Comments for openSUSE Spotlight

Comment on openSUSE Board Meeting Minutes, June 3 2009 by Interested

Interested — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:23:33 +0000

When will be more information available about the openSUSE conference?

Comment on Stephen Shaw has been appointed as openSUSE Board Member by Stephen Shaw

Stephen Shaw — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:38:00 +0000

Just for the record, its Stephen Shaw (without the n

Comment on Ark Linux is becoming the first third-party distro other than openSUSE to adopt ZYpp as its package manager. by j.eng

j.eng — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:14:19 +0000

It’s the only sane choice:
* smart claimed that apt did not find all updates (due to its algorithm)
* then, smart is terribly slow (the solve stage taking >45 mins on an older 933 MHz machine)
* and overly memory-intensive (see Duncan’s blog post)
* referring to “breaking the interpreter” in the Ark post: it has happened to me; worth noting that you have to upgrade python (when SUSE moved 2.4->2.6) and its modules at once (but of course you could not have known that before, because dependencies were missing)
* zypper seems the be the only one to consider a vendor change a hard barrier, protecting against 3rd-repo packages sneaking in (IMHO even more important than any of the other points)

Comment on iFolder: Come and Get It! by db

db — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:08:28 +0000

Novell announced and released iFolder (June 2001) before Apple had an iPod (Oct 2001). So just maybe everything doesn’t really revolve around what Apple does.

Comment on Captioned SLED Videos by JGJones

JGJones — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:05:23 +0000

Not sure if you do trackbacks, so I’ve written a short response to this over here on my blog.

Thanks, this is awesome and very much appericated!

Comment on iFolder: Come and Get It! by foldingathome

foldingathome — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:49:23 +0000

>folder

It is called directory.

>iFolder

.oO( youFolder ) .oO( iDirectory ) .oO( wtf does everyone need to use Apple-like names? )

Comment on LinuxFest Northwest: 10 Years?! See You There? by Rikki Kite

Rikki Kite — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:23:33 +0000

See you there! Stop by the Linux Pro booth and we’ll give you an Maddog-autographed copy.

Comment on iFolder: Come and Get It! by Jehzeel Laurente

Jehzeel Laurente — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:56:24 +0000

this is a great new open suse software! wooooooooot!

Comment on openSUSE Reference Card? by Lars

Lars — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:23:52 +0000

As mentioned in another comment already: what about a Quick Start telling people where they can get what they want?

For example:
* apparmor.opensuse.org
* bugzilla.novell.com
* crashdb.opensuse.org
* education.opensuse.org
* forums.opensuse.org
* lists.opensuse.org
* lizards.opensuse.org
* news.opensuse.org
* software.opensuse.org
* http://www.opensuse.org
* zonker.opensuse.org
* …

Another example:
* How to find apparmor profiles?
* How to get updates for their distribution?
* How to get support?
* How to get the latest (KDE/GNOME/whatever) software?
* How to find/subscribe to a mailinglist?
* How to find support in the forums?
* How to become an openSUSE member?
* How to join/talk to people in IRC (channels?)?
* …

Comment on What Belongs on “Announce”? by Lars

Lars — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:13:40 +0000

Just an idea that for sure needs more brainstorming - but first start with the background.

People installing openSUSE for the first time get the “well known popup” during their first login - OK. We tell people that they should create an account on opensuse.org to participate in the wiki, bugzilla, forums, … We invite them to many places of opensuse.org - and even I didn’t know every subdomain like:

* apparmor.opensuse.org,
* crashdb.opensuse.org or
* lizards.opensuse.org
* …

Looks like openSUSE developers again and again fall into the trap creating lots of tools and ideas without informing their users about the great stuff they do. (Sidenote: what about a list of such subdomains with their background information in the weekly news? -> Zonker, please drive this

Now: we have already a page called users.opensuse.org, what about enhancing this as a central place for users to manage their openSUSE account and get more informations if they want?

For example:
* general mailinglist subscription management
* subscription to specialized newsletters (weekly news, updates for their distro, announcements, …) they are currently send via opensuse-announce, perhaps we can deliver them also separately, if the moderators of opensuse-announce “tag” them?
* location management (think about “openSUSE people in your neighborhood, if people can add and search GEO-Information
* hermes integration (for developers manly, but better to have it here IMO)
* trust system integration
* …

Perhaps this is something for openfate.opensuse.org (next subdomain candidate - perhaps this should be discussed on opensuse-project@opensuse.org, first. What do you think?

With kind regards - and happy easter
Lars