April 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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A questionnaire for the team
by Manu Gupta 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi Peeps, We have a small questionnaire for you guys, please answer them. Along with this, if you can write a small quote / paragraph we will try to quote you at news.opensuse.org if the news team likes yours. The questionnaire is below 1. Do you know about YaST? 2. Do you know about Tumbleweed and Evergreen? 3. Do you know about connect? 4. Did you know zypper just got faster in 11.4? 5. Do you know about patterns while installing openSUSE? 6. Do you know that default preferred OS for GNOME3 thorughout the testing and release phase was openSUSE? 7. Do you know about openFATE? 9. Do you know about the multiple desktop selections we have in openSUSE? 10. How many times have you been asked "Is openSUSE Linux"? 11. What do you tell people when they ask how different is openSUSE from UBUNTU / other distributions? 12. Did you know YaST works in ncurses, Gtk and Qt interfaces? 13. Did you know OBS is used by meego, dell and other industrial vendors when distributing their own linux distributions? 14. Can you quote something nice about openSUSE, we can possibly use your quote ( after mentioning you offcourse ;-) ) at the news team. 15. Do you know we have an artwork git repository that keeps you upto date with latest marketing materials like posters, slides etc? 16. Do you have any localisation issues? 17. Do you know about the ambassador portal and can you suggest changes to it? 18. Do you know about the flickr group openSUSE has? A lot of questions it seems but it will be definitely helpful so that we can provide you with better materials and stuff like that. -- Regards Manu Gupta Ambassador Welcome Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our new ambassador From USA
by Kostas Koudaras 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hi ambassadors all people writing to Ambassadors Welcome Team to apply for ambassadors are really excited, some people though are even more excited(if that is possible). Johan Cabrera is one of them and my 'spider-sense' that we are going to see great things happening to Florida with openSUSE. So all please give a worm welcome our new ambassador from United States. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. * What have you done already for openSUSE? Up to date I have helped give people and companies more exposure to openSUSE and its advantages since I started using it some years ago. During my time as a student in the University of Habana, Cuba, I became a Systems Administrator and was charged with transitioning the network from a Windows Server based infrastructure to Linux, which allowed me to introduce them to openSUSE, being that the distro of my choice for the servers and some client boxes. Since I started using openSUSE I have been a strong promoter and have spread the word about its advantages, including promoting it in my current hosting company, Mojohost (Easy Online Solutions - mojohost.com) in my role as Linux Systems Administrator. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. I have been looking for a more formal and resourceful way to promote what I consider is the most powerful Linux distribution, and from my current position as a Systems Administrator in South Florida, with multiple contacts in the industry and working in one of the main nodes in the region (The NAP of The Americas in Downtown Miami) I plan to organize new events and conferences regarding FOSS and openSUSE in specific and the advantages it presents for companies and individuals alike. I also own my own server and domains and can dedicate these resources to support and organize the openSUSE community in Florida, USA. This might be a great success since currently Florida does not count with a more organized local community as other states do, so there is a lot of work that can be done. I'm also bilingual, so I can contribute in any translation to and from Spanish needed and also allows me to reach the Spanish-speaking community down here in Florida. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Like I stated above, I'm ready, I have some important resources available and I'm more than willing to start. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? I believe that many users do not realize the true power and versatility of openSUSE, to put some simple examples: openSUSE is a great Server distribution but at the same time is equally powerful and resourceful as a desktop OS, furthermore, it has the best hardware support I have ever seen in any Linux distro! It is unbelievable the amount of hardware that is supported straight out of the box and if it's not, it probably can be supported with a little work or with a third-party driver; this leaves many other distros as they were in the stone age. The package management is incredibly powerful as well as the amount of very good application available while keeping stability AND the latest possible versions of it; this is way more than many other distributions can offer, I sometimes can't believe how fast I can have something setup on openSUSE that would take me quite some work and time on CentOS or RedHat, it is sad that many administrators and companies are yet ignorant of these facts. * Why do you love to do this? This is part of my everyday work, and openSUSE has always been my distribution of choice and the one that has helped me with the most difficult jobs, I'm a big fan of it, even my workstation has a big openSUSE logo that I made by myself stuck to it! And guess what is the wallpaper on my computers and my phone? When I find such a good tool for my line of work, I just which that I could share it with everybody and that everybody could use it and appreciate it like I do. