• openSUSE

    A quick look to openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 – GNOME

    February 28, 2008

    I have just gave openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 a try installing it in a virtual machine. I used the GNOME single CD. Here there are my first impressions: The installer improved significantly, with a lot cleaner workflow. There are some minor problems, mainly cosmetical, like popups in the top-left corner instead than centere, but in general it worked like a charm and in 20 minutes I had openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 installed in my virtual machine. The desktop appears identical to the one of openSUSE 10.3, just with the PulseAudio icon in the notification area. The gnome main menu didn’t react to clicks on its button. The only way to…

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  • CFD

    Contours plots with gnuplot

    February 27, 2008

    Working in CFD, I often have to create contours plots starting from rough data in a text file generated by in house codes. This can be easily accomplished using gnuplot. Here you can see a simple example of what you can do. Being an openSUSE user, I will explain how to install gnuplot on this distribution, but the instructions to generate contours plots are absolutely general. The installation of gnuplot on openSUSE 10.3 is straightforward. Just use the 1-click install link available here, and follow the procedure shown by the installer. Gnuplot requires the data to be saved in a text file organized in one of the two following ways:…

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  • openSUSE

    openSUSE news!

    February 14, 2008

    OpenSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 release was recently announced. The development and testing are going on, and openSUSE 11.0 is candidate to be a nice openSUSE release.  Here there are the most important new features introduced in this release KDE 4.0.1 GNOME 2.21.90 Linux 2.6.24 OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta Alsa 1.0.16rc2 D-Bus 1.2rc2 Recently some mockup for the new openSUSE 11.0 look have been proposed on the openSUSE wiki, and they look very cool! Give them a look here. Another important novelty from the openSUSE community is the possibility to apply for membership for all the users who are making continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. You can find more…

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