the magic key combination
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Y
and you will get a YDialogSpy window like this:
This shows the widget hierarchy of the original dialog as a tree. Clicking around in that tree, you can highlight the corresponding widget (and its child widgets) in the original dialog (move the YDialogSpy window to the side first):
This can also make widgets visible you normally can’t see such as H/VSpacing, H/VStretch etc., and it shows the extent of alignment widgets (left, right, top, bottom) as well as layout boxes (H/VBox):
yast2-libyui-2.17-9 or later
yast2-qt-2.17.8 or later
This is just a first version, of course. Future versions will get a “Properties” table that can show certain values of the current widget. Maybe there will also be some (very limited) editing capabilities.
Stay tuned.
Further Reading
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Misc/YDialogSpy
(With original-size screen shots)
As Zonker announced yesterday (and I copy some lines from his message), the KDE team has decided to take the following course of action after receiving a great deal of feedback on the issue of KDE 3.5 inclusion in openSUSE 11.1 – and state of KDE 4.1:
We’d like to thank all the people who helped provide constructive feedback while we evaluated the best course for the next release of openSUSE. While we know that no solution is guaranteed to make every user happy, we think that we’ve reached the best compromise for openSUSE 11.1 and beyond, to ensure a smooth transition. (more…)
Last week, Adrian announced that the openSUSE Build Service uses the same build checks that the internal autobuild uses and that these have been enabled for builds of factory and for builds of packages against factory. This is an important step for building packages with the OBS since it means that a package that builds in the OBS, will not anymore fail once it has been submitted to build for factory.
We now have put all checks in packages so that they can be easily enhanced: brp-check-suse, rpmlint (the polices are in the rpmlint-Factory package) and post-build-checks. The rpmlint checks are run after the package has been built, the brp-check-suse scripts might be run during the build since they contain specific rpm macros and finally post-build-checks is executed at the end. The goal is to move everything to rpmlint checks.
Some days ago I was asked what this little button bar on my desktop is and I explained that it’s only a small program I wrote to keep track on my mail folders. I know there are many many programs out there which already does the same but for some reason he liked it and encouraged me to blog about it 🙂
qbiff runs as a server client application and is able to manage mails stored in the maildir format. The server should run on the machine which locally stores the data and the client or multiple of them can run on the desktop you have an eye on. The connection(s) between the server and the client(s) are SSL connections, even though there is no mailcontent which is transfered the information how many mails, how many new ones and what mail folders exists might be an information not everybody needs to know about… so I chose a secure connection 😉
If the file .qbiffrc exists the user can control which mail folders should be checked, if the file doesn’t exist all folders the server finds at start up will be used. Each folder is represented by a button. Whenever a new mail arrives the button changes its color and notifies the user with a tip window about the current mail situation of this folder. A click on the button runs a user defined program whereas the first parameter is the path and name of the folder. In my setup I call mutt respectively to read the mail in the folder
So it looks basically like this…
Packages can be found in my home Project at:
If you want to create your own certificates you need to check out the code at
and run the following commands:
There are fedora-tutorials, ubuntu-futorials website on the web, for anyone who envies, of course, we have opensuse-tutorials either.
This link is for those who doesn’t don’t know it yet.
feel free to register and contribute to it.
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