We’re pleased to announce that as of today the great team of RadioTux will include a summary of openSUSE Weekly News in their German-speaking podcast “Radiotux@HoRads”. It’s planned to make this a fixed part of the shows. Air date will be today between 18:00 CET and 19:30 CET.
So here are the links:
* http://blog.radiotux.de/ – link to RadioTux
* http://blog.radiotux.de/play LIVE
* http://blog.radiotux.de/podcasts – link to the podcasts/archive
openSUSE 11.1 doesn’t officially support an encrypted root file
system which also means YaST doesn’t allow to create such a setup.
By manually creating an encrypted partition and putting LVM into the
encrypted container it’s however possible to trick YaST into
accepting that as root file system.
(more…)
Next weekend we’re celebrating the first birthday of our daughter and that’s also the start for my two months paternity leave from Novell – and the openSUSE project. I’ll be back on the 22nd of May.
During that time I plan not to read my emails and plan not to be active in the openSUSE project, so don’t count on me getting involved or expect me to do anything.
I’m basically on a long vacation and my primary focus will be taking care of Jonna Ylvi – and also recharging my batteries, taking photos etc.
I see a lot of good changes in the openSUSE project currently and look forward to engaging fully again soon.
I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.1 beta1 packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project.
The packages are build the openSUSE-11.1 way so that the extra packages with extensions are available for openSUSE-11.1 and 11.0. I still have some troubles to build the extensions on openSUSE-10.3 and SLED10. I hope that I’ll fix it soon.
The packages are beta 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. We are especially interested into the testing of SMB access and file locking.
Other information and plans:
I would like to provide another beta build within one week. It should finally include an initial implementation of the OOXML export filters and thus improve the interoperability with MS Office 2007.
There are still some troubles to update the OOo-3.0.1 packages from the OpenOffice:org:STABLE project on openSUSE-11.1. I have committed one more fix yesterday. The fixed packages should be ready tomorrow. I hope that it will be the final fix. See the bug #471280 for more details.
Let me introduce myself. I’m an active packager for openSUSE. You can find packages that I build in the following repositories:
Some of you might remember me as the provider of the apt rpm package. The apt package is already for a long time included in the openSUSE base distribution, as such I don’t need to maintain it anylonger. Another reason is, that apt has been superceded by other package managers, such as smart and of course openSUSE’s own zypper.
The apt repository that is provided on the great opensuse mirror GWDG for the suse distributions 7.3 – 10.1 gets still many visitors, although the numbers are declining, with every new version that openSUSE releases. Only this weekend the number of visitors dropped below 100 (99) on a single day for the first time in 6 years (the top was around november 2005 with more 3600 visitors a day). It’s amazing to see how long people are using a service. It’s even more amazing when one realizes that the repository provides only packages for discontinued SuSE distributions….
That’s it for now, I hope that you will enjoy my future blogs!
Dear Ladies and Gents,
version “3.0.6” of openSUSE-Enlightenment (SOAD project) is out:
GWDG mirror will be updated to the version “3.0.6” on Monday (next week).
Changelog from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6 version
* new updated kernel (version 2.6.27.19_3.2)
* updated EFL/E to svn_r39423 (2009-03-09)
* updated OOo (version 3.0.1.3)
* fixed “Del” key operation in “xterm”
* fixed the segfault during the first login to Enlightenment-DR17
* improved “Wicd” init script
* added GTK+ “Unity” theme
* removed “atl1e” driver for “Attansic” LAN cards (found on the eeepc1000* mostly)
* following drivers are added: “rtl8187”, “rt73”, “rt61”, “r8101”, “r8168”
* improved list of a default installed repositories
* overall code/software/packages update to the current openSUSE-11.1 state
* some useful Wi-Fi utilities added along with the advanced documentation (Tutorials…) 🙂
* other misc. enhancements
In general – this version just works. The only disadvantage is that “LiveCD” version require 800M media (or a blank DVD-R/RW disk) and cannot be recorded to the standard 700M CD-R/RW. The absence of a “delta” images are due to the huge update of a packages – “delta” has no sense this time.
