“The best online Distro store” TuxDVDs in India has made available openSUSE and openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e: Linux for Education DVDs along with tons of other great distros.
If you are in India and would like your favorite distribution shipped at very low cost head here.
Alright. Just out of curiosity, I felt like finding out what the numbers show for South America compared to other regions in the Ambassadors Program of openSUSE.
As a reminder, the goals of the Ambassador Program are:
So, checking out the Ambassadors List, I got for South America:
Brazil is doing great here, doubling any other country’s Ambassadors number in the region. No doubt it’s not just users who are pushing Open Source out there but also their government and enterprises (example:Fisl), and I am glad openSUSE is a real choice for them. Compared to Europe, I believe statistical numbers are still OK for us 🙂 since the truth is that openSUSE is just ranked in the top five of the most popular Linux flavours in Chile, maybe it’s the same in other South America countries. So, Ambassadors for Europe (some countries only):
As for North America, we have got:
I even did a “quick and dirt” chart with OpenOffice’s Calc so you can have a graphical idea of our numbers around the world:
For more information, please, visit the openSUSE Ambassadors section.
Have a lot of fun!.
After running my laptop for some time already on openSUSE Factory, I decided to update my workstation now as well to openSUSE Factory – thus upgrading it to openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8.
Instead of the “old” but still working way of burning a media, booting from it and upgrading my system, I did the “new” way of openSUSE 11.2: Updating in place with “zypper dup”.
That picture talks… your quest is to find the news!!!
BTW on the screen you can see the work in progress openSUSE-LXDE for openSUSE-Factory (the next 11.2). Notice how LXDE use only 108MB RAM and 5% CPU with:
* Firefox 3.5.3
* OpenOffice.org (writer) 3.1.1
* Pidgin
* LXTask
that’s amazing isn’t it? (Don’t focus on red lines… The background is nice but THIS IS NOT the new, check the ICONS)
Thanks to Miguel Albalat Aquila for the patch
Thanks to me for changing on the patch to allow it to work with trash support patch
Andrea 😉
A little over two months ago, one of Moodles best partners announced the release of a suite of products called ELIS http://www.eschoolnews.com/tech-solutions/all-press-releases/index.cfm?i=60118 The products and principles of this organization seem oddly familiar. They support open source for schools, so does the openSUSE for Education project. They support a lower more reasonable TCO for Education Technology, so does the openSUSE for Education project. They really do a great job of supporting these ideals, so does the team from the openSUSE for Education. Thanks to both efforts open source Education Technology is becoming vastly superior choice.
Sunday morning of the openSUSE conference I took part in the Lightning Talks which were short talks on a variety of topics. I’ve took some brief notes of these:
(Disclaimer: This post is mainly intended for a German audience and describes my book about DocBook XML. For this reason, as an exception, the following text is written in German only.)
Nach ca. 1½ Jahren und unzähligen Stunden, dem Verschleiß von hunderten von Korrekturseiten und Stiften, einer überstandenen Druckerei-Pleite, viel verbrauchtem Gehirnschmalz, einem unwilligem PC und über 1000 Revisionen im SVN-Repository, ist jetzt die 2. Auflage meines Buches “DocBook-XML — Medienneutrales und plattformunabhängiges Publizieren” beim Millin-Verlag erschienen. 5 Jahre nach der ersten Auflage.
I found so far the following galleries of photos from the openSUSE Conference (osc09):
The flickr photos are also shown on the osc09 twitterwall.
Please tell me about further galleries and I’ll update this blog post.
Update 2009-09-23: Add Coly Li’s photos
Today at the openSUSE Conference I took the notes of the governance session. We will continue the discussion tomorrow but let me just publish the raw notes as I took them at the meeting without much editing.
Notes below:
The openSUSE Conference 09 has started today !
Some first impressions can get found on our gallery server already.
In case you are around Nuernberg, you can still drop by for a talk or a beer !
Adrian Schröter (12)
Agustin Chavarria (6)
Alessandro de Oliveira Faria (13)
Alex Barrios (12)
Alexander Naumov (10)
Alexander Orlovskyy (3)
Alin M Elena (5)
Andrea Florio (27)
Andreas Jaeger (70)
Andreas Stieger (12)
Andrew Wafaa (31)
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)
craig gardner (2)
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)
Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel (3)
Jan-Simon Möller (20)
Javier Llorente (12)
Jigish Gohil (85)
Jiri Srain (1)
Jiří Suchomel (3)
Johan Kotze (5)
José Oramas M. (6)
Josef Reidinger (16)
Juergen Weigert (1)
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)
Marcus Meissner (2)
Marcus Moeller (3)
Marcus Schaefer (4)
Martin Lasarsch (8)
Martin Mohring (11)
Masim "Vavai" Sugianto (20)
Michael Andres (1)
Michael Löffler (7)
Michal Marek (7)
Michal Vyskocil (12)
Miguel Angel Barajas Hernandez (2)
P Linnell (2)
Nelson Marques (55)
Nenad Latinović (1)
Nikanth Karthikesan (2)
Przemyslaw Bojczuk (1)
Peter Pöml (4)
Petr Gajdos (2)
Petr Mladek (60)
Petr Uzel (5)
Ray Wang (1)
Raymond Wooninck (1)
Ricardo Chung (7)
Ricardo Varas Santana (7)
Richard Bos (11)
Robert Schweikert (16)
Rossana Motta (1)
Rupert Horstkötter (10)
Sascha Manns (66)
saydul akram (3)
Sebastian Siebert (6)
Shawn Dunn (2)
Stanislav Visnovsky (7)
Stefan Haas (1)
Stefan Hundhammer (5)
Stefan Schubert (7)
Steffen Winterfeldt (8)
Suresh Jayaraman (3)
Susanne Oberhauser (3)
Thomas Göttlicher (6)
Thomas Schraitle (26)
Togan Muftuoglu (3)
Tuukka Pasanen (36)
Will Stephenson (22)
YaST Team (90)