FreeATIdom

Posted on September 14, 2007 by

There was a lot of blogging about AMD/ATI releasing specs and such over the last week, the was an official press release last Friday. I’m really pleased that Novell could play such a big role in bringing this about. Extra kudos to our X guys Egbert, Stefan, Mathias (and others I’m probably missing) for banging out the driver double quick.

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GNOME Updates in the openSUSE Build Service

Posted on July 13, 2007 by

Maw and mauro have 2.19 rolling into Factory for openSUSE 10.3.

SInce that is happening, Stanislav has moved 2.18.x to the GNOME:STABLE channel of the build service. It should appear there in the next day or two.

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Security Usability

Posted on May 2, 2007 by

Bryan, another good paper

Other related presentations and publications

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OpenOffice Team Summit

Posted on April 18, 2007 by

Everyone on the Novell OpenOffice team got together last week at Novell office in Prague. I’ve been to Prague twice in the last 6 months now for conferences and both times its been great. Alena and Petra really know how to organize a conference. During the week we also found out what GSoC Project Slots OO received – Novell .is involved in mentoring 3 of the 10 projects as part of our upstream OO efforts. Lately Petr has been working on the OO build service in openSUSE as well.

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GNOME 2.18.1 and openSUSE

Posted on April 17, 2007 by

In keeping with our push to do more in openSUSE, maw has committed all of GNOME 2.18.1 to factory. Its started to show up now in the channels and the rest should appear over the next couple of days. Jump in and report bugs!

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Vacation Return

Posted on March 19, 2007 by

Returned from a nice holiday with the family, ready to go back to work. Sampled some “Americana” since I was in Myrtle Beach: southern barbecue, Fuddruckers. Finished off a couple of fiction books. Visiting Boston next week.

Firefox Fun: Looking through about:config the other day, I saw browser.search.openintab, hurray! Saves me from hitting Ctrl-T everytime I do a search.

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OpenSuSE and GNOME

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

The team at Novell responsible for GNOME have been quiet in openSUSE for sometime, even though we already have several great external contributors like James Ogley and Andreas Hanke and we’ve pushed in significant general technologies like Compiz/Xgl, NetworkManager and Beagle. All this is changing though, we’ve had an IRC channel for a while but we haven’t really advertised it (#opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net) and we have an opensuse-gnome mailing list as well now (sign up here).

Michael Wolf has been pushing in GNOME 2.17 in to Factory and the GNOME:UNSTABLE build service. There is also GNOME Team page if you are so inclined to get involved.

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