I started downloading SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1, intent on catching up with the state of the distro tomorrow. To begin with, the download was fast – 150-200kbps, so when I left for the Day out with Thomas event, I was sure that it would be finished when I got back.

Almost right.

The first 3.14Gb (out of 3.2Gb) came down pretty quickly, but now I’m staring at a stalled download, and have been for the last hour or so.

Stopping and restarting doesn’t help, so I suppose I’ll just have to wait for the last smidgen to get here. Bloody frustrating

OpenSUSE 10.1 gets ribbed in this article on OSNews . As Homer would say, it’s funny because its true. The last minute inclusion of the Zen updater instead of good old YAST and YOU is a mystery to me still.

This looks so sweet. You could say that it’s just eye candy, but it’s eye candy that uses the (mostly) redundant 3d hardware in modern video cards. The cube desktop looks a bit like 3D Desktop which I used for a while, but more complete. It hope it works nicely with the proprietary Nvidia driver for 3D but I suspect there’ll be some caveats there.

Link: NOVELL: Xgl

Sometimes, the pace of software developement in the Open Source world just blows you away. Today was one of those days. Firing up Akgregator, what should I see but Peter Rockal going from first test of Adept, through alpha, beta and release in less than a minute. Fantastic work Peter, I wish I could do the same and so does my boss and wife (two different people for now)
A slight update to blogging software might have something to do with this, but it amused me for a moment

Beagle, a Novell product that allows you to search through all the documents on your hard disk, including web pages, you’ve viewed, images, emails etc. has arrived. Looks a lot better than the original BEST search tool. Hopefully should arrive in Beagle 0.1.5.