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Category: OpenSUSE

  • OpenSUSE 12.1 drops Sun/Oracle Java

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    Today, openSUSE Program Manager Andreas Jaeger announced that openSUSE will stop shipping Sun Java in the upcoming 12.1 release. Distribution users will now only be offered the GPLed openJDK. In a recent announcement, Oracle declared openJDK to be the new official reference implementation for Java SE7. Along with that move, Oracle dropped the “Distributor’s License…

  • Horde Project pushes libraries to the frontpage

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    As you might know, the horde project does not only release a set of production quality software (and an interesting bunch more which are not yet release quality) but also provides over 80 well-designed loosely coupled libraries which help you build websites, business applications or even commandline tools. To stress that point, the Horde Project…

  • Quote of the Day: Sleeping

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    Only sleeping really saves energy, not doing work slowly. Kay Sievers on OpenSUSE Factory. This was meant to describe computer power saving strategies but applies to human brains, too.

  • OpenSUSE Build Service rebranded

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    Today the openSUSE project announced that their packaging solution OpenSUSE Build Service will be re-branded to highlight the crossplatform nature of the product. The new name of the platform will be Open Build Service (OBS). Commercial support will also be available soon. Ralph Dehner, CEO at B1 Systems GmbH noted: “In the past B1 Systems…

  • Horde 4 submit-requested into OpenSUSE 12.1

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    Today I submit-requested the Horde 4 Application Framework and the stable apps for openSUSE Factory. This is becoming openSUSE 12.1 if the packages get accepted on time. They are currently in review. openSUSE Legal team wants to review all packages’ licensing – I’m sure that’s NOT the fun part of their job. If everything works…

  • Howto: Packaging 3rd party pear channel software with %php_pear_gen_filelist macro

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    The %php_pear_gen_filelist macro, maintained by Christian Wittmer, is really handy for packaging php pear software packages. It generates rpmlint-happy filelists and if you manage to get the dependencies right, packaging pear stuff for rpm is really a no-brainer. But the standard recipe for using this macro has one drawback: It’s ignorant of installed 3rd party…

  • Horde 4 Alpha 1 released (pear)

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    Yesterday the horde project released alpha versions of Horde Framework 4 and the Groupware apps (Notes, Calendar, Email, Filter,Address Book, Tasks) I did a test drive and they basically work. IMP has been improved a lot and now integrates the mobile and ajax interface versions which came as separate apps in Horde 3. DIMP (Ajax…

  • Warning: Updates from OpenSUSE 11.3 to 11.4 may fail (liblzma0)

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    OpenSUSE 11.4 repositories have just opened for downloading, official release will be this week. Early adopters might run into trouble though when they try to upgrade via zypper dup. You may end up with the following error: Entfernung von (17419)libmodman0-0.4.3-1.5.x86_64(@System) fehlgeschlagen: Fehler: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: rpm: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.0: cannot…