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June 19th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
This post is for the openSUSE Members!
Freedom and Democracy
Well, I think I have to explain that french title…
Nah, let’s not bother and move on 😀
Part of democracy is that if you don’t cast your ballot you have no influence! So don’t let others decide for you, when you can act!
Members, we need your vote!
We’re almost 500 members, and this message is for you.
Our freedom to choose our direction and control our project as we wish works only when we vote. As in real world democracies, not voting gets you nowhere.
So why this reminder?
Because : I want you to vote!
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First you read the stategy document (it’s really quickly done)
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Think about it (Well, you have 10 days left for that)
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Take a decision : Can you support that strategy?
- If 50% of your neurons +1 agree : vote yes
- if not : vote no
- if you really don’t know : vote I don’t know/care.
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Connect to connect.opensuse.org and cast your vote.
What we need here is to send a strong signal that 99% of our members are alive and care about our project.
Otherwise, why would we bothered to become members, and keep that status, if not to infuence?
Ideas
Why not add this signature to your mails you use on ML and/or forums?
The openSUSE Strategy, I've casted my vote! And you? http://bit.ly/iB2Dzh
When?
Oh come on, I really hope that you’ve acted before reading this line 😉
Dead line is 29 June
Links related
[1] Aux armes citoyens : La Marseillaise
[2] etc the singing version by Serge Gainsbourg
[3] Cast your vote connect poll
[4] Article on news.o.o
Tags: connect, member, poll, strategy
Posted in Board, Boosters, Distribution, Events, Marketing | Comments Off on Aux armes citoyens! Et cetera
June 17th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.6 / fglrx 8.861 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
- Quick résumé :
- There’s no full changelog about them, but Catalyst 11.6 installer (pdf)
- Get the cheat-sheet 11.6 version
- Kernel supported up to 3.0x version
- Should be the latest version supporting 11.2
- Wrong (to my point of view) create an xorg.conf file which is unneeded if you work with /etc/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and have driver "fglrx" inside
Warning
Some instabilities could happen. In case of crash like no keyboard, mouse, and blackscreen on reboot. Try to shutdown properly your computer with the shutdown poweroff button (or remote ssh). On reboot, just add 3 at the end of grub line to restart in console mode.
Then with yast or zypper you can always remove the actual version and try the previous version available in the repos.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.6 article (German)
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.861 of catalyst 11.6 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.39 kernel and the driver is ready for kernel 3.0x, so until xorg change too much and then AMD support for the new version, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build.
The new package are called SUSE121 & no more SUSEFACTORY.
Stats Numbers ?
| Month |
Unique IP |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
|
Jan 2011 |
2355 |
6411 |
19688 |
35263 |
16.63 GB |
|
Feb 2011 |
2906 |
7719 |
26383 |
41142 |
22.37 GB |
|
Mar 2011 |
8055 |
21157 |
228494 |
258613 |
59.13 GB
|
|
Apr 2011 |
10592 |
29129 |
418281 |
437416 |
76.87 GB
|
|
May 2011 |
12511 |
36816 |
608350 |
626901 |
104.91 GB
|
All proudly served by openSUSE powered server! zypper dup from 11.2 to 11.4 in 45minutes last month
Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx, radeon, x-org
Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory, Kernel, lizards.openSUSE.org, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | 10 Comments »
May 14th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.5 / fglrx 8.850 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
At least after a wrong 11.4 version, and a first buggy 11.5 catalyst version, the new one is finally build and ready to install from the repo. Like for 11.3 I’ve clean up all previous version which are not xpic, so everybody can easily know which drivers he has to install.
I’ve resigned all rpm with my key. And the tests made show them working.
Warning
Some instabilities have been reported. In case of crash like no keyboard, mouse, and blackscreen on reboot. Try to shutdown properly your computer with the shutdown poweroff button. On reboot, just add 3 at the end of grub line to restart in console mode.
Then with yast or zypper you can always try the previous version.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.5 article
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.850 of catalyst 11.5 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.38 kernel and the driver is ready for kernel 2.6.39, so until xorg change too much and then AMD support for the new version, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build
Numbers ?
| Month |
Unique IP |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
|
Jan 2011 |
2355 |
6411 |
19688 |
35263 |
16.63 GB |
|
Feb 2011 |
2906 |
7719 |
26383 |
41142 |
22.37 GB |
|
Mar 2011 |
8055 |
21157 |
228494 |
258613 |
59.13 GB
|
|
Apr 2011 |
10592 |
29129 |
418281 |
437416 |
76.87 GB
|
All served by openSUSE powered server!
Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx, radeon, xorg
Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory, Kernel, lizards.openSUSE.org, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | 2 Comments »
May 3rd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Just a quick note for those of you asking themselve why the new catalyst 11.4 (fglrx 8.841) are not yet published on the non-official repository, there’s an answer : hollidays 🙂
I’ll be back from Greece next week, so I will publish them around the 15th May.
In the meantime, you can counsult this article from Sebastian Siebert
Have fun!
Posted in Base System, Desktop | Comments Off on AMD/ATI Catalyst 11.4 pre-build package … next week
April 25th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Fosscomm 2011
The event will take place in Patras this year. For those of you who don’t know, fosscomm is one of the major foss event in Greece.
I’ll go there and will make a presentation :
Amazing openSUSE : we, you, together a promizing future!
I hope to see all of you there! Come and meet the growing openSUSE Greek community, and most of the Greek ambassadors.
Follow them on Twitter. The official hashtag of FOSSCOMM 2011 is: #fosscomm2011
Official Patras city website
PS: The websites is also available in english 🙂
Talk
Title :
Amazing openSUSE
We, you, together a promising future !
