Congratulations Andreas and Jana on the birth of the latest member of the openSUSE community.

For the benefit of anyone who's been living under a rock recently, openSUSE 11.0 Alpha3 was released on Wednesday. It's already shaping up to be a great release - I'm using Factory on my work laptop and on the whole it's pretty solid already (some annoyances from the move to NetworkManager 0.7 not withstanding but hey, it's still Alpha right...?).

There are a bunch of screenshots of the latest Alpha, including the installer and the default KDE and GNOME setups on the openSUSE Screenshot Wiki page.

My new camera, a Fuji FinePix F40fd was delivered today, along with two 2GB SD cards so I'll be ready to take lots and lots of photos when we get to Florence.

To test it, I've taken the picture below. The camera works perfectly with F-Spot thanks to the gPhoto library. I've also used the new camera as a prompt to start using F-Spot to manage my galleries rather than the method I'd got used to using (from before F-Spot came along) that involved importing them with gPhoto's own gtkam utility, then using the CLI converter from Original.

Okay, after the registrar utterly failed to renew planetsuse.org for Justin, he's sorted it out and the DNS is now propagating. If you tried to get to the site in the last couple of days, it's likely that your (or, more likely, your ISP's) DNS server has the wrong IP cached but this will expire before too long. The correct IP has been confirmed by lookups done at multiple sites on both side of the Atlantic.

We're back in business....