The Li-f-e: Linux for Education DVD has been updated, here are the important changes:
* Gnome 2.26.3
* Firefox 3.5
* Latest Sugar, Browse activity now using Mozilla xpcom and xulrunner version 1.9.1
* All openSUSE 11.1 updates since last build
Happy learning…
Suspend to disk a.k.a. Hybernation doesn’t quite work when running openSUSE in an encrypted root file system and swap on LUKS on LVM, as with Ludwig Nussel’s instructions. The system is not able to resume from the swap area, because the initial ramdisk opens the lvm system before the luks. This results in only root logical volume being opened at that time, but not the swap volume. A regular boot follows.
Here’s the mkinitd boot scripts (or their symlinks, rather) in question:
$ ls -1 /lib/mkinitrd/boot
...
61-lvm2.sh
71-luks.sh
...
Until all this is properly supported, here is a quirk to make it work: Make the lvm2 initrd boot script depend on the luks one*.
Edit /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/boot-lvm2.sh (this is what 61-lvm2.sh points to) and change the third line from
#%depends: evms
to
#%depends: evms luks
Recreate the initrd.
$ cp -iv /boot/mkinitrd /boot/mkinitrd.backup
$ mkinitrd
You will notice that the symlinks were renamed now:
71-luks.sh
72-lvm2.sh
No try suspending to disk, you should be prompted for your luks password and resume from disk should work.
$ s2disk
*This of course assumes that you only have lvm devices inside luks, not the other way around. It’s not too hard to have both – simply duplicate and adjust the luks script and run one instance before and one after lvm.
Thanks to Pavol Rusnak, the official project X11:lxde is now open, first packages are already there available for testing, but, some of them just fail because of code and security checks, we need some patches than, before provide you the best packages you can imagine for that DE.
WE NEED YOU!!!
if any of you want to help us providing patches and various fixing you are welcome, and of course you can begin using OBS collaboration way: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Collaboration
A fast review of the problems we have are available on that post into LXDE forum.
Right now than, if you want to use LXDE you should continue to follow instructions provided on my previous blog post here
Waiting for you and you help
Andrea
“Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment“, is an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment. It comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM the other DE. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications like netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. It provides a fast desktop experience connecting easily with applications in the cloud. LXDE supports a wealth of programs. The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the General Public License and partly under the LGPL.
So you got that shiny new Netbook, installed Linux on it and carry
it along everywhere you go. The default enabled Firewall blocks
incoming traffic so you feel safe when connecting to that anonymous
WiFi network at your favorite fastfood restaurant. Unfortunately the
very same Firewall becomes quite annoying at home where it prevents
your system from discovering printers or blocks ssh.
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Nowadays more and more organisations will use an intercepting proxy to give you access to internet. Last week I had the pleasure to use again such a system. To use is an exaggeration as my opensuse 11.1 box with kde4.3 rc1 connected to the wireless network (network manager) but refused to give me access to the authentication page in the browser.
I did all the decent tests that my brain and time allowed me. Checked the ip, checked gateway and checked dns. They seemed ok.
To make frustration even bigger I was able to connect to th very same network with a kde4.3 beta1.
Novell account
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First of all, in order to access the forums, build service, features, and bugzilla information a Novell user account must be created. To create an account visit: https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createOpenSuseAccount.jsp?target=http://www.opensuse.org and fill out the Form.
Login
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After creating a Novell account, you should automatically be logged in and directed to: http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org. If you are not automatically logged in, navigate to en.opensuse.org, select “Login” at the top right, and enter your user name and password.
User page
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Once you have completed logging in, your user name will be displayed at the top right of the page.
Clicking on your user name will display your user page. Since you have not edited your page yet, it should be relatively empty.
To edit your user page click on “edit”. A “Wiki” text entry box will be displayed, allowing you to enter information you would like to share about yourself, such as, your Name, email address, or instant messenger information.
Picture uploading
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If you would like to add a picture of yourself, navigate to http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Upload and select a file you wish to upload. Take note of the statement:
“To include the image in a page, use a link in the form [[Image:file.jpg]], [[Image:file.png|alt text]] or [[Media:file.ogg]] for directly linking to the file.”
This statement describes how to link/bind the freshly uploaded picture to your user page.
