It’s been interesting following the recent discussion about the Linux Desktop and how it failed. It’s a notion that’s been around for some time – I’d say approximately since people tired of discussing whether next year was going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop or so. Painful as it is, it’s also a notion that needs to be discussed, so we can learn from it or at least try to put it to bed.

Sometimes I feel like we’re talking past each other, though. As with any discussion, it’s a good idea to define what we’re talking about:

“Linux”

Most of us use the term “Linux” very loosely (just ask RMS). For instance, it can refer to:

• Linus’ kernel tree, or the tree of some other well-respected Linux maintainer.
• GNU/Linux proper, including the much-loved userspace.
• Anything based on a lightly modified Linux kernel – this is what GNU/Linux distributions tend to ship, but it also appears in routers and all kinds of embedded devices.
• Anything based on a Linux-derived kernel, including heavily modified/forked Linux kernels – the Android kernel comes to mind.

“Success”

As it happens, we also use the term “success” (and conversely, “failure”) very loosely. It reflects who we are and what we want to achieve with Linux, e.g:

• Works-for-me. A solution that works well for ourselves and for some of our friends. Also known as “itch-driven development”.
• Works-for-everyone. We tend to define “everyone” as people who have requirements different from our own – often typified as parents, grandparents, spouses, and so on. Whether these demographics will end up using it is seen as a separate problem. Maybe if you build it, they will come, but it’s not a requirement that they do so.
• Engineering excellence. A product of inherent beauty, often the result of some design process/criteria, but not necessarily addressing a specific problem. Sometimes you will see this masquerading as works-for-everyone, but you’ll be able to tell it’s about excellence by its uncompromising nature.
• Commercial ecosystem. A big, commercial ecosystem built around Linux, often expressed as market share or total revenue generated by sales.
• Big user base. Similar to commercial success in that it emphasizes quantity and popularity, but usually with the aim of enabling freedom/free culture instead of business models.

“Desktop”

This used to mean something like “a top-level graphical user interface with a file browser and application launcher”, but user interfaces have become more diverse, and it might make sense to include media libraries, smartphone interfaces and other environments where you can’t explicitly browse files. We’d have to draw the line somewhere, though – I doubt my router’s configuration UI would make the cut.

What do you want from (GNU/)Linux?

Depending on your perspective, Desktop Linux may be a failure – and if you were expecting to put GNOME in front of a majority of the population of planet Earth, it certainly is.

In many other ways, it’s a success. It’s been a test bed for a very capable free library stack, including GLib, GTK+, Cairo, Pango, D-Bus, GVFS, GStreamer, and more recently, Clutter and Cogl. This is not trivial. The surrounding community has also grown and diversified, and it has nurtured individuals and groups who’ve gone on to do some pretty sterling stuff.

Post scriptum

I think a desktop built on the GNOME platform could still be a moderate commercial success if integrated and marketed skilfully, perhaps tied to some kind of hardware. The window of opportunity hasn’t closed – the UI space is fragmented, Windows 8 is coming out, Valve have announced Steam for Linux (shiny games!) – and our building blocks are better than ever.

Most everyone agrees that going through airport security and being groped by the TSA is not only offensive, but also a major nuisance.

How about replacing the TSA with privately run airport security?

It sounds like San Francisco travelers much prefer their privately run airport security than the TSA at all other US airports.

Hey friends!

Here is a quick way to promote openSUSE's release at your own website. This is taken from Yaloki's website.

If you have a website/blog, here is the HTML markup to add in order to include the openSUSE release countdown image:  The markup above will add a 256x256 pixel image. If you prefer to have the smaller (130x130) one:  And in case you prefer the huge one (400x400px) for maximum visibility: 

Enjoy :D

Last four months have gone fast, really fast:

• Akademy-es in Zaragoza
• Flying to Berling to work on KDE eV economic report and LinuxTag
• Moving to Nuremebrg
• Begin to work as openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE
• Prepare my Akademy keynote and my talk about KDE Connect
• Develop and present the economic report during KDE eV AGM plus Board elections
• Complete the administrative work derived from relocation
• Flying to GUADEC
• Looking for a flat and moving.

and working, of course. All of them time consuming, but specially, vital energy consuming. So this August I've been trying to cool down a little and go back to routine, now that I have my flat (how important is this step, right?).

Meanwhile, at SUSE.....

the openSUSE Release team, together with the community, have managed to release 12.2 RC2 on time. This could be no news for openSUSE users and supporters. But for us means that we are delivering even tough we are in a transition phase, and despite the fact that we are reducing the pressure over the Release Team instead of increasing it. Delivering on time is always a good sign.

12.2 RC2 is usable so, if you are a developer or an openSUSE power user, consider installing it and giving us feedback. No major bugs should be expected but your reports are very valuable to us. I already have it in my laptop and, except for little details, it works as expected. If you prefer to wait until September 5th, you will be able to install the fresh 12.2. openSUSE Team at SUSE is finishing these days the last few tasks, specially related with generating the Gold Master and creating marketing material.