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started working with openSUSE since I was in middle school, on my desktop computer, using old 486 Intel processors when it was still "SuSE", even back then, it proved how powerful it could be even on such an old PC and with very low resources at my disposal (I was living in Cuba, so spare parts and financial resources were basically non-existent). Ever since, all computers on my possession use openSUSE (currently my workstations, my laptop and my server). From working on it in a desktop environment I started using it in my Systems Administrator role for servers in the University and have not stopped using it for both roles ever since, so I could say I have 12+ years working with it and extensive experience on its use. I'm currently training (and refreshing knowledge) on C language developing and I plan to start contributing to openSUSE on the development side soon. -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Event in Planning
by Thomas Jones 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Hello all, I am writing to inform you of an event currently within the planning phase in the North America/United States/Kentucky region. It is the first openSUSE event in the area so this should be an exciting endeavor for myself and the local community. I am developing the presentations as we speak(or write). These presentations are focused on a general introduction to openSUSE, with an emphasis on digital viral resistance. I have received a donation of a free laptop by a local community member and intend on giving this device away at the completion of the event --- loaded with openSUSE 11.4 of course. I requested promotional resources from openSUSE and hope to hear back soon about availability. I have partnered with Starbucks coffee shops in the immediate area and will be posting Large posters in all shops in the area regarding the event; as soon as a definitive date is set. Starbucks will iform their employees to provide word-of-mouth advertisement of the event leading up to the event date; so as to gain further customers in the local shops. Each starbucks customer will be capable of placing their starbucks purchase ticket in the Laptop Giveaway for each and every ticket. The more they purchase from Starbucks; the more chance that they have to win the giveaway. This is a win-win situation. openSUSE achieves a relationship with the local community and Starbucks gains increased traffic due to the event. It is possible that I may be required to move the event to the local Barnes and Noble bookstore due to event size. As i stated previously, the event is still in the planning phase so this factor has not been decided as of yet. Obviously customers must be present at the event to win. I have developed a brochure highlighting openSUSE as a virus-resistant product and intend to provide these to Starbucks leading up to the event. These brochures are printed; and currently in transit to my location from the West Coast. I will be forwarding the brochure sources(svg) to opensuse-marketing for the openSUSE community to use in the next few days when I get a chance. Also developed by myself are flyers that may be handed out in the local area. I haven't yet nailed down how I want to handle printing of these yet. So the flyers are on hold until I either receive donations regarding printing or financing of the flyers, or alternately I allocate personal finances for such. After careful consideration, I am also going to giveaway another laptop of my own in the next event. I think it will go far to present the face of openSUSE as a positive influence in the local community and the lives of our neighbors. I do have one request regarding this event though: What resources do we have in the community regarding Press Kits for events? I would like to develop/receive an informational packet(press kit) that I may forward to the local news stations and radio stations regarding this event. I have searched and came up with no resources available. Ideas? Comments? Suggestions? Cheers. Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our New ambassador from Ireland
