Многие слышали о таких сервисах как boot.kernel.org и netboot.me
(позволяют запускать минималистичные сборки ОС без предварительной загрузки).

Когда я о них услышал я загорелся идеей сделать их установку в opensuse максимально простой - "в 1 клик", для чего собственно и собрал следующие пакеты:

netbootme-for-os-bootloader
bootkernelorg-for-os-bootloader

После установки, в загрузочном меню появится возможность выбрать соответствующий сервис.

Данные пакеты будут полезны если нужно изменить системные разделы диска ("/"), или как еще один инструмент для восстановления системы в случае сбоя, или...

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Ссылки:  на проект, на spec-файл.

Да, можно было бы обойтись и без создания пакета, а просто:

cd /boot
wget http://static.netboot.me/gpxe/netbootme.lkrn
/sbin/update-bootloader --add --image /boot/netbootme.lkrn --name "netboot.me
#(и то же самое для bootkernelorg)

но мне показалась удобней сделать это в виде пакета, just for fun).

While I'm in the mood for posting solutions to technical problems, here's another. I have a OBD interface cable for my VW Bora so that I can run a piece of software called VCDS (sometimes known as VAG-COM) and read the error codes from my car's ECU. However, when I plug in the cable (it's the USB version), it is usually assigned to COM7. Unfortunately, the VCDS programme only supports COM1-4.

Weirdly, the solution for me is to plug the cable in and run VCDS settings. If I choose COM3 then it successfully detects a COM port - I think it's used by the built in model. I save the settings, and then bring up the Device Manager and change the port used by the interface cable to COM3. It says the port is already in use, but lets you change it anyway. Then I just use the VCDS software and it works. This seems completely wrong, and to be honest, I'm sure there's probably a better way of doing it than this, but at least it works.

I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my desktop computer, and I have to say it's pretty much awesome. Almost everything has worked straight out of the box, including my Wacom graphics tablet and my wireless card. One thing that's been annoying me is that whenever I make a mistake (such as trying to delete some text that isn't there), my computer makes the most almighty buzz. Or maybe it could be described as a belch. It's pretty horrible, however you describe it, and makes me jump out of my skin every time. I think it's supposed to be the System Bell.

I spent some time trying to work out how to stop this, and eventually managed to stop it by doing this: I opened up KMix, clicked on the 'Mixer' button to bring up the full mixer. The selected tab was HDA Intel, and I clicked on Settings > Configure Channels, and then dragged the item called 'Beep' from 'Available channels' to 'Visible channels' and clicked OK. Then I muted the Beep channel.

I just thought I'd post that in case anyone else has a similar problem and is searching for a solution some time in the future.

So Stage 1 of the next openSUSE Conference is complete (submission deadline), and we are moving forward with Stage 2 (scheduling talks). I personally wasn’t privvy to last year’s submissions, but we have well over 80 submissions covering a huge range of topics this year which is brilliant.

One of the nice things this year is we have submissions from other distributions and projects, which is great The submissions from all parties cover a wide variety of topics from very technical to very fun, and it isn’t going to be easy to select which ones to accept.

Thank you to all who submitted a proposal and we will let you know on 20th August whether you are succesful or not.

[](http://flavio.castelli.name/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/van-halen- jump.jpeg)Let me introduce a small project I’ve been working on with a friend of mine, Giuseppe Capizzi. The project is called jump and allows you to quickly change directories in the bash shell using bookmarks.

Thanks to Jump, you won’t have to type those long paths anymore.

You can find jump’s source code, detailed documentation and installation instructions here.

SUSE packages can be found here.

Sometime ago I had a little problem with Zypper at the time of adding some packages. The same problem extended to YaST and well, the end of the world.

Possibly there was a integrity problem between the updater and the database RPM, or whatever, the true thing is that the error goes like:

Tamaño total a descargar: 174,1 MiB. Después de la operación se utilizarán 565,0 KiB adicionales.
¿Desea continuar? [s/n/?] (s): s
Descargando paquete graphviz-2.20.2-45.4.1.i586 (1/153), 868,0 KiB (2,2 MiB desempaquetado)
Descargando delta: ./rpm/i586/graphviz-2.20.2-45.3_45.4.1.i586.delta.rpm, 30,0 KiB
Obteniendo: graphviz-2.20.2-45.3_45.4.1.i586.delta.rpm [hecho (19,6 KiB/s)]
Aplicando delta: ./graphviz-2.20.2-45.3_45.4.1.i586.delta.rpm [hecho]
Instalando graphviz-2.20.2-45.4.1 [error]
La instalación de graphviz-2.20.2-45.4.1 ha fallado:
(con –nodeps –force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fallido: error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
error: error(-30987) getting “” records from Requireversion index
error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
error: error(-30987) getting “” records from Requireversion index
error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found

If you have some error like this one, the solution its extremely simple, just run in the command line interface:

sudo rpm --rebuilddb && sudo zypper clean -a && sudo zypper ref

This will rebuild the RPM database and then refresh the repos.

This post is showing naked women packaged as a present (for openSUSE's 5th birthday) and asks Ah... who does not want such a gift, eh.

I believe that the female users and contributors of openSUSE don't. It reduces them to pretty things, judged on their looks instead of their contribution.

Raul, please stop such sexist postings. Your blog is your own, but keep it out from Planet openSUSE.

Just in case common sense is not enough, let me quote for reference the relevant section of the openSUSE Guiding Principles:

We value... respect for other persons and their contributions, for other opinions and beliefs. We listen to arguments and address problems in a constructive and open way. We believe that a diverse community based on mutual respect is the base for a creative and productive environment enabling the project to be truly successful. We don't tolerate social discrimination and aim at creating an environment where people feel accepted and safe from offense.

and the activities in order to excel in our goals: Emphasize the value of communication and recognize cultural diversity within our community.

So, continuing with my last post about things to do after an openSUSE installation, now its the time for “Adding Games”, but first, some clarifications about two things:

One: You can add Codecs and other stuff with a 1-click-package, avoiding to use Zypper, I just expose the zypper method because I think its a bit more short :-P, but that its just matter of taste. So, if you are running openSUSE 11.3 with KDE use this ymp, and if you are using GNOME use this other. If you are on a older version of openSUSE, just go to this page and select your version.

Two: The broadcom-wl package its on Packman, so you have to add that repo (Via YaST -> Repositories), before you can install that package.

After this, now we can keep going.

Adding Games

So, the question: “¿Why a lot of games that are popular in the FOSS community aren’t by default in openSUSE?” For example, OpenArena, Battle for Wesnoth, aTanks, BlobWars, Crack Attack, LBreakout2, Torcs, SuperTux,… Well, because those games are on its own repo called “Games”.

To enable this repo just go to: “YaST -> Software Repositories”, then will show you the repos management window, you push “Add”, and then select “Specifying URL”, then in the name “Games”, and the URL “http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.3/“, “Next”, if he ask you something you say yes (import gpg signature and stuff), then you get back to the main window and then you hit “Accept”.

In the URL, change the number of the version if needed, and done… You have now a LOT of games available via YaST

Next to come: Adding 3D Acceleration.