You know the drill. I uploaded my latest screencast, Episode 034, to the screencasters’ web site. This is a simple and quick tutorial illustrating how to array an object in a circular pattern. Easy stuff.

I actually clipped this from Tavmjong Bah’s tricks page on his online Inkscape manual. Tav’s manual is a valuable resource for any Inkscape user. Check it out.

Here’s an interesting post on the 1-click install feature that will be implemented in the new openSUSE 10.3 distro.

New users to openSUSE often dislike the package management system.  It wasn’t always like that but ever since Novell bought SUSE they have been trying to get a handle on better package management. I remember when I moved from Red Hat to SUSE a few years ago the first thing that I did was figure out how to get apt/synaptic installed.  While the developers have worked on a new package management system (zypper), most users have grown accustomed to using the Smart package manager as an apt replacement. Honestly, Smart is all I ever use. I rarely use Yast or zypper or rug or zen or whatever we have available.  Quite frankly, I am a little confused by all of them. Yast is a no-brainer but the others aren’t useful to me. For me Smart just works and it works just like apt and that’s what I want. I want to be able to “sudo smart install package_name” (as opposed to “sudo apt-get install package_name”) and know that it installed with all dependencies needed.

Anyway, the 1-click install looks like it will be quite handy. Will it stop me from using Smart when 10.3 is finally released? We’ll see…

Btw, 1-click install reminds me of klik.