It’s (not) Alright

OpneSUSE team has released the first ever News issue for the distribution. The site quotes that the Aim of this newsletter is to summarize all the events, including the IRC meetings, public speakings, bug fixes, etc in it.

The first issue can be found here. You can subscribe to the news from here.

In short, this issue covers the following points.

• YaST documentation now in public SVN
• Joint GNOME/KDE public packaging day coming up
• PulseAudio in the works for openSUSE
• KWIN Composite updates
• Distribution, Build Service and Communication Status Updates
• In Tips and Tricks: How to install openSUSE on a Mac Mini, and how to get Screenlets on openSUSE.

Aditya Shevade

One of my friends is a die hard fan of the English football team. When England lost out to Croatia in the game on the 21st of November, we both felt very bad like many other England fans. He decided to write about his feelings and asked me if he could use my blog. I said yes, and here is his article on the match.

21st Nov was the worst day of my life as a fan of the English National Football Team. The way England crashed out of the EURO 2008 Qualifiers was just unbelievable even after Israel offered them a lifeline by defeating Russia. Omar Golan, who scored a fantastic goal in stoppage time to give Israel the victory over Russia, was gifted with a car worth $100,000 by famous betting agency Betfred.com just because his goal offered a lifeline for England to qualify.

After all this drama, England’s destiny was in their own hands and only a draw was what they needed to book their birth in EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. But unfortunately it didn’t happen.

Saddest part of this is what Beckham had to face right through the campaign. Continue reading »

Stephan Binner has announced the availability of KDE Four Live 0.7, an openSUSE-based live CD featuring the newly released KDE 4.0 RC1. One interesting point of the announcement is the author’s frustration over the quality of KDE 4, expressing strong doubts about the suitability of KDE 4.0 final for production use: “The so-called ‘Release Candidate’ of KDE 4.0 has been released, with packages for openSUSE available. The KDE Four Live CD release 0.7 contains them. It looks like whatever will be released or presented at the event which was fixed by the sponsor to happen in January will be only used by very early adopters. Hopefully openSUSE 11.0 will be able to ship some KDE 4.1.x release or some very high KDE 4.0.x release (which saw some light features freeze lift).” Here is the brief release announcement. Interested testers can download the live CD from here: KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.7.iso (562MB, MD5).

 Aditya Shevade

I just read one of the best news I have heard this entire month. Desktop Linux has released a result of the Linux Foundation tests regarding the use of Linux and the trend of people. Desktop Linux Quotes that…

Analysis — What do Linux users want from their desktop? The Linux Foundation’s survey has the answers.

While the LF’s third annual desktop Linux survey doesn’t officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. This is an early look at the raw data.

For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year’s survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006’s survey. The survey, which drew primarily from European users (51.5 percent) followed by North Americans (35.8 percent), found that the vast majority of Linux desktops (68.4 percent) are deployed in SOHOs (small office / home office) and small business settings having one to a hundred PCs running Linux. Medium-sized businesses with user bases of 101 to 500 (9.7 percent) and 1,001 to 5,000 (6.2 percent) Linux desktops came next. Continue reading »