OpenSUSE 11.0 was released on Thursday 19th as scheduled in the release roadmap, and can be downloaded from the openSUSE site. This version of openSUSE supports the 32bit, 64bit and PPC architectures, with a set of media constituted by the conventional, full featured DVD, the installable CD with the GNOME or KDE4 desktops, and the mini ISO CD for the network installation for the most experienced users. The best innovations introduced in openSUSE 11.0 are listed in the sneak peeks written by Francis Giannaros, that you can read here. The detailed feature list can be found on the product highlights. The following list sums up the most important of them:…
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openSUSE 11.0 Italian translations
OpenSUSE 11.0 is close to its release, as you can see from the countdown below, and as usual also its Italian translations will arrive on time, thanks to the hard work of the translation team, which for this release is even bigger than for the previous one. You can see the translation statistics of our team here, and our position compared to other teams here. Translations should be complete in openSUSE 11.0 starting from its Release Candidate 1, due on May 29. Please, if you test it, report all translations bug on bugzilla.novell.com, specifying where the translation mistake is (a screenshot attached to the bugreport is welcome), and assigning the…
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openSUSE 11.0 – Beta 1
OpenSUSE 11.0 beta 1 was released today, and it’s available through the openSUSE site. All openSUSE users are invited to test it, with particular care about the installer, the package manager and the audio system, which now implements PulseAudio. The most annoying bugs are reported here. Note: If you use VirtualBox, there’s a simple fix to be able to use the X server. At the end of the installation, the system will present a text based login screen. As reported by Benjamin here, it’s enough to login as root and use these commands to fix X configuration: sax2 -m 0=vesa rcxdm restart
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openSUSE 11.0 Italian translations
The first openSUSE translation round started on April 1st, and as always since Novell opened the translation process, it involves a lot of openSUSE users and volunteers that provide high quality translations of the 179491 strings required to localise openSUSE, and make openSUSE accessible to more people. Since the beginning of open translation at Novell, the number of languages added to the distribution grew significantly, including many minor ones, as it can be seen from the list of translation teams which reports 57 teams for the development versions of openSUSE, This year a new and powerful instrument to manage translation, POAT, was added thanks to Gabriel, who developed it and…
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A quick look to openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 – GNOME
I have just gave openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 a try installing it in a virtual machine. I used the GNOME single CD. Here there are my first impressions: The installer improved significantly, with a lot cleaner workflow. There are some minor problems, mainly cosmetical, like popups in the top-left corner instead than centere, but in general it worked like a charm and in 20 minutes I had openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 installed in my virtual machine. The desktop appears identical to the one of openSUSE 10.3, just with the PulseAudio icon in the notification area. The gnome main menu didn’t react to clicks on its button. The only way to…
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openSUSE news!
OpenSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 release was recently announced. The development and testing are going on, and openSUSE 11.0 is candidate to be a nice openSUSE release. Here there are the most important new features introduced in this release KDE 4.0.1 GNOME 2.21.90 Linux 2.6.24 OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta Alsa 1.0.16rc2 D-Bus 1.2rc2 Recently some mockup for the new openSUSE 11.0 look have been proposed on the openSUSE wiki, and they look very cool! Give them a look here. Another important novelty from the openSUSE community is the possibility to apply for membership for all the users who are making continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. You can find more…
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Some Maths with openSUSE
The openSUSE build service contains various scientific applications which can be easily installed using the 1-click installation technology introduced in openSUSE 10.3. Among these, of particular importance for Maths, we have three powerful tools like: Maxima and its graphical frontend wxMaxima (OpenSUSE 10.3 Build Service page here) Maxima is a symbolic manipulation software descending from Macsyma, developed at MIT, which was an inspiration for modern symbolic manipulators. Scilab (OpenSUSE 10.3 Build Service page here) Scilab is an open source numerical computation platform developed in France by the Scilab Consortium at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique). It allows interoperability due to its open nature and can…
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Adobe Reader 8 plugin for Firefox on openSUSE 10.3 64 bit
I recently upgraded Adobe Reader to the latest version available on Adobe’s site, and I lost Firefox embedded reader for PDF’s. On 64 bit systems, openSUSE adopts the nspluginwrapper plugin to be able to use 32 bit plugins for Firefox. As a consequence, a little of configuration is necessary when upgrading Adobe Reader. The steps are the following: Install Adobe Reader 8 from www.adobe.com using the RPM. Open a terminal as root (use the su command and insert root’s password) and type: ln /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/nppdf.so This will create a symbolic link to the plugin library. In the same terminal, type: nspluginwrapper -i /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so to configure the plugin with nspluginwrapper.…
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openSUSE for education and science
The openSUSE project has recently started an education project to group the educational applications, in order to make them easily available. The goals of the project, together with the necessary information to take part to it, are reported on the openSUSE Edu page, managed by the Education Team. A Desktop applications list and a Server application list are available, which can be installed on openSUSE through the Build Service. Some scientific application and libraries, like maxima and openMPI, are available also through the science repository, always hosted on the openSUSE buildservice.
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Samba and openSUSE 10.3
Using samba with openSUSE might cause some issues in certain conditions due to the presence of SuSEfirewall2, which blocks network high ports of your system. However, it is possible to configure the network to allow samba to work properly. The prodecure is simple, and can be done using YaST, as follows: Use YaST -> Network services -> Samba server and Samba client tools to configure samba accordingly to your needs, and select to open the firewall ports. This properly sets SuSEfirewall2 to open the static samba ports 137, 138, 139 and 445, but doesn’t open high ports, required for some features like network browsing. Open YaST -> System ->…