I just noticed today that the gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user group is
missing from gmane.org - did the project request the list be removed from
gmane?
Just wondering if it was intentional or if something went wrong somewhere.
Thanks,
Jim
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Of course we still see people getting this wrong on a regular basis,
but googling for "SUSE capitalization" doesn't reveal anything
helpful. IMHO we need a wiki page covering the One Absolute Truth,
and also a bit of the history behind it. I found this thread from
2005:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-08/msg00377.html
but it didn't provide the full story.
Additionally,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSEhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE
are (somewhat depressingly) two entirely different articles, neither
of which gives any real detail over the renaming from SuSE to SUSE.
Shouldn't there be a page
https://en.opensuse.org/Capitalization
or something?
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Hi there,
When will the downloads page be back online? At the moment all download pages are returning a 503 error, with a message stating that the pages are down for essential maintenance.
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Hi everyone,
I'm calling out to all volunteers to come tomorrow morning to the venue, we need to prepare for the conference guys, make plans who does what and when. Please be there at 9.
Also, today we will meet in the evening at PUB KARAKA,
http://goo.gl/maps/EfV6n
Everyone, come on over, we will be there at 21:00h.
Best,
Svebor
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Hi all,
I'll organize the LinuxTag Booth this year. LinuxTag, taking place during May
8-10, is different this year - they have partnered with Droidcon and
Re:Publica for their event, moved to a new location. Brand new!
I have proposed to do something different than a normal booth, too. I'm
involved with KDE, openSUSE and ownCloud so I thought the three could do
something cool this year
The plan is this: We get an area with a few rows of chairs and a projector.
Every hour, we host a 45 minute workshop there. Examples:
* testing Linux distro's with openQA
* writing an ownCloud App
* Building a basic QML Plasma App
The schedule will probably be: 10-12 and 13-17, so ~6 talks/day.
People get something for participating - nothing big, just a few nice
thingies.
On the sides of this area, we have our booths: the traditional table with
material and somebody around to ask questions from.
All this should of course make 'our' area much more interesting and give
opportunities to talk to people.
LinuxTag liked the idea, so did the openSUSE board, KDE and ownCloud so they
all tasked me with making it happen. LinuxTag asked if Postfix Admin could
share our space as well - so Christian Boltz is in
Now I need you. I need volunteers who are willing to give a short workshop on
an openSUSE subject. Packaging in OBS is an obvious example but there are
other examples. Each volunteer gives one workshop per day, three times in
total thus. You'll also be at the booth a bit but we have >6 people for one
table so that won't be much either. Plenty of time to enjoy LT! And you get
even free access to the exhibition area of Re:Publica. Note that we can take
at most 2 volunteers (but if you give a talk you get in anyway).
Anybody interested? If needed, there is some travel budget available and if
you're really cool you can help make it even cooler: we have some budget from
the board to do something but I just don't have time to organize it. I can
fill you in with the details, just ask!
So, who's in?
Cheers,
Jos
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Hello everyone,
As most of you know, it's almost oSC14 time! That means we'll be seeing
fellow Geekos soon. So, let's make a meeting plan?
The conference officially starts on Thursday, 24th. We will be there at
the venue, preparing it from 8 o'clock in the morning and throughout the
day, so if you are in Dubrovnik on 24th, come and register, possibly
help out or just hang out with other Geekos!
And don't forget the welcome party - it's at 18:00 o'clock in the Sesame
tavern (http://sesame.hr/contact.html), really close to the venue.
Volunteers, please come as early as possible, as we also need to plan
who handles what for the rest of the conference. Those who will help out
with video streaming and recording will also need to familiarize
themselves with the equipment so it will be good to have enough time for
everything.
Local team will arrive there on Tuesday 22nd in the afternoon. If you
are also in Dubrovnik, on 22nd or 23rd, let us know. We might also need
some help these days, or we can just hang out. Let us know!
If at any time you need some info, or to contact me and email isn't
enough (or fast enough), I'm reachable on my mobile: +385 98 885 985.