by Kostas Koudaras 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi openSUSE Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to Jan-Bart Spang , our new ambassador from Ireland. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. Bit about myself: I'm a 32 year old Medical Scientist. I was born and raised in Hardenberg, The Netherlands but moved to Ireland in 2002 after I met my wife of 5 years online about 11 years ago. We have been living in Mallow for the passed 6 years and I work at the local hospital. Computers has been my hobby for the passed 15 years but Linux only for the last 3. I help people with problems at work and in the wider community where a large number of my previous customers pass my number on. This is all done with Windows, I'm afraid! I have been learning WordPress for myself and am looking into doing a PHP course somewhere. I did a Higher Certificate in Science in Computing but had to drop out close to completion to do the increased work load at the hospital. Haven't gone back to finish it. What have you done already for openSUSE?: I have been an active member on the forums for about 3 years (dexter1979). First as a newbie asking questions but mostly helping people out with small problems these days. I wrote a couple of how-to's specific to my needs at the time. I blog about openSUSE a little bit on my own website. I have also been involved in the Dutch forums since I am a native of The Netherlands. I find it good to keep up my native language. What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? I am currently in the process of trying to set-up a local hub for Camara Education which is an Irish social enterprise that recycles used PC's, installs Linux and OSS educational software on it (Currently a Ubuntu re-brand but maybe we can change that) and sends them to schools in several African countries, Jamaica and some disadvantaged schools in Ireland. I will use contacts in this company to get to OSS events in Ireland and promote openSUSE. I will also try to promote openSUSE amongst the company members. Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? I got 100 promotional DVD's here that will get me started but I will need to find more ways of getting average users to switch to Linux. What is the best kept secret of openSUSE? For most PC users, i.e. Windows users, it's the fact that they don't know there is an alternative to Windows. Most people think that a PC runs ONLY on Windows like a car can only run on petrol. We need to get more awareness of alternatives, freedom and choice to the average pc user. Why do you love to do this? I love Linux. I love the fact that it represents freedom, openness and choice. These qualities are severely lacking in today’s society. With the financial crisis deepening here in Ireland people need to know that there are alternatives out there to expensive software. I want to get that message out there. How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started with Linux in 2008. I read about Ubuntu 8.04 in an online forum somewhere and decided to try the live-CD. Didn't really like it and thought the heavy command line usage was very 90's. Then saw someone in the Ubuntu forums saying that openSUSE 10.3 rocked so I decided to try that. This was my first run in with the KDE 3.5 desktop and I loved it. YAST was a revelation! I don't need to use the command line a lot and it really felt like a proper modern operating system. Have been using openSUSE ever since. Have also experimented with Linux mint and I currently have a friend who started using this. Will switch him to openSUSE soon. -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Git repository for artwork and promotional material
by Jan-Bart Spang 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hello everyone, Question 15 of the below questionnaire talk about the artwork git repository. I personally was not aware of it but Manu was kind enough to reveal it's location to me with the request to spread the word. You can find it here <https://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork> Kind regard, Jan-Bart Spang -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [opensuse-ambassadors] A questionnaire for the team Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:17:04 +0530 From: Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> To: Ambassadors list <opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org> Hi Peeps, We have a small questionnaire for you guys, please answer them. Along with this, if you can write a small quote / paragraph we will try to quote you at news.opensuse.org if the news team likes yours. The questionnaire is below 1. Do you know about YaST? 2. Do you know about Tumbleweed and Evergreen? 3. Do you know about connect? 4. Did you know zypper just got faster in 11.4? 5. Do you know about patterns while installing openSUSE? 6. Do you know that default preferred OS for GNOME3 thorughout the testing and release phase was openSUSE? 7. Do you know about openFATE? 9. Do you know about the multiple desktop selections we have in openSUSE? 10. How many times have you been asked "Is openSUSE Linux"? 11. What do you tell people when they ask how different is openSUSE from UBUNTU / other distributions? 12. Did you know YaST works in ncurses, Gtk and Qt interfaces? 13. Did you know OBS is used by meego, dell and other industrial vendors when distributing their own linux distributions? 14. Can you quote something nice about openSUSE, we can possibly use your quote ( after mentioning you offcourse ;-) ) at the news team. 15. Do you know we have an artwork git repository that keeps you upto date with latest marketing materials like posters, slides etc? 16. Do you have any localisation issues? 17. Do you know about the ambassador portal and can you suggest changes to it? 18. Do you know about the flickr group openSUSE has? A lot of questions it seems but it will be definitely helpful so that we can provide you with better materials and stuff like that. -- Regards Manu Gupta Ambassador Welcome Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail:opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our second new Ambassador from Greece for Today ;-)
