European Wafaa

Well the boys have been busy hacking away on Bongo, specifically on the "Remove-MDB" branch in SVN. Not only have 'El Presidente', 'Tubby Tucker', 'Mutton Man' and 'Hinky Convict' been busy with code but we have some eye candy! (Try and guess who's who )

Well as was expected, SUSE Linux 10.0 hits End Of Life this year (15th November to be precise). As such the OBS will most likely pull 10.0 from the list of available build targets. When that happens Bongo will not be available for that platform unless you build it yourself.

With the release of openSUSE 10.3 you will be able to install Bongo almost immediately after installation of your base system (possibly as you install your new machine with the final GM release). The server:mail repository is a preconfigured 'Community Repository' which means you can pull the latest Milestone release down and run with it The unstable packages in my own repository home:FunkyPenguin has got a 10.3 target and packages and you can add that if you wish to use the latest from SVN. I will get One-Click install sorted out soon, I'm just having fun playing with 10.3

After finding an old webcam kicking about I was determined to try it out on openSUSE 10.3. Problem was I didn't know of any apps to try it with, so I tried to install Cheese from one of the repos on the OBS or Packman/Guru no joy as no-one had packaged it

Not a major problem, it just meant I had to pull a finger out and do something about it myself. I had a few issues sorting out the dependencies, but jpr in #opensuse-gnome and mrdocs in #opensuse-buildservice amongst others helped to iron them out. I still need to sort out the .ymp files for the One-Click Install

So without further ado go and get it from my repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/FunkyPenguin/openSUSE_10.3/ Oh while I remember it might get moved into the GNOME:Community repo which is available for use by selecting the repo from the 'Community Repositories' in YaST

Whilst I'm on the subject of 10.3, I've been playing around with Banter and Giver and have found a few bugs (filed my first bug against a SUSE distro). Again the folk over on #opensuse-gnome were really helpful, it kind of makes me want to help more

So the guys and gals have been busy with openSUSE 10.3 creating a native GTk interface for YaST, much applause deserved as it is pretty good and fits in beautifully with the rest of Gnome. The only problem I've had is the fact that the package management GUI is so different to previous versions, that I struggled to use it.


It wasn't that it was bad or anything, it's just the change was pretty much all of a sudden. For a distro that does so much usability testing I would have thought this would have been picked up on, but maybe it's just me

Anyhoos thanks to benJIman I was able to get the GUI that I'm used to. I have installed 10.3 on three machines which all get used quite a bit, so I will be using the new GTK interface as well as the traditional QT one. IMHO it would be a shame not to use it as they spent so much time developing it, I fully intend to reverting to the GTK interface just not straight off. The steps taken to get the familiar UI back were:
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