Christoph’s Blog

Success! I surprisingly found a nice little apartment here in Nuremberg today. It’s nothing special, just 33 sqm, kitchen, bath and a living room/bedroom/workroom. The cool part about it: It’s only 400 m away from the “Maxtorhof” (aka. office ;)) and the WiSo (university). Oh, and it offers a magnificent view of the castle. Tomorrow I’ll sign the lease and get the keys… well, the only thing that bothers me, is the high fee for the estate agent. But I guess I have to bite the bullet.

Besides that, we added three new mailing lists @openSUSE.org today: opensuse-packaging, opensuse-doc and opensuse-wiki.

We finally managed to reach a consensus on the locked/unlocked pages on openSUSE.org. Having said that, I just had the pleasure to announce the opening of three central pages: Download, Communicate and How_to_participate. However, some pages will remain locked. If you have change requests for those pages, please use the dicussion function on that very pages or refer to the opensuse-wiki mailinglist…

Which leads me to the second topic: Introducing new mailinglists @openSUSE.org. To advance communication/discussion on certain topics, we are about to establish additional mailing lists. At the moment we are having opensuse-testing, opensuse-packaging, opensuse-doc and opensuse-wiki in mind, but as always we are open to your suggestions. Please feel free to join the discussion now…!

So much for that. On Saturday I eventually got accepted at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg to set off to study information systems (IS) next semester (which is starting this October). Therefore I had to travel to Göttingen to leave university there (where I had enrolled as a precaution) and drive back to Nuremberg this morning. Now I’m looking forward to finding a new apartment and enter university soon. Oh, and I’m very happy to get the opportunity to continue working for Novell/SUSE as a working student… ;)

For those of you who haven’t noticed yet, we released SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS RC1 a few days ago - I was just too busy to blog about it… ;) Today I was looking at the download statistics of ftp.gwdg.de which were absolutely overwhelming! RC1 already generated more 4 TB download traffic. Thanks Eberhard for making this possible!

After having had a relaxing time on vacation in Göttingen one week ago, the last week was very stressful. There were still some really nasty bugs around, that are getting fixed right now ;) Unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to participate in some very interesting dicussions on the openSUSE mailinglists as much as I would have liked, but that will hopefully change within the next weeks.

Besides working on SUSE Linux and openSUSE I will have to find a new apartment here in Nuremberg, as I’ll stay here to continue working for SUSE and entering University in October. So, there’s lots of fun ahead ;)

That’s it for now, have a great weekend everyone and keep on testing SUSE Linux - the upcoming release will definitely be the best SUSE Linux ever!

As you all know, Thursday is openSUSE day: Adrian just released SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta4 codenamed “Provo”. Because it will take some time until our mirrors catch up, we recommend the usage of BitTorrent to get the ISO images! These are the available torrents:

• SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta4.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-beta3_beta4.delta.iso.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-Beta4.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-beta3_beta4.delta.iso.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-ppc-Beta4.torrent

If you already have Beta3 ISOs, you just need to download beta3_beta4 Delta ISOs to be able to turn those Beta3 ISOs into Beta4.

Just in case you are unable (or just too lazy) to use BitTorrent, browse to http://download.opensuse.org to download the ISOs directly.

That’s it for now, have a lot of fun…

After some very busy days last week and a painful Beta3 release (don’t ask for details ;)), I’m on vacation to Göttingen this week. However I couldn’t resist to install Beta4 on my laptop, when I saw the internal announcement. Except for a really nasty bug (#103031), the installation went pretty well! Now it’s time to go through all the applications that I like to use to check if they still work as expected.

Bye the way, did anyone find the way to “reproduce” the Easter egg on the installation disks AJ was talking about the other day? I was thinking of giving away one of those green openSUSE hats, that I brought over from LWE, to the first one who sends me a “how to reproduce”… How about that? ;)

Alright, time to sleep(21600);