Greek openSUSE community, Translation of openSUSE Weekly news in Greek (issue 200)
Hello everyone!
I am very pleased to announce the new issue (200) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:
* Help us spread the word on openSUSE 12.1!
* openSUSE Medical Project searches for new Leadership and other participation
* Linux Journal/Bruce Byfield: Four Hidden Tools in Scribus
* linuxcareer.com/Writing manual pages on Linux
* Jun Auza: How to Convince Your Friends to Use Linux Without Being a Jerk
As well as many interesting news about openSUSE and useful advice, which can make our lives easier.
Enough said though... Read more at: http://own.opensuse.gr, http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news or www.os-el.gr
We are always looking forward to receiving your comments as well as suggestions regarding things you would like to read about in our next issue.
The openSUSE Weekly News is being translated in the Greek language from issue #150. You can read older translated issues here: http://el.opensuse.org/Κατηγορία:Weekly_news_issues
efagraopenSUSE Weekly News 200 και στα ελληνικά
Γεια σας φίλοι μου,
Βρίσκομαι στην πολύ ευχάριστη θέση να ανακοινώσω το επετειακό τεύχος (200) Weekly News του openSUSE εκ μέρους της ελληνικής ομάδας που δούλεψε για τη μετάφρασή του.
Σε αυτό το τεύχος θα διαβάσετε:
* Βοηθήστε μας να διαδόσουμε στον κόσμο για το openSUSE 12.1!
* Το openSUSE Medical Project αναζητεί νέο ηγέτη καθώς και συμμετοχή
* Εφημερίδα του Linux Δημοσιογράφος/Bruce Byfield: Τέσσερα κρυφά εργαλεία για το Scribus
* linuxcareer.com/ Γράφοντας εγχειρίδια χρήσης στο Linux
* Πως να πείσετε τους φίλους σας να χρησιμοποιήσουν το Linux χωρίς να γίνεστε βλάκες
Και φυσικά πολλά άλλα ενδιαφέροντα νέα σχετικά με το openSUSE καθώς επίσης και χρήσιμους οδηγούς που θα κάνουν τη ζωή σας πιο εύκολη
Πολλά λέω… Καλύτερα διαβάστε το από πρώτο χέρι:
Βρείτε το στις ακόλουθες ιστοσελίδες http://own.opensuse.gr, http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news και http://www.os-el.gr
Περιμένουμε τα σχόλιά σας καθώς και τι θα θέλατε να δείτε με περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες στο επόμενο τεύχος.
Το openSUSE Weekly News μεταφράζεται στα ελληνικά από το τεύχος #150. Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε όλα τα παλιότερα τεύχη στα ελληνικά εδώ: http://el.opensuse.org/Κατηγορία:Weekly_news_issues
Απολαύστε το!
Ευστάθιος Αγραπίδης (efagra)
MemberRunning for the openSUSE Board (2011)
shutting down a iomega storcenter
All management is done by web interface and I needed a way to shut it down from a script.
Here is the script.
1 COOKIE_FILE=/tmp/iomega-stor-center-cookie.txt
2 IP=192.168.1.3
3 curl -c $COOKIE_FILE -k --data "login=admin&passwordx=" https://$IP/index.html
4 #curl -b $COOKIE_FILE -k --data "restart=identifyDevice" https://$IP/stg-device.html?t=6
5 curl -b $COOKIE_FILE -k --data "restart=Poweroff" https://$IP/stg-device.html?t=6
6 rm /tmp/iomega-stor-center-cookie.txt
Coleção de posters openSUSE 12.1!
Coleção de posters openSUSE 12.1!
Estamos a menos de uma semana do lançamento do openSUSE 12.1, e para contribuir com as pessoas que vão celebrar esta data, compartilho os posters que crie junto com aos demais participantes do openSUSE Hackweek - Los Angeles, material este que foi adaptado em seus respectivos conteúdos para o momento atual. Este material é a tradução do material original em ingles, para o portugues utilizado no Brasil e será utilizado de apoio durante as eventuais festas de lançamento que ocorreram ao redor do mundo! onde o idioma utilizado for o portugues, podendo então ser impresso, compartilhado, e utilizado conforme o necessário.