by Kostas Koudaras 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hi openSUSE Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to Diomidis Anadiotis , our second new ambassador from Greece for today ;-). Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. *What have you done already for openSUSE? Truth be told, I'm a newbie in the Greek and Global openSUSE community, so there are a few things that I have already done. Firstly, I cared much about the openSUSE project because there was no controversy within the greek openSUSE community. So the first day that I met them I joined the release 11.4 party they were hosting at an Athenian cafe/bar, and I was the only one. I had a great time and I claimed that I will support and be one of them. Till now I have translated an Weekly News (171) part and involved in the last IRC official opensuse-el meeting that took place yesterday (19/4), getting an active position on a community based project called os-el. Also, I installed openSUSE to a company (my dad's) as the main OS (but dual boot with Windows). * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. A lot of people say that I'm very communicative, so my first priority is to promote openSUSE. At first classic promotion like presentation at schools, and other communities (Scouts) is one of my favorite things to do. Also presentations can also turn to an installation fest. where all the interested people can get a fully functional openSUSE desktop. So, in the next three months, keeping in mind that schools open their gates again in the middle September I can organize mini summer camps, somewhere in Athens where people can come and go, talk about Linux, openSUSE, have a geek talk and make some progress growing the Athens openSUSE group. The next three months, (Sept,Oct.,Nov.) I will have more opportunities to promote because people comes back to their jobs and daily routine, so maybe then is the time for some big thing promotion with a lot of people around. Finally, I hope from September and on I will be an Infornation Systems student, so think I'll have many opportunities to show my colleagues the suse distro and philosophy. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? >From June 1rst and above, yes! I've been through a lot of FOSS communities but I'm willing to help the openSUSE community because they are friendly, helpful and supportive. I'll do my best. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Community. They trully believe in the spirit of Linux and openSUSE, being really openminded, something that you don't see in every Greek community easilly. Also the greek community amb's and members are very funny. * Why do you love to do this? Because it's good for me and for the society in general. I love something that is free, community/group based and smartly promotable to other humans. *How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? Six years ago, installing Kanotix 32 on my old P4 pc. There was a friend of my dad who was like a mentor to me, he gave me an openSUSE 9.3 DVD. I installed it and that was my first interaction with suse. >From then till now I have made a big cycle. I've been through Ubuntu, Slax, FreeBSD, Debian, Mint, Fedora, Arch and many more. Also for three years I was using only Mac OS X. But since 9/2010 I got back to linux and espesially from 1/2011 I'm using openSUSE again. My level of experience is intermediate. Greece, Athens/Attiki, http://en.opensuse.org/User:Diomidis -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome our new Ambassador from Greece
by Kostas Koudaras 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hi openSUSE Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to Athanasios Ilias Rousinopoulos , our new ambassador from Greece. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. * What have you done already for openSUSE? * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? * Why do you love to do this? * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? To begin with i would like to answer in the given questions! a) Until now i'm a member of translation team of Weekly News for the Greek language. Also i contribute to the OpenSUSE Medical Team (searching packages about diabetes care and control). b) I would like to take part in FOSS conferences and present OpenSUSE to everyone and everywhere! My dream is every child all around the world who suffers from diabetes will be able to use OpenSUSE and Linux so as to take care about diabetes and glucose control. c) I'am promoting OpenSUSE.I suggest the computer users to install GNU/Linux and of course OpenSUSE on their pc's! I would like to be an ambassador so as to promote,install and of course "Have a lot of fun" with OpenSUSE! d) In my opinion the best kept secret of OpenSUSE is the collaboration between the members of the community and of course the moto "Have a lot fun" , and finally the stability and advantages that OpenSUSE offers to the users! e) I really love the way that OpenSUSE communities are organized around the world. Furthermore for any question about the distribution , the forum is well organised , and structured with many useful tutorials and guides. g) I use Gnu/Linux since 2006 , but i use OpenSUSE the last six months (since the November 2010). During the year 2008 i passed the Comptia Linux+ exams and also my thesis deals with the Open Source Web Operating System "EyeOS". -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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launch party in Toulouse
