Thanks to the magic of the openSUSE build service, mintMenu is now available on SLED, openSUSE, Mandriva 2010, and Fedora (12 & 13).

mintMenu 5.1.6 on openSUSE 11.3

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I installed Fedora to troubleshoot an issue with mintmenu.  I have to say that F13 runs pretty well right now.  That’s the thing about Fedora, sometimes it runs like a dream and sometime it will eat you children (or at least the pictures of your children).  Fedora has a sweet spot in development that comes right around the time that the next version is in alpha or beta.  It appears that F13 has hit that spot, so if your still on F12 waiting, now is a good time to upgrade.

I reinstalled openSUSE this weekend on a different partition, but I’ll keep Fedora around for testing.

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Today we’re getting a trailer hitch installed on our vehicle.  Total out the door with wiring, hitch, receiver, and ball is less than $400.  But the savings in the long run mean that when I we get a second car, it does not have to be a truck.   You see, we also bought a 5×10 trailer yesterday,  so we can haul whatever we need to haul (and owning a new house in AL, that will be a lot).  It means I can go with something smaller and more fuel efficient.   I’m still morally opposed to buying anything from GM or Chrysler, so it’s still Ford or foreign, although Saturn may be an option since Penske owns them instead of GM.

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OpenSUSE 11.3 is shceduled to launch on 15 July 2010. Unfortunatly that’s 3 days after we move into the new house in Montgomery, AL. Network connectivity will still be uncertain, If all else fails I can always download the live CD to my driod, and copy it off of the microSD card. I bet Verizion would love that.

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On October 26th 2010, mintMenu 5.1.6 was released.  The repos have been updated to reflect this.  Please see and comment on the new post.

Thanks to the magic of the openSUSE build service, mintMenu is now available on SLED, openSUSE, Mandriva 2010, and Fedora (12 & 13).

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Recently, I contributed user agent switching to the Arora Browser. It has been added to git master. If you’re using openSUSE 11.2, you can get the latest git from my OBS repository.

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So you love the Fedora bleeding edge, but like the LinuxMint feel.  Well you can step a little bit closer to that goal with the mint menu ported to Fedora.

First if you just want the menu, you can use these pre-packaged RPMs:

I’ve changed the packages to noarch, so if you have previously installed from here, remove the old one before installing,

Update: Added support for the uninstall context menu item

http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu-4.9.1-6.fc12.noarch.rpm

http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu-4.9.1-6.fc12.src.rpm

http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu.spec

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Happy Thanksgiving every one!  I got up early this morning to start baking the bread for our meal this evening.  It will include:

• Turkey, brined and roasted (thanks Good Eats)
• Butter dipped dinner rolls
• Mashed potatoes
• Sweet potatoes
• Green bean casserole
• Corn Pudding
• Pumpkin pie
• Apple Pie

Everything is home made except for the french fried onions on the green bean casserole.  Additionally, we had some pumpkin pie filling left over, so we made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.

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I finished my look at OpenSUSE 11.2 today.  When I started, I had high hopes for it, I’ve run OpenSUSE as my primary desktop before and there are things in SUSE that are just missing on any other distribution.  So what was the good, the bad, and the ugly of OpenSUSE?  Keep reading to find out.

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OpenSUSE will be releasing version 11.2 tomorrow.  In preparation fro writing an OpenSUSE 11.2 review, I’m installing 11.1 in a virtual machine so that I can do a side by side comparison.  OpenSUSE is the free arm of Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution.  With long release cycles (11.1 came out in December 2008), it offers enterprise like stability to home users and enthusiasts. The are also a big contributor to KDE, an alternative desktop environment that I personally prefer to the standard Gnome that comes with most distributions.

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