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For obvious reasons, I’m dropping support for SUSE packages on my personal repository. I’m still trying to find some quality time to maintain my Fedora packages, which is very difficult for me, considering OpenSUSE Build Service only provides i386 support, and I use x86_64. Maybe I’ll need to run my own build service with Mock.

–pr_BR

A notícia é legal e sinistra ao mesmo tempo. Legal porque é bom saber que a Novell está usando um case brasileiro para demonstrar a penetração do Linux no mercado. Sinistro porque algum louco escreveu “Casas Bajia” (com J mesmo) ao invés de Casas Bahia (com H). Tem gente que ainda pensa que no Brasil se fala espanhol. Pra ser mais estereotipado, colocaram um sambinha tocando no fundo.

Bom, de qualquer forma, o vídeo pode ser visto no site de Marketing Videos da Novell. Procure por “Casas Bajia”. Ah, tem outros vídeos legais lá, vale à pena conferir.

–en

The news is cool and creepy all in one. Cool because it’s nice to know that Novell is using a brazilian case to demonstrate Linux market penetration. Creepy because some crazy guy wrote “Casas Bajia” (with J) instead of Casas Bahia (with H, which is correct). There are still some people that think in Brazil we speak spanish (for the records, it’s brazilian portuguese). To extreme the stereotype, they put a samba as the bacground music (not all brazilians are fond of samba).

Anyway, the video can bee sen at Novell’s Marketing Videos site. Look for “Casas Bajia”. Oh, and there are other cool videos too, it’s worth looking at them.

I’ve be giving Fedora a try (because I need to, I’ll explain later). It makes me realize how bad is to have fixed ideas about solving a problem, which is common when you need to deal with some different concepts in a regular basis for quite some time. So it felt really strange when I switched from Slackware (my first distro) to RedHat, then to Conectiva, Mandriva, SUSE and now Fedora.

This really feels strange. Even more because I’m switching from KDE to Gnome. I’m having a very hard time finding the things around. The apps that should be the equivalents of K3B (Gnomebaker) and Amarok (Rhythmbox) may be really tight to the Gnome HIG, but they are far (far) away from being user friendly, and would need to grow up for ages before being real competitors to their KDE counterparts. Hey, this is my opinion. You’re free to disagree.

Kudos to the SUSE developers on how they managed to build a x86_64 distribution. Fedora is just a big nightmare when comes to that. I may be wrong, but it doesn’t look like they’re paying too much attention on that matter. Explaining the problems I’m having with it (mostly browser, plugins, duplicated packages, repository problems, etc) would need a separate post, which I don’t feel I’m up to write at the moment.

And may I say that, I don’t know why, Yum behaves differently on Fedora than it does on SUSE (don’t ask me to explain), which makes me feel very comfortable to, once more, say out loud that Smart is, definitely, the most comprehensible, stable and easy to use package manager.

Well, I guess I don’t have much to say for now. This post is not a review, neither a comparison, is just a follow up on what I’ve been doing. Maybe I’ll post some more on this matter when when I fell I won’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

I’ve just rebuild the packages on my repository on the openSUSE Build Service into openSUSE 10.2, even though I haven’t upgraded my own computers yet. Soon I’ll be reviewing all of them checking for new releases, and add some others that I’m preparing.

The shiny new openSUSE 10.2 has just been released. I have received the announcement e-mail about 30 min ago and I’m already downloading it using the torrents.

One interesting thing that should be noticed by the people that don’t regularly follow up the development, is the difference in the name. The so-called SUSE Linux has been (finally, IMHO) renamed to openSUSE. This has been done to make a clear differentiation from the enterprise distro (SUSE Linux Enterprise) to the community-driven distro (openSUSE Linux), and also, by many requests, to finally make the name of the product match the name of the project.

You can read the product highlights here, but I have a short list of what is most important to me:

• KDE 3.5.5
• Gnome 2.16
• Python 2.5
• X.org 7.2
• XGL + AIGLX
• Compiz (there is also Beryl on 3rd party repos)
• Kernel 2.6.18 (btw, it’s now SMP only, no UP available)
• Xen 3.0.3
• cdrkit (fork from cdrecord)
• and many more!

There has been no reports about anyone upgrading from 10.0 or 10.1 to 10.2 using Smart yet. We hope to get some pretty soon. [UPDATE] Christoph Tiel has just reported that he managed to run a complete upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2 on a test box completely using Smart. That’s great!

By the way, Guru and Packman already started their package rebuilding for 10.2. I’m thinking about doing it with my own packages, but only after I get my desktop upgraded.

Well, this will be a fun weekend.

–en
I simply can’t express any opinions yet. I’ll just post the links to the bombastic announcement. Let’s read all of them so we can have a consistent idea of what is happening.

The funny part, a brazilian site published a note saying that “the Saint Never-gonna-happen” day took place yesterday. While RedHat limits to say: “Unthinkable“.

Ps.: Interesting to see that Microsoft’s web site doesn’t have a single note on this issue, even though you can find some of their developers spreading the news.

–pt_BR

Eu simplesmente ainda não consigo expressar nenhuma opinião. Vou me limitar a apenas postar os links para o tal anúncio bombástico. Vamos ler todos eles para termos uma idéia consistente do que está acontecendo.

No lado engraçado da notícia, o br-linux.org publicou a nota dizendo que “o dia de São Nunca foi ontem”. Enquanto a RedHat limita-se a dizer: “Unthinkable” (impensável).

