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Archive for 2008
How many Lizards does it takes…
September 26th, 2008 by Julio VanniniopenSUSE Membership Applications…
September 25th, 2008 by Andreas JaegerThe openSUSE board met yesterday to go through all the open membership applications. Since many applied in the last days, we had to go over 67 applications. Additionally there were some members that applied after the deadline for voting, we did not look at their applications for now and will handle them later. Out of the 67 applications, we postponed 6 since we first needed to answer some more questions, approved around 30 and rejected the rest. So, we have right now 211 approved openSUSE members.
Details about membership are in the wiki but let me explain a bit more what membership means using some practical examples.
Wiki Meeting Summary
September 24th, 2008 by Christopher HobbsWell, for just a whirlwind summary, we met for the wiki cleanup and have come up with a few tasks to take care of. I kept a bulleted list of the discussion here:
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Cleanup_Notes
I’ll start work on a mockup of a landing page in the next few days. I will also open up discussion on the list once I’ve got something solid in place. The mockup (currently blank) will be available here:
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Mockup
Thanks to everyone who attended, I appreciate all the input. I think this will work out well for us.
Lastly, I have a bit of a support request. We’ll be periodically checking the /GNOME section of the wiki for lost or un-necessary pages. Does anyone know of a simple way to search for lost pages under /GNOME? What about a way to track page changes under that namespace?
OpenSuSE Nicaragua in SFD 2008
September 24th, 2008 by Julio VanniniOn Sept. 20th, the Free Software Community in Nicaragua celebrated the “Software Freedom Day” at the “Universidad Centroamerica, UCA” Campus. The Nicaraguan OpenSuSE Community was there, supporting the event and promoting our favorite Linux Distribution.
As a Member of the Nicaraguan OpenSuSE community and the Nicaraguan Amateur Astronomy Group, I’ve set up a small stand running Stellarium in my oS.11 Laptop.
After that, I conducted a small workshop for people interested in learning Stellarium.
That was a big day!
Late openSUSE-GNOME wiki reminder.
September 24th, 2008 by Christopher HobbsJust wanted to post a (late) reminder that we will be having a quick meeting regarding cleanup of the GNOME section of the openSUSE wiki today in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode. We will meet at 1230 CDT (1730 UTC) and will be having an informal discussion about ideas for the GNOME page of the wiki.
See the openSUSE-GNOME mailing list archives for previous discussion.
OpenOffice_org 3.0rc2 available
September 24th, 2008 by Petr MladekI’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.0.0.3.2 rc2 packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project.
The package still not final and might include even serious bugs. Therefore it is not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …
We kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs.
Note: openSUSE-11.1-beta1 and FACTORY include totaly reworked packages where the build is split into many source packages. It is very broken right now. I would like to put it into the Build Service after I solve the most annoying problems. It might take one or two months. The new packages will also provide some extra OOo extensions.
Software Management as a Service
September 24th, 2008 by Stefan HaasA couple of days ago I finished my thesis with the topic mentioned above.
It describes the currently used package formats and software management systems within the Linux as also the proprietary world of Microsoft respectively Apple plus the possibilities to reduce those systems and tools to a common denominator.
The prototype of this service, which emerged within the scope of the thesis, consists of the following three parts:
- PackageKit, which acts as broker between CIM and the local software management system
- CIM, which provides the standardized data model and communication and a
- Web-UI, which is more or less only a proof of concept
As the Common Information Model (CIM) is a widespread and well used standard (even Microsoft occupies it with its WMI stuff), its models are used for a common data structure as also for the operating system independent communication.
For implementing a usable service, classes (data structures) for Package, Update and Repository was needed.
These classes are based, out of compatibility reasons, on the already existing WMI implementation of Microsoft. Hence, it is possible with one and the same client to list packages (products in Microsoft speech) and Updates of Linux as also Windows computers.
To connect this CIM-classes to the local software management system it was necessary to develop so called CIM-providers.
The implemented providers communicate with PackageKit and not with the available software management systems (like ZYpp in case of openSUSE) itself. This is beneficial as there is no need anymore to develop a provider for every single software management system. As soon as there is a backend for PackageKit of the specific software management system this service is automatically usable.
The prototype of the service is fully usable to list, install and remove packages and patches as also to list, disable and enable repositories for all Linux distributions provided by PackageKit.
So, if you are interested and the thesis is accepted and marked (hopefully good) by my examiners, let me know and you’ll get a copy of it (90 pages, english).
What should happen happen if I transplant a brain?
September 23rd, 2008 by Susanne OberhauserI’m currently involved in a discussion on factory about what should happen if I replace the graphics card, or when I move the hard disk from one machine to another one, with different hardware.
I wished SUSE did handle such transplants gracefully, maybe for the same reason I do not wish my 2CV back:
My first car was a Citroën 2CV.
On some summer day I did a very long autobahn trip with it and the engine got real hot as it was air cooled. When I finally had arrived in my home town late at night, I rolled down a long hill using the engine brake and at the end of hill at a red light I stopped the car — and oops: so did the engine…
Developing with libyui/libzypp & python – part2
September 23rd, 2008 by Jan-Simon Möller
Final Reminder
September 23rd, 2008 by Andrew WafaaYes it is I, FunkyPenguin, on my Party Political Soap Box calling out to all you unbelievers.
You have less than 23hrs till applications for membership for voting purposes is closed; you also have the same small amount of time to notify us of your intention to run for a position for the first community elected Board. I know there are some of you who have been thinking about running – it’s now or never to be part of the 1st. Sure you can go for it next election, but you should really go for it now 😉
Remember you need to be a member before you can run for the Board!
For more info please see my earlier call.
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