Monthly Archives: June 2009
LinuxTag 2009 Wrap-up
It's amazing how quickly four days can zoom by! LinuxTag 2009 is now in the rearview, so how did it go? By any objective measure, LinuxTag 2009 was a bit of a mixed bag. It drew a quality crowd, but smaller than last year (which by many accounts was smaller than the year before) and [...]
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LinuxTag Day Two
The traffic picked up quite a bit yesterday at LinuxTag. The openSUSE booth was much busier. Still not quite swamped, but a good crowd and lots of good questions.
It looks like we'll be getting some of the community leaders around RPM together at the openSUSE Conference in September. Had a talk with an RPM.org developer, [...]
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Bring out yer blogs!
Sascha Manns has put out a call for participation over on Lizards, asking for people to contribute to openSUSE Weekly News by blogging more about openSUSE and the project.
If you have an own Blog, we would like to motivate you, to blog. You can write about interesting Features or Tips and Tricks, or new things, [...]
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Another major step for openSUSE: Factory is now Open
The openSUSE Project continues to make great progress in becoming more open and allowing contributors to step up and take responsibility for parts of the project. Today we announced that Factory, the development distro for openSUSE, is open and ready for business.
Well, not business exactly. It's open for fun. Development fun. Contribution fun. Most importantly, [...]
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SELF Success
Last weekend, another Linuxfest was born in Clemson, South Carolina. SouthEast LinuxFest was held at Clemson University in South Carolina on Saturday, and the organizers gave birth to a happy and healthy baby 'fest that weighed in at around 500 people (give or take).
I'd say that it was very well done for a first-time event, [...]
Build your own Geekos
If you love the Geeko -- and who doesn't? -- There's a new site you might want to check out: Geekobuilder.com. The site was launched today, it allows you to "build" your own Geeko with custom backgrounds, props, and outfits. (Or no outfit. It's a bit risque, I guess, but you can have an au [...]
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iFolder Packages Available for openSUSE 11.1