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PestaBlogger 2007 : Blogger Party, OpenSUSE and Celebrity Violin Player

opensuse 10.3 CDIndonesian Blogger Party was finally over at Saturday, October 2007, but please let me told some useful stuff while attended this event.

I’ve some community membership as my identity to go to the party but probably I primarily well-known as Indonesian OpenSUSE community representation :-) , so I take this moment as an opportunity to bring the OpenSUSE mission :-) .

I contacted Mr Adinoto a week before the party will be held. I told him about the opportunity to distributed free OpenSUSE CD-as he mentioned at his blog-into party audience. He agreed with this plans and tried to make a CD package with pre-printed logo.

2 days before the party, I contacted the party chairman and told him about this project. I asked him to preserve any misunderstanding due to the list of party sponsors. Microsoft Indonesia is one of the main sponsors and I don’t want to break the party with this mission. The chairman answered me that it would be difficult situation and he asked me to understand his position. Okay, no problem. The chairman is well-known independent blogger and I respected him so much.

I told Adinoto to cancell the mission. Mission incomplete ;-)

OpenSUSE T-shirtBut, wait… We are a blogger, as usual. We could take another way without break the party. We still brings a lot of OpenSUSE CDs into the party but we aren’t officially included this CD as a gift for the party audience.

I came to the party about 1 hour before it will be opened. After met with Adinoto at the reservation room, I and Adinoto’s team take this moment to getting started, distributed OpenSUSE CD. Talk to any bloggers, said about one-two words and give him/her the CD. Guerilla tactics :-D .

Adinoto teams make a great approach. They were distributed the CD while opening ceremony :-D . Most of the audience got the CD and seems quite happy with the CD. One or two asked about the OpenSUSE and it sound interesting to know that they’ve heard about OpenSUSE in the past.

Mission Completed :-D .

How about the relationship between party, OpenSUSE and celebrity violin player ? This is the last one. Yanarief Purwanto helped me to take the photo, me and Maylaffayza, a celebrity blogger and well-known violin player with beautiful face, yet elegant appearance, and pure heart. She is also known as "Indonesian Vanessa Mae" ;-) . Thanks for the photos, Maylaff, best regards from Zeze Vavai and My Wife.

This is another photo of Maylaffayza and it would make sense that the bloggers always gave an applause if the camera or projector shoot her.

Photos credited to Adinoto and Yanarief Purwanto

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KDE4 Live Beta 3 Based on OpenSUSE 10.3


How do you think about KDE4 preview ? A LiveCD KDE4 based on OpenSUSE 10.3 has been launched just a few moment. The iso CD contains all modules of KDE 4, KOffice 2 SVN and extra plasmoids. The iso CD build up with KIWI, so, it’s very easy to run in environment testing.

How to test the KDE4 Live Beta 3 ? Download the iso CD, Decompress and burn, or use in virtual PC, such as Qemu, VirtualBox and VMWare.

Use this user :
‘linux’ as standard user
‘root’ as root user

Both user have no password

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Battle of the Titans : PCLinuxOS 2007, Ubuntu 7.10, OpenSUSE 10.3 and Mandriva 2008

battle of the Linux DesktopI doubt that this is so much of a biased opinion but please read this article just like as a comparison table only. Don’t take it personally. Whatever the distro at the top of minds, it’s all about Linux ;-) .

After consistently get the rank # 1 in the Distrowatch Page Hit Rank (PHR), finally, Ubuntu position has been overtaken by PCLinuxOS. PCLinuxOS finally managed to bump Ubuntu from the top of the list since July 2007. Off course, Distrowatch PHR actually is not the one and only in terms "Linux Distro Rank Provider". There is a Google Trends that provided a different chart about Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS popularity.

By personal experience, PCLinuxOS 2007 works out-of-box with a very nice Live CD, 3D support with less configuration and superior in desktop environment.

How about Ubuntu ? Ubuntu and its variants provided same results with the different way. With apt-get features and great community supports, Ubuntu still have an advantage for newbie user, area where PCLinuxOS focused their market share.

Another battle of the Titans are OpenSUSE 10.3 and Mandriva 2008. I take it from the article at tuxmachines.org, Battle of the Titans: Mandriva 2008 vs openSUSE 10.3, The author, Susan get the conclusion that Mandriva 2008 defeated OpenSUSE 10.3 by 4-2 final score. As OpenSUSE loyalist since 1999, I would disagree with Susan’s conclusion, especially with the Installer and Software Management review but I think her review not that bad either. It’s a good review and Susan tried to give a balance comparison.

What the advantages of this battle ? The advantages is the facts that Linux Desktop reasonably more mature, offering fairly polished and stable desktops. If we talked that PCLInuxOS superior in works out-of-box, radically simple as their motto; Ubuntu known as distro with great community support; OpenSUSE known as beautiful desktop and new technology introduction and Mandriva get their popularity as an easier Linux to use for everyone; we only need a few moment that all of advantage will be provided by all of distros and we will happy with this situation.

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