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Andrew Wafaa: Scribes of TextToday

I was asked via twitter by Kalle Persson if I fancied packaging Scribes to become his hero for the week. Well there was a cry for help if I ever heard one - granted no damsel in distress or anything dramatic like that, but I still thought it warranted the donning of the Super Hero Cape and ridiculous mask that hides nothing other than one's sense of dignity; the wearing of women's underwear is perfectly fine and normal, but wearing a stupid mask that makes you look like a cartoon robber is just silly.

So of i went to my trusty terminal and got my trusty Vaio talking with the splendiferous openSUSE Build Service. As a result I can happily say my powers are getting stronger (not on the same scale as others but stronger than they were, remember things are relative ) I can now say gp and scribe with:

Joe Brockmeier: Mounting remote directories using FUSE and sshfs on openSUSEToday

Getting ready to head to Nuremberg this morning, and wanted to copy some files over to my USB key so I could work on the plane. (Florida to Germany is a bit of a commute, so I might as well have something to do while I’m in a tin can over the Atlantic Ocean, right?)

I’ve got an account with rsync.net (highly recommend) and wanted to copy some files to a fresh system with openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 to transfer to USB. (11.1 looks very good, by the way…)

I didn’t have my rsync scripts handy, so I decided to see about mounting the remote system using FUSE. You can also connect using Webdav in Nautilus and the “fish” protocol in Konqueror, but this method is good if you’re not a desktop user. (For instance, if you have a server running openSUSE and want to mount a filesystem on another server while working over an SSH connection.)

You should have FUSE installed already, but I didn’t have sshfs, so I popped open a terminal and ran this command:

zypper in sshfs

I’d created a directory called “rsync” (not very original, I know) and mounted the remote filesystem using the SSH Filesystem:

sshfs user@host.rsync.net: rsync/

Once that’s done, the remote filesystem is mounted as the directory “rsync” and I can copy and move files just like they’re local. (With, of course, the exception of the fact that they’re being transferred over an Internet connection rather than on local

Martin Lasarsch: openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2009: CFP StartedToday

Today i received the confirmation that openSUSE will have a devroom @ FOSDEM 2009!

Yay! Because it’s a little bit earlier next year (2008-02-07/08), we should
start right now with the the planing.

Please head over to the opensuse-project list and read/comment this posting.

Klaas Freitag: Smolt and openSUSEToday

This morning I realised that openSUSE appears on the hardware database smolt the first time. We are introducing smolt with openSUSE 11.1 in the installation workflow. People can choose to send up their data to the smolt database. All that is of course done anonymously, the data is stored under a unique UUID which can not be tracked back to the submitter (Privacy Policy here.)

Smolt is a project started by Fedora to collect information about the hardware that is used with computers running Linux. We at (open-)SUSE were seeing this demand as well and also were discussing a solution. But it became clear quite quickly that it does not make sense to have a per-distro solution for that - if we want to have momentum with a hardware database a combined effort promisses the most.

On Linuxtag 2007 I was first time involved in meetings were people from the Fedora project offered us to participate in smolt. It became clear that the idea behind smolt is what we also wanted. The working athmosphere was (and still is) open, friendly and productive and thus we decided to join in. With openSUSE 11.0 we first time shipped a smolt client, but not in the installation workflow.

Smolt isn’t finished yet. While it is a stable infrastructure thanks to Mike McGrath and friends who work on it there are

Peter Cannon: Gnome, it’s not fairToday

Why does Gnome get all the good stuff? I read Fabs tweet this morning about gwibber.
Now I’ve been dragged screaming and cursing into the Twitter fold I’ve started to get bogged down with Jaiku, Digg, LinkedIn and Twitter micro blogging so gwibber looked like a cool way to use one application to update all of my micro blog accounts.

Gwibber is a Gnome app yet I’m a KDE fanboy the list of really useful applications that are Gnome apps is endless, Gpodder, Banshee etc. I know I can still install them on my KDE systems but then it would make them pretty much Gnome machines with KDE desktops which is a bit like buying an Iphone scratching the name off and painting OpenMoko on it.

Come on KDE people stop faffing around with glitzy showy desktop effects and produce something we can actually use.