Month: May 2011
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Quote of the Day: Sleeping
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.
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OpenSUSE Build Service rebranded
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…
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Horde 4 submit-requested into OpenSUSE 12.1
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…
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Howto: Packaging 3rd party pear channel software with %php_pear_gen_filelist macro
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…
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Horde Team announces RC1 of Horde Groupware 4.0
Since the release of Horde 4 and select applications, people kept asking for a new release of the popular Horde Groupware and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition bundles. Horde is now about to release such a bundle, which features new ajax frontends for calendaring, tasks and improved mobile frontend for mail. The new bundles will be…
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Latest, Greatest – B1 Systems and Horde LLC on LinuxTag – passwd unofficial H4 package
This weekend, I visited the LinuxTag exhibition in Berlin, both to support my company’s booth and to talk to the horde guys whose booth was just on the opposite side, allowing easy coordination. As a result, I adopted the passwd tool which hasn’t yet been released for H4. It’s been packaged for the SUSE server:php:applications…