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OpenELEC XBMC 12.1 and 3.0 adds support for Raspberry Pi

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not even a week ago we were talking about XBMC 1.12 and the significant improvement Raspberry Pi Linux and presenting and is now available the new version of OpenELEC, distribution based on Open Source media center with PVR function for recording content on smart TVs.

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OpenELEC 3.0.0 is served this way of developments brought XBMC 1.12 ‘Frodo’, along with those developers who have made the distribution. OpenELEC supports more hardware than ever , to highlight images dedicated to Pi and mediacenters Rasperry Arctic MC001 (which is distributed with this flavor of Linux).

In fact, one of the things that most developers seem to be proud of this distribution is its integration with XBMC , all thanks to a close collaboration with the XBMC team. OpenELEC is also proud to be the first distro on supporting XvBA (video acceleration via GPU from AMD).

You have all the data on OpenELEC 3.0.0 in the official announcement, while the project download page you will find the different installation images that are several because the system is tailored to the platform it will work , GPUs through the main market for listed Raspberry Pi and even Apple TV. A great example of the wisdom of the diversity of GNU / Linux.

Tags: Arctic MC001, Media Center, GNU / Linux, Launch, media center, OpenELEC, OpenELEC 3.0, Raspberry Pi, xbmc, XBMC 12.1, XvBA

XBMC 12.1: significant improvements for Linux and Raspberry Pi

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images XBMC 12.1: significant improvements for Linux and Raspberry Pi

After a month and a half of XBMC 12.0 lanzamienot comes the first major update: XBMC 1.12 . Among the improvements we must emphasize solving audio problems that appeared in the version of Linux after pause and replay a movie.

XBMC media player is one of the clearest examples of the success of the free software model. This is one of the media players and most popular content management market in fact have Android version, iOS, raspberry pi, Linux, Windows and OS X. To make matters worse we mention XBMCbuntu version , a customized version of Ubuntu that allows you to boot directly into XBMC interface.

The new version promises improvements XBMC 1.12, we highlight the most important:

Solve audio problems after pause and resume playback.
iPhone version 5 now uses the full resolution, full screen.
volume buttons on Android and Mac continue to run the native and the volume of XBMC.

Optimizing

player for Raspberry Pi, more efficient and better subtitle support.
6 on AppleTV iOS Support 2.
Additional support for Xbox 360 controllers.

Stability improvements

general.

ppa: team-xbmc/ppa .

Tags: 12.1, AMD, Android, ATV, ATV2, download, Download, Intel / NVIDIA, iOS, Linux, MediaCenter, OSX, OSX-x86-64, Raspberry Pi, Windows, xbmc

Upgrading to KDE 4.8 on openSUSE 12.1

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a week ago and one day it came out KDE 4.8, and although some distros already enjoy the update, for Arch Linux, Kubuntu 11.10 and even Mageia (and making!), in others the situation is somewhat different. For example, in Charkra are still debating whether to wait longer to prove that everything is stable, and WIN in openSUSE 12.1 , which is we’re going to talk now … So things are:

OS Upgrade to KDE KDE 4.8 on openSUSE 12.1

Surely

usual openSUSE users already know how things are done, so this article is written for everyone else. However, you must be very clear that although the methods described below are considered reliable, with results “stable” can threaten the stability of your system, so act under your responsibility .

That said, upgrade to the latest version of KDE in openSUSE 12.1 is very easy. Two steps:

Open the console and enter the following lines:

More like this has always been done with no problems. But this time it seems that there are problems , also missing a package yet, so you ought to reconsider whether or not it’s worth. If you’re like me, that you can not hang on, surely you meet the following setback, with its correct answer in bold :

Problem: qt4-0.1.0-14.1.2.x86_64 QtScript-libqt4 Requires = 4.7.4, But this can not be Provided Requirement

Solution 1: Following actions Will Be Done:
keep obsolete libqt4-4.7.4-19.6.1.x86_64
keep obsolete kdegames4-carddecks-default-4.7.2-3.1.2.noarch
keep obsolete libkdeedu4-data-4.7.2-2.1.2.noarch
Solution 2: deinstallation of qt4-0.1.0-14.1.2.x86_64 QtScript-
Solution 3: keep obsolete libqt4-4.7.4-19.6.1.x86_64
Solution 4: qt4-QtScript break by Ignoring Some of STI dependencies

seems that the package has not been updated and the best option for now is to get rid of it. The most visible consequences is that I had a script for Amarok stopped working (and if not why, a lot of chance).

But there is another matter more in the act if we want to stay, for example, without the great Icon-Tasks. During the dup , it is impossible to upgrade the package libqt4-devel-doc , so do not even intentéis. Ignoradlo and once the upgrade is finished, hand uninstall and reinstall . That’s it.

