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I generally don’t do a “cut and paste” blog from other people’s blogs, but this is *really* cool.

And I will not arrive empty handed. Of late I have been playing with FUSE. For the kids, I wrote beaglefs:

$ ./beaglefs joey ./query

$ ls ./query 14-38-39.jpg 2005-02-25.191427.txt img_0931.jpg img_1789.jpg 2004-10-14.112903.txt 2005-02-28.114211.txt img_0983.jpg img_1818.jpg 2004-10-29.122217.txt 2005-03-07.114103.txt img_1358.jpg img_2506.jpg 2004-11-01.112509.txt 2005-03-08.115321.txt img_1359.jpg img_2507.jpg 2004-11-05.140919.txt 2005-03-11.140838.txt img_1360.jpg img_2518.jpg 2005-02-03.120233.txt img_0179.jpg img_1768.jpg wolf.txt

$ ls -la query/img_1358.jpg lrwxrwxrwx 1 rlove users 60 2006-06-23 17:50 query/img_1358.jpg -> /home/rlove/images/nyc_20041210/img_1358.jpg $ fusermount -u query/

Mount a Beagle query as a filesystem. The filesystem contents are symlinks to the hit results (if curious, the images match via F-Spot tags). Imagine the possibilities!

Very cool. Good work rlove!

Looks like Francisco Martinez is doing some interesting work making Windows and Visual Studio play nice with Mono. I don’t use VS or Windows but I’m hopeful that this will make it easier for Windows users to contribute to Mono / Open Source projects.

I came across this link when googling for “utah linux” - result #6. They are things I said last year at about this same time.

I’m 90% sure I’ll be a SuSE user in the next year or two.

It’s been a year and I’m still a Fedora Core user. I’m pretty stoked about FC5. If Novell pushes XGL outside of NLD, I just might change for that alone.

TOP 10 REASONS I’LL USE SuSE “IN A YEAR OR TWO”: (based on what Novell has done *and* wishful thinking):
0) They are the only “local” distro - unless you count SCO (according to them *ALL* distros are belong to them and are therefore local :)).

Too bad SCO is still here :(

1) They will have a killer Gnome desktop that will no longer play second fiddle to KDE. I mean come on, they bought Ximian. Give them a while. They don’t want to scare the KDE folks and they need time to do it right. I’m not saying KDE will get any less attention. I’m just saying Gnome will arrive on SuSE.

From what I’ve seen, NDL 10 is going to rock!

2) Miguel and I are buds.

OK, we were never buds.

3) ISOs will become more available. None of this crappy ftp stuff or waiting periods. We already see this happening.

OpenSuse is pumping out ISOs left and right.

4) Mono will be an option at install. It will be polished and along with the tools surrounding it, it will be a top notch development environment.

I’m pretty sure Mono is installed by default. They have Beagle, Tomboy and many others that *need* it.

5) Nat and I are buds.

OK, we were never buds.

6) In a stab at MS’s base they will make OpenOffice.org not suck.

Hmmm, OO.org 2.0 is many times better then everything 1.X (and below) but still lacks in a few places.

7) yast will get better and lighter. This will be a result of having opened it up to the community. It will take a while but other distros will adopt and improve it.

I don’t know if yast is lighter or cleaner. I don’t think anyone has adopted it for use in other distros.

8) They will fork their product to offer a more community based version (Red Hat / FC style) that will speed development and reduce costs. This will lead to repositories for SuSE packages springing up everywhere - all the bleeding edge stuff will be an apt-get (tied into yast of course) away.

OpenSuse is exactly what I was talking about. This will be the best thing that’s happened to the green lizard.

9) They will hire me to predict their future.

If they did hire me for that, they would have to pay dearly, now that I’ve demonstrated my powers to predict the future!

I must be bored.

Still, I’m bored with things :)

P.S. I don’t know if the change happened this year or earlier, but “Suse” no longer goes by “SuSE”

A new GUI designer in MonoDevelop makes it even easier for coders to check out gtk# and start coding. I believe this will be big for the Mono community when it is fully ripe. Good work Lluis!

Everyone is gong crazy about this… mono in fc5.

Wow, I think it’s great! Long live MONO!