Talk Audience
general public, which would like to contribute in FOSS
No special IT knowledge is required.
Abstract
openSUSE project is open: there’s a place for everybody!
Come and (re)discover one of the oldest Linux distribution and one of the most youngest community.
This talk is about the community powering the whole actual openSUSE Project :
We will overfly openSUSE’s history, and the actual projects like open-build-service, susestudio, tumbleweed, evergreen, connect, openqa, and the near future a word about the openSUSE Foundation.
Follow us deeper inside with examples how collaboration works between contributors, users, across the borders with others distributions and upstream projects.
Want to be part of? Let’s talk about the “right” place for you!
Tags: Events, foscomm2011, Greece, Marketing, openSUSE
Posted in Distribution, Events, lizards.openSUSE.org, Localization, Marketing | Comments Off on Fosscomm 2011 in Patras – Greece
April 10th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Gnome3 launch party in Zürich, April 8th 2011
ETHZ building
A group of 20 people met in ETHZ F26.3 room Friday afternoon (3pm to 7pm). To assist the Gnome 3 Launch party. We were expecting more people, but a so sunny weather, and a Monday off in Zürich doesn’t help to keep people inside after a long winter. 🙂
Marcus Moeller showed us a deep overview of the whole Gnome 3 desktop, with the strength and weakness (non yet finished features or controversial ones).
Then there’s some talks about features, what will happen unity/ubuntu/gnome etc …
On my side I did a late presentation about what’s openSUSE project is, and its associated SUPER COOL tools like OBS and susestudio.
It was supposed to last 15 minutes long. I was asked only Tuesday night to do it! But in fact we spend more than half an hour demoing obs and susestudio. Really was cool to do.
A special thanks to Biju Gopi Thilaka for setting up that party.
Biju Gopi was kind enough to share his slides with us, so keep reading …
(more…)
Tags: Gnome 3, openSUSE 11.4, zürich
Posted in Artwork, Base System, Contrib, Desktop, Distribution, Events, GNOME, lizards.openSUSE.org | Comments Off on Gnome3 launch party @ Zürich report
April 9th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
If you don’t get it already our 11.4 DVD and a great double faced poster are here
Linux-Maganize issue 126
(more…)
Tags: 11.4, cheatsheet, Linux Magazine, poster
Posted in Artwork, Boosters, Contrib, Distribution, Documentation, Education, Marketing | 6 Comments »
April 6th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Gnome 3
Wake up ! it’s today ! Happy celebration
Learn a bit more about Gnome 3 : gnome3.org
Launch party in Zürich
If you can join the Launch Party in Zürich Friday 8th April 2011, 15h00 to 19h00
Deeper informations : visit the info page, or read the full invitation letter
Don’t hesitate to join!
Remember Zürich is less than one hour flight away from any major city in Europe, and well desserve by train. Weather will be nice and warm. So you didn’t have an excuse to not come! 🙂
I will talk about openSUSE, and how to get Gnome3 in it, I really will be happy if any other geekos around could come and join
Tags: Gnome 3, openSUSE 11.4
Posted in Distribution, Events, GNOME | 2 Comments »
April 4th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
Freebeer.ch
visit freebeer.ch
Just a quick note about the new version (2.0) we had tasted Friday 1st April in Zürich.
No April fool, here, even if by car Zürich is one of the worst city to drive. Hopefully, I’ve a driver who don’t drink Alcohol. One hour and a half to join Zurich, and one hour to find the place, and park the car.
Anyway, we found the HUB place, and enjoyed the new version of swiss freebeer, in the company of around forty people.
The new receipt is absolutely right for my taste, and I can assure to German & Czech previous testers, it’s really better. And no, it’s not a pils malt based one. Afterall we have Geeko’s beer for that.
Pascal Mages & Roland Studer made a quick and nice presentation about the idea, the concept, and the open philosophy behind the bottle. (avertas.ch)
Then Daniel Reichlin, the brewer, made a presentation about his brewery located in Winterthur. (website). We appreciate especially the serious during QA tests. 🙂
Dabu Fantastic (Acoustic Set) website fill our ears, during the time Daniel fill ours glasses.
As always during this type of events, it’s cool to meet people, discuss about free/open world, our beloved distributions, etc
They publish some numbers, and it seems we drink (driver excluded) 80 Liters during the event.
ps: if someone near Delémont want to drink one, I’ve bring back some of them at home 🙂
Catherine Lippuner, who get some pictures, was kind enough to share some with us.
Roland Studer (back) from avertas.ch / Daniel Reichlin (front) brewer
people drinking freebeer, and watching brewer's presentation
Public during presentation of open concept
attentive audience
Tags: 2011, freebeer, swiss, zürich
Posted in Events, Marketing | Comments Off on freebeer.ch version 2.0 : new taste, new packaging, same free license
April 3rd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.3 / fglrx 8.831 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
I’ve clean up all previous version which are not xpic, so everybody can easily know which drivers he has to install.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.3 article
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.831 of catalyst 11.3 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.38 kernel, so until xorg change too much, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build
Numbers ?
| Month |
Unique IP |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
|
Jan 2011 |
2355 |
6411 |
19688 |
35263 |
16.63 GB |
|
Feb 2011 |
2906 |
7719 |
26383 |
41142 |
22.37 GB |
|
Mar 2011 |
8055 |
21157 |
228494 |
258613 |
59.13 GB
|
All served by openSUSE powered server!
Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, amd, ATI, fglrx, radeon, xorg
Posted in Base System, Factory, Kernel, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | Comments Off on ATI/AMD fglrx 8.831 Catalyst 11.3 available for openSUSE 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
