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“When you’re done installing OpenSUSE 10.0, your desktop system is not
complete. You still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files,
and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer,
and Windows Media Video. You may also want to add support for playing
DVD videos on your computer. Here’s how to effectively make the open
source version of OpenSUSE 10.0 into SUSE Linux 10.0.”

Jem Matzan has written up a very very nice article on how to add the different plugins and codecs to SUSE Linux OSS 10.0, which enables support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video playback.

If you’re new to Linux, or just have been taring your hair out while trying to get those freaking Windows Media Video files to play, you should definitely check this little article out.

Jem has made his brilliant article available under a Creative Commons license, which I strongly applaud and encourage anyone else to do. Since allows people to redistribute his article, I’ve added it into the “Articles” section of my blog, in case this is just what you needed, but I REALLY wanna stress that I did not write it, I simply mirrored it for your convenience.

Link: The Jem Report – Hacking OpenSUSE

After two months of public beta testing, and bug reporting, the final version of SUSE Linux 10 is finally available!

You can either download a version that has some proprietary plugins like Flash, RealPlayer and Java included, or you can get the OSS version which is purely open source. I also wanna mention that if you choose to get the OSS version and feel like you need stuff like Flash, you can always add it in, there are YaST repositories for doing that.

SUSE Linux 10 is available for standard x86 machines, AMD64/EM64T and PowerPC. It includes over 4000 software packages, to name a few:

KDE 3.4.2
GNOME 2.12
Linux Kernel 2.6.13
GCC 4.0
glibc 2.3.4
X.Org 6.8.2
XEN 3 for Virtualization
Apache, CUPS, Samba, NFS, DHCP, DNS
Linphone 1.0*, Twinkle, kcall
BitTorrent, Ktorrent
Firefox 1.1, Konqueror
Evolution, Kontact, Thunderbird
Kopete, Gaim
OpenOffice.org 2.0
iFolder 3
GIMP 2.2, ARCAD, Inkscape 0.42
F-spot, gwenview, gthumb
Banshee, CD/DVD burner
Wifi Support, Bluetooth support
AppArmor lite 1.2, snort
SuSE Firewall, Virus scanner, Spam filter
Tellico, PostgreSQL 8.0, YaST module to setup PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1.13, Derby, sqlite
Mono 1.1.8, KDevelop 3.2, Eclipse 3.1.4

I plan to upgrade to SUSE Linux 10 later today, I have to finish the download of the images. Just as a final note, if you hate bringing down five ISOs, you can also do a network install where you boot the installation from a single CD and it just downloads the packages that you want during the installation, the reason I don’t do that is because I like having the ISOs sitting around in case a friend wants SUSE Linux 😉

You can download SUSE Linux 10 at opensuse.org

Happy Hacking! 😀

The industry’s two major office suites, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, will soon be releasing new versions. Recent research into these versions by large government departments indicates that for many sites, it is now 10 times cheaper to migrate to the new OpenOffice.org 2.0 than upgrading to Microsoft Office 12.

Cybersource, an open source services firm, believes that we have reached a tipping-point of great opportunity for OpenOffice.org and for the IT industry in general.

Thanks to excellent new features and through Microsoft’s poor decisions, OpenOffice.org has suddenly become the de-facto next-generation office suite to move to,” said Cybersource chief executive officer, Con Zymaris. “This is because OpenOffice.org is now more familiar to existing Microsoft Office users than Microsoft Office 12 is.”

What a surprise… not, with the current pricing of Micro$oft’s Office 2003, I don’t think they plan to lower the price for the next version of Office.
Meanwhile OpenOffice is available at openoffice.org for absolutely nothing.

For Your Consideration
Imagine a school purchasing 32 new computers after Office 12 are released, if they don’t go with Micro$oft for the office suite, they save about 200 dollars per machine, t hat’s a hell of money that could be spent on other things. Now let’s say that the school goes one step further and kicks Windows out, that saves them about 80 dollars per machine, include M$ Office in that and you have a saving of 280 dollars per new machine, and say the school purchased 32 new machines, that makes for a total saving of 8960 dollars per machine.

Link: Computerworld Singapore – Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12

“Timothee ‘TTimo’ Besset from id Software confirmed officially that the next sequel of the Quake series, Quake IV will be released for the Linux platform.
The dedicated server will be released around the same time as the Windows version. The linux client, might be delayed a week or two. Quake4 will use the Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) backend for input and OpenGL on Linux.”

I only have one thing to say: I LOVE YOU ID SOFTWARE!!!

I’ve always loved the Quake series, it’s been one of my favourite PC games for years and years. I really enjoy playing Quake 3 at LAN parties, and what I really love about it, is that it has a native Linux version, and I’m very very happy to see that the long awaited Quake 4 will have that as well.

By the way, to you FreeBSD users out there, I think you guys are invited to this party as well! 😉

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