1. UBUNTU

The actual installation was smooth, easy and provided an excellent desktop for a user who is new to Linux. Someone who wanted only basic options.
What I liked:
Simplicity: Give the user what they need, no more unless they want to add that themselves. Good idea!
Easy Install: Ok a distribution has to be easy for the user to install and one CD is about as easy as it gets. The steps of installation are quick effective and to the point. The network setup worked fine in the install!

I loaded the distro on a AMD desktop and a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop and they both loaded with no problems. Detection of the laptop screen was flawless. Power Saving features worked with no problems.
USB Detection: My conclusion is that some of the cheap, USB1 drives will not work without some configuration changes, but the better USB2 drives will autodetect.
Network Tools: Gnome now offers a handy tool to use for networks. It is actually 8 tools in one interface. The tools are Devices,Ping, Netstat,Traceroute, Port Scan, Lookup, Finger and Whois. These are certainly handy tools and they are easy to use in the graphical interface.
What I did not Like:
My biggest complaint by far... no functional firewall exists on the system. I went to the website and found that the concept of the designers is that since you are not using a daemon by default so you do not need a firewall. PLEEEASE...don't let our Linux future put at risk security and force us all to return the constant hacks and fixes we all hated in Windows. Security is important and the system does need a simple to install firewall.

Multimedia Limitations: By default you will find limited resources for multimedia. Most users will find themselves searching for new options in this area.

Summary:
If you are looking for a simple distribution, you are a new user with modest requirements and you will make sure you load a simple firewall...take a look at Ubuntu. For a home user that needs basics it is a good choice.

2. SUSE

I have used Suse exclusively on my laptops, I always have at least two.
Each new distribution brings new features and more stability.

What I liked:
YAST: is a great tool for the administrator to configure the system. I would suggest that it is probably the easiest tool to configure a system that is available. It is intuitive, powerful and effective.

The Desktop: My personal option is that first impressions on the Desktop is one of the most important aspects of how new users feel about Linux. SUSE has the best initial feel of any distributions that I have seen.

USB Recognition: Now when you insert a flash drive it automatically recognizes the drive and functions on it's own, just like Windows.

What I did not Like:
I need ssh to work flawlessly. Once the configuration was setup and the firewall was setup like it was supposed to...no ssh. The firewall configuration did not allow any connections. YAST seemingly failed me. All that said, beware of little problems with the firewall.
Summary:
The best way I would describe SUSE professional is options. I guess that is why I like SUSE for a desktop is that it provides so much real functionality. If you are into multimedia you should try SUSE because there are so many multimeda options.

3. FEDORA

I have used every Fedora distribution as a desktop and put them through the paces, Fedora is the first one that I have felt that was stable, full featured and a candidate to keep on my desktop.
What I liked:
Nautilus seemed stable and has the same basic features as before. I really appreciate the fact that the images within Nautilus can be set up to be thumbnails of the actual image.
Gnome is stable and adds new features to removable devices and network servers.
Up2date was fast and worked beyond my expectations.
Network Tools is a wonderful addition to Fedora. It brings eight tools together in one interface for easy use for any network administrator.
What I did not Like:
Multimedia: Fedora will not provide support for non-open source components like Real Player. I can understand keeping things open source, but this fact is a major drawback for many multimedia consumers. Anyway, the Helix Player is easy to use and works well.

Summary:
Fedora is actually a solid well thought out desktop operating system with good security, applications and overall feel. If you can deal with the limited multimedia options or if you load your own, this is a great system.

Mare Nostrum*, por ejemplo, la supercomputadora establecida por IBM en la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña funciona bajo SuSE Linux y se utiliza, entre otras cosas, para la investigación del genoma humano, la estrucutura de proteínas y el diseño de nuevos medicamentos.
Algunas de estas super máquinas tienen un sistema operativo diseñado específicamente para la función que desempeñen pero según una evaluación de top500.org y de acuerdo a sus estadísticas en rendimiento en sistemas operativos, Linux esta a la vanguardia arrasando en más de un 70%.
Existe el Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, pero la porción de mercado que logra es de apenas un 1,20 % y no figura en los charts de performance.