We’re also recommend you to visit our two new modest wiki pages and read a bit about:
Ecomorph
Wicd
Btw, it looks like “Wicd” have a chance to be a default network configuration tool for KDE-4.3 (Dev. Team are constantly improving the package, that’s great!).
LiveCD: list of installed packages
USB-stick: list of installed packages
Huge thanks to Mikhail Kazakov for a help in preparation of this release version!
Enjoy!
Regards,
sda
P.S. The curious persons are welcome to glimpse at the small “Detailed uncompressed LiveCD packages size” pdf file.
Hi all!
Well , beginning from this week i will start to work on one small project (one week).
Probably it would be a YaST or QT application, so if you had a really good idea, give me simple feedback. 😉
Today I tried a new way to do a live upgrade with one of my machines from 11.0 to 11.1. In the end, it takes nearly 1 day, because I had to download nearly 3,2 GB software (puh!) – but for me it was just a 3 minute work 🙂
It turns out that the most problematic part was the new RPM-“Distribution” string for openSUSE since 11.1. As openSUSE is now completely build in the openSUSE Build Service, the Distribution string of each package switched from “SUSE LINUX Products GmbH” to “openSUSE 11.1” – and zypper complains about this vendor switch during a live upgrade.
My Solution: Just create a new file “/etc/zypp/vendors.d/openSUSE” as root and insert the following content:
[main]
vendors=openSUSE,SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Now, zypper identifies packages from Vendor “openSUSE” as the same as packages from vendor “SUSE LINUX…”
Whats left is the adaption of the repositories (they should point to 11.1 now):
localhost:~ # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d/
localhost:~ # sed -i “s|11.0|11.1|g” *
…and right afterwards, the show can go on…
localhost:~ # zypper ref
Retrieving repository ‘OBS-Edu’ metadata [done]
Retrieving repository ‘Packman Repository’ metadata [done]
…
localhost:~ # zypper dup
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
…
Press “y” and Enter – and go to bed or something else – next day, reboot your machine and welcome your new 11.1!
We received some complains that the redesigned partitioner on openSUSE 11.1 is
tedious to use. To remedy these shortcomings I’m adding context menus to the
tables so that it is no longer required to select the correct view using the
navigation tree to perform some operation. Almost all operation should be
available via context menus in the main view listing all devices.
As usual comments are welcome.
Screenshot of TurboGears 2
It’s been quite a while since I last posted an update on the state of python-turbogears in the openSUSE build service. The TurboGears project currently has three branches open (which seems to cause more confusion that actually help people) – the 1.0 branch, the 1.1 branch and the 2.0 branch. Whereas newcomers are advised to install from the 1.0 branch and to develop web applications based on that branch, the truth is that most of the active development goes on in the 2.0 branch. TurboGears 2.0 is at beta7 stage right now – features are frozen and a release data is in sight for the big 2.0.
Without getting into the major differences between 1.0 and 2.0, many people on the TurboGears Google Group have expressed the opinion that the 2.0 branch, despite its beta suffix, is exceptionally stable and well suited to production deployment. One of the major obstacles facing people was how to actually install it. Because it requires some cutting edge packages which might not be standard fare for many distributions, it is recommended to install TurboGears2 (beta) in a virtual python environment using the virtualenv package. Once the new virtual environment is ready and activated, a simple easy_install will automatically install the TurboGears2 package and its requirements. This is well documented.
I got a bit fed up with the virtual environment setup – it worked fairly well, but I was constantly having to set up completely new virtual environments just to install another TurboGears web application. There is an option when using virtualenv, to make the entire virtual environment “mobile” (meaning that you can pack virtual environment plus web app off to another computer easily), but it wasn’t working for me.
Enter python-TurboGears2 on the openSUSE build service. It took me a couple of days to get all the dependencies in the correct versions and installing properly, but it looks as if it works now. As TurboGears2 will be in a more or less constant state of flux until the final 2.0 release, there will probably be quite a lot of work to do to keep the packages up to date, but it’s worth it for the simple zypper in python-TurboGears2 🙂 What I want to do now is to try creating a SUSE Studio based virtual appliance – that way practically any web app could be created and setup easily – and with a bit of elbow grease you could probably use apparmor etc to make it rock solid.
PS: it would be well cool if people would test the package
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