The only positive from this is that once all the components you have installed are in the new version, just update the system normally – sudo zypper up – to reach the final the releases of KDE 4.8 with all packs a day.

As you see, is very fine thing in openSUSE this time, so once again I recommend that reconsideréis. worth waiting a couple of weeks or even a month , nothing happens. But I think it is best to discourage it and explain that only discourage it … Because versionitis is sometimes like Isildur’s Bane (only know those who suffer .

OpenSUSE 12.1 KDE Experience

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This time we will not publish an analysis of openSUSE 12.1, as we do with your last version or other before that. The reasons are lack of time to write something on conditions, but also lack of need for it, among others. Is why this “microanalysis” focuses on the KDE edition of the distribution, I’ve been using since the day of its launch and testing much earlier.

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lack of need to publish a full analysis of openSUSE 12.1 is given because really is not necessary to repeat the usual : installation, desks, tools, performance, stability, etc.. For many internal changes to this openSUSE 12.1, for the user experience is virtually identical to that offered openSUSE 11.4, so the general feeling is that everything works just as well, maybe a little better . Broadly speaking, to update the software version numbers included, the above analysis it would in this case (for example, comes into play systemd, but the difference is not noticed anything at all).

However, openSUSE 12.1 presents an important development with the landing of one-I know-manicured 3/Shell GNOME that the lack of time has left me just try, if only to inform. Apologies to users of this desktop environment. To others, everything is as usual (or good).

Thus, the lack of time leaves me unable to write anything about GNOME 3/Shell the necessary pound me repeat once again what’s new in openSUSE 12.1 (do not miss this article if you have not read it) , many of which have not been proven, so I stick to my particular use of the machine (nothing unusual, quite common). But if all is said, do not you come? A decision to , of course, plus some advice from a more personal perspective than does a ANALYSIS to use.

starting point, openSUSE 12.1 is already installed on my two main computers , so that the system has not had a day of truce since its launch, when I installed it on my desktop ( Dual Core, 4 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5830), or a week ago when I got to the new version on the laptop (HP Pavilion dm3-1090-is, 4 GB of RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce G 105M).

installation in the desktop computer via DVD took me about 20 minutes, the laptop’s USB created from a Live CD did not reach the quarter-hour the whole process. In both cases everything went perfectly , and since then I have had no impact or minimal even to complain. The performance is excellent, stability as well. Only once I’ve cracked Nepomuk, by an error and fixed in KDE 4.7.3 (openSUSE 12.1 comes with KDE 4.7.2). And no problem with the notebook performance with Linux 3.1, the battery will as always (although I have not installed Windows 7 the difference was minimal at the time).

At this point I have to say, but not any good, if by now I trust to openSUSE, in addition to more specific reasons is because it is the best distribution time as to date and stable software , with significant difference (I have yet another computer running openSUSE 11.4 GNOME and will film). In fact, my machines have gone this year, and still are in some cases, Ubuntu 11.10 (eye, the whole family), Mandriva 2011, Mageia, Chakra, Linux Mint and many more, and none reach the level of quality openSUSE offers. Of course, left out of the equation to Debian 6, which gave the best GNU / Linux this 2011 a production environment, and Fedora, simply because I can not cover both RHEL and family and to me I have banned (for now).

I know what I may not like to drop around the world, because it seems that here each defending “their” distribution, but honestly not the case. At the moment I fail or lose openSUSE level compared to other alternatives, takes less time to make the leap that in writing this article. Either way, there are many tests, some very weak, it must be said, already published that give me reason, but there are also saying the opposite. I will recommend the Linux Action Show program, because it’s the best review that you have given to openSUSE 12.1 (half from the video).

Of course, not everything is beautiful in this new version of the distribution, beginning with his graphic art, ugly (and I repeat most in this regard), as well as other small details that make the worst of openSUSE 12.1 :

True, Apper, KPackageKit replacement, is much better than its predecessor, but YaST have plenty . It’s faster, but more limited, and I could solve a conflict of dependencies. Unforgivable. In my opinion, would have to make do the applet and YaST integration with desktop tools PackageKit and get rid of as soon as possible and for all.

Today

not yet available Community ATI repository, which is also unforgivable, but does not affect me because for several versions use the free radeonhd driver , whose performance is significantly better on all health of the card (to play powerful titles may not be the best option, but it is not my case).

Although it may seem silly, Choqok where the hell is 1.2? I want it!

its best to date , and one of the best releases of the year in which distributions GNU / Linux is concerned, the best if we talk about KDE .