¿Por qué se dan estos números?

Quitando los fundamentos estríctamente técnicos: Mayor libertad produce mejores sistemas, y eso es lo que les interesa a los que montan supercomputadoras, al mismo tiempo que tener el total control sobre lo que hacen, pudiendo adaptar el software completamente a sus necesidades, sin depender necesariamente de terceros.

La escalabilidad de Linux como sistema operativo para grandes sistemas es incuestionable, sus propiedades como sistema usuario, servidor, procesos, capacidad de trabajo, estabilidad y su condición de “ampliabilidad” vs. calidad en los servicios ofrecidos, lo consoilidan como el S.O. más usado en el área de de la investigación y desarrollo.

Cuestiones como estas me traen de vuelta a una de mis primeras intrigas como estudiante: ¿Por qué Linux sigue siendo el gran ausente en la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional? Nunca lo sabré...

*Mare Nostrum:

Localización: Barcelona, España.
Fecha de puesta en marcha: 12 de abril de 2005.
Arquitectura: PPC64 (IBM PowerPC 970).
Sistema Operativo: SuSE Linux.
Procesadores: 10240.
Memoria: 20480 GB.
Potencia: 63830 GFlops.
Puesto actual en el Top 500: 13.
Mejor puesto en el Top 500: 5.
Sitio Web: http://www.bsc.es

Fuentes:
Be Linux My Friend
Be Linux My Friend
Calex
Master Magazine
Baudio
Top 500

Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

• The distribution is very user friendly, especially for beginners.
• It is supported by a very large community. A lot of information and answers to problems can be found in the Ubuntu forums.
• Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, one of the first space tourists.
• Ubuntu releases new versions every six months, and supports those releases for 18 months with daily security fixes and patches to critical bugs. LTS (Long Term Support) releases are supported for 3 years for desktops and 5 years for servers.

Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with software built and packaged for Ubuntu.

SUSE is an acronym for the German phrase "Software- und System-Entwicklung" ("Software and system development"), however a rumour still circulates that the name is a tribute to the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse. The community project openSUSE is an effort to reach a wide audience of users and developers.

• It is sponsored by Novell.
• SUSE includes an installation and administration program called YaST2 which handles hard disk partitioning, system setup, RPM package management, online updates, network and firewall configuration, user administration and more in an integrated interface.
• Many Linux innovations are originally developed as part of the SUSE project.

Sabayon is an advanced, scalable Linux distribution from Italy. It focuses in cutting edge software and hardware support and it is a showcase of the latest Linux technologies. "Sabayon" is the name of an Italian desert, made with raw eggs.

• miniEditions are single-CD and LiveCD releases of the distribution, normally introduced a week or two after a DVD release.
• A feature named "Entropy", exclusive to Sabayon, incorporates package management.
• It is based on the Gentoo distribution.

Fedora is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software.

• Development is done in a public forum.
• The project will produces time-based releases of Fedora about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule.
• It is the distribution of choice for most of the scientific community and serves as a base for projects like Scientific Linux.

PCLinuxOS places specific emphasis on desktop computing, concentrating its efforts for home or small business environments. It is often abbreviated as PCLOS and it is based on Mandriva.

There are currently over three hundred Linux distributions in active development, constantly being revised and improved. DistroWatch maintains an indicative popularity ranking of distributions on its web site.

All of the above and most other Linux distributions offer Live CDs that allow you to run the operating system without installing it or modifying anything on your system. There's also the option of installing a distribution inside MS Windows. CD and DVD images can be downloaded and burned via the web or bit torrent. You can buy ready-burned distros online and you can even have them mailed to you for free from some of the developer websites.

If you think that other distributions should be in this list, please leave a comment.

