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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME)

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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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openSUSE 10.3 Steaming Up the Mirrors

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The openSUSE team finally announced a quite highly anticipated release: openSUSE 10.3 :-). Aside from the distribution itself being technically great, the release itself also went really well and appears to have hit nearly all the major Linux News-related websites, as you would expect.

The torrents have many thousand seeders, the news story has had over 80 comments of praise in a matter of a few hours already, and the mirrors have been pumping gigabytes out per-second. For the first day, apart from our great Released Version Mirrors, we have also adopted the services of akamai, which is for mission-critical delivery of web content. Christoph informed us earlier that It has been averaging at piping out a massive 12Gbit/s, with peaks at around 14Gbit/s! With all the other gigabit-backbone mirrors working, it’s hard to imagine what kind of speeds we’re hitting overall.

Despite the huge load and though the wiki was crawling for a short period, the site has remained up and strong throughout. We’ve pushed out most of the load to the mirrors for now, with our trusty redirector doing the work.

The community contribution in this release is both huge and encouraging; I’m proud to be able to be a part of it :-). A huge thanks to everyone involved for making it such a great release!

Sneak Peeks Series is Over; openSUSE 10.3 is getting close!

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Today I published the last in the Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3 series, and I think it’s gone really great. A lot more people have discovered and commented on the various new features, and there’s a nicely documented place to point to when people ask the inevitable question of “What’s new in openSUSE 10.3?” Our friends at Fedora seem to even be doing something similar, too.

In summary, all the articles:

• Greatly Improved Boot Time, with Stephan Kulow
• 1-Click Install, with Benjamin Weber
• New Package Management, with Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
• Compiz and Compiz Fusion, with Matthias Hopf and Jigish Gohil
• KDE 4, with Dirk Mueller
• SUSE-Polished GNOME 2.20, with JP Rosevear
• 1-CD Installation & Multimedia support, with Michael Löffler
• Virtualisation, with Frank Kohler
• A Plethora of Improvements, with Andreas Jaeger

The amount of articles that I got to publish on this (and there was more that I wish I had time to do!) is really just a testimony to the amount of new and exciting things in openSUSE 10.3. A huge thanks goes to all the proofreaders, helpers, and interviewees who made the series possible!

openSUSE 10.3 is coming out this Thursday to a mirror near you!

openSUSE and “Bullet-Proof-X”

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A discussion on #kde-devel reminded me of Bullet-Proof-X. As usual, there’s been a lot of hype from our friends in the Ubuntu camp over the Bullet-Proof-X feature which really, as Benji notes, utilises an existing feature in GDM; basically a failsafe mode, should X fail to start.

There must, however, be some light irony in reading the extensive proposal and then taking a look on the factory mailing list to read:

> > Ubuntu's "bulletproofX" is mostly hype as they're just utilising an
> > existing functionality of GDM, but it would be nice to have the same
> > functionality.
>
> So in order to "test and integrate", you'd first have to implement the same
> functionality in a way suitable for openSUSE. Volunteers anyone?

It was oneliner.

Wed Sep  5 17:45:26 CEST 2007 - sbrabec@xxxxxxx

- Search for SaX2 in XKeepsCrashing.

Just done.

Though, it’s like this mainly because openSUSE has had the wonderful SaX2 for many years now, with all types of X11 configurations (even xinerama, tablet PCs, etc) in a nice way. Perhaps it’s a bigger achievement however since Ubuntu had to create a new X11 configuration tool themselves, which is really just a GTK port of KDE Guidance.

Congratulations to both camps for implementing this, anyhow. This type of perspective on computing for new users is something that’s really needed in free software. Hopefully KDM can implement a similar hook soon, as well.

1-Click Install for Codecs in 10.3

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Since we now have the nice new 1-Click Install technology, over at openSUSE-Community.org we’re making full use of it. You can help test it right away. The Restricted_Formats/10.3 page is now up and it gives you the appropriate links to the YMPs that you can use for installation of all codecs and restricted formats.

Presuming that you are running openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 (or newer), these links should work in Firefox, Konqueror and Galeon. Here they are:

•  codecs-kde.ymp
•  codecs-gnome.ymp

Obligatory opening screenshot:

Note that you have the option of installing a lot more packages (kplayer, kmplayer, codeine, opera, etc) if you select the “Advanced” option there.

A few currently known issues:

• Amarok from Packman doesn’t install and gives out some errors. This is being investigated.
• No Totem package in Packman available yet; this should probably be around by the final release.

Please let me know if you have any other issues so that they can be fixed in time for the RC release next week. Enjoy

openSUSE-Community.org’s New Site Template & Logo

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openSUSE-Community.org, in order to stay beautiful and integrate more closely with openSUSE.org, has now been ported over to the new site layout:

All the credit really goes to Robert Lihm, who conceived the site/template layout, and Frank Sundermeyer, who implemented it all. It only needed a small amount of changes to go straight onto the community website. It now also uses the SimpleFeed MediaWiki extension, like openSUSE.org, for delivering the latest news from news.openSUSE.org.

The only other current thing in progress is a new logo for the site, which will be created in order to comply with the Artwork Brand Guidelines, and it should be done very soon. The new template should also be coming to openSUSE.org and the Build Service very soon too, so stay tuned.

Edit: Juergen just sent me over a logo that Jimmac has graciously made, which I think you will all agree is very beautiful:

New home: http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/

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Hello Community

My blog has moved to a new home http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/

Don’t worry if there is nothing new from me on this old blog, now you know where to find the new one.

Ciao

-J

How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On OpenSuSE 10.2

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How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On OpenSuSE 10.2

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on an OpenSuSE 10.2 server. From the Suhosin project page: “Suhosin
is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was
designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in
PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent
parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is
a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level
protections against buffer overflows or format string vulnerabilities
and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the
other protections.”

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How to install SAP Netweaver 2004 Linux Testdrive on SUSE 9.3 with BW enabled

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How to install SAP Netweaver 2004 Linux Testdrive on SUSE 9.3 with BW enabled

This tutorial describes how to install the 32 bit Linux Testdrive of SAP Netweaver 2004 on SUSE Linux 9.3 and enable BW functionality. It goes step by step through the distribution installation, environment setup and tasks that need to be done in order to set everything up.

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VirtualBox On FC6 / CentOS 4 / OpenSuSE 10.2

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VirtualBox On FC6 / CentOS 4 / OpenSuSE 10.2

InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86
virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is
VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise
customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

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