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Archive for April 27th, 2009

OpenSUSE Nicaragua @ FLISOL 2009

April 27th, 2009 by

On Saturday April 25th, the Nicaraguan OpenSUSE Community joined forces with the Free Software Community (GUL-Nic) to celebrate the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival, (FLISOL in Spanish).

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My wife Sonia and me, plus Agustin Chavarria and another SuSE fan!

The Festival took place at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria Campus (UNI-IES), reaching more than 300 visitors.

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What’s New in 11.2: Install Debuginfo Package by build-id

April 27th, 2009 by

With the help of a unique identifier that is stored in every binary executable matching the executable, a coredump and the corresponding debuginfo together becomes really easy. You don’t need to know the package name and the version-release string to download and install the correct debuginfo package. This is achieved by extending the linker, some additional tools and the package management itself.

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ARM support in openSUSE Buildservice – fixed

April 27th, 2009 by

The issue caused by the OBS worker update on arm builds is fixed by a new qemu.

This new qemu version also has fixed the Fedora 10 @ ARM build problem.

So we have the following working ARM target distros available for ARM: Fedora 10, Debian 5.0 and Ubuntu 9.04.

Have fun.

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