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Archive for 2012
openSUSE in Education, Spreading Continue
May 17th, 2012 by M. Edwin ZakariaWhat do you feel as an open source developer, user, or enthusiast if you see this beautiful piece of software is used by hundred of schools and thousand of students? Great isn’t it? And that’s what happened here in a small dot on this earth in Yogyakarta Indonesia.
This program was initiated by the Government of Indonesia with the objective to introduce the open source and e-learning method to student and teacher. So three years ago I was contacted to help them to realize their dream, and here I’m now reporting that there are around 7300 openSUSE installation in 350 elementary and junior-high schools. We also use SLES in servers to provide repositories and e-learning materials in SCORM using Moodle. This is work in progress. We educate teachers to use openSUSE and also creating learning material so it is always in beta stage I think 😀
I want to say thank you to all the good people, my friends and co-workers, they are unknown in openSUSE community, even many of them are not subscribing the mailing list, but they are the true openSUSE ambassadors in Indonesia. They come to schools and persuade the teachers to use openSUSE. Without them this dream will never come true. Picture below show some of them smiling holding the openSUSE 12.1 promo DVD that AJ sent to me. You all great! Also picture of teachers while following our session about openSUSE.
All the good people
Teachers train using openSUSE
Finally we welcome everyone in openSUSE community if you want to visit Indonesia don’t forget to pay a visit to one of this schools in Yogyakarta and you will see how student are happy using it 😀
CLI to upload image to openstack cloud
April 18th, 2012 by Josef ReidingerI work on automatic testing of one of our products that creates other projects.
And because there is a lot of clouds everywhere I want to use them too. We
have internally an OpenStack cloud (still Diablo release). So I need to solve
automatic uploading of images built in the Build Service. Below I describe my working version.
LibreOffice 3.5 available for testing on openSUSE
April 10th, 2012 by Petr MladekI’m happy to announce first LibreOffice 3.5 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service LibreOffice:Unstable project. It provides many interesting features:
- better UI for header/footer handling
- multi-line input bar in Calc
- Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents
- enhanced custom shapes import
- modeless word count dialog
- improved font hinting for high quality docs
- more secure encryption algorithm (AES-256) for password protected files
- better displaying of non-printable characters on the end of line
- and much more
The current openSUSE packages are based on the LibreOffice 3.5.2 release. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE LibreOffice build on the wiki page.
The openSUSE LO team hopes that you will be happy with this release. Though, any software contains bugs and we kindly ask you to report bugs. It will help us to fix them in the future releases.
Known bugs:
- problems with KDE 4.8.2 from KDE:Distro:Factory project (bnc#755886)
Other information and plans:
The current LibreOffice-3.5 packages are based on the second bugfix release and should be pretty stable. I want to move them into the LibreOffice:Stable project within next two weeks. I just want to make sure that I did not do any mistake during packaging, e.g. breaking dependencies. Also the KDE4 integration need to be tested because it was not provided by the upstream build. Any feedback is welcome.
openSUSE 12.1 Multimedia Built on Susestudio
April 9th, 2012 by Saydul AkramI was Inspired by the time in a remote area, which is absolutely no internet connection, but I have problem when trying to share the DVD installer openSUSE 12.1 to Students and teachers at the vocational school, because the default openSUSE 12.1 distribution does not include Audio & Video codec, the issue of License GPL (General Public License) that embraced by the openSUSE distro. I try to make openSUSE Multimedia is ready for use by the user without having to depend on internet connection because they have to install Codecs Audio & Video.
Nothing is different the official openSUSE 12.1 with openSUSE Multimedia, I just added some applications that do not exist in the original distribution of openSUSE and add Restricted_formats codec, in addition to applications and libraries that were included are up to date of http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/.
openSUSE 12.1 Multimedia 32-bit Base on openSUSE 12.1, using the default desktop Gnome 3 sprinkled with cinnamon.
openSUSE 12.1 Multimedia built using susestudio.com, and are designed to be ready to use for users who want to feel the openSUSE but trouble Internet connection, because they have to install codecs mp3, mp4, wmv and some other restricted format http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats.