O material está divido em três posters com conteúdos bem distintos e diversificados entre eles possibilitando ser utlizados nas mais diversas ocasiões. para os mais diversos níveis de audiencia. Segue os materias:
O Tumbleweed visa proporcionar atualizações evolutivas de versão do openSUSE contendo as últimas versões estáveis ao invés de observar ciclos de lançamentos periódicos rígidos de qualquer distribuição. O projeto faz isto para os usuários que querem ter os software mais recentes, porém estáveis.
O OBS é uma plataforma para desenvolvimento de distribuições que oferece aos desenvolvedores uma infraestrutura transparente para o empacotamento de aplicativos para a maioria das distribuições que incluem mas não são limitadas a debian, fedora, redhat, suse, x86, 64 bits, arm, ... A instância do openSUSE atualmente tem mais de 20.000 usuários e existe mais de 100.000 pacotes para 21 distribuições base e 6 arquiteturas. Já o STUDIO é uma interface web, facil de usar, construir e testar seu prõprio sistema operacional, sem a necessidade de conhencimentos tecnicos ou avançados.
Neste material deixamos algumas informações referentes a flexibilidade de escolha de desktop no openSUSE 12.1, alẽm de informações sobre formas e maneitas de entrar em contato ou de se aproximar das comunidades do projeto openSUSE.
Todas as imagens e conteúdos compartilhados aqui foram criadas e trabalhadas utilizando o openSUSE 12.1 RC2 como plataforma operacional e GIMP com Inkscape como ferramentas de edição vetoria e de imagens, ambos disponiveis para as download nas plataformas, linux, mac e windows.
Os arquivos tambem pode ser baixados em maior resolução a partir de meu album de fotos.
Boas festas!
CarlosRibeiro
FOSDEM 2012: announcing the devrooms
Just sent out the ack/nack emails for the developer rooms at FOSDEM 2012, the latter part always being pretty tough, but we have to make choices.
On the good side: here is the list of the devrooms for FOSDEM 2012.
Mind you, that list does not include the Distribution Miniconf, which will take place in two rooms during both days and will gather sessions, talks, ideas from many (mostly Linux) distribution projects.
Smartphones - Acquired Necessity
Smartphones - An acquired necessity
I have used a Motorola E398 mobile phone for the last 6 years. For the last one month, I tried using a Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone. I have concluded that Smartphones are an acquired necessity and is not needed for most of my workflows. I will not buy a smartphone in the near foreseeable future.
Smartphones gives an impeccable improvement for one workflow - Email. If your work involves time-sensitive emailing, a smartphone is a crucial tool. However, if it doesn't, then you are better off buying a good desktop/laptop and a normal mobile phone, imho. A shortlog of things observed in this one month are:
Observations:
- Vibration: Smartphones are too thin and don't have enough vibration, if you are used to thick phones (Not a big problem)
- Poor signal reception: A biiiig problem. In the quest to slim the phone, the signal reception abilities of the phone are heavily hampered. While we were travelling in a car (from Bangalore to Chennai), A cheap Samsung GURU E1081 consistently beat Galaxy S2 in terms of signal strength. Most of the times the Galaxy S2 was showing "Emergency calls only" only. May be a phone from a real phone-maker like Motorola/Nokia may not have this problem. We had to keep the phone upright near the car window too.
- Typing: Even with the on-screen-keyboard, swype etc. the phone is totally unsuitable for typing long text. We can do only twitter/facebook updates and not do any serious document editing or long blogpost(s). The requirement for Siri (Voice Control) is just a natural demand. I wonder how the folks at Google missed this big requirement. They should have introduced this with a big bang and not play catch-up to Siri. Probably they missed it as they were busy tomato-saucing Google+ to all their applications ;-)
- Screen Estate: The screen size is totally unsuitable for reading books, blogs. It is okay for occasional blog reading, but it is straining. There are people who read blogs using their phone primarily. But I am spoiled by my employer who gave me an iPad, a Samsung GalaxyTab and a Thinkpad to play with, for some mobile related coding. I did not prefer the smartphone even once when I had my good old Thinkpad. Tablets and laptops provide far better reading experience and are equally handy. The GalaxyTab can act as a phone too for all your needs.