Studio 21

openSUSE to zdecydowanie moja ulubiona dystrybucja linuxa. Jedyne, co mnie bolało w poprzedniej wersji (10.3) to powolność straszna zyppera (przy włączonym compizie zabijało mi komputer), choć i tak było znacznie lepiej niż w przypadku poprzedników. Zypper ponoć przyśpieszył - nie sprawdzałem,  nie chcę sobie psuć niespodzianek (jak wychodziło 10.3 to testowałem każdą betę ;]). Poczekam, do premiery zostało już tylko (patrz wyżej :) )

$ mb2md -s path_mailbox -d path_maildir

donde: s = origen y d = destino

Ahora, para realizar yo este trabajo de manera mas rapida y no estar realizando este proceso para cada buzon realize un pequeño script en python el cual lee los usuarios desde el archivo /etc/passwd y luego verifica si existe el mailbox de este. Aqui lo propongo espero les sea de utilidad para alguno.

I'd normally start by thankking thoe who helped me put this together, but
my new IM client didn't make any logs, and I can't remember the many names
I should list. But thanks to the guys at #wiidev who helped me :)

This guide was written using an Asus Eee running the standard Linux/Xandros
install. Xandros is based on Debian, but this guide should work for any
version of Linux running on an x86.

The Wii is simply a Gamecube on steroids, so do not be phased by refereces
to it.

1. Purchase a copy of Zelda, Twilight Princess.
At present this is the only was to run homebrew Wii code.
It /is/ possible to do this with a pirated copy of Zelda,
but that is beyond the scope of this document.

You will also need a spare SD card (really, ANY size will do)

2. Obtain a copy of the devkit and decompress it:

2a. Make a directory into which you will download the files you need:
# cd /home/user
# mkdir -p wii/devkitPro
# cd wii/devkitPro

2b. Download the main PPC devkit. Go here:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505&package_id=124208
...and download the latest linux binaries ...For me, this was:
devkitPPC_r14-i686-linux.tar.bz2

2c. You will also need 'libogc'. Go here:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505&package_id=126925
...and, again, download the latest binaries ...For me, this was:
libogc-20080228.tar.bz2

2d. Decompress the archives:
# cd /home/user/wii/devkitPro
# tar -xvjf devkitPPC_r14-i686-linux.tar.bz2
# mkdir lobogc
# cd libogc
# tar -xvjf ../libogc-20080228.tar.bz2

*DO NOT* decompress the devkit with another method! You're warned!

3. Configure the environment.

3a, Edit .bashrc (You'll need a text editor to do this, I use 'mcedit')
# cd /home/user
# mcedit .bashrc
At the bottom of the file add the following lines:
export DEVKITPRO=/home/user/wii/devkitPro
export DEVKITPPC=$DEVKITPRO/devkitPPC

3b. Log out and log back in again, so the new startup commands get exeuted

3c. Check that the new variables are set properly.
# set | grep DEVKIT

4. You will need 'make' installed:
# apt-get install make

5. Download some sample source code and compile it.

5a. Make a directory which will be used for our source code.
# cd /home/user/wii
# mkdir src
# cd /src

5b. Go here:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505&package_id=273886
...and download the latest Wii examples ...For me, this was:
wii-examples-20080228.tar.bz2

5c. Decompress the source:
# cd /home/user/wii/src
# mkdir examples
# cd examples
# tar -xvjf wii-examples-20080228.tar.bz2

5d. Build the test program
# cd /home/user/wii/src/examples/template
# make
template.c
linking ... template.elf
output ... template.dol
# ls -al
...If all is well, template.elf will be in the listing

6. Donload and Install the Twilight hack.

6a. Ensure your new SD card has a single partition formatted as FAT16
and mount it. On an Asus Eee the SD is auto-mounted when you insert it;
My SD is labelled 'wiidev.org' and so is mounted to:
/media/MMC-SD/wiidev.org

6b. Make a directory to save the hack into:
# cd /media/MMC-SD/wiidev.org
# mkdir t-hack
# cd t-hack

6b. Go here:
http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack
...and download the latest Twilight hack ...For me, this was:
twilight-hack-v0.1-alpha3a.zip
...actually, the latest was alpha3b, but the link advised not
to use it unless you had problems with alpha3a

6b. Decompress the hack
# cd /media/MMC-SD/wiidev.org/t-hack
# unzip -j twilight-hack-v0.1-alpha3a.zip
This will extract FOUR files. You will need only ONE,
depending on which version of Zelda you have.