All the best,
Svebor
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Hi All,
I'm hawake, i work to the Italian translation of the wiki, and I'm
writing here just to share some thoughts about openSUSE assuming the
point of view of a desktop user. In the following list i've collected
not just my suggestions and critics but also those of all my friends
that I converted to openSUSE 13.1 (after a migration from Ubuntu
13.10, which was unstable... :S ). I hope to be useful to all of you
guys contributing to make openSUSE better day by day.
I've distinguished 6 main categories.
Communication.
First of all, as pointed out in other discussions, the communication
between developers and community is fundamental. I don't want to
reopen this discussion here, i just want to tell you that many
non-expert users perceive this lack of communication because they
found ambiguous posts around the web and obviously in particular on
social networks. BTW I think that the lesson has been learned and we
(as a Community of supporters + Developers) are improving. ;)
Installation.
Installing openSUSE is not a difficult task for someone who can manage
installation of a Windows OS but during the partitioning phase there
are too many advanced options that are useless and scary for most part
of our desktop users [0]. For example, you could hide some of these
advanced options (like RAID, tmpfs, NFS, LVM and "Use Btrfs as default
filesystem") under an "Advanced options" entry, or redesign that part
of the installer so that the basic partition screen has a simpler
layout.
Software installation.
Software.opensuse.org is very nice, I think it could be useful to have
it accessible from the desktop because not all users know that it
exists (and they use untrusted RPMs found through Google...). In fact
it should be an important part of our marketing strategy.
System configuration.
There is a bit of confusing redundancy between some settings available
through YaST and through the settings manager of a DE (for instance
printer installation/configuration). We should modify the settings
manager of supported DE to tell to the user when are needed root
privileges, so that when it's necessary to open YaST. For instance the
installation of proprietary stuff for HP printers.
Help.
I think that the openSUSE Activedoc Start Up guide should be
accessible offline as default and in a simple way from desktop. For
example, take a look at Ubuntu, you go to the shutdown menu (top-right
of the screen) and you have an entry that opens a new window with the
common questions about desktop usage (Unity in this case, [1] [2] ):
video drivers, printers, information about the desktop environment and
how to use it etc.. We still have shortcuts for KDE4, GNOME3 and so
on, but they don't bring to Activedoc (which is well written) and is a
little bit confusing because they bring to the SDB or HCL (not to an
index of ready to use and problem-oriented guides). "Online help"
links yet to the Novell documentation for openSUSE 11.0 which is
translated only in german [3] and very... very outdated. So here, in
the Italian wiki, we are discussing about how we should modify that
SDB pages to allow the user to easily find solutions to common
problems but we can't modify help.opensuse.org. So it's up to you.
Interestingly the Gentoo documentation it's much more problem-solving
oriented with an index very complete, see for example [4]. I know that
pages like that one are very scary, but they collect a set of useful
key questions right at the beginning of the page. I think that layouts
like that one should be further studied (obviously not blindly
applied!) to improve the usability and accessibility of our wiki.
Other.
Last but not least, I also report here two annoying issues: SUSE
ImageWriter it is not automatically setup to use the file filter *.*
(so the unexpert user is unable to see ISO images -> read all of my
friends asked me how to use it); after the installation from the 4 GB
ISO image, YaST does not automatically disable the DVD local
repository, so the user have to handle with YaST's repository manager.
In conclusion, all of my friends are enjoying openSUSE and they are
using it both for work or study because of its stability, all DE
equally supported, YaST, Zypper and someone (like me) really
appreciate that is pure FOSS without privacy issues. Although it needs
some little refinements to the user-experience as I said before but
nothing impossible to do.
Thank you and keep up the good work! :)
Best regards,
hawake
[0] http://www.mediafire.com/view/jocz56r29yude8d/screenshot25modificata.png#
[1] http://www.mediafire.com/view/bzrrpdgxejvxy9w/screenshot21.png#
[2] http://www.mediafire.com/view/92n6youe70rmxxn/screenshot24.png#
[3] http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse110/
[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD64/FAQ
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Hi all,
We can get some swag delivered, but we need volunteers to man those
booths. 1-2 people should be enough for each of the booths at a time.
I know some of you already put your names on the list of volunteers for
oSC14, so I just wanted to check specifically who'd be interested for
'boothing'? :-)
Thanks!
Svebor
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