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• Intel Atom N450 processor (1.66 GHz, HT enabled)
• 1 GB (1024 MB) RAM
• 160 GB HDD
• 10.1" LCD display (1024x600 resolution, fairly standard)
• 1.3MP webcam
• HP Synaptics Clickpad
• Broadcom 802.11g wireless
• 10/100 Ethernet
• Intel HD graphics (3100 I do believe)
  

• Most everything

• Wifi
• Touchpad

1. Connect to the internet via ethernet
2. Update the kernel-default package to the most current package. You can run zypper up or Yast Online Update or preferred update mechanism and just install all the updates as well.
3. Add the Packman repository
4. Install the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-default packages (must do both, or you will change your kernel to the debug kernel. Don't want that now...)
5. Reboot

1. Install kernel-source, make, and gcc
2. Update /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c and /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.h with the files in the attached zip: Desktop.zip
3. Using README.SUSE in the kernel source directory, configure, build, and install your custom kernel
4. Reboot
5. Voila, a working touchpad. No multitouch, but hey, like I said, openSUSE 11.3 will be working properly with this fancy touchpad.
   

There's a much better way to do this now. See my updated post here

I just packaged the pidgin-facebookchat plugin for openSUSE 11.0 and openSUSE 11.1 in my home project in the openSUSE Build Service. The package is called libpurple-facebook to be consistent with other packages.

Enjoy, and please let me know if there are any problems!

What is Geeko Gears? Simple: its a project to redo the build system of Google's open source Gears software.

Initial Goals:

1. Use autotools to create the Makefile


2. Link to system libraries instead of using internal ones


3. Allow to be built for all platforms openSUSE supports (32-bit, 64-bit, PowerPC)


4. Remain 100% API compatible with upstream

I got my openSUSE 11 box set today shipped to me! It's the free retail box contributors get.

I just got Twitux packaged for openSUSE 10.3, a twitter client for GNOME

One Click Link: Twitux

jpr noted on his blog that I've been interesting in integrating PackageKit into the distribution. This is one of my many goals for making openSUSE a better operating system than it already is.

Currently, I'm waiting for PolicyKit 0.5 and dbus 1.1.2 to get into the distribution. After that, we can write a zypp backend, test it, and send it upstream to PackageKit, since they want backends to be part of PackageKit themselves. Our various updaters can be replaced by PackageKit frontends, and Benji's One-Click Install can be simplified since it can use PackageKit to set up the repositories and install the packages, instead of a nasty hack of calling another yast module via a longish command.