There is some good news for you: in cooperation with Marcus Hüwe the download on demand feature is now working seamlessly with cross-build, making it a combined “super feature”.
Also, I have put together a “condensed” cross-build in OBS document in the OBS Wiki Concepts collection.
New OBS cross-build installation packages will be provided inside openSUSE:Tools:Devel soon.
Have fun.
In part 1 we installed and tested libyui and its python binding and part 2 was about constructing the GUI. Now its time for the libzypp-bindings – of course for python ;). So far the GUI looks like:
We will import a repository’s metadata and list its content. But let’s move on …
I assume you have already installed the software from part 1. Then we’ll just donwload the missing parts.
zypper in prefix-opt-python-zypp prefix-opt-libzypp
I’m glad to announce the availability of repositories tree on Russian mirror.
We altered mirror structure. Now we have one server for repositories tree (later we are going to add Factory tree there.) And three servers for other static stuff (like repo and iso dirs). It means that 1-click install will try to get package from closest mirror (yandex). And it means that Russian users get significant improvement in download speed. After a week of hard work we make it real. Thanks to Peter Poeml (from suse) and Arkady L. Shane (from yandex).
I probably could make here the longest title just naming everything we have so far as designation for the job 🙂
So what is it about?
We want to have an official program to support local communities better. We already have some strong supporters which are doing an awesome job, now we need more of them. You might think of fedora ambassador or Ubuntu LoCo, but for a unique project like openSUSE we also should have a unique name. But of course it’s not all about the name, i posted yesterday a draft with more details and some open questions. We think that this program will help the project, and the people who are doing the job (without a name right now 🙂 ), a lot.
Join the discussion at openSUSE-marketing!
Ladies and Gents!
Glad to announce the update of unofficial Enlightenment LiveCD based on OpenSUSE-11.0.
Download page
‘Welcome’ notes (PDF)
Please visit the download page to see the details and try the mirror provided by Yandex.ru – a leading Russian internet and technology company. We’ve got this mirror in September’08 because our server was loaded ‘over the top’. Please, read the Welcome.pdf before you pop the disk into the PC/Qemu/etc.
Here’s some download statistics data excluding the mirror and excluding the torrents:
| Month | Monthly Totals KBytes | Average shipped Qty of images |
| Jul 2008 | 2226994785 | 3625 |
| Aug 2008 | 1067698466 | 1655 |
| Sep 2008 | 33425784636 | 47884 |
| Total | 36720477887 | 53164 |
The data is slightly rounded/diminished, but tiny 50k from a single server is the result no one expected. Thank you very much!
All components of this LiveCD are available for the ordinary openSUSE Users. Some of our improvements/modifications are outlined in the ‘Welcome.pdf’. We’re cooking now the simple package to make the Enlightenment LiveCD with a ‘single click’. Anyone could install that package, read instructions, add the drivers/packages/components we had missed and “pull the trigger”. It means that you can add there the beloved NVIDIA drivers, remove OpenOffice, add more themes, wallpapers, games etc.
The brief changelog comparing to the old ‘release’:
We will be glad to receive your feedback.
Acknowledgments:
Enlightenment Development Team and Enlightenment Community
OpenSUSE Build Service Team
OpenSUSE KIWI Team (schaefi, cyberorg, pzb, cgoncalves – THANKS!)
Stalwart, thanks for the hosting!
Packman Team
Novell
Jan Engelhardt
and all the others, who helped to make it (Engineers, Developers, Users, Maintainers…)
Thanks!
Regards,
SOAD team
The openSUSE board met yesterday to go through all the open membership applications. Since many applied in the last days, we had to go over 67 applications. Additionally there were some members that applied after the deadline for voting, we did not look at their applications for now and will handle them later. Out of the 67 applications, we postponed 6 since we first needed to answer some more questions, approved around 30 and rejected the rest. So, we have right now 211 approved openSUSE members.
Details about membership are in the wiki but let me explain a bit more what membership means using some practical examples.
Well, for just a whirlwind summary, we met for the wiki cleanup and have come up with a few tasks to take care of. I kept a bulleted list of the discussion here:
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Cleanup_Notes
I’ll start work on a mockup of a landing page in the next few days. I will also open up discussion on the list once I’ve got something solid in place. The mockup (currently blank) will be available here:
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Mockup
Thanks to everyone who attended, I appreciate all the input. I think this will work out well for us.
Lastly, I have a bit of a support request. We’ll be periodically checking the /GNOME section of the wiki for lost or un-necessary pages. Does anyone know of a simple way to search for lost pages under /GNOME? What about a way to track page changes under that namespace?
On Sept. 20th, the Free Software Community in Nicaragua celebrated the “Software Freedom Day” at the “Universidad Centroamerica, UCA” Campus. The Nicaraguan OpenSuSE Community was there, supporting the event and promoting our favorite Linux Distribution.
As a Member of the Nicaraguan OpenSuSE community and the Nicaraguan Amateur Astronomy Group, I’ve set up a small stand running Stellarium in my oS.11 Laptop.
After that, I conducted a small workshop for people interested in learning Stellarium.
That was a big day!
Just wanted to post a (late) reminder that we will be having a quick meeting regarding cleanup of the GNOME section of the openSUSE wiki today in #opensuse-gnome on Freenode. We will meet at 1230 CDT (1730 UTC) and will be having an informal discussion about ideas for the GNOME page of the wiki.
See the openSUSE-GNOME mailing list archives for previous discussion.
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