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Hackweek 7 - FWZS - Firewall Zone Switcher

Hackweek 7 - ARM Port openSUSE Factory

Hackweek 7 - openQA & OS Autoinst

AMD released some moments ago this months release of Catalyst (11.9). This version fixes some annoying stuff with GNOME3, the rainbow ‘Activities’ bar is one of them. Some scroll down menu’s are still fuzzy to my side, but it’s a good start.

Hackweek 7 - Ajax Terminal Plugin For WebYaST

Hackweek 7 - Libgphoto2 support for Pentax K20D

Target ARM Hardware I just sent this into the -arm mailing list.   This is a hot topic, and one that seems to generate the most noise. I've had a discussion with several people about target hardware, and I've also looked at what our ... [More] peers are doing and saying. At the same time I've been trying to see what options we have for getting some sponsorship for hardware. There were three devices in the running, all are classed as development boards - so no case or external prettyness (beauty comes from within anyway): TI PandaBoard Samsung Origen ST Ericsson Snowball After discussing, the preferred nominee is the PandaBoard. Several factors led to this decision, it has an integrated wired network connection; is well supported by the incumbant distros; widely used within the wider ARM open source community; and it has Pandas (OK only in name but still!) So if you want to prep and get some hardware, then go for the PandaBoard (as soon as the Cortex A15 is released, we'll be looking at them). Yes, I know it's a developer board and not an end user product. Unfortunately there aren't actually that many end user products that you can sensibly use for development at the moment. Sure, there's the TrimSlice the DreamPlug and a few others, but after consulting someone that is far more knowledgable and aware of the wider landscape, we went with their recommendations. Oh and things are moving pretty fast folk!! \o/ [Less]

The new openSUSE 12.1 Release is approaching very soon and all you Geekos should not miss the opportunity of becoming a double GPM! Party time starts this weekend and lasts until November 2011 in all Geeko-towns and Geeko-homes. Gather all your ... [More] fellow Geekos to the best local pizzeria and let the party begin! HowTo So, the first GPM: Geeko Party Maker. As you might have seen, you’ve all been invited to organize a pizzabeta party. The beta has been delayed a bit but party can still be had – the release will be this weekend. Of course, instead, you can organize a launch party for 12.1 once it is out – which is currently planned the third week of November. Parties are simple: you only need people, the rest will follow. Geeko’s are fun at heart although many of them require some beer and food to really loosen up. If you have your event at a pizza place, it doesn’t get easier! Of course you can do it at home, in an office, a pub, or wherever else you want. Most important thing: Just Do it! Don’t worry that only 5 people show up. 5 Geeko’s already make a huge party, you’d be surprised! So, how to do it? Just two steps: Get out there and find a nice Geeko pizza place! Let your Geeko friends know about it and make sure they tell their friends about it. That way you can gather all your local community for this nice Pizza Party. Need more help organizing it? Check out the wiki articles! how to do a betapizza party read the launch party HOWTO add yourself to the Launch party list use one of the pre-made 12.1 presentations if you want to have a talk Your own Pizza You can do it! You can cook it! Wanna jump right in? Surprise your friends with a cool and fun idea: cook for (or with!) them the best Geeko Pizza ever and become a double GPM: not only a Geeko Party Maker but also a Geeko Pizza Maker! This is your challenge – you will love every bit of it (especially the eating part). Recipe Get your bread maker ready and let’s get started! You will need the following ingredients for the dough: water 220 ml flour – ½ kg yeast – 8 gr a little oil, salt and butter Instead of making your own dough you can get a pre-made pizza base from a supermarket… And now what…? You put all the above ingredients in your bread maker (feel free to check the instructions of your bread maker too). As soon as the dough is ready, take it out and put it on a floured surface. Roll it out in a very thin layer. You put butter on a tray and put the dough on top. (Alternatively: If you don’t have a rolling pin you can just push the dough with a spoon so that it covers the whole tray) You bake it in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. The surface of the dough should *not* get dark and it should be firm to the touch. You take it out of the oven (remember to keep the oven on) and let the fun begin! You then need to evenly spread tomato sauce on top of the dough, add sliced or shredded cheese, ham, mushrooms and any other of your favorite ingredients. Final touch: you slice green pepper into pieces and arrange them in the form of a geeko on the top of the pizza. Alternative way for the geeko design: Use avocado sauce which you can easily make by beating up an avocado (after you have peeled it off) using a fork or your multi-mixer. You should add a little salt and oil to make it more tasty and if you want you can even add some smashed tomato or tomato juice – just a little bit, because we don’t want to lose the nice green color now, do we? You now need to put the tray with the pizza back into the oven for at least another 10 minutes (make sure nothing burns!) Take the pizza out of the oven and feed your geeko friends Yeah you did it! And you cooked it! Congratulations, you are now a double GPM: Geeko Pizza/Party Maker! And now you can enjoy your 12.1 Release Pizza Party with your self-made Geeko pizza! Don’t forget to send us photos and comments :) [Less]

