OpenOffice 3.0 has been released since a while, with a new set of very interesting functionalities like ODF 1.2 support, Mac Os X support, Microsoft Office 2007 OOXML import filters, new collaboration features, PDF/A support, and a lot more. OpenOffice 3.0 can be installed on openSUSE 11.0 directly from the openSUSE Build Service. You simply need to add the OpenOffice:Stable repository to your installations sources with: zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/ OpenOffice:Stable and then open YaST -> Software -> Software management, search for “openoffice”, and update all the OpenOffice installed packages by clicking on them, and by selecting the appropriate option when conflicts appear. Extensions to the base OpenOffice 3 installation can…
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Geeko likes iced tea!
It seems that Geeko, the openSUSE chameleon, likes iced tea! Look yourself!
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SUSE Studio
Novell launched SUSE Studio, an on-line linux appliances construction kit, where you can build your personalized server appliances, create Linux CD’s and DVD’s with just the packages you need, prepare VMware or XEN server appliances, and USB/hard-disk Linux images.
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OpenSUSE seen by a long time user
I have recently asked on suseitalia what the users know about the openSUSE board and its election process because I had the feeling many of the community users didn’t know anything about it. My suspect is confirmed, at least by the few answers received in the thread, which surely have no statistical value. However, in the same thread, a long time SuSE and openSUSE user, ferdybassi, made a more general comment about openSUSE and its community, pointing out some of the problems I believe are damaging the distribution myself. I will translated his comment (italic), and add my view. Surely they are chaotic in organizing resources, communication and work, and…
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Qoppa PDF Studio: Edit PDF on Linux
I have just found a very useful application to edit PDF’s on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux): Qoppa PDF Studio. You can edit, add comments, underline and make various other changes to your PDF files with a very easy to use interface.
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A good idea from Fedora
I came to know from Moro’s blog that Fedora has a project called Fedora Unity with, among the others, the task to prepare re-spins of the ISO images of the distribution. I think it is a very good service, because who starts to use the distribution do not need to download the ISO and then a huge number of updates. It would be nice if other distributions like openSUSE did the same, and I hope they will consider the idea in the future.
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openSUSE 11.0 is out!
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…