Create a new Planet site, aggregating news stories from a variety of news sources. I give you Planet News – note the total lack of design on the site

OpenSUSE Governance.How are decisions that affect the direction of OpenSUSE development made? Should community members as well as Novell staffers be part of the Core Team? It’s all up for discussion.

A while ago there was some discussion on opensuse-edge about renaming that branch of the development tree. I suggested Factory. Today, the Edge branch was renamed to Factory. I’m really honoured to have contributed this small thing to the community.

Roger: Haaretz (pronounced: Ha-Aretz) means The Earth, or The Land (as in The Land of Israel). I don’t mention that for any other reason than to show off – I’ve been studying Hebrew

Got the latest Tango this morning, thanks to supplementary/GNOME, and it’s really shaping up well. Great to see a few more new icons each time I update. GNOME Power Manager is heading for a major release, and so I’ve updated the en_GB translation this morning.

Well, no. [Ref]The government has suffered a heavy defeat, losing by a margin of 322 to 291 on the plan to allow police to detain people for up to 90 days without charge. An amendment put forward by a rebel Labour MP setting the time limit at 28 days passed by a margin of 33 …

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Imagine that this post is on a black background to commemorate Hubert Mantel’s announcement that he is to leave SUSE. Hubert founded the company 13 years ago, and for a long time has been the maintainer of the kernel package. I owe Hubert a debt of thanks. Working for SUSE was the most enjoyable and …

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Stephan: Thanks for the info. You’re right in so far as I’ve never actually bought a copy of NLD So, I hadn’t realised it was a straight impartial choice at install time, however it always seemed to me that Novell preferred GNOME – whenever I saw screenshots produced by Novellians (and admittedly, primarily from the …

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So, the world’s been awash with talk of Novell “switching to GNOME“, so let’s clear some stuff up: It’s just on Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Now, NLD is Novell’s enterprise desktop product, I’m pretty sure it’s always used GNOME, because it has its roots in the period between Novell …

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Many thanks to radoeka for mentioning on the packaging list the answer to LenZ’s observation that Maximum RPM is seriously out of date. Maximum RPM’s apparent successor.