Ps.: �? interessante como não há nenhuma menção no site da Microsoft, apesar de encontrarmos alguns de seus desenvolvedores espalhando a notícia.

–links

• Microsoft anuncia que irá promover o Linux, se compromete a não processar desenvolvedores, e mais
• Microsoft fecha acordo com a Novell para apoiar Linux
• Microsoft, Novell in Linux Deal
  
• Joint letter to the Open Source Community
• Novell and Microsoft Collaborate (FAQ)
• Novell Sells Out
• Here’s some big news

After having glxgears reaching about 1500 FPS on my old FX5200 card (128MB AGP), my brand new GeForce 6600 (256MB PCI-E 16x) makes me very happy with it’s 3500FPS. Yes! I guess now I can have fun with Xgl.

Today I bought a new wireless card. It’s a D-Link DWL-G520, rev B3, Atheros chipset, works perfectly with MadWifi (YaST detected it immeditaly as soon as I loaded the kernel module). I’ve got good speed rates (although I still think 30Mb/s isn’t enough), finally managed to make it run in Master mode with WPA encryption (acx111 only do WEP on Master, and ndiswrapper won’t even enter Master mode), and got Kismet working (as a consultant, I’m starting to need to test my clients’ WLAN strenghts).

Related to that, yesterday I also switched my laptop’s Linksys WPC54G for an IBM 802CAG for almost the same reasons. First of all the Linksys’ Broadcom chipset still doesn’t have a stable Linux native driver, and because of that I still have to use it with ndiswrapper (what is rather unconfortable, since it limits the experience in many ways). On the other hand, the IBM card uses an Atheros chipset, so I can also use it with MadWifi. The second reason is that the Linksys card can’t do Super G, while either the IBM and D-Link cards can, so I will manage to get better speeds. Third and last reason: I also needed to run Kismet on my laptop.

By the way, two tips for SUSE users. (a) I couldn’t make SUSE’s MadWifi packages to work correctly because I could only find madwifi RPM, but not madwifi-kmp-* on the main repository (help here?), but simply adding MadWifi’s official repo got everything running. (b) The Kismet package on SUSE’s repository refused to work with the latest MadWifi drivers, so I had to build my own upgraded package (check into my repository).

What happened to my other wireless card? Unfortunately it wasn’t working so well because the acx111 driver has a bug that makes tranfers stall under high load. That’s a known bug and they plan to correct it some time in the future, but unfortunately I can’t help (I know very little C, and even less kernel module programming) and I can’t wait (I often need large transfers from my laptop to my desktop). I’m still deciding if I’ll keep or sell it (anyone interested?).

Yes! OpenSUSE Build Service rocks hard!

I decided to start using this new and awesome service from the nice people that make SUSE Linux. It’s a very comples compilation farm where people put their spec files and sources and build RPM packages for various SUSE releases (from 9.0 up to 10.1) and even other distributions (currently Fedora and Mandriva).

Using this so neat service I can build packages for SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 either on i586 or x86_64 with mere 2 or 3 commands. After successfuly building, the packages are copied to an ftp area, the repository metadata is generated, and everything is automatically mirrored. Is it possible to be any easier?

I’m currently working to move all my packages from the old repository to the new one. So if you would like to give it a try, you just need to add the repositories for 10.0 or 10.1 on your package manager of choice. Mine is (obviously) smart, so, the trick is:

10.0
smart channel –add http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/netmask/SUSE_Linux_10.0/home:netmask.repo

10.1
smart channel –add http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/netmask/SUSE_Linux_10.1/home:netmask.repo

I hope my packages are usefull to anyone other than me.

By the way, I’m always open to new suggestions if you need something I could help providing.

Have fun!

–en

After great effort and delays, the OpenSUSE Project proudly announces the immediate release of SUSE Linux 10.1. The project team dedicates this release to Douglas Adams.

Among the many changes I, personally, want to call a special attention to the new CD set layout and the new update system. Now SUSE is contained on 5 CDs, with an extra 6th CD for the non-OSS software (Acrobat, Flash, Java, and so on). Also it’s the first release migrating towards the usage of ZENWorks for the new update system (no more YOU) and the new package install system (although YaST can still be used) (more info).

About DVD images, they are not available anymore, but you can still create them using makeSUSEdvd script.

Check some quick reviews on LinuxCompatible.org and theWeekelyRant.com, also some screenshots are available on OSdir.

–pt_BR

Após grande esforço e atrasos, o Projeto OpenSUSE orgulhosamente anuncia o release imediato do SUSE Linux 10.1. O projeto dedica este release a Douglas Adams.

Entre as várias mudanças eu, pessoalmente, gostaria de chamar uma atenção especial para o novo layout dos CDs e o novo sistema de atualizações. Agora o SUSE vem em 5 CDs, com um 6o CD extra para o software não-OSS (Acrobat, Flash, Java, entre outros). Também é a primeira versão da migração em direção ao uso do ZENWorks para o sistema de atualizações (deixando de lado o YOU) e o novo sistema de instalação de pacotes (apesar de ainda ser possível utilizar o YaST) (mais informações).

Com relação às imagens de DVD, elas não estão mais disponíveis, mas você ainda pode gerá-las utilizando o script makeSUSEdvd.

Verifique alguns pequenos reviews em LinuxCompatible.org e theWeekelyRant.com, também algunas screenshots disponíveis no OSdir.