Hi
We are interested in knowing how you feel about the openSUSE project and the
openSUSE 10.2 distribution. Please take a few minutes to fill out this
survey, and we will enter you in a drawing for five 1 GByte USB sticks and
one 80 GByte portable hard disc from Teac!
You can find the survey here:
http://www.novell.com/productsurveys
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with kind regards,
Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org
Hi
The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official
#opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode
(irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project)
this Wednesday at
2007/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around
openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2007-02-21
as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have
questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki
page as well.
For general info about our IRC meetings read:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About
For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC
help" into your preferred search engine.
The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including
how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with
openSUSE either).
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with kind regards,
Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org
Hi
FOSDEM, 24-25.02.2007, Bruxelles/Brussels
Once again you have the chance to meet some SUSE/Novell guys, as we have the
chance to meet YOU!
We will have again a dev-room for us with a lot of interesting talks:
http://fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opensuse
And we will have also a small booth on the floor. We hope to see all of you in
Brussels this weekend! :-)
Genereal Information about the FOSDEM:
http://fosdem.org/2007/
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with kind regards,
Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org
I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.
Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes
are:
* GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from
older distributions.
* KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6.
* Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for
now.
* Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread
for details)
* Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3.
* The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better
guard against some buffer overflows.
* Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME
and KDE handle removable LUKS media now.
Besides this a lot of bugs have been fixed and various packages
updated.
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 is an important milestone for us since it is an
installable release so that everybody doing development in the last
weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own
environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us
the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as
basis for their work.
Most annoying bugs for now:
* Adding a remote repository