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Are you - like me - feeling uncomfortable with the new dumb interface of the YaST module devoted to the package management ?

Well, relax … you still can install the Smart Package Manager quick and easy ! Just open a shell with administrative rights and do:
zypper sa -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/smart/openSUSE_10.3/smart.repo
zypper ref smart
zypper install smart
Then you have [...]

The new release of openSUSE, the 10.3, is here.

I’ve just finished the download and I’m proceeding with the DVD burning … and then I’ll keep you informed on how it behaves on my Acer laptop.
If you like you can see some screenshots here and on the official announcement page.
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I’ve recently learned about the survey started from openSUSE guys regarding the desiderata of their community based on the most prominent feature of the distro.
I’ve talked about YaST many times in the past, so check that out and take the survey !
This survey is about YaST, the default installation and administration tool for all [...]

Did you see the new community project by the openSUSE team ?
A couple of days ago the openSUSE news has born to provide the latest openSUSE news to a wider audience mirroring the project’s most important announcements from the opensuse-announce mailing list, but opening them to the comment’s of people interested in them!
Happy reading.
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Have you already heard of YaSTRS ?
YaSTRS is a simple tool that easily allows picking YaST repositories and generates a shell script to add them on your local machine. It tries to be the same as easyurpmi for SUSE. In order to provide high quality database all mirrors are automatically validated on a regular basis.
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As you can see in the sidebar seems that my current “top post” is the one done last 21st of september regarding the first screenshot of the (then) forthcoming openSUSE 10.2

Since openSUSE 10.2 release date the post has attracted a lot of visitors resulting in a glorious boom of hits.
I take it as a good [...]

In the last four days i had a discrete amount of access to this blog from people searching for images of the new openSUSE release.
Well, to summon things up let me introduce you to the costantly useful work of Vichar on the promotion of openSUSE stuff. In this last week he has pointed us [...]

Thanks to an italian forum fellow on SUSEitalia.org I’ve acknoledged the fact that the Korean mirror of the openSUSE project has got freely accessible to the external world the torrent file for downlading the installation ISOs of the openSUSE 10.2 which is slated to be announced later today.
Andreas Jaeger, leader of the project, [...]

Today i’ve pointed my broser to the openSUSE project’s site to see if there were some updates on the release scheduleof the 10.2 release and some citation of the “hystorical” agreement between Novell and Microsoft.
What i did find was a restyled home page (in the image above, clearly) which welcomes the navigants. I do like [...]

Maybe a lit late i’d like to put in evidence the fact that openSUSE development team has finally released and spread all over their FTP mirrors the new, corrected ISO’s of the latest stable openSUSE Linux distribution, numbered 10.1.
Many openSUSE users had found enormous problems getting to work “right” their distro when using the [...]