6c. Read the serial number off the Zelda DVD, it is printed on the inner cirle
of the data side of the DVD. This will tell you which of the four files
you need:

RVL-RZDP-0A-0 JPN -> rzdp0.bin (Europe/Australia)
RVL-RZDJ-0A-0 JPN -> rzdj0.bin (Asia)
RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA -> rzde2.bin (America)

RVL-RZDE-0A-0 JPN -> rzde0.bin (America)
RVL-RZDE-0A-0 USA -> rzde0.bin (America)

When you see 'rz???.bin' below, substitute the right name.

6d. Put the right hack in the right place on the SD card
# cd /media/MMC-SD/wiibrew.org/t-hack
# mkdir -p ../private/wii/title/RZDP
# cp rz???.bin ../private/wii/title/RZDP/data.bin

6d. Put your example program on the SD card
# cd /media/MMC-SD/wiibrew.org
# cp /home/user/wii/src/examples/template/template.elf boot.elf
The hack will only run code called 'boot.elf' in the root directory,
a menu system is being developed. See wiibrew.org or wiinewz.com
for details.

6e. If you have not yet done so, put the Zelda disk in your Wii and start a new
game. I am assured you need a Zelda save-game on the Wii before the hack
can be installed.

If you actually play Zelda, then BACK UP YOUR SAVED GAME(S) NOW
This proces WILL erase your save-game from Wii internal memory!

6f. Put your new SD card and your copy of Zelda in your Wii and power it up.
Wii Menu -> Data Management -> Save Data -> Wii
Zelda -> Erase -> Yes
SD Card -> Twilight Hack -> Copy -> Yes
Back out to the Channel Menu and start Zelda
Load the Twilight Hack and click Start
The Wiimote pointer may slump to the bottom of the screen and stop working,
but Don't Panic, you do not need it to start the hack running, and it
will return to normal when you restart the Wii.
When the game starts, approach the man and talk (try to) talk to him.

There is a video demonstration of this last process here:
http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack
...Although this demonstration does not suffer the Wiimote problem.

Finally. There is, in development, a WiiHomeBrew channel. This is
installed by using the (above) Twillight Hack. But once instlled, you
will be able to run Homebrew code on your Wii from the normal Channel
Menu. Watch wiinewz.com for updates.
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Quelle: http://forum.wiibrew.org/viewtopic.php?t=307

Il primo dei prodotti annunciati da BigM a Las Vegas è System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, un'estensione per il tool di management Operations Manager che fornisce gli strumenti necessari per gestire e monitorare, da un'unica console su Windows, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux e SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, nonché software come il web server Apache e i database MySQL e Oracle.

Bob Muglia, senior vice president del gruppo Server and Tools Business di Microsoft, ha spiegato che SCOM 2007 Cross Platform Extensions permette agli amministratori aziendali di trovare e gestire i sistemi non-Windows per mezzo di tool open source come OpenPegasus e di standard aperti come WS-Management e SSH. La ricerca degli host Linux e Unix, ha spiegato BigM, può avvenire utilizzando gli indirizzi IP, il DNS o altri attributi.

"Non posso suggerirvi di far girare tutti questi server non-Windows nel vostro ambiente", ha dichiarato con una punta d'ironia Muglia, "ma se proprio lo volete fare, adesso avete lo strumento adatto".

Allo sviluppo di SCOM 2007 Cross Platform Extensions ha partecipato anche Novell, il cui famoso accordo con Microsoft prevede, tra le altre cose, lo sviluppo di tecnologie e strumenti per migliorare l'interoperabilità tra Windows e Linux.

La versione finale del software verrà rilasciata insieme al Service Pack 2 di Operations Manager 2007, il cui arrivo è previsto per la prima metà del 2009.

Il secondo software di management annunciato da Microsoft, anch'esso in beta testing, è System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008. Si tratta della nuova release di un giovane gestore di macchine virtuali per Virtual Server 2005 R2, che si arricchisce ora del supporto a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ed a VMWare ESX. Quest'ultimo, che rappresenta il principale concorrente di Hyper-V nel segmento dei software per la virtualizzazione di classe enterprise, può essere gestito da SCVMM 2008 in modo completo: ad esempio, grazie al supporto alla tecnologia VMotion di VMware, permette di migrare le macchine virtuali su host o datacenter diversi in modalità "live", senza interruzioni.

