One of the things that came out of the recent Geeko Love-In for me was a new project to immerse myself in within openSUSE. Yeah I know, we have enough existing projects already so why create a new one? Simples! Believe it or not but openSUSE is behind the curve in a specific segment, and that segment has yet to explode to its full potential. That segment is ARM. No I’m not talking about your upper body appendages, but the architecture that powers most of your little devices (and some bigger ones too).

Κλικ για να δείτε το σλάιντ

OpenSUSE, Ελληνική Πύλη Ρομποτικής και e-gaming (και σχόλιο του Sali για τα Windows 8 στο τέλος) αποτελούν το 3ο επεισόδιο του OSArena, μια πολύ καλή δουλειά των παιδιών που συνεχίζεται για 3η φορά!

Το OpenSUSE για άλλη μία φορά συμμετέχει σε ένα ακόμα event, αρκετά αξιόλογο (αναφέρομαι στην 76η Διεθνή Έκθεση Θεσσαλονίκης). Παρουσιάζει μια ενεργή και δραστήρια κοινότητα, η οποία «μάχεται», απρόσκοπτα, για την διάδοση και την βελτίωση του Ελεύθερου Λογισμικού, και της διανομής φυσικά.

Θα ήθελα να ευχαριστήσω τον χορηγό μας, Minisystems, για την παραχώρηση του χώρου και την άψογη συμπεριφορά και στήριξή τους. Επιπλέον, ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στο OSArena, που πρόβαλε (δείτε το video) την προσπάθειά μας και ένα μεγάλο μπράβο – ευχαριστώ στον Στάθη Ιωσηφίδη, ο οποίος ήταν ο κινητήριος μοχλός όλης αυτής της προσπάθειας στην έκθεση, καθώς έκανε και ο ίδιος την συμφωνία με τον χορηγό μας!

Κάναμε πολύ καλή δουλειά και βοηθήσαμε τον κόσμο που ήρθε από το περίπτερό μάς και ενδιαφέρθηκε για μας και το Ελεύθερο Λογισμικό...

 Πολλά είπα πάλι… Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν!

Απολαύστε την υπέροχη δουλειά του OSArena!

Χρήσιμες Πληροφορίες :

• Minisystems
• OSArena
• GRobot
• E-Gaming
• OpenSUSE

Para instalar o programa "Apartamento no Jaçanã", aponte seu celular para a imagem abaixo.

 

Unfortunately the good times have come to an end, one of the best shindig in a long time has been and gone. Friends from far away have returned home, as have I. Yes, the openSUSE Conference of 2011 was an absolute blast. Seriously, I had an absolute scream. As I mentioned before I was expecting a whole heap of fun, and boy did the Geeko deliver!!! I met up with all sorts of people, starting off with Richard Brown a.

Even if the last news from the Education project is just one month old, many people asked me during the openSUSE Conference why the Education project itself is currently so quiet.

Well, the “problem” is, that our Education team is currently more a team of technical specialists and many work is done behind the scenes without communication to “the outside”. So even if you did not hear from us for some weeks, we are still alive and coding!

Here are just a few examples, that are going on behind the scenes:

• Translation of the new openSUSE Education Portal is work in progress. Many thanks to our contributors Guillaume for the Français, Freek de Kruijf for the Nederlands, Sabarth for the Português, Gankov for the Русский (Russian) Portal translation!
• Kirill is currently reviewing all 425(!) packages in the Build Service Education project and submitting them to openSUSE Factory afterwards – so openSUSE 12.1 will come with a huge set of packages directly inside the official repository.
• Cyberorg is working on the next release of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e DVD with the LTSP integration.
• Anubusg1 and many others (the project currently lists 44 maintainers) are doing the “normal” packaging stuff like upgrading and fixing packages for 12.1 (aka Factory)

The Desktop4Education project from Austria was again present at the Conference and gave a great overview of the current status of the project during their talk. Good to hear that the project is being frequently used as a reference case by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and as such promoted by them throughout Austria.

