http://www.dissociatedpress.net Linux, Open Source, and Tech Journalism Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:40:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good news, everybody! iFolder client packages are now available for openSUSE 11.1 from the openSUSE update repositories. This means you can install iFolder client on openSUSE 11.1 using YaST or zypper, without any modifications to your installed system. Like openSUSE, iFolder is an open source project sponsored by Novell. iFolder is ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/30/ifolder-packages-available-for-opensuse-11-1/ 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 ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/29/linuxtag-2009-wrap-up/ 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 ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/26/linuxtag-day-two/ 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 ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/19/bring-out-yer-blogs/ 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 ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/18/another-major-step-for-opensuse-factory-is-now-open/ 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). [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Daren and James ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/16/self-success/ [caption id="attachment_768" align="alignleft" width="330" caption="Build your own Geeko with Geekobuilder.com"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/10/build-your-own-geekos/ Just got an email from someone doing Software Freedom Day planning, and wondering about giving out discs at a baseball game on Software Freedom Day. I think this is a great idea, but I'm curious how many people would actually try openSUSE (or any Linux distro...) if they receive the disc ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/08/baseball-and-linux/ Been toying with the idea of doing a quick weekly podcast - no frills, just a quick recap of the week, usually with what's going on in and around openSUSE, as well as other comments on wider Linux community. So, is there any demand for this sort of thing? Also talking ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/04/podcasts-any-interest/ Spending a lot of time in meetings this week. (Not unusual.) Most of the meetings take place over the phone, but I have a few meetings this week in IRC, including the openSUSE Project meeting that's held bi-weekly in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Thinking about the pros and cons, it seems ... http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/06/03/pros-and-cons-of-irc-meetings/