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What is openSUSE?
Floor Wax:
• openSUSE the distribution
Dessert Topping
• The openSUSE Community
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What Can You Do with YaST?
•Install
•System Administration
•Package Management
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openSUSE and KDE
•Long History Together
• Many shared developers
• Long the default desktop
•KDE: Also Schizophrenic
• KDE: No longer an acronym/initialism
• Software Compilation/Collection and Community
•Current Development Gap
• 3-month difference in release dates
– openSUSE 11.3 and KDE 4.4
– openSUSE 11.4 and KDE 4.6
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KDE 4: New Technologies
•Phonon: Sound and Video
•Solid: Hardware and other devices
•Nepomuk: Metadata and the Semantic/Social Desktop
•Akonadi: Personal Information Management
•Plasma: Desktop Environment
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The Plasma Desktop
•It pretty much works now, really!
•Desktop Tour
• Panels
• Widgets
• Folder View
• The Cashew
•Activities
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KDE: Key Applications
•Dolphin and Konqueror
•Kontact PIM
•Konsole
•Kate
•KRunner
•Krusader
•KOffice
•Amarok
•KDevelop
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openSUSE Build Service
•New in v1.2 (released 10/19/2010)
• Enhanced Web Interface
• Git and SVN Integration
• Better access controls
•How Does It Work?
•Demo
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Community Membership
•“Acknowledged contributors who have brought a
continued and substantial contribution to the project”
•Members sign the Guiding Principles
https://users.opensuse.org/guidingprinciples
•Members are confirmed by openSUSE Board
•Members elect board majority
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The Strategy for openSUSE
•Still coming
•Latest Draft, at 2nd
annual openSUSE Conference:
https://lite.co-ment.com/text/lNPCgzeGHdV/view/
•“openSUSE users are looking for an easy and comfortable
computing experience which does not limit their freedom
of choice, offering sane defaults and easy configuration.”
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What's Next?
•Version 11.4 currently scheduled for March 2011
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The Inevitable Links Page
•OpenSUSE: en.opensuse.org
• Install Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wrk9LA7P-Ck
•Docs: rtfm.opensuse.org
•KDE: www.kde.org
• Themes and such: www.KDE-Look.org
• Applications: www.KDE-Apps.org
• User training: userbase.kde.org
• KDE Tech: techbase.kde.org
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The Inevitable Links Page, Part II
•OpenSUSE Build Service: build.opensuse.org
• Tutorial:
en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial
•Community and Strategy Discussion
• Member Directory:
https://users.opensuse.org/membership/list
• Lizards (Member blogs): http://lizards.opensuse.org/
• Strategy Portal: en.opensuse.org/Portal:Strategy
•Mike McCallister: www.michaelmccallister.com
• Notes from the Metaverse: metaverse.wordpress.com
• Email: michael@michaelmccallister.com
• SocNets: WorkingWriter