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January 30, 2008

Stephen Shaw
no nic
Decriptor's Blog
» Fixing my Macbook pro’s Sound

I’m running OpenSUSE 10.3 on my macbook pro that I picked up last semester. I had some problems getting my audio working for one reason or another, but finally got it. The easiest way I found was to grab the next release of alsa. By default opensuse 10.3 ships with version 1.0.14. Updating it to alsa 1.0.15 did the trick.

No guarantee that this will work, just that it did for me.

Some Details:

lspci output
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Yast:
82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller

My new current driver:
rpm -qa alsa
alsa-1.0.15.hg20080116-1.1

Here is the 1-click to add the repo and install the latest alsa.

1 Click alsa

Big Thanks to James Ogley, Now that I have a fish I just need to learn to fish :)

by sshaw at 12:05 AM under 10.3 , alsa , blog , opensuse , sound (Comments)
December 19, 2007

Stephen Shaw
no nic
Decriptor's Blog
» OpenSuSE 10.3 review with an interest Con

On Linuxtoday.com, there is an article with an OpenSuSE 10.3 review.  Out of interest I clicked on the link and started looking at the article.  From the article:

“in the latest 10.3 release, specific support for a Linux/Windows dual-boot setup, enabling both operating systems to be installed on the same PC.”

Unless I missed something, didn’t know we didn’t have specific support for dual-boot setups :)  Good thing it was added it in this release :)

Other than that it seems to be a decent simple review.  But the thing that jumped out the most was the listed Con.

“Cons It’s not Windows”

Call me crazy, but I list this as a pro :P

by sshaw at 7:48 AM under 10.3 , blog , linux , opensuse , reviews (Comments)
November 10, 2007

=Utah Open Source=
Utah Open Source
The Utah Open Source Foundation
» One Last Reminder - MDRP Today!

If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or ignoring posts lately, this is a good time to read.  Later today will be the Multi-Distro Release Party. Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon), Fedora (Werewolf) and OpenSUSE (10.3) will be available via network install.  CDs and DVDs for all three distributions, and possibly others, will also be available.  Come and enjoy the festivities!

Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday (Today!), November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MDT
What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
The Utah Open Source Foundation, Open Source for Utah, and the world!

by herlo at 12:25 PM under 10.3 , community , events , fedora , gutsy , install , installfest , meetings , multi-distro , network , openbsd , opensuse , party , pizza , release , ubuntu , werewolf (Comments)
November 2, 2007

Clint Savage
herlo
Sexy Sexy Penguins » Tech
» Please define “Distribution”

As some of you may know, I am the founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation.  On November 10, we’ll be holding the Multi-Distro Release Party, and I planned on sharing Fedora (of course), OpenSUSE and Ubuntu.  Its the only Multi-Distro Release Party going on that I know of, but I could be wrong.  If you live in Utah, you should come, it’ll be a blast!

The point of this post is to ask a simple question, however.  During the promotion of this event, I’ve received suggestions beyond the three big versions of Linux that are being released close to one month from each other.  For example, OpenBSD will be release soon, and Apple released Leopard for Mac OSX, among others.  And while every operating system is welcome to participate in the MDRP, I can’t help but wonder about certain definitions.

My question is what counts as a distro?.  I mean how do you classify yourself as a distro?  Is it a Linux only thing?  Or, is it just Open Source OSes?  Maybe its nothing, and I’m just bringing this up for no good reason.

Your comments are appreciated and encouraged.

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 6:11 PM under 10.3 , fedora , gutsy , linux , multi-distro release party , opensuse , passion , rants , release party , releases , tech , ubuntu , werewolf (Comments)