Le beta pubbliche di SCOM 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, di SCVMM 2008 e della nuova versione di SCOM 2007 Connectors, che consente a Operations Manager di interoperare con tool di management di terze parti, possono essere scaricati da connect.microsoft.com.

fonte = punto-informatico

Linux si sta presentando dopo anni finalmente a una vera e propria controposizione allo stradominio di MS..Speriamo che continuino sulla scia appena conquistata..VIVA il pinguino

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Dal punto di vista dei Desktop Environments non vi sono particolari cambiamenti, gran parte di essi e delle bugfix sono "under the hood" (=sotto il cofano, come si suol dire in gergo XD): dal kernel aggiornato all'ultima versione, alle librerie essenziali (glibc ecc. ecc.).

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• Configuration area (config.inc.php file) ends up in /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin along with the rest of the installation.
• Decided to use "cookie based authentication"; don't think I need to remember the password.
• The advanced features were turned on in config.sample.inc.php, but the YaST installer doesn't load the schema required for this into the mySQL database (maybe it's not possible unless done during mySQL installation). This resulted in endless error messages of "Table 'phpmyadmin.pma_bookmark' doesn't exist".
• Learned that I needed to run create_tables.sql, which was not included in the openSUSE package. I downloaded it from the phpMyAdmin site, created user "pma", defined corresponding controluser and controlpass entries in the config file. create_tables finally ran successfully and the bookmarks error messages went away.
• Stopped annoying half-hour auto-logout with: $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600 * 8;

KDE4 очень красив и чувствуется огромный потенциал этого DE, но пока он ещё очень сырой (версия 4.0.3).

Что касается внешнего вида: панель совершенно не настраиваемая, можно изменять только размер и положение панели, плазмоиды двигать и менять местами нельзя. Чтобы расположить их по своему вкусу, надо плазмойды удалить и добавить их заново в нужном порядке.

Бог с ним с внешним видом, главный минус это отсутствие программного обеспечения для kde4. Из-за этого приходится пользоваться программами для kde3. Для настройки сети есть knetworkmanager (для kde3), программа довольно гибкая и удобная, но очень глючная, нормально работает только с dhcp, вручную настройки прописать из-за бага нельзя. Настроил сеть правкой конфигурационного файла /etc/network/interfaces и обновлять knetworkmanager через интеренет. После обновления настраивать статический IP стало возможным, но если wifi настроен без dhcp, то knetworkmanager перестаёт видеть точки доступа, связь есть, но мониторить свою и чужие точки уже нельзя. Пришлось поставит kwifimanager.

В kde4 не работает suspend. Проблема решилась установкой kpowermanager для kde3. Konqueror обрезали, убрали несколько интересных фишек, как я понимаю, пытаются сделать из него просто браузер, а не комбаин всё-в-одном. Тогда почему убрали панель быстрого поиска? Без неё работать неудобно.

Ещё один минус - это ухудшение производительности. gnome и kde3 всё-таки работают быстрее.

Теперь о плюсах. Понравился im-клиент kopete, огромный шаг вперёд по сравнению с прошлой версией, поддержка icq x-статусов, приятный настраиваемый интерфейc, определяет версию клиента, версию протокола. Использую kopete для icq и msn, для jabber ничего лучше tkabber нет. Понравился файловый менеджер dolphin, быстрый удобный и функциональный. Oxygen - очень красивая тема, приятно работать.

