October 2012 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Live streams from the openSUSE Conference
by Lars Vogdt 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, I want to announce the availability of 4 live streams from the openSUSE Conference currently taking place in Prague. Just visit our "openSUSE-TV Channel" on Bambuser here: http://bambuser.com/channel/opensusetv and choose the room you like to see. Maybe combine this with the official schedule here: http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/ Let's have a lot of fun...! With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Advance SUSE support discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.4 - Evergreen goes on!
by Marcus Meissner 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers and openSUSE users, SUSE Security and the openSUSE Maintenance Team announce that the SUSE sponsored security and maintenance teams will stop releasing updates for openSUSE 11.4 soon. Having provided both security and bug fixes for the last two releases and two months, we will stop releasing updates after November 5th 2012. However, the community Evergreen team plans to provide ongoing maintenance for openSUSE 11.4. More details on this will be published when they are known. As a consequence, the openSUSE 11.4 distribution directory on our server download.opensuse.org will be removed from /distribution/11.4/ to free space on our mirror sites. The 11.4 directory in the update tree /update/11.4 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. Also the openSUSE buildservice repositories containing openSUSE 11.4 will be moved to DISCONTINUED:openSUSE:11.4 and building against openSUSE 11.4 will be disabled and removed in all buildservice projects. The discontinuation of openSUSE 11.4 enables SUSE to focus on the openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our users can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with openSUSE products. This announcement holds true for openSUSE 11.4 only. As usual, the openSUSE project will continue to provide update packages for the following products: openSUSE 12.1 (supported until 2 months after openSUSE "Next" release, around May 2013) openSUSE 12.2 (supported until 2 months after openSUSE "Next+2" release) openSUSE Next (naming is discussed currently) (currently in development, to be released early 2013) for the next two openSUSE releases plus a two months overlap period. (As the schedule is under discussion these dates cannot be predicted exactly at this time. It will be 2 releases + 2 months usually.) Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE Linux Enterprise products and products based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system are not affected by this announcement and have longer life cycles. Our openSUSE lifetimes are tracked on http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime . To learn more about SUSE Linux Enterprise products, please visit http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ . For a detailed list of the life cycles of our Enterprise Products please visit http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ and http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?sl=suse If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact SUSE Security at <security(a)suse.de> or openSUSE Maintenance at <maintenance(a)opensuse.org>. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] KDE Team Meeting planned for 17 October at 17:30 UTC
by Raymond Wooninck 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Dear All, A new KDE openSUSE Team meeting is planned for next week Wednesday evening (17th October) at 17:30 UTC (or 19:30 GMT) The meeting is also mentioned on our webpage (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meeting ) and you can add topics to discuss to the indicated list. I hope to have a good participation like the previous meeting and to have some good discussions. Thanks Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] KDE 4.9.2 Packages available for 12.2 and 12.1
by Raymond Wooninck 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

This afternoon KDE 4.9.2 was officially released by the KDE team. (http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.9.2.php) The last few days the openSUSE KDE team has been preparing the update to KDE 4.9.2 and we would like to announce that the packages are available for the openSUSE 12.2 and 12.1 distributions. The packages can be found in our KDE:Relaase:49 repository. Enjoy this new release !! Regards openSUSE KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE ARM 12.2 RC1 is out!
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. Since the openSUSE Conference in 2011, the openSUSE ARM team has managed to bring up openSUSE ARM from nothing to a truly usable and functional distribution on the ARM version 7 architecture. Andrew Wafaa, who continues to be heavily involved in the openSUSE-on-ARM initiative and now works for the UK CPU designer, remarks: "It was a fast and hard ride. Supporting a new architecture is always a lot of work, especially one as diverse and versatile as ARM's, but with the right tools and the right help it is possible to do it in record time!" *Hardware and device support* This release focusses on ARMv7 with the Cortex-A profile from ARM Ltd. Due to the complicated landscape of ARM devices, only a subset is supported at the moment: Texas Instruments’ OMAP3 & OMAP4, Marvell ArmadaXP 510 and Freescale I.MX51; the supported devices running with these SoCs are the Beagleboard, Beagleboard-xM, Pandaboard, Pandaboard-ES and the EfikaMX smarttop/smartbook. There is also an image for the VersatileExpress which is suitable for use in Qemu as well as a generic root file system tarball that users and developers may use to help bring up unsupported devices. *More information* Downloads can be found at [1]. Find information about supported boards at [2] and how-to's at [3]. If you'd like to get involved in the openSUSE ARM efforts, read [4] and have a look at our tasks on Trello [5]. Most collaboration takes place through the opensuse-arm(a)opensuse.org mailing list and the IRC channel #opensuse-arm on Freenode.net. *Thanks* The team builds upon OBS, Qemu and KIWI as main technologies and is grateful for the support and sponsorship from Texas Instruments/Pandaboard Project, Genesi,ARM and the wider openSUSE Community. Find the the openSUSE News article with more details at http://news.opensuse.org/?p=14138 About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org. [1] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/12.2-RC1/images/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Supported_ARM_boards [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_on_your_ARM_board [4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ARM_distribution_howto [5] https://trello.com/#board/opensuse-on-arm/5007cfc12cf0ae352e21d8dc

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