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 😉
After lots of test i’m ready to release a new openSUSE-LXDE live CD
Here the change log:
Fix: Lxpanel will "flash" no more (workaround, removed battery applet from panel,
this applet make lxpanel crash if no battery is found on laptop)
Fix: Added wireless-tools, usbtools, acpid
Fix: Added iwl*-ucode packages (intel wireless cards now working)
Fix: Ath_pci and ath5k conflicts no more (ath5k in blacklist)
Feature: Added Trash support
Feature: Added bluetooth support
Feature: Added "sudo"
Feature: Added "gdb" to help in debugging if crash occurs on LXDE applications
Feature: Added "fuse" and "ntfs-3g"
Feature: Added "rdesktop"
I hope you will enjoy that new release.
Before show you some shots, i would like to attract your attention on a feature i open on openFATE and that is also on the weekly news #88
That features asks to provide LXDE into OSS repo, and to made that installable from DVD media like XFCE.
Please add you vote: Feature Request: #307729: Officially Provide LXDE
Any way, going back to the live, you can download 1.0.0 and 0.9.4 releases from that URL:
http://www.steamedfish.org/downloads/
MD5 and SHA1 sums are available on that page, a very very BIG thank to Fisher Duan for hosting.
Again please report any issue on my email: andrea[at]opensuse[dot]org
Please notice how “free -m” on lxterminal show that the REAL used ram is just 67MB with the following running applications:
1) Firefox 3.5.2
2) PCManFM
3) Lxterminal
4) Lxtask
Now that 11.2 gets closer and closer to the rc status being able to play mp3 becomes important in order to make the testing experience even nicer.
Here is my workaround to get that mp3 working in amarok. I do not know about the dvd’s as the only one that I own is to boring to use it for testing purposes
wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libcdio7-0.80-5.30.x86_64.rpm
zypper in file:<Path-to>libcdio7-0.80-5.30.x86_64.rpm
wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libiso9660-5-0.80-5.30.x86_64.rpm
zypper in file:<Path-to>libiso9660-5-0.80-5.30.x86_64.rpm
wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libMagickCore1-6.4.3.6-5.3.x86_64.rpm
zypper in file:<Path-to>libMagickCore1-6.4.3.6-5.3.x86_64.rpm
wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libMagickWand1-6.4.3.6-5.3.x86_64.rpm
zypper in file:<Path-to>libMagickWand1-6.4.3.6-5.3.x86_64.rpm
zypper in libxine1-codecs
So as you can see I just use the missing libs from 11.1.Of course I assumed that you added the 11.1 packman to your repos already.
Some cool news for any LXDE users.
The first one, LXDE developers finally started to develop their own Display Manager, that means that soon we’ll need no more the very heavy GDM or the no more developed SLIM.
That new DM is called (as you can think) LXDM and svn snapshot are now available in my home:anubisg1:LXDE repo, as soon it will be stable enought i’ll move it into X11:lxde.
(more info about LXDM available here: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531
SLIM itself has been improved with a couple of patches and the logotrate support.
The second cool thing is a nice patch i got from a Slackware developer, it add trash support using the python trash-cli based on freedesktop.org standards. PCManFM with trash support is alread yavilable into X11:lxde and home:anubisg1:LXDE repos.
Some screenshots here:
Please consider that home:anubisg1:LXDE needs to be considered a development only repo. I experiment in my repo, and only when i think the changes are stable enought than i’ll move the into OFFICIAL X11:lxde repo.
Ladies and Gents,
we’re glad to announce that SOAD Linux 3.2.1 is out and available for download.
This is a bugfix release mostly. Please read the changelog:
Changelog
Active mirrors are updated weekly, starting from Monday:
GWDG.DE
Yandex.ru
We do need your feedback about “Ecomorph” – some kind of auto configuration script is already managed (no manual adjustments are required before launch), but looks like some important parameters/values are still missed unfortunately. Already collected several “White Screen Compiz Bug” reports from owners of NVIDIA GPU’s and just wish to collect some more to get the reason how to improve it. Right now (for LiveCD/LiveUSB) “Ecomorph” should work with the modern NVIDIA (drivers already in) and with other video cards, where “Compiz” is supported by a current “Mesa”/(current Xorg drivers). The case here is to tweak some values to be sure that things could work “out from the box”.
Example: if we’re building/installing NVIDIA drivers manually from official *.run.sh – everything is just fine. If we’re using the “packaged” rpm’s with the same drivers – “White Screen” could happen with “Ecomorph”.
As a sweet eye-candy the work for “Restoration of a GANT iconset” has been started – hope you like it. Current status – a bit more then Alpha, works, but feedback is highly appreciated.
Soon we’re planning to update our Enlightenment repositories up to the current E-svn. QA is in progress. Unfortunately bleeding-edje svn code is not always stable enough :).
Regards,
sda
Our call to apply for the openSUSE Core Test Team end of July attract a great deal of attention. So we got applications from nearly 50 members out of the openSUSE community, much more than expected.
Caused by that large number of offers to move testing of openSUSE forward, we decided to increase the number of members for the new openSUSE Core Test Team from 15 to 25. A number that enables even more areas to be covered by the openSUSE Core Test Team.
Six weeks later – with the release of Milestone 7 of openSUSE 11.2 – the team is formed and already started his work to ensure that openSUSE will also be a rock-solid Linux distro in the future. First discussion about prioritizing tasks is already started and members of the team are planing their first real time meeting on IRC.
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Yes, that’s true! After some develop and tests i finally completed the openSUSE-LXDE live installable iso based on openSUSE 11.1 made with SUSE-STUDIO.
I provide now, only 32bit (i686) image because that may still need some testing.
Some great news, bug #531667 has been accepted and fixed, that means that suse 11.2 will be able to run slim using /etc/init.d/xdm script as usual. The iso already includes that fixs.
here iso link: http://lxde.bsnet.se/openSUSELXDE_32bit.i686-0.9.4.iso
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Thanks to Fisher Duan we have a new “mirror” here:
http://www.steamedfish.org/downloads/
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if somebody else wants to host it, feel free to do it, just email me : andrea@opensuse.org
Oh, i forgot, some release notes and links:
RELEASE NOTES:
Login Manager : SLIM
Login manager used here is very lightweight, i’m talking about SLIM. it’s actually configured to autologin ROOT user on live CD; that setting is also saved on installed system (if you choose to install it), so to remove autologin (or just to autologin with you user) you MUST edit /etc/slim.conf, the file is well commented will not be difficult to find the lines.
LINKS:
Thanks to: Brother- for hosting
Andrea
Magnus started recently a discussion on the openSUSE packaging mailing list (thread start is archived here) where he stated that it takes very long for him to build packages for openSUSE’s Factory distribution since the packages are only build once the complete distribution has been built.
The solution that was proposed – and which should be used in general – is to build against the snapshot repository of openSUSE:Factory. (more…)
If you are running the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 (Gnome 2.27.5, Kernel 2.6.31-rc6-3-default) and find out that clicks of touchpad do not work, then this might help you a bit.
First of all, go to the Control Center, and look up for the Mouse item. Then click on Touchpad (obviously not using your computer’s touchpad, heh) and mark the option Enable mouse clicks with touchpad. That’d work fine 🙂
I must thank my friend Pedro Villavicencio of Ubuntu for letting me know about this solution.
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