Thanks to Moro, I found a nice Firefox add-on, which allows to add a firefox tray icon to the panel of your desktop environment. You can install it directly in Firefox from here.
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Welcome to openSUSE 10.3!
openSUSE 10.3 has been released on October 4th and it can be downloaded the download page of the openSUSE site. A summary of the new features is available at news.opensuse.org, and Martin (cb400f) provided more details on his blog It’s some time I don’t see openSUSE so polished and well working, probably since the times of SuSE Linux Professional 9.3. The improvement in boot time is amazing, GNOME is polished and works well, YaST-Gtk integrates better into GNOME and the package manager is finally fast and usable. As I already said during beta testing, great work Geeko! And great work openSUSE team!
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GNOME 2.20 is out!
GNOME has 10 years, and the new 2.20 release is now available at www.gnome.org. The list of the various improvements of this release is available here.
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The OpenFOAM extensions project has been launched
The OpenFOAM community announced the OpenFOAM extension project, whose goal is to open the OpenFOAM CFD toolbox to the community contributed extensions. The project consists mainly in a SVN site for developers and researchers, to easily share code developed using the OpenFOAM toolkit. The project’s home page, hosted at Sourceforge.net, can be found here, while further information is available in the announcement made on the OpenFOAM discussion board. This content of this message is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
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GTK# now has a ribbon library
The GTK# toolkit has now a library which allow the addition of ribbon bars, to GTK# applications. The library has been developed during Google Summer of Code 2007, by Laurent Debacker. You can see a picture of the new widget on Miguel de Icaza’s blog, while a summary of its features can be found here.
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A quick look at openSUSE 10.3 beta 2
I have just installed OpenSUSE 10.3 beta 2 on my desktop to see how its development is going on. I used the GNOME 1 CD installation. As usual, the installation was smooth, as I already noticed when I tried alpha 7. All the hardware was properly recognized and configured, with the exception of my Ralink RT 2570 wireless card, which was detected and identified, but was unable to negotiate a connection with my router, when I tried to configure it. However this time ndiswrapper was on the CD, so I was able to quickly set up my wireless card. Installation and updates sources can be automatically added during the…
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openSUSE 10.3 Italian translation is complete!
OpenSUSE Italian translations were completed today! Thanks to all team members 🙂 The updated stats are available here.
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openSUSE italian translations
openSUSE.org now has now an Italian community translation team which will help in the translation of the openSUSE distribution into Italian. The team is composed by three guys (Alessandro Ruoso, Ezio Tonetto and Leonardo Miliani), coordinated by me. I have just started a page on the openSUSE.org wiki, which can be accessed by clicking here. In this page further details on the activities of the translation team can be found.
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OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 released
The seventh alpha release of OpenSUSE 10.3 was released, and I decided to try to install it using one of the novelties of this release: the 1 CD installation, which should provide a complete desktop system using a single CD as installation medium. There are two CD’s: one for KDE and the other for GNOME. Being a GNOME user, I tried the latter, which comes with GNOME 2.19. The first evident novelty is the green bootsplash which immediately appears when booting from the CD. The whole artwork, from the desktop wallpaper to the applications splashscreens, has been redesigned and made green, the original colour of SUSE. The installation…
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OpenCFD released OpenFOAM 1.4.1.
OpenCFD, the well known developers of the OpenFOAM CFD code announced the release of OpenFOAM 1.4.1, an improved version of their code. According to the announcement, which can be found here, the main new features of this release are: Two new dynamic mesh solvers for incompressible flows, with SIMPLE/PISO/PIMPLE pressure-velocity algorithm. Mesh motion solvers extended to include velocity (as before) and displacement which are advantageous for periodic motion. A new numerical scheme (filteredLinear2). The adoption of OpenMPI-1.2.3 for parallel calculations, which replaces LAM. An improved tool to convert FLUENT meshes, which is now able to manage zones, boundary conditions and other features A conversion tool to export data…