• openSUSE

    A quick look at openSUSE 10.3 beta 2

    August 27, 2007

    I have just installed OpenSUSE 10.3 beta 2 on my desktop to see how its development is going on. I used the GNOME 1 CD installation. As usual, the installation was smooth, as I already noticed when I tried alpha 7. All the hardware was properly recognized and configured, with the exception of my Ralink RT 2570 wireless card, which was detected and identified, but was unable to negotiate a connection with my router, when I tried to configure it. However this time ndiswrapper was on the CD, so I was able to quickly set up my wireless card.   Installation and updates sources can be automatically added during the…

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  • openSUSE

    openSUSE italian translations

    August 12, 2007

    openSUSE.org now has now an Italian community translation team which will help in the translation of the openSUSE distribution into Italian. The team is composed by three guys (Alessandro Ruoso, Ezio Tonetto and Leonardo Miliani), coordinated by me.   I have just started a page on the openSUSE.org wiki, which can be accessed by clicking here. In this page further details on the activities of the translation team can be found.

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  • openSUSE

    OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 released

    August 5, 2007

    The seventh alpha release of OpenSUSE 10.3 was released, and I decided to try to install it using one of the novelties of this release: the 1 CD installation, which should provide a complete desktop system using a single CD as installation medium. There are two CD’s: one for KDE and the other for GNOME. Being a GNOME user, I tried the latter, which comes with GNOME 2.19.   The first evident novelty is the green bootsplash which immediately appears when booting from the CD. The whole artwork, from the desktop wallpaper to the applications splashscreens, has been redesigned and made green, the original colour of SUSE.   The installation…

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  • OpenFOAM

    OpenCFD released OpenFOAM 1.4.1.

    August 5, 2007

    OpenCFD, the well known developers of the OpenFOAM CFD code announced the release of OpenFOAM 1.4.1, an improved version of their code.   According to the announcement, which can be found here, the main new features of this release are:   Two new dynamic mesh solvers for incompressible flows, with SIMPLE/PISO/PIMPLE pressure-velocity algorithm. Mesh motion solvers extended to include velocity (as before) and displacement which are advantageous for periodic motion. A new numerical scheme (filteredLinear2). The adoption of OpenMPI-1.2.3 for parallel calculations, which replaces LAM. An improved tool to convert FLUENT meshes, which is now able to manage zones, boundary conditions and other features A conversion tool to export data…

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