by jdd 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Heelo, I held yesterday (sunday 17) a launch party in the hall of a movie theater. (...) just an anecdote... one of the people of the attendence, when I said that I was involved in openSUSE (it's always important to say "*I* did build this distro - with 15000 other people of course) asked: "But so are you a hacker?". The answer is very difficult, because many people see hackers as pirates. I usually answer "je suis un bidouilleur" and I just verify google translates the french "bidouilleur" word by "hacker" ("un bidouilleur" is a people that likes to know what is under the hood :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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launch party in Toulouse
by jdd 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Heelo, I held yesterday (sunday 17) a launch party in the hall of a movie theater. This theater is part of a special group (http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/toulouse/) It's a group aimed to movie addicts, ecologists, protesters. It's a moderate priced place with original films, often in the original langage (included exotics one like Corean :(-). This place is very Linux friendly, beause the people likes to try everything that is not standard :-)) Unluckyly, the weather was extremely fine so the attendance of the movies where lesser than usual. There where two organisation on the hall of the theater, my Linux User Group for openSUSE and an other friend group only devoted to Ubuntu (I could show them Gnome Shell, they where very impressed :-). on the afternoon we could distribute approximately 50 demo dvd and make several live demos. The attendance was very friendly and interested. The organisation of the boot was the following: I had two computers. An old laptop (it's important to have it be an old computer, to show how openSUSE is good with this kind of hardware) and a modern one where I could run the demo in VirtualBox, including the setup of the virtual machine. The two of them where connected to 23" HD screen. We could have internet but didn't use it. The old computer was only devoted to video sreening (using the install video I published on Blip) As expected the problems was we couldn't have sound (noisy hall and we can't disturb more the customers), but the deoms where visual en iough to have this not too bad. It's pretty difficult to speak for more than 2/3 people at a time on a boot and I was the only really competent people, so I had to make the demo and to fix a pair of computer. Gladfully the fixing was easy and fast. I had a timeline (copy of the web page below because it's in french). I made four demo lasting each for approx 45 minutes: install from a standard dvd, What is YaST, Install from the demo dvd, openSUSE: this is choice! The install from dvd part was the most interesting: one have to give very little info (name and passwd) on the default install and VirtualBow allows to have a fresh disk. People was pretty much impressed to see that after a handfull minutes, all went alone. I could even show random tour on my computer while VirtualBow installed (in 1Gb ram virtual machine), chat a lot about openSUSE to makje the waiting kwicker and see the install completely finished after approx 20 minutes from a real dvd. Could ask: "did you have to reinstall W*?" always there is one people that did and can testimony of the length of the work... I coudn't really show YaST, because at this moment we had no attendance (people where watching movies :-), but the "openSUSE have all" was very successfull. On my real copmputer, I have Gnome, Kde, xfce, lxde, metacity, twm, Gnome Shell... specially Ubuntu people where pretty much impressed by his feature :-)). We hope to have on the near future more people coming to our regular bimonthly mettings jdd convocation in french: Dimanche 17 Avril, le CULTe a le plaisir de vous inviter à une réunion de démonstration de la distribution Linux openSUSE 11.4. Cette démonstration aura lieu dans les locaux du cinéma Utopia de Tournefeuille. A cette occasion vous pourrez récupérer gratuitement un dvd de démonstration installable de cette distribution. Horaire des démonstrations: Les démonstrations seront faites depuis un système virtuel: un ordinateur dans l'ordinateur, que vous pourrez voir à l'oeuvre (VirtualBox). 14h: Installation depuis le dvd standard de la distribution * céation du disque VirtualBox * lancement du dvd * première configuration * installation * finalisation de la configuration 15h: l'outil de configuration d'openSUSE, YaST. * centre de contrôle * mise à jour, dépôts et installation de logiciels * système: amoircage, date et heure, partitionneur, niveaux d'exécution * parefeu et apparmor 16h: installation depuis le dvd de démonstration * céation du disque VirtualBox * lancement du dvd * première configuration * installation * finalisation de la configuration 17h: openSUSE et les bureaux: le choix! * Gnome * Gnome 3 (Gnome Shell) * Icewm * Lxde * Metacity * openbox * twm * ... -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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