A couple of days ago, Google release a Beta version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux. After installing the RPM I has been notice that the flash player doesn’t work. For make it work do the following as root:
cd /opt/google/chrome
ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ plugins
Restart Chrome and you are ready to watch some videos on youtube 🙂
Yes, I am going to Encuentro Linux 2009, and so does openSUSE!. This year the most important Linux event in Chile will be held in Valparaiso and Viña del Mar at the same time. I’ll be giving a presentation on SUSE Studio (if you didn’t already know 😉 ) on Saturday 24th, 10:00 – 11:10 AM. Of course I am taking all openSUSE 11.1 DVDs I have left, and will be a great oportunity to show on my notebook what’s coming for 11.2.
More information (in spanish only) here. See you there!.
Alright. Just out of curiosity, I felt like finding out what the numbers show for South America compared to other regions in the Ambassadors Program of openSUSE.
As a reminder, the goals of the Ambassador Program are:
So, checking out the Ambassadors List, I got for South America:
Brazil is doing great here, doubling any other country’s Ambassadors number in the region. No doubt it’s not just users who are pushing Open Source out there but also their government and enterprises (example:Fisl), and I am glad openSUSE is a real choice for them. Compared to Europe, I believe statistical numbers are still OK for us 🙂 since the truth is that openSUSE is just ranked in the top five of the most popular Linux flavours in Chile, maybe it’s the same in other South America countries. So, Ambassadors for Europe (some countries only):
As for North America, we have got:
I even did a “quick and dirt” chart with OpenOffice’s Calc so you can have a graphical idea of our numbers around the world:
For more information, please, visit the openSUSE Ambassadors section.
Have a lot of fun!.
The openSUSE Weekly News are pleased to publish an little Interview with one of Novells Kernel-Hackers: Greg Kroah-Hartmann.
This was an interesting Idea, and i have found it on Tips4Linux. Based on: http://tips4linux.com/update-your-twitter-status-from-the-linux-command-line/
T4L: You can easily update your Twitter status from the CLI by using this one simple command:
curl -u user:password -d status=”Your status message” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
where user is your username and password is your Twitter password entered in plaintext. Replace the text Your status message with anything you wish.
I’m happy to announce, that i imported the Assuma Manager to openSUSE. Special Thanks goes to David Haller. The Package can recieved in KDE:KDE4:Community.
More Infos there: http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=109313
Novell account
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First of all, in order to access the forums, build service, features, and bugzilla information a Novell user account must be created. To create an account visit: https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createOpenSuseAccount.jsp?target=http://www.opensuse.org and fill out the Form.
Login
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After creating a Novell account, you should automatically be logged in and directed to: http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org. If you are not automatically logged in, navigate to en.opensuse.org, select “Login” at the top right, and enter your user name and password.
User page
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Once you have completed logging in, your user name will be displayed at the top right of the page.
Clicking on your user name will display your user page. Since you have not edited your page yet, it should be relatively empty.
To edit your user page click on “edit”. A “Wiki” text entry box will be displayed, allowing you to enter information you would like to share about yourself, such as, your Name, email address, or instant messenger information.
Picture uploading
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If you would like to add a picture of yourself, navigate to http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Upload and select a file you wish to upload. Take note of the statement:
“To include the image in a page, use a link in the form [[Image:file.jpg]], [[Image:file.png|alt text]] or [[Media:file.ogg]] for directly linking to the file.”
This statement describes how to link/bind the freshly uploaded picture to your user page.
Bind your picture to your page by navigating back to your user page and clicking edit. Click the “Embedded Image” icon. If you are not sure which icon is the “Embedded Image” icon, hover your mouse over the various icons to display a description of each.
Once you have clicked the correct icon, the text: [[Image:file.jpg]] will be displayed in the “Wiki” text box. change the file name to the name of the picture you just uploaded.
Click Show preview to see a preview of your changes or Save page to commit the changes to your user page.
This weeks topic was the integration of the cross-compilation mode into the build environment. But it’s more than just a cross-toolchain – it’s a speed-boost for our ARM build environment. As of today, the source is deployed in the repository Base:build:arm:cross. It’s not fully bootstrapped because of the current high load and the upcoming downtime – so watch out for changes there and in Base:build:arm.
But what are these “speedup’s” ? First, you’ve to know that in our build environment the ARM binaries are executed through an emulation-layer. This works on the cost of speed. The goal is now, to exchange some key parts in a transparent manner with native x86 binaries: no emulation, no slowdown. Sounds reasonable, but is it easily possible ?
I had to take care not to mix stuff too much because the environment would break. But now I’ve to say: WOW, this worked incredibly well 😉 .
The distinctive feature of our approach in comparison to usual cross-build environments is that we use the best of native environment emulation and the speed of cross-compilation. Because of this combination we don’t have to patch the individual packages to make them cross-compilation ready. This is a new way of cross-compiling suitable also for large number of packages. A detailed overview about the different crossbuild types can be found on this page.
Another feature to note is that the exchanged binaries (replacing ARM with x86 in the build environment) also don’t need heavy patching and there’s no need to compile them as static binaries. All of them are normal distribution packages.
A switch in the project enables/disables the new features. With the new changes in place, the speed could be vastly increased. Some figures:
* package rpm
* package glibc w/o locales
| Build time in minutes | ||||||
| x86 native | armv5tel native | armv5tel cross | factor native | factor cross | ||
| rpm | 8 | 107 | 17 | 13,38 | 2,13 | |
| glibc | 33 | 505 | 63 | 15,3 | 1,91 | |
Thats a drop from about x15 to x2 in comparison to the native x86 build-time !! See it yourself when the “crosscompiled” repo in Base:build:arm is up and running.
In other words: “Warp 5, Mr. Sulu !” 😉
Yesterday from 10:00 to 20:00 UTC the Weekly News Team holds an Session: “How to make a Newsletter?”. The Team prepared 2 Presentations:
* How to make an Newsletter and
* How to translate a Newsletter? (Thanks to Satoru).
So the Visitors can get an Overview about the Project. In an integrated Question and Answer Session Visitors can recieve Informations. We had construct an Special Edtion from the Community Week. The Special Edition merged the Blog Post, other Posts to one Site. You can see our Result: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/CommunityWeek2009.
The activity in the Channel was low. We hope that today more Visitors come to #opensuse-newsletter. For first Introductions we placed the Page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/CommunityWeek .
If you would like to learn more about Translating you can visit us today from 12:00 to 14:00 in IRC: #opensuse-newsletter @ Freenode. The German Translaton will be held on #opensuse-de.
We hope to see you today …
Your Weekly News Team
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