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1-Click Bug Reporting?

August 23rd, 2009 by

First off, let me blow the dust off of my Lizards blog account 😉

Now that Bug iconwork and school has started to settle down, I’ve gotten back in to testing openSUSE’s newest version, 11.2. One of the things that annoyed me a little, though, was having to open Firefox to report or search for a bug in Bugzilla. So with a little inspiration from the Windows 7 beta’s links to “report a problem” everywhere, I created a desktop icon and panel launcher to automatically launch Firefox and open the “enter new bug” page on our Bugzilla.

You can download this icon here (right-click and Save Link As). Perhaps this is something that should be included with the pre-release versions of the OS starting in 11.3? What do ya’ll think?

Update: Due to a suggestion by Pavol Rusnak, it’s now in openFATE – #307492

Posted in Factory, openSUSE 11.2, Quality Assurance | 5 Comments »

Whitepaper: Weekly News Survey published

August 23rd, 2009 by

Hi Mates,

i’ve just announce my Whitepaper. This is an Collection from Comments of our Survey. The Whitepaper shows us what are Work in Progress and what planned in future.
Visible in: http://freenet-homepage.de/smanns/whitepaper/WhitepaperWeeklyNewsSurvey.pdf

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Posted in Marketing | Comments Off on Whitepaper: Weekly News Survey published

Sending lots of pictures in one message

August 22nd, 2009 by

Thanks to Gwenview, you can email the pictures of your last trip, which are usually many, without having to spend hours. It’s very easy!

Open Gwenview and go to Plugins -> Images -> Email Images
emailimages

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Posted in Desktop, KDE | 3 Comments »

OpenOffice_org 3.1.1 beta3 available for openSUSE

August 21st, 2009 by

I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 beta3 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 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, …

As usual, we kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs.

Other information and plans:

The build is based on the upstream 3.1.1-rc1 release. I have marked it beta3 because upstream had found another blocker bugs in the meantime. Note that our builds are delayed after the upstream by few days by definition.

I have also fixed the OpenOffice_org-LanguageTool package to do not print the ugly messages. I do not understand why I did not see them when I tested the 0.9.9 update. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

The next build will be available about August 27, it should be 3.1.1-rc1 and I hope that it will be the final build.

Posted in Desktop, OpenOffice.org | Comments Off on OpenOffice_org 3.1.1 beta3 available for openSUSE

updated Package: bleachbit 0.6.1

August 19th, 2009 by

Name: bleachbit
Version: 0.6.1
Repo: openSUSE:Factory:Contrib

Posted in Packaging | 2 Comments »

Updated package: kpassgen 0.5

August 16th, 2009 by

Updated Package: kpassgen
Version: 0.5
Repository: KDE:KDE4:Community

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Call for Participation: openSUSE Weekly News

August 16th, 2009 by

Hello Mates,

since 2 Month our Call for Participation is running. We would like to hear more feedback. Please tell us your likes and unlikes, your Wishes and so on. Please share your Ideas with us. You can drop your ideas here:

http://forums.opensuse.org/surveys-polls/416228-how-opensuse-news.html

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Posted in Documentation, Marketing | Comments Off on Call for Participation: openSUSE Weekly News

Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartmann

August 14th, 2009 by

The openSUSE Weekly News are pleased to publish an little Interview with one of Novells Kernel-Hackers: Greg Kroah-Hartmann.

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Posted in Kernel, Miscellaneous | Comments Off on Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartmann

Twitter Statusupdate via CLI (Shell)

August 13th, 2009 by

This was an interesting Idea, and i have found it on Tips4Linux. Based on: http://tips4linux.com/update-your-twitter-status-from-the-linux-command-line/

T4L: You can easily update your Twitter status from the CLI by using this one simple command:
curl -u user:password -d status=”Your status message” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
where user is your username and password is your Twitter password entered in plaintext. Replace the text Your status message with anything you wish.

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Posted in Documentation, Miscellaneous, Usability | 1 Comment »

Cliced Hybrids

August 13th, 2009 by

Marcus and me have been busy improving the USB experience. So here is how to use it:

download the live cd of your choice from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ and make sure you grab build218 or later. And then do something like I did:

linux-vgqb:~ # ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 13. Aug 10:04 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_II+_5B751D8C1994-0:0 -> ../../sdb

So I use /dev/sdb in my commands to shorten it, normally I would use /dev/disk/by-id/.. directly to avoid overwriting my hard disk image.
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Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory | 1 Comment »

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