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openSUSE News: openSUSE Project Announces csyncToday

Andreas Schneider has unleashed the first public release candidate of csync 0.42, which is now available as source from the csync Web site, or via one-click for openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1.

As mobile computing becomes more and more important, file synchronization is more important than ever. Our jobs often require working not only on multiple computers, but in multiple locations, and disconnected from our networks. To help solve this problem, we need effective strategies for replication of user data and files.

csync is a bidirectional file synchronizer for Linux and allows to keep two copies of files and directories in sync. It uses uses widely adopted protocols like smb or sftp so that there is no need for a server component of csync. It is a user-level program which means there is no need to be a superuser. With pam_csync it is possible to create roaming home directories.
For more on using csync, see the user guide. Please report bugs using the bugtracker. For more information on csync, or to get involved with development, see
Hubert Figuiere: Wednesday, Jan 7th 2008Today
Hubert Figuiere
  • Filed bug bgo#566962 with patch: g-s-m memory leakage, while looking for a different bug.
  • Yet another snow storm going on. The good thing this year: I don't have to shovel.
Miguel de Icaza: More Mono-based games on the iPhoneYesterday
Miguel de Icaza

Randy Edmonds pointed out in my previous post that FlashBang Studios's RaptorCopter is not the first or the only Unity3D/Mono-based game on the Apple AppStore.

I counted almost 40 apps on the AppStore based on Mono, from the thread here.

These are a few other games available today from the AppStore that are powered by Mono:

  • Downhill Bowling (5 stars), (screenshots and video).
  • Billiards.
  • SpacePig.
  • Age of Curling.
  • Dusktreaders.
  • X-Razer.
  • Tapball (video).
  • InvinciBall (video).
  • SlidePop.
  • FuguMaze.
  • Monkey Diving (video).
  • Ball-X (with the dash in the middle, or you wont find it).
  • FuguTilt.
  • Pizza Dash (you deliver pizzas in a car).
  • Debris (you do controlled demolitions).
  • Trash it!
  • Rotunda.
Andrew Wafaa: Banshee in a Size 0 - MuinsheeYesterday
Andrew WafaaA while ago Gabriel Burt mentioned something called Muinshee. What is it? Simply put it is Banshee but with a Muine-like interface. Some people thought that Banshee's normal interface was overly cluttered, bloated, blah blah; Gabriel and Brad Taylor were just hacking and having fun. Make of it what you will.

So what does it look like? Well below are some comparisons first the default interface:

Banshee's default interface Banshee's default interface

Banshee playing queued tracks Banshee playing queued tracks

Now the Size 0 Muinshee interface:

The Muinshee interface The Muinshee interface

Finding some music to play in Muinshee Finding some music to play in Muinshee















openSUSE News: Novell Bugzilla Update to 3.2 and a Guided Report ModeYesterday

The bug reporting tool used by the openSUSE project (bugzilla.novell.com) will be updated on the 10th of January to version 3.2 (including some Novell changes).

One significant change is that we will have a new guided mode for reporting of bugs that is default for non-Novell accounts.

For those that use the unguided mode and want to use the guided mode (or the other way round), you can bookmark a template of the “New Bugreport” (see below for details) . Once you’ve done this, manually edit the URL of the bookmark and append “?format=guided” (if you want guided mode) or remove it if you do not want it. You can then use this bookmark for easy access, I have created that way a bookmark for openSUSE 11.1 bug reports that has already some stuff filled in, e.g. set “Found By” to “Community User”. Note that the guided mode will only be available after the update of bugzilla!

The changes for 3.2 in the upstream bugzilla are documented at the bugzilla side. In addition, a couple of bugs and enhancements in our bugzilla have been fixed.

Bugzilla will be down on the 10th from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM Mountain Time for this change.

Btw. if you want to report a bug, please check also our guidelines.

Task: How to create a template for new bug reports

  • Select “New”