New machine
Got the new machine from Novell Spain last week, a Dell Dimension 8300 P4 at 3,2 GHz,
with a TFT monitor, and a 5:1 speaker system on which music sounds like in heaven. I
took advantage of that to install SuSE 9 on it and on my laptop (where I was running Debian).
The only regression from my laptop+Debian is that the TFT monitor only supports 1240×960,
while I was running at 1600×1200 on the laptop, but my eyes are now happier since I use a smaller
resolution.
Apart from that, moving from Debian to SuSE was quite straightforward, specially after
installing Red
Carpet, which made me not miss apt-get at all. There is though much less
software available (both from Ximian and Open
Carpet) for SuSE than what there is in Debian unstable, but so far, all the
software I’ve needed, I’ve been able to install it, and without the pain I remember for my
use of RPM-based distros some years ago, when there was no software updating tool apart
from downloading RPMs and installing them by hand.
GNOME-DB
Andre has released version
1.3.5 of Papyrus,
a XML reporting engine for Linux. This new version is all driven by libgda, the GNOME Office data access
library.