Quick mail chew, really pleased to see the Android / LibreOffice cross-compile building up to ~the end - although of course no GUI porting work as yet. Set about growing my VCL re-factor to make that possible - rooting out bogus X ... [More] dependencies that have crept in around the place. Quick lunch, chat with SUSE's PR guys. Hacked away, got the X dependency out of the headless code, at least at link time. TSC meeting. Discovered a load of unix dependencies in the headless code - need to spend some time cutting those out. Out to see Soham Village College with Rachel; thoroughly pleased with the excellence on display. Home to the wife. Fun call with Jeremy Allison until late. [Less]

Dear MeeGo friends!Yesterday a big announcement was made by Intel and Samsung. It entails another big change of directions for Moblin/Maemo/MeeGo.Where to go NextMany people in your community wonder where to go now. Yesterday, at a MeeGo meet in ... [More] Tampere, many wondered if Intel will let the community contribute to Tizen. Will Samsung work in the open? Intel and Linux Foundation didn't build a great track record with MeeGo and some said they simply didn't believe in it anymore. Many clearly care about the great community which was build over the last years and are afraid it will break up.Aaron Seigo spoke some wise words. He said: "don't rely on what big companies might or might not do. Find out what YOU want and how to get there!" And indeed, community is about making your choices together. Not depending on corporate players acting as ADHD kids in a candy store, tasting every candy then dropping it.We've got roomSo, I invite you to a community which you already know. A community which, like MeeGo, is young and vital. You're familiar with the Open Build Service and with tools like zypper. You know these come from a community looking beyond their borders - projects like Smeegol and Ayatana are good examples. Of course I talk about openSUSE.And while we do have a large, corporate sponsor, they depend on us. Yet we don't exclusively rely on them. Many independent developers and companies are active in the openSUSE Community. Moreover, SUSE has proved on several occasions to respect the wishes of its community, even if it's uncomfortable with the choices, and we've been working on setting up an openSUSE Foundation with SUSE buy-in as well.We're open to innovationsopenSUSE is very flexible and open as a community. No complicated governance, no top-down management, like our large competitors. Just FUN. As result, we do awesome stuff! From OBS and the upcoming new thing, to the übercool Tumbleweed.And timing is excellent: Andrew "Smeegol" Wafaa has recently announced the start of an effort to bring openSUSE to ARM devices. Progress was already made during this week's SUSE Hackweek and the mailing list is buzzing with activity!You're welcome at openSUSEIn short, I would like to welcome you in openSUSE's ARMs. We've got the attitude which will fit you and we've got the technology and infrastructure to support you!There is a nice wiki page on participating in openSUSE if you want to learn more. But to get things going, I suggest to start a discussion about how we can help you guys and girls on the openSUSE Project mailing list. Of course, feel free to visit our IRC channels.See you at openSUSE and have a lot of fun! [Less]