- Fragile: Smartphones need extreme care. Not ideal for rough use, unless you are using a rugged phone like Motorola Defy+ (which has its own set of problems). A friend once dropped a Google phone from his hands while taking from pant pocket (~3 Feet) and the glass shattered into pieces. I have thrown my E398 numerous times (atleast few dozen times from ~5.6 feet) and nothing has happened except an automatic restart.
- A Patentable Idea: The unlock pattern (of Android) leaves fingerprints and so your phone is not really secure. If you look at the phone, by keeping the screen flat in front of your nose, you can easily detect the unlock pattern finger prints. This may be fixed soon with the advent of touchscreens that do not leave a finger print. I wonder why can't we just authenticate based on the fingerprint in a smartphone !? That may be cool. I should probably patent it, as it seems in mobile phones any stupid thing can be patented. Think: SYSTEM and METHOD for RECORDING and AUTHENTICATION of users to mobile phones via fingerprints, by letting them swipe on either the surface/camera/etc.
- Battery Life: Even after switching off the wireless, due to the rich display, the battery life of all the smartphones is very less. My phone battery did not last more than 3 days. With wireless on and just GMail app running, the battery lasted for just about 1 day. Some of the non-smart phones these days have close to 2 weeks battery life. If battery life is your criteria or travel a lot, you must order a extra battery if you are buying a smartphone.
- Muscle Memory: After laying in my bed for sleep, many times, I have taken my motorola phone, unlocked it, launch the alarm application, set alarm for a specific time, exited the application, locked the phone again. I do all this while keeping my eyes closed. The normal phones with keypad are easily operable in one hand. I can take a call in one hand, while the other hand is balancing my body in a bus moving through the high-traffic streets of India. Contrary to what you hear, smartphones require both hands to be used and is not so easily adaptive for muscle memory. For a basic operation like calling a recently called number, you will take more time in a smartphone than a phone with a dedicated CALL button.
- COST: The single biggest reason why I won't buy a smartphone is Cost. Smartphones from any decent hardware maker are very costly. Personally, with my Indian mentality that takes pride in being cheap, I find it stupid to spend 30,000 INR (600 USD) on a phone which will be valued at 1,000 INR (20 USD) after may be 3 years. This inference is based on the Motorola Razor handset pricing in India. Compare this to a new Samsung GURU phone with color-display, USB charging capacity etc. that costs a mere 1000 INR (20 USD) and has battery life of about 1 week with normal usage. However, there is a big demand for cheap smartphones in markets like India. If and when Nokia releases their cheap smartphones in India, they are sure to repeat their success story in India, just like they did with their Torchlight series phones.
Samsung-specific-observations:
- The default alarm application does not have snooze option. There is no excuse for this.
- Samsung Kies - Ahem :/
Also, it is not available on Linux. Good news is that with the recent versions, the software update can be done within the phone itself without Kies. - The indic support patch is not upstreamed yet. But kudos to Samsung as they are the only Android handset makers who support Indic fonts native as of today, afaik. A few of my Tamil friends bought Samsung phones just for this reason.
- OLED - Amazingly rich screen, especially while displaying black color.
- The front camera in S2 is just a joke. Totally useless for my needs.
Android:
- "Android" brand has a better image than "Linux" in the consumer market. It is not without reasons. There are a lot of positive things about Android. I have not mentioned any of them because you can find them easily.
- However, To be honest, the usability of Android phones is *not* jaw-droppingly-awesome, imho. They are just as normal (good ?) as say Meego UI or GNOME 3. But consumers love them. If enough money is spent on marketing, pigs really can fly. I wish some of the earlier projects like openmoko/maemo/meego had rich companies that were as committed as Google is to Android.
- I hope ChromeOS opens a door for Linux on Desktops, just as how Android made Linux the most dominant operating system on mobiles. That may help PC OEM vendors to think a little instead of their current act of blindly worshipping Microsoft.
- The biggest positive impact of Android imho is: Android made companies which usually don't bother about Linux users (like Evernote) to write applications for Linux.
Every-Packet's Changing... my Keane Parody
Every-Packet's changing and I start to go insane
You're gone from here, soon you will disappear
Fading into tri-colored light
Cause Every-Packet's changing and I don't feel right
Every-Packet's changing and I start to go insane
Every-Packet's changing and I don't feel the same
Ooooh, Every-Packet's changing and I report abends...