As for some of the packages included in it are:
A. LibreOffice
2. banshe
3. Amarok
4. Brasero
5. Cheese
6. Empathy
7. Xchat
8. flash-player
9. Gmplayer
10.Gimp
11.Imagewriter
12.k3b
13.Smplayer
14.etc …
If you want to use it please download via http://susestudio.com/a/haHwG8/opensuse-multimedia
Thanks To: openSUSE Indonesia Team, Kendari Linux Users Group, and Susestudio.com
April KDE Updates available for openSUSE (KDE 4.8.2)
April 4th, 2012 by Will StephensonThe April set of KDE updates to Workspaces, Apps and Platform are available now for openSUSE in our KDE:Release:48 repository. This offers you the latest stable software from upstream KDE for openSUSE releases. As point releases, these are an essential upgrade for your production openSUSE installations.
Get them now at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/.
The repository for openSUSE 11.4 is being created at the time of writing at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_11.4
Users who already have the KDE:Release:48 registered in YaST need only zypper up or upgrade with YaST.
As always, have a lot of fun and report bugs!
AMD/ATI fglrx 8.951 Catalyst 12.3 rpms available for openSUSE 12.2, 12.1, 11.4, 11.3
March 30th, 2012 by Bruno FriedmannThose informations are obsolete now : please consult //lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8888
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.3 / fglrx 8.951 rpms are available
Quick Résumé about 12.3
AMD rename their installer, So Sebastian did the same for his script.
I will just copy/google translate/paste here the comment made by Sebastian Siebert on his blog :
amd ccc and fgl_glgears running
The packaging script was updated because I have a compile error when building a kernel module fglrx in the kernel 3.2.8+ and 3.3+. Due to the very tight time window, the patches could no longer be incorporated into AMD Catalyst 12.3. Only in the upcoming AMD Catalyst 12.4, the patches from me for openSUSE will be available. AMD Catalyst 12.5 they will be officially included for all other distributions. Yes, with the makerpm-amd script made for you, I can despatch on very simple, convenient and quick patches or missing useful extensions via the script packaging update. Who need to wait months.
Driver support now AMD Radeon HD 7950, HD 7970, HD 7990
See more at Sebastian’s blog.
Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
or ask in forums, irc and ping freespacer.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.951 are available from Friday March 30th.
new package postgresql-plr. Get the power of R inside your postgreSQL database
March 30th, 2012 by Bruno FriedmannI’m pleased to introduce you to a new available package for postgreSQL database.
The R procedural language extension developed by Joseph E Conway.
R Procedural Language for PostgreSQL
Introduction
PL/R is a library which allow you to add the power of R statistical engine in your database.
This article will show you how to add it and basic usage on a 12.1 installation.
(The package is also available for 11.4)
Become familiar with the project and how it can help you.
The homepage project : www.joeconway.com/plr/
We admit here, that you are able to manage a posgreSQL server instance, and have already one running.
(more…)
subversion with libserf – continued
March 15th, 2012 by AndreasStiegerFurther about my work on packages for Apache Subversion with support for serf / libserf / ra_serf, that repository access module was not made default in the 1.7 release after all. Anyway, version 1.0.13 of serf is now available in devel:libraries:c_c++ with the intention of getting this into and in Factory. You will find current Apache Subversion packages with fixed conditional compilation against serf in home:AndreasStieger:serf home:AndreasStieger:branches:devel:tools:scm:svn devel:tools:scm:svn for testing.
Updated 27/05/2012: repository locations
And again after SR#122507 was accepted.
ATI/AMD fglrx 8.950 Catalyst 12.2 rpm available for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1
March 8th, 2012 by Bruno FriedmannThose informations are obsolete now : please consult //lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8888
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.2 / fglrx 8.950 rpm are available
News, the build -3 now should build perfectly with kernel 3.2+ & 3.3, Thanks to Sebastian for the patch
Quick Résumé about 12.2
AMD rename their installer, So Sebastian did the same for his script.
I will just copy/google translate/paste here the comment made by Sebastian Siebert on his blog :
amdccle
AMD has released some time later the driver. The only reason was the fact that AMD has jumped over the version 8.94 because of possible driver issues with some graphics cards. I’ve also updated the packaging script because AMD had unfortunately not include my changes in their AMD installer. (Remember? No time? Who knows … Especially since AMD closed mailing list was down.) It affects even the atieventsd.sh init script. There has been specified for the start of the script in run level 3 and also the XDM (X window manager) provided what IMHO makes no sense. On the other hand, the power mode script (ati powermode.sh) kicked out for good. Since the driver already supports the suspend mode and does not require a helper script anymore.
Driver support now AMD Radeon HD 7950, HD 7970, HD 7990
See more at Sebastian’s blog. Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
or ask in forums, irc and ping freespacer.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.950 are available from Thursday March 8th.
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