OpenSuSE 10.3 released......

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Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: A Plethora of Improvements

With this last article the Sneak Peeks series comes to an end for this release. But don’t worry: it’s tightly packed with an extra share of information on the latest openSUSE 10.3 goodies! Today we’re going through all those things that either didn’t get the chance to have their own article, or are extra convenient small improvements that haven’t been properly covered. As you will know, it is all those extra little things that really contribute to a great user experience on the Linux desktop.

Today we’ll be taking a look at: the new updater applet; redesigned network card module; OpenOffice 2.3; Xfce; the new Kontact; Giver, an easy file sharing tool; KIWI, a system image generator; and much more! We’ll also be getting some closing thoughts from Andreas Jaeger, director of openSUSE, to find out about plans for the future and community contributions.

openSUSE Updater as an Upgrade Tool too

RPM “updates” are specifically defined to refer to RPM patches; for example, as issued in the openSUSE 10.3 Update Repository. RPM package “upgrades” refer to any newer, full RPM package, as you would see in Packman or the openSUSE Build Service.

In openSUSE 10.2, the openSUSE updater acted as just that — simply an updater, providing you with all the official RPM updates. In openSUSE 10.3 however, it provides you with he option of acting like both an updater read more...

Aditya Shevade

The truth about engineering that I am going through....

This is getting worse day by day. I have thought many times and even had decided that I will not have a go at submissions from now on. But the way they frustrate me and all..... it's too much for me to handle.

Not much time to discuss more now. A detailed post on this subject will soon come. But, for the moment, what I am thinking is, the only things I have been learning in this engineering course are that,

• You must be very good at writing. Or copying from others notebooks. If you are not, then you cannot survive.
  
• It does not matter if you have understood the subject. You can write whatever you want and still get marks.
• It does not matter if you don't have any skill other than mugging up and writing it down. These two make up for brains, understanding, ability to analyze things, coming up with ideas and much more. Actually, almost everything.
• There is nothing as, how, why, what like questions. Everything is as it is being presented in the books. You either mug it up and score or you get out or fail.

As I said, there is much more and with evidence, but I have to sleep now... Have slept only 4 hours out of last 30 odd....

Aditya Shevade

YaST survey has begun.....

OpenSuSE team has just published a survey on YaST, our systems management and
installation framework.

If you use any of the distributions openSUSE, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, I encourage you to
participate in the survey to support the team improving YaST. The survey will
be online until mid November and the results will be published on
openSUSE.org.

Click here to take the survey:
OpenSuSE YaST Survey

By the way, if you like to know more about YaST, visit the openSUSE YaST wiki
at YaST Wiki.

Aditya Shevade

Another T-shirt Design.....

Hey... I got some good response to my Linux T-Shirt (from my friends, not on the blog... :-) and :-()

Here is another design.

I have embedded this picture into the shirt which gives me :-

Aditya Shevade

Design Demystified......

Had a great weekend. And because of that I was not able to post much about it. Me and my partner came second in a circuit design contest.

It was arranged by the Electronics Engineering Students Association on University level. And the circuits given to us were.

• Design an XOR gate using IC 7400 (NAND TTL).
• Design 4 bit Adder Subtracter using IC 7483 (4 bit Adder) and IC 7486 (TTL XOR).
• Design BCD adder by modifying the above circuit.

Now, we finished the first two stages. And the first team designed the third circuit on paper but did not build it. So we came second. Still I am happy. Especially after that C debugging contest where we did not get a prize even after coming third. :-(

But, this was good. The only fact is that there were only 6 teams. :-| And the winners were having the degree of Diploma in Electronics. So, I am still happy that we were first among those who have joined this degree course after doing 12th.

Nothing much. Got a nice shield, some 200/- and a certificate (the most important... it actually mentioned that we came second.... refer debugging C...). Apart from this, I have taken a recording, visual one, on the mobile of my partner after the completion. I will soon post it, but first I have to get it.

Aditya Shevade

Had a lot of work and sleep to do......

Hey... nothing much to write today as I spent the most of the day while sleeping. Watched the Dreamers a bit. Can't say good or bad. Then there were some guests for dinner. And then there was submission as usual....

Nice work by Michael Clarke, hopefully Australia's captain to be, scoring a hundred. Bad rain.... Saved a point for India and lost one for my team...

Gotta sleep now. Have a circuit design competition tomorrow morning at 8:30. Kudos....

Aditya Shevade

I completely forgot......

To write about how this day went.... As usual, I went to the college and wasted my time in doing stupid practicals on those breadboards. I hate them, the wires keep coming out and that is a real pain in the a** when working on a big circuit, and the part that even sucks more is that we don't have any big circuits to work on... Anyways, then had a couple of off lectures...

After that, we had a meeting about the discussions related to a T-Shirt that we are going to launch. Of our batch of electronics. So, we were chatting and a group 'X' was against my friend (mentioned in the legendary chat) and my choice of design. We had been working on it from our group, say 'Y' for long time. And we were not going to change it just cause 'X' said so.

We showed them a big thumb and said, 'Suggestions come with a responsibility', so if you want to suggest, make sure that the thing actually pays off. And upon hearing this, the 'X' group accepted all that we had suggested, the color, the design, the format... everything.

You might have guessed, but in case not, then this 'X' group was all the girls in our batch and 'Y' was we boys.

Morale of the story :- We are a couple of bigheads who thought that we were doing a good work for the class. But in the end it turned out that brutal refusal and a little frustrated anger was all that we needed.....