Geekos agora com página no Google+!
Gostaria de convidar a todos os admiradores do openSUSE e software livre a conhecerem a nova página G+ anunciada a poucas horas.
Segue então a tradução e adaptação do texto.
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O mundo de TI se move rapidamente e junto com ela as redes sociais. Fazem poucos dias que o Google anunciou a disponibilidade limitada das páginas Google + e milhares de Google-plussers já criaram páginas Google+. É claro que também somos bastante sociais, portanto, o projeto openSUSE agora tem uma página oficial do Google +!
Se você criou uma página para a comunidade openSUSE, como o Kostas fez para a comunidade Grega, então não se esqueça de adicionar sua página junto aos contatos de mídia social do openSUSE para que os entusiastas do openSUSE possam facilmente encontrar as páginas oficiais do openSUSE e adicioná-la aos seus círculos. Essa página também é uma referência para outras atividades de mídia social que envolvam o openSUSE como o Facebook, Twitter ou LinkedIn.
Além disso, se você gosta de se envolver e promover o openSUSE em mídia e redes sociais, por favor fale com a equipe de marketingdo openSUSE.
Eu gostaria de agradecer Roger Luedecke por cuidar da nova página G+ do openSUSE e convidar a todos a compartilharem conteúdo nesta página, promover e seguir o que fazemos!
Texto original: Geekos go on G+
Autor: Koudaras Konstantinos
Tradução e adpatação: CarlosRibeiro
O Planeta Verde!
Nos últimos dias algumas pessoas que utilizam o planet através do http://planetsuse.org/ tem manifestado problemas de conexão.
Estes problemas não aconteceram devido ao openSUSE Planet ter saído do ar mas sim como anunciado pelo Pascal Bleser a poucos dias na lista de emails do openSUSE Project , aconteceu devido a este nome de dominio não estar sob os domínios de controle do Projeto e sim sob responsabilidade e dominio de outra pessoa que deixou o projeto anos atras.
Atualmente a única maneira de ir para o planeta openSUSE é digitando http://planet.opensuse.org/ e a maneira correta de adicionar o feed ao seu agregador é adicionando esse. Xml.
No caso de encontrar dificuldades em configurar seu agregador, por favor entre em contato com admin@opensuse.org que alguem certamente irá auxiliá-lo a resolver qualquer que seja o problema.
Muito obrigado pela informação, mas enfim, o que é este Planeta openSUSE?
Alguns de vocês podem saber o que é, mas existem outros por aí que realmente não sabem o que é o Planeta openSUSE e qual é o seu uso.
O Planeta openSUSE não é aquele Planeta escondido onde vivem os reais geekos, que são enviados para a Terra em seus respectivos avatares, para conquistar apreciadores de Sci-fi com coisas que voce nem imagina ;-)
Na verdade o Planeta openSUSE é um agregador de feeds da web que recolhe mensagens de blog de pessoas que contribuem para o openSUSE. Mesmo o Inglês não sendo seus idioma preferido você também pode adicionar seu blog.[1]
Como posso participar?
Se você se parece com uma destas pesoas e gostaria que outros lessem suas atividades relacionadas ao openSUSE, envie um email para os administradores[2] com as seguintes informações:
* URL do seu blog ou, melhor ainda, a URL para o feed RSS / Atom de seu blog
* em qual idioma você bloga, especialmente se não é em Inglês
* seu nome completo (por exemplo, Carlos Ribeiro)
* seu apelido no IRC Freenode, se você tiver qualquer (por exemplo CarlosRibeiro)
* se você já for um membro openSUSE um botão de "Membro" podera ser adicionado abaixo de seu nome na lista de feeds.
* um hackergotchi[3] - embora não seja obrigatório, é muito mais agradável para os leitores. Caso precise de ajuda, enviar uma foto para a equipe de arte do openSUSE[4].
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Texto original: The Green Planet!
Autor: Koudaras Konstantinos
[1] Planeta openSUSE em portugues
[2] email de contato dos administradores do Planeta openSUSE
[3] Hackergotchi
[4] Lista de email do time de artwork do openSUSE