Today I visited Reimand Gardens in Ames, where I could admire various beautiful butterflies in the fascinating Butterfly Wing, where, after a very nice explanation about the varieties of butterflies present in the garden, you can literally walk among butterflies flying around you and admire them in all their beauty. The garden offers also Peter Pan’s path for kids, where you can sit surrounded by a very pleasurable set of trees and flowers, and an external path, where you can admire the roses collection (still not visible due to the long winter of this year), a nice small lake, birds, and of course flowers. You can see the pictures I…
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openSUSE 11.0 – Beta 1
OpenSUSE 11.0 beta 1 was released today, and it’s available through the openSUSE site. All openSUSE users are invited to test it, with particular care about the installer, the package manager and the audio system, which now implements PulseAudio. The most annoying bugs are reported here. Note: If you use VirtualBox, there’s a simple fix to be able to use the X server. At the end of the installation, the system will present a text based login screen. As reported by Benjamin here, it’s enough to login as root and use these commands to fix X configuration: sax2 -m 0=vesa rcxdm restart
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openSUSE 11.0 Italian translations
The first openSUSE translation round started on April 1st, and as always since Novell opened the translation process, it involves a lot of openSUSE users and volunteers that provide high quality translations of the 179491 strings required to localise openSUSE, and make openSUSE accessible to more people. Since the beginning of open translation at Novell, the number of languages added to the distribution grew significantly, including many minor ones, as it can be seen from the list of translation teams which reports 57 teams for the development versions of openSUSE, This year a new and powerful instrument to manage translation, POAT, was added thanks to Gabriel, who developed it and…