Many thanks to Ben, Bj?rn and Justin who contacted me via blog, email and IRC to give some more information on package management and updating on openSUSE 10.3. Ben’s post (linked above) is a really good description of the situation. Bj?rn sent a screenshot (below) of the GNOME updater applet’s preferences. Justin points out that …
Monthly Archive: February 2008
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Feb 20 2008
Software Management for Non-Geeks 2 (Or, Why Package Management sucks a bit less in openSUSE 10.3)
Many thanks to Ben, Bj?rn and Justin who contacted me via blog, email and IRC to give some more information on package management and updating on openSUSE 10.3. Ben’s post (linked above) is a really good description of the situation. Bj?rn sent a screenshot (below) of the GNOME updater applet’s preferences. Justin points out that …
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Feb 19 2008
Software Management for Non-Geeks (Or, Why Package Management still sucks in openSUSE 10.3)
I have a friend who is tentatively dipping toes into the world of openSUSE with some old laptops in the hope of resurrecting them and making them usable. Being old laptops, they don’t have built-in NICs but what they do have is a PCMCIA/CardBus slot each. My friend has a couple of NetGear WG511T adaptors …
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Feb 19 2008
Going up in the world
It’s very nice of “Bishop” Andrew to promote me I think Peter may have something to say about it though…
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Feb 19 2008
Expansion
With help from a combination of sbrabec and darix, I’ve fixed the lion’s share of the Expansion Errors we’d been seeing on GNOME:Community/openSUSE_10.?+GNOME_[UN]STABLE by tinkering with the project metadata. This means that a raft of packages that wouldn’t update if you had one of those variations of G:C setup in $PACKAGE_MANAGER will now be upgraded …
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Feb 18 2008
Catching up…
So, what have I achieved today? Inbox reduced in size from 200 mail to 0 (yes, ZERO!). All mails were dealt with – not simply deleted. Several people added to Planet SUSE, interesting bug in the RSS feed fixed, sidebar in German site translated thanks to Christian. Now, I just need to work through the …
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Feb 18 2008
Playing catch-up
Catching up on all sorts of things today, including blogging. I’ve neglected the blog a bit of late and need to catch up a bit. Peter’s been in Uganda the last couple of weeks (gets back on Wednesday) along with several other people from church, working with our deanery’s link diocese over there (Bukedi). The …
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Feb 15 2008
openSUSE 10.3 on a Samsung R60plus (3)
[Ref 1; Ref 2] A bit of jiggery-pokery means that this laptop is now working. Last time I recorded that, having tried to ram a CardBus card into an ExpressCard/54 slot, I thought a 3Com USB Wifi dongle might work. I bought one. It does. Had to install the zd1211-firmware package from the install media …
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Feb 09 2008
Buy a dictionary please!
It annoys me when people use the word unique to mean unusual. Unique means that something is one-of-a-kind, that there’s nothing like it. Unique is a binary state, something is either unique or it isn’t – there are not degrees of uniqueness. So please – please – stop employing phrases like “very unique”. I may …
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Feb 06 2008
Planet SUSE: Local Editions
Planet SUSE now has editions for blogs in German and Spanish. At the moment, there’s only one feed syndicated on each and all the site information is still in English. So, this is a call firstly to openSUSE contributors who blog in languages other than English – and especially German or Spanish – to get …
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