Панель поместил направо, по моему мнению это самый удобный вариант для широкоформатных мониторов:

В kubuntu-kde4 нет ни amarok, ни kaffeine, зато есть Juk (аудио плеер) и Dragon player (видео) :

Ещё поставил firefox 3b5, gimp и inkscape

В целом работать довольно удобно, почти все проблемы решил, переходить с кубунту пока не буду. За пару дней до установки кубунты запускал с live-cd opensuse 11.0 beta1, впечатлений было куда больше, чем от kubuntu, если бы утстановщик не зависал наглухо (всё-таки это бета), то на моём настольном компьютере стояло бы opensuse :)

]]> http://steelisreal.wordpress.com/?p=28 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:54:00 +0000 steelisreal http://steelisreal.wordpress.com/?p=28 I picked up my Mini-Note yesterday at FEDEX and was shocked at how small the box was, I knew the laptop was small but still I was not ready for the tiny box that it was shipped in.

I want to share with you my unboxing of the Mini-Note, I know unboxings have been posted on other sites but I still wanted to do one of my own.

My wife was laughing at me the whole time I was taking these pictures, she still thinks that it is strange I would want to catalog the event.

The tiny box, I placed my Sony Ericsson W580i next to the box and parts so that you can get a size comparison.

The box cracked open showing the manual and power supply box.

Inside of the accessories box.

The battery and power supply.

The manual and user guide on a CD none the less, because I can really use that in my laptop with no optical drive.

The first glimpse of the shinyness that is the HP2133 Mini-Note.

Finally out of the box.

The first lid opening, my excitement level was going through the roof at this point.

The first power up, Suse is running, it took forever to finally start up, Suse lasted about three hours before I installed Ubuntu.

Running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, the install took about an hour, it has to be done in safe graphics mode.  It did take me all night and most of this morning to get the wireless up and running but thanks to ndiswrapper I am now fully wireless.

Initial reactions are that this is a great machine, I have seen no issue with the speed of the machine, the quality seems great.  It does run hot, and I mean hot hot.  Also the touchpad can be a little hard to get used to.  The keyboard is amazing and is so easy to type with.  The battery life is attrocious with the 3 cell, but that may be because of Ubuntu or that I am constantly on wireless.

Cnr.com è il nuovo lungimirante progetto con cui Linspire ambisce a standardizzare l'installazione e l'aggiornamento dei programmi nei sistemi Gnu/Linux. CNR (One-Click & Run) è un servizio web 2.0 nato nel 2002, che permette agli utenti delle distribuzioni basate su Linspire di cercare, installare, disinstallare, gestire ed aggiornare centinaia di programmi, commerciali e non. Nel 2006, Linspire ha azzerato i costi di abbonamento, annuale, di circa 50 euro, cedendo il proprio servizio gratuitamente. Nel dicembre 2007, è nato cnr.com, con lo scopo di estendere il servizio CNR alle altre distriuzioni.

È ancora in fase beta, e per ora supporta solo Ubuntu (Fiesty, Gutsy e hardy), Mint, Linspire e Freespare; presto però sarà disponibile anche per le altre distribuzioni (Suse, Debian e Fedora). Se volete provarlo dovete prima scaricarvi il client, che consente di interagire col servizio web. Qui lo trovate già impacchettato per le quattro distro supportate. In Ubuntu, una volta installato, lo trovate nel menù: Applicazioni->Strumenti di sistema->CNR. Il client vi segnalerà in automatico gli aggiornamenti. Per cercare i programmi, dovete andare su cnr.com, dove troverete un vasto repository di programmi, suddivisi per: nome, categoria, autore, ecc, accompagnati da screenshot, recensioni e commenti. Questa è forse la novità più interessante, il fatto cioè ti poter navigare tra i software, come in un negozio on-line. Insomma un progetto interessante, soprattutto per gli utenti alle prime armi. Il fatto è che, essendo ancora in beta, CNR potrebbe creare conflitti con i package manager installati di default nelle distribuzioni. C'è inoltre un po' di confusione tra i prodotti commerciali e quelli liberi. Il problema di compatibilità ha sempre afflitto il panorama delle distribuzioni Gnu/Linux fin dalla sua nascita, resta però da vedere se sia questa la via giusta. CNR si dovrà fare strada tra colossi del calibro di APT, YUM e YaST.

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First, whether you're new to (or even just curious about) openSUSE or have been "having a lot of fun" for a decade, you can join in YaST Smash Friday. This is an effort to clean up the SUSE bug database related to the openSUSE system administration tool, YaST.