Talking with Andre Massing from the Simula Research Laboratory during his talk at the conference was quite interesting. Looks like the Science project might see some very interesting new packages in the next months. During the discussion, we agree that the Education and the Science project can share a lot of efforts in their project setups and organization. But they will stay separated (at least in the Build Service) as their audience is very different, even if they share some packages (which is currently done via links inside the Build Service).

Καλησπέρα  σε όλους!

Μετά την ενεργή συμμετοχή ορισμένων μελών της κοινότητας στο συνέδριο, που διεξάγει στην Νυρεμβέργη, και παρά την πίεση και την κούραση που δέχτηκαν και πέρασαν αντίστοιχα, αυτά τα μέλη, το νέο τεύχος (192) Weekly News του openSUSE είναι αλήθεια πως είναι έτοιμο να το διαβάσετε και να κάνετε τα σχόλιά σας.

Σε αυτό το τεύχος θα διαβάσετε:

• Jos Poortvlieet: Οι χορηγοί που παρίστανται στο openSUSE Conference 2011
• Jos Poortvlieet: Το Bretzn στο oSC
• Kai-Uwe Behrmann: Το Oyranos @ rwx³
• Greek openSUSE Ambassadors: η Ελληνική Κοινότητα openSUSE και η 76η ΔΕΘ
• Wazi/Anatoliy A. Dimitrov: Πώς να ασφαλίσετε τον Apache Web Server σας

Για να μην τα πολυλογώ… Μπορείτε να το διαβάσετε από τις παρακάτω ιστοσελίδες :

1. http://own.opensuse.gr
2. http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news
3.  www.os-el.gr

Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε όλα τα παλιότερα τεύχη του openSUSE Weekly News στα ελληνικά εδώ: http://el.opensuse.org/Κατηγορία:Weekly_news_issues

Καλό διάβασμα!

Βασίλης Καραμπούζης  (Master91)

Hello everyone!

Back to Thessaloniki after a great openSUSE conference in Nuremberg and I am very pleased to announce the new issue (192) of openSUSE Weekly News in Greek.
In this issue you will read about:

* Jos Poortvlieet: Sponsors present at openSUSE Conference 2011
* Jos Poortvlieet: Bretzn at oSC
* Kai-Uwe Behrmann: Oyranos @ rwx³
* Greek openSUSE Ambassadors: openSUSE Greek community and 76th International Trade Fair,
Thessaloniki
* Wazi/Anatoliy A. Dimitrov: How to Secure Your Apache Web Server

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

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

I just spent a day figuring this out, so figured I'd share it with the world because I'm sure other people are going to want to know how to do this...

So the question is,

How can I get my MKMapView to respond to coordinate changes in my custom MKAnnotations?

As it turns out, this is incredibly simple. In your MKAnnotation subclass, whenever you want to change your Coordinate property value, you need to do the following:

void UpdateCoordinate (CLLocationCoordinate2D newCoordinate)
{
    this.WillChangeValue ("coordinate");
    this.Coordinate = newCoordinate;
    this.DidChangeValue ("coordinate");
}

That's it! It really is that simple...

The reason this works is because MKMapView observes changes in its list of MKAnnotations, you just need to signal to it that changes are about to happen (and did happen).

Happy hacking!

I’m happy to announce LibreOffice 3.4 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service LibreOffice:Stable project.

LibreOffice 3.4 provides many interesting features and fixes. The openSUSE packages are based on the LibreOffice 3.4.2 release but they include all fixes from the last 3.4.3 bugfix release. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE LibreOffice build on the wiki page.

The openSUSE LO team hopes that you will be happy with this release. Though, any software contains bugs and we kindly ask you to report bugs. It will help us to fix them in the future releases.

Other information and plans:

It took me quite some time to prepare the 3.4 update because the split build was not longer supported and I had to completely rework the packages.

We are going to prepare official maintenance update for openSUSE-11.3 and 11.4. You might expect it within next few weeks.

I am going further improve the build framework to be able to early provide LO-3.5 packages in the LibreOffice:Unstable project. You might expect something about Christmas, see the LibreOffice 3.5 schedule.