Bind your picture to your page by navigating back to your user page and clicking edit. Click the “Embedded Image” icon. If you are not sure which icon is the “Embedded Image” icon, hover your mouse over the various icons to display a description of each.
Once you have clicked the correct icon, the text: [[Image:file.jpg]] will be displayed in the “Wiki” text box. change the file name to the name of the picture you just uploaded.
Click Show preview to see a preview of your changes or Save page to commit the changes to your user page.
I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 alpha2 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page.
The packages are alpha versions and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are 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.
Other information and plans:
The next build will be 3.1.1-beta1 and should be available 3-4 weeks from now. The final OOo-3.1.1 packages should be available at the beginning of September.
I have vacation the following two weeks and will not have access to the internet. I hope that the current alpha2 build is usable. If not, please report bugs and switch back to the stable build.
Sugarlabs, creators of Sugar desktop environment for children recently released Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) Strawberry flavor. Strawberry is based on Fedora 11.
openSUSE Education team have also been working on getting Sugared up openSUSE in various (yet to be named) flavors :). Thomas C Gilliard (satellit) has put up openSUSE-Sugar VMWare appliance, get it from here. Apart from VMWare appliance openSUSE-Sugar is also available in live CD and USB/flash stick version.
Here are the instructions for running VMWare appliance. To deploy USB stick image, download the image – openSUSE-Sugar-liveUSB-unstable.i686-0.X.X-BuildX.XX.raw.bz2. and run this command to deploy on the stick plugged in /dev/sdX.
bzcat imagename.raw.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4k
Run dmesg to find out where the USB is plugged in, replace /dev/sdX with the actual device, for example: /dev/sdb and umount it before running this command.
We also have openSUSE Li-f-e : Linux for Education DVD that has Sugar launcher right on the gnome desktop, it contains same number of activities as Sugar only flavors.
David Van Assche(nubae) and the Moodle team are putting together great numbers of useful courses on newly launched education portal http://linux-for-education.org. Here teachers and students can find courses that helps learning their preferred subject with the aid of Li-f-e and other educational distributions. Check out the courses on Sugar and Perfect openSUSE Education Desktop.
Happy learning…
I’m back now from attending Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin. On Saturday I gave a presentation about openSUSE 11.2 and we had some good discussions about it. I demoed WebYaST which will be an exciting addition to openSUSE. WebYaST allows remote – and also local – administration of your system. The participants of the talk mentioned also that “zypper dup” to update from 11.1 to 11.2 is an important addition.
Btw. to learn more about openSUSE 11.2, check this wiki page which is regularly updated.
Adrian took some photos and uploaded them to the gallery.
It was great to see the momentum behind the education project, I talked a bit with Jan (and listened to his excellent talk) and Lars about it.
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Agustin Chavarria (6)
Alessandro de Oliveira Faria (13)
Alex Barrios (12)
Alexander Naumov (10)
Alexander Orlovskyy (3)
Alin M Elena (5)
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Andreas Jaeger (70)
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Arvin Schnell (9)
Atri Bhattacharya (3)
Bernhard Wiedemann (31)
Bonnie Kurniawan (1)
Bruno Friedmann (98)
Calumma Brevicorne (29)
Carl Fletcher (1)
Christopher Hobbs (17)
Ciaran Farrell (3)
Stephan Kulow (17)
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Stephan Barth (2)
Thomas Schmidt (2)
Dinar Valeev (1)
Dirk Mueller (2)
Dmitry Serpokryl (7)
Efstathios Iosifidis (21)
Fabio Mucciante (5)
Federico Lucifredi (9)
Greg Freemyer (1)
Holger Sickenberg (2)
Hubert Mantel (1)
Ilya Chernykh (5)
Ismail Donmez (1)
J. Daniel Schmidt (2)
James Tremblay (7)
Jan Blunck (4)
Jan Loeser (3)
Jan Madsen (1)
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Jiří Suchomel (3)
Johan Kotze (5)
José Oramas M. (6)
Josef Reidinger (16)
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Julio Vannini (9)
Dinar Valeev (5)
Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy (11)
Klaas Freitag (55)
Lars Vogdt (11)
Ludwig Nussel (13)
M. Edwin Zakaria (4)
Marcus Hüwe (39)
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Martin Mohring (11)
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