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Testing “Scratch” – the easy programming language
Some german teacher point me to “Scratch” a few weeks ago. This week, I tried to create a package for openSUSE. The good news: Ubuntu people already tried to package scratch for debian – but they use a...
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Writing wrapper packages for server applications or a generic YaST module?
As we get more and more PHP-, Perl- and other applications like openSIS, Koha, Moodle, … in the Education repository, the question turns up, how to package those applications “the right way”. A normal...
View ArticleLinking Buildservice packages with exact revisions
During the “cleanup” of the HP-Education repository, I used a very interesting feature of the openSUSE Build Service: linking against revisions. Sometimes, you want to patch a package from another...
View ArticleWhy the Buildservice is currently not for endusers
Everytime, when I hear people rendering homage to the openSUSE Build Service as “nice tool for endusers to get packages”, I’m a bit confused. From my point of view, the Build Service in it’s current...
View ArticleopenSUSE-like update repositories for third party projects
Starting with 11.0, the openSUSE-Education project hosts it’s own, separate update repository. This is our solution for the strategic decision not to use the openSUSE Build Service as repository for...
View ArticleLow bandwith for openSUSE-Education
Since July 2008, there’s a known problem with the sponsored server hosting the frozen openSUSE-Education repositories: our provider limits the bandwith for up- and downloads if more than 1 TB data is...
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Easy live upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1
Today I tried a new way to do a live upgrade with one of my machines from 11.0 to 11.1. In the end, it takes nearly 1 day, because I had to download nearly 3,2 GB software (puh!) – but for me it was...
View ArticleopenSUSE-Education Live Media including official updates
Currently, the openSUSE-Education team is “playing” with the new features of the external build service. As a first result, we’re proud to announce our new live/installable DVD! This DVD includes: the...
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My openSUSE-Education Community Week Report
The openSUSE Community Week is over now and the openSUSE-Education Team participated with great success. The review of our simple generic schedule containing just the times where Team members hanging...
View ArticleSending Proxy Settings via DHCP
It’s a bit “overdressed” for my little homenet, but playing around with DHCP, DNS and YaST is always interesting…. My DHCP Server at home is configured to use LDAP – and I’ve done the configuration via...
View ArticleEducation at OSC
Even if the last news from the Education project is just one month old, many people asked me during the openSUSE Conference why the Education project itself is currently so quiet. Well, the “problem”...
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