As Zonker Brockmeier says:

Join us on #openSUSE-Factory from 09:00 to 18:00 CEST. We’ll be
going through the Bugzilla and reviewing YaST bugs to see which bugs
are still valid, gathering information about existing bugs, and
generally paring down the bug count to help developers focus on the
most crucial problems.

Anyone can participate — you don’t have to be a developer or power user to join in, just point your browser at the openSUSE Bugzilla,
log in (be sure to create an account if you don’t have one already) and
start searching for bugs against YaST. Help verify bugs that are in
Bugzilla, and help close bugs that have already been fixed.

If you have a lot of time to help, you can install an old version of openSUSE and confirm the existence of bugs in the old version. If not, see if you can reproduce them in your current version. Even if you can't do it today, it's always bug smashing season.

Now if you have a little more experience with openSUSE, a call went out this week for more helpers on the #openSUSE IRC channel. This is one place where people can go for real-time help with openSUSE problems. Although I'm still getting used to IRC, I'm trying to monitor the channel a little more in Konversation (which conveniently starts the channel by default).

So let's all try to help each other, and openSUSE generally!

Sun está aumentando sus esfuerzos para lograr que las empresas que desarrollan para Linux usen más Java. Para ello quiere remover los últimos obstáculos que impiden que Java sea completamente Open Source y está acercándose a distribuciones Linux como OpenSUSE, Ubuntu y Fedora para que incluyan su última versión de OpenJDK.

"Todas esas distribuciones no han tenido todavía una implementación completa de OpenJDK", afirmó Rich Sands, ejecutivo de Sun.

OpenJDK está basado en el Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (JSE) y aunque el proceso comenzó hace unos años todavía algunos componentes que no pueden ofrecerse bajo la licencia GNU GPL, como librerías de encriptación, librerías gráficas, la máquina de sonido y algún código para administración de SNMP. Estos componentes corresponden al 4% del total de la plataforma.

"Estamos tratando de poner a Java en lugares donde nunca ha estado todavía", dijo Sands. Los desarrolladores de Linux, sin un Java Open Source, han estado construyendo aplicaciones en lenguajes como C, C++ y PHP, afirmó.

Has consumer interest in the Mini-Note met your expectations thus far?

Honestly, the reaction has been beyond our expectations. It has far exceeded the most similar type of response in our history, which was the launch of the iPAQ. All the worldwide press coverage has surpassed the iPAQ reaction.

What can you say about sales?

I can’t go into many details. We are in the process of ramping up. We are trying to get things up as fast as we can. We are in a backlog situation and that is all I can say. We are selling as many as we can push out of the factory.

Why did you decide to offer the SUSE version of Linux? What about Ubuntu or Xandros?

We do know that, compared with other Linux offerings, it is not the most consumerish. We have a very strong relationship with Novel, so it was a quick-to-market strategy. We are working with Novel to take aspects of their OS and make it more consumer-friendly. I think the underlying OS is still a richer OS than we see on the consumer side. Obviously, you are going to see a lot of Linux offered. Our approach is that we want to have a solid foundation for Linux and we feel that Novel has a lot of enterprise types of features that consumers might not initially appreciate. In the long haul I think more people will expect more Windows-like performance with a friendly graphical user interface.

What is your take on the upcoming Intel Atom platform? Do you see it beating out VIA?

I think it’s too early to call a winner. HP is talking to both Intel and VIA and we are in the middle of this discussion. We will make a decision for future road maps in due time. In the same platform, we probably won’t offer both options. We will settle on one.

You can view the entire interview here: LAPTOP Magazine

I think the reason for picking Novell over Ubuntu is pretty weak, this statement:

In the long haul I think more people will expect more Windows-like performance with a friendly graphical user interface.

Is enough reason to go with Ubuntu vs.  Suse.  Ubuntu has shown itself over and over to be the most friendly Linux distro to Windows users.

Also I get the feeling from reading this that HP is going to drop VIA fast and quick when the Intel ATOM starts to ship.

All and all it is very good interview and eye opening to see how a major computer manufacture views the UMPC/Mini-Note wars that have begun recently..