tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41593045365708574792012-01-08T19:02:44.368-06:00My Linux worldRajko M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06594548481914883030noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159304536570857479.post-35635910643784186262011-10-01T11:55:00.000-05:002011-10-01T11:55:29.207-05:00

It seems that not many people are aware of Connect openSUSE service, that was created by Boosters team while ago, and consequently they don't know what they miss. In the wiki page about it there is more about technical details then about social aspects, which is not surprising: Guys that created it are technicians, software developers, that know how to handle code and have a lot to say about

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Today I created a group for wiki maintainers on openSUSE Connect web page that I like to call Connect openSUSE.  Connect openSUSE is a hub helping people with different interests within openSUSE to find each other and connect in interest groups. There is relatively old wiki article about Connect that was created in very early stages, and talks more about technical aspects and some plans then

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or Protective vs. overprotective One post on opensuse@opensuse.org made me think about what makes openSUSE a bit hard to chew for new computer users. In particular the post was about NTFS usage. There is a short article how to fix default settings: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NTFS openSUSE default settings are a safe for users with very little computer knowledge. You have to be a root in order

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From friendly blog  via Planet openSUSE   here is part of the old Linux joke.  .... Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you

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We had quite successful openSUSE Bug Day organized by A. Naumov on Saturday, November 27, and once rolling we continued through Sunday. The goal was to clear old bugs that refused to die for quite some time. You can see what is done in the wiki article. November 28th, evening by US Central Time: openSUSE 10.2:  Start 40 bugs now we have 14 bugs left. openSUSE 10.3:  Start 162 bugs now is 87

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AJ requested DKMS which is the good news. What is not so good are some comments that oppose need for DKMS. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ideals are nice, and very special word in that name is Free, like freedom. Creating obstacles that will limit users ability to use what works for them will not help us, nor FOSS. We can recommend opensource software and install it by default, but we

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Jos Poortvliet wrote: "Being stubbornly focussed on getting something done is the only bad habbit we allow in openSUSE :D ...  However, being stubbornly annoying about something YOU don't want to work on is frowned upon - as is putting down others on what they do, no matter how useless you think it is.  ..." Nice said Jos. It is a gist of openSUSE community.

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Writing answer to a recent mail list discussion it occurred to me that aversion to change is the way to preserve energy. When there is no motion, then there is no need for more energy, so it is intrinsic property of any life form, which explains why it is so omnipresent, and by definition normal (as in usual, or average)  behavior. The only problem with aversion to change is that it sometimes

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or why we don't do that, it is a FOSS world? Well, we (contributors) are stretched all over the place, and there is still a lot to do, but keeping wiki hidden on side will not bring more contributors either. New date according to Rupert's post on the opensuse-wiki@opensuse.org mail list is July 12th. Wiki editing is not a big fun in the beginning, there is more then a few things to learn about

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or basic inventory of what we have. Temporary openSUSE Wiki is created few moths ago to allow test of new tools and content reorganization  without disrupting daily operation of openSUSE Wiki. It is running on MediaWiki version 1.15.1. The basic software is already much better then the old version 1.5, but the goal is not only to have one time cleanup, but also to organize wiki that will provide

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Attempt to create structure in the wiki, or to classify all articles, is next logical step after years of, to be modest, disharmony in the current wiki, but how far we should go and what content can be structured with reasonable amount of work, and what should be left to self organization. Article Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags talks among other things about application

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or yet another way to shoot yourself in the foot. Supporting people with problems too long creates support burnout. Those that suffer from it can't find that by themselves, and even resist to accept facts when confronted. It manifests in to much attention to details that should provide better support, but actually stand in a way for the primary goal of any support effort, a happy user. Today I

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One particular article that is correlating to my experience working on openSUSE wiki is Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags or in short "how chaos is organizing itself". In other words, we did not enough to organize our chaos and we have wiki that we made, and deserve. Are we, openSUSE users only to blame? IMO, yes and no. Users of openSUSE are not well aware of FOSS concepts,

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The openSUSE wiki Portals have few sections that are included from subpages. For instance introductory section of Portal:Wiki is actually on a subpage Portal:Wiki/Intro and it is used in article itself, but also in the Main page, just as  Project and Distribution portals intro pages. Using subpages in the similar way are created other sections of any Portal page. Nice about this is that

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Today free time spent on http://wiki.opensuse.org trying to create support portal and learning on the run properties of current portal design. Template:Portal that is used as boilerplate for new portals, even generalized as it is, has a great potential, but to use it to its full potential, one has to forget all the tools we used before, like navigational templates based on Template:Navbar. We can

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That ... Aversion to Change applies further then GUIs, and suddenly you see your image in: ... the people who are the most stern advocates of normal users moving away from Windows, trying out alternatives, are the same people who are usually lost whenever they themselves have to change their way of doing things. or in other words "Me and the new openSUSE wiki development".You can see preview on