This month of August openSUSE Team is also putting energy into the openSUSE Conference organization. As you probably know, this is not a normal event. We host four events in one

• Future Media
• openSUSE Conference
• Gentoo Conference
• Linux Days

so there is a lot to do, as you can imagine. Organizing Free Software events is something that follows me in every job I take, no matter where that is. I'm kind of getting used to it. Don't know if that is a good sign though.

openSUSE community in America has an important milestone in September at openSUSE Summit, the community conference organized right after the SUSE Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA. So if you live in South, Central or North America and like openSUSE, don't miss it. More than 50 people have registered already so it looks like is going to be a good opportunity to give a push to our community in North America.

So September and October are going to be busy months for me and the Team.

 

Na semana de 03 a 08 de Dezembro de 2012 promoveremos os 05 mais importantes eventos sobre a infraestrutura da Internet no Brasil: o PTT Fórum, o Fórum IPv6, o ION, o GTER e o GTS. Programa-se e participe! A participação é gratuita.

Saiba mais em: http://nic.br/semanainfrabr/.


Fonte: http://ipv6.br/ii-semana-da-infraestrutura-da-internet-no-brasil/






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Sería como un post de descargo, porque no se cual será el problema jaja. Tengo un Router Kozumi K-5400GR sin uso, y lo quería usar. Anteriormente, antes de mudarme, lo usaba sin ningún problema para navegar, con Gigared como ISP (Argentina), usando tanto Linux como Windows. Me mude hace unos meses y aca usamos el ISP Arnet…Más

Once again our team meets for another release of our distribution of choice, openSUSE 12.2. As part of the artwork team, we focused on this release on going back to the strong greens that identify our distribution. We also added a few wallpapers with images of chameleons so that our mascot would be part of our distribution again.
On the subject of chameleons, I have been pondering recently about the variety of designs that can come from this reptile. It is one that changes colors to adapt to its environment, it also has a tongue that extends sometimes longer than its own body and it lives in trees eating insects. I own a chameleon myself and as I have lived with it, I have realized that it is a great design inspiration. Recently also, I found these images from Igor Siwanowics

Puede que en algún momento nos hayamos topado con una imagen en un formato no estándar. Pues bien, aquí os digo brevemente como convertirlas a formato iso en Linux

de bin/cue a iso:

1. Instalamos bchunk: zypper in bchunk
2. Lo ejecutamos: bchunk archivo.bin archivo.cue archivodesalida.iso

de daa a iso:

1. Nos descargamos la versión de PowerISO para Linux: wget http://poweriso.com/poweriso-1.3.tar.gz
2. Lo extraemos: tar xzvf poweriso-1.3.tar.gz
3. Lo ejecutamos: ./poweriso convert archivo.daa -o archivodesalida.iso -ot iso

de uif a iso:
En este caso tenemos dos opciones: usar uif2iso o MagicISO.

1. Instalamos uif2iso (búscalo en build.opensuse.org, ya que no está en los repositorios principales e instala el paquete rpm)
2. Ejecutamos uif2iso archivo.uif archivodesalida.iso

Si no nos funcionase uif2iso, podemos probar con MagicISO (el formato uif es de éste programa). No está disponible para Linux, pero funciona perfectamente bajo Wine.

1. Nos bajamos MagicISO.
2. Instalamos wine: zypper in wine
3. Después instalamos MagicISO: wine Setup_MagicISO.exe
4. Para ejecutarlo hacemos clic en el acceso directo o bien directamente en el archivo uif.
5. Y finalmente convertimos el archivo.uif a iso yendo a «File»→»Save as» o «Tools»→»Convert» e introduciendo los datos que nos piden (ej: nombre del archivo iso de salida).

La imagen iso resultante la podremos montar en algún lado (ej: mount -o loop -t iso9660 image.iso /mnt/) o abrir directamente haciendo clic derecho sobre ella desde Dolphin; Acciones → Examinar ISO. Se nos abrirá una nueva ventana mostrándonos los contenidos de la imagen iso.

También comentar que existe una aplicación muy útil que se llama AcetoneISO. Desafortunadamente, no admite el formato uif pero admite bastantes como, por ejemplo bin, nrg, img, daa o dmg. Está en KDE:Extras

August is a busy month for birthdays!

This all starts with openSUSE, on August 9th. Seven years ago, the development of SUSE Linux opened up and openSUSE was born. The openSUSE project is actually pretty young, compared to the other projects delivering distributions. But it has 20-years old roots... I joined the project in February 2008, and I've seen the community grow and become more and more involved and, more importantly to me, in charge.

On August 15th, we celebrate the birthday of the GNOME project. Miguel announced the GNU Network Object Model Environment Desktop project fifteen years ago. I'm happy the letters in GNOME don't stand for anything anymore ;-) It's been a long ride, with the great GNOME 1.0 release in 1999 (let's be honest, it was crappy by today's standards — I tried GNOME back then, and quickly gave up), the GNOME 2.0 release in 2002 (I joined the project around that time, I still remember the excitement in the community) and the recent GNOME 3.0 release in 2011 (I can't believe I wrote the 3.0 plan more than three years ago already...). Even though I'm less involved nowadays, GNOME is my family.

And finally, on August 16th, Debian reaches a new milestone. In 1993, the imminent release of the first version was announced, which makes the project nineteen years old now. I've always loved Debian, and I've long wondered whether I should become a Debian Developer, but I never made the jump as I chose to focus on upstream activities instead for my free time. And then I joined openSUSE. But it's never too late, so who knows, maybe one day...

I use what those three projects deliver daily, literally. Many thanks to everyone who made and still make this possible!