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LTSP client goes Banana Pi!

December 16th, 2014 by

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer running ARM processor that plugs into your TV/PC monitor, mouse and a keyboard, it is capable of running Linux and can be made to do many interesting things.The Banana Pi is a what Chinese ingeniousness came up with after they checked out Raspberry Pi, they made a lot more powerful knockoff. This is a “How-to” use Banana Pi as LTSP client. (more…)

openSUSE Education Li-f-e 13.2.1 out now!

December 6th, 2014 by

openSUSE Education Team is happy to announce the availability of Li-f-e built on the latest openSUSE release. Download and spread this love around.

Back from openSUSE Asia Summit 2014

October 31st, 2014 by

Thanks to openSUSE TSP, this was my first ever participation in openSUSE event. I spent 15 days in China, traveling outside Beijing after the event, One word to define the experience  would be People, close second would be Food. In this trip I met some of the nicest, friendliest and most helpful people and had food I have never seen before or know the names of.

The summit venue was very impressive, and the event was well organized, there were wide range of topics in both Chinese and English, including mine on openSUSE Education project. What was really missing in the event were many participants. It was a pleasure meeting all the attending community members: Saurabh Sood, Max Lin, Max Huang, Fuminobu Takeyama, Richard Brown, Anja Stock, Raghu Nayyar, Alick Zhou, Qian Hong,  and all the magicians behind the curtains running the show: Sunny, Lance, Yifan et al.

Geeko and me

openSUSE Asia Summit, 18-19 October

October 14th, 2014 by

你好 北京!

Hello Beijing and lovely people of openSUSE, I will be reaching there tomorrow, will be at Green Tree Inn close to the summit venue, packing some “sightseeing” before the event, if you are also there early drop me a line . There is a short talk about openSUSE Education scheduled on 19th. Check out the summit website to find out what other interesting stuff is on offer.

See you soon…

oSA14

Updated openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-gnome-classic

July 20th, 2014 by

Here is updated openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-gnome-classic iso, this update include GNOME 3.12, official openSUSE updates till date, and it brings back Sugar.

Download ISO | MD5 | Alternate download and mirrors

Previous release announcement.

Workshop on Open Source for Embedded System Development

July 1st, 2014 by

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club organizes One Day workshop on Open Source for Embedded System Development

On 5th July 2014

At Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics, ,Gandhinagar

Faculty Members from GTU Affiliated Colleges are invited to participate in this workshop.

More information here

Report of the event and pictures

 

GNOME 3.12 classic on openSUSE 13.1

June 16th, 2014 by
GNOME 3.12 classic running on openSUSE 13.1

GNOME 3.12 classic running on openSUSE 13.1

Just in case gnome does not open in the classic mode after selecting it as session from display manager, then edit /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell-classic.desktop and change the Exec line to read Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-shell --mode=classic

You can also switch to classic mode from within the running gnome session by doing Alt+F2 > gnome-shell -r --mode=classic

Want Factory Restore/System Rescue for Linux?

June 12th, 2014 by

Considering that My sCool Server will be deployed in many schools, some in remote places and Linux system administration knowledge is quite rare, and users quite new to this whole Linux way of doing thing, there are bound to be instances where some bug between chair and the keyboard, online update gone haywire, or may be “it just happened on it’s own” kind of thing, will make something stop working as configured. We needed a way to get the system in it’s original “Factory” setting easily and quickly. Enter recovery-kit.
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Disable firefox addon compatibility check after update

June 1st, 2014 by

Running this command before launching firefox after update will disable the pesky addon compatibility check at start.

sed -i -e "s@lastAppVersion\", \".*@lastAppVersion\", \"$(rpm -q --queryformat %{VERSION} MozillaFirefox)\"\)\;@" ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/prefs.js

Tiny Core kiwi-ltsp thin client

May 31st, 2014 by

Couple of days back went to a school here to demonstrate what openSUSE Education Li-f-e with KIWI-LTSP can bring to their lab. We have created a product based on Li-f-e called My sCool Server. It brings together all the goodies that a modern operating system must have and all the softwares required by the state board curriculum in one seamless package.
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