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The openSUSE wiki is on the way to be renewed.There was a lot of work done, but the pile that is waiting is much bigger.The list of articles that have to be checked is huge and that is one of tasks that has to be accomplished before we actually can start with transition.There is few new tools that we selected to help us sorting information and keep new wiki instance in a good shape and also a

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ATI graphics and Linux on some computers is real problem. I tried fglrx driver , but it doesn't compile in openSUSE 11.2 .The most recent development is that even radeon driver is no more good for Radeon Xpress 200 built in my laptop. Not that it doesn't work at all, but you have to use strange methods to boot the laptop to the GUI. To be honest, not strange to me, I used startx very often

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I got to go tough installation routine again.It is Radeon Xpress 200 graphic adapter that is making trouble.The open source radeon driver is OK for almost anything, specially after removing strange sized "Virtual 3840x1200" when frame rates jumped to values comparable to proprietary fglrx, but the "Almost" is a keyword here.Despite glxgears giving nice number of the frames per second, Google

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Reading Planet SUSE I found link to articleSwitching from Ubuntu to OpenSuse .How many people annoyed with bugs in distro that they used for a while finally give up and go elsewhere ?I know that is not many, as it involves some time to learn new one, but I know one that moved in opposite direction and few more that have some sort of plan B that include some other distro as an option.

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Smolt got changes that makes it more user friendly, ie. GUI is improved and it's on a way to be enhanced with more very useful features. Carlos, openSUSE member, rewrote the Smolt GUI in Qt, and removed serious usability bug - not reporting user password that allows user to access his report web page on http://www.smolts.org/. Password was available only trough command line client.More in his

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Discussions about KDE are source of endless fun.Answering a question about openSUSE support for KDE3 to guy claiming that it will end soon, if it is not already stopped, I caught myself thinking that support will last for a quite long period.KDE4 will be probably at version 4.4 when support for openSUSE 11.1 stops, and right now at version 4.2 it is already in a good shape for Joe the

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One of problems with wiki, as knowledge base, is that someone has to hang on it and categorize submissions, old and new, but it is not one man, nor a layman show. What is wiki The Mediawiki articles and file submissions are just linear list of titles. It is up to the people that use wiki to sort their knowledge there. The tools that Mediawiki provides are search, few listings found in special

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First interview is published.It was with a bit of squeaking, but for the apprentice editor it was good. I can't be strict to myself, it wouldn't be fair, who's going to defend me. There is still missing 'a' in some places, missed 'an' that should be 'a', but in general it was good.There are more in preparation, so following weeks wont be boring.The thin point is preparation that needs more work

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It is not recent news that Nvidia published new drivers for my legacy cards and ever since I'm happy camper spending more and more time in KDE4. It is really interesting how fast KDE guys developed such monster software suit. It was January 2008 when I installed preview version with single way to start application, using Alt-F2 to start "Run As" window and type in command name. Now is March 2009

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I said only Portal and then the other day Carlos asked again for volunteer. Now I have People of openSUSE too.It shouldn't be much work, except for initial setup and permanent search for candidates. Considering involved work, Carlos kept good tempo of one interview a week. On the other hand, weekly one would need few years to interview only people that are recognized as openSUSE members right

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For those that want anonymity is better to turn off computer and do something else.See information displayed in Google gadget GeoIP on the right side.That much reveals your IP address, but, beside cookies that everyone knows about, there is actually more information that leaves computer. For instance, HTTP headers that bowser exchange on every contact with any web server. It is not much, but a

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There is a lot of bugs reported about KDE4, which is natural for system in heavy development. The problem is that many of them are graphic adapter related. The previous version of KDE was designed few years ago and it used graphic capabilities that were available at that time. That means large part of KDE3 stability on wide variety of hardware platforms can be attributed to well tested hardware

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Smolt caught my interest on the spot, although still in development and with rough edges, it looks promising.It is project aimed to collect anonymously and completely voluntarily hardware data from computers running Linux. There is many advantages of such collection. It is originally a Fedora project, but they posted open invitation to everyone on LWN.net . Smolt is now included in openSUSE

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After 3 years being very active with openSUSE, my activity went down. Comparing with previous time, activity is almost zero.After few attempts to sort wiki articles, to make it accessible for new users, I'm tired and not willing for another undertake. It is just too much for a single person even with 8 hours a day just for that. Maybe one day when some of programs that should handle indexing will

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On a mail list, where I'm killing boring evenings, there is many people that are refusing to accept KDE4. While the list of reasons is rather long, as time is passing, some don't change much. You can always find in any of numerous, mile long threads, something like: - it is not usable, - it is not finished, - we want all stuff to be moved to KDE4 , - we don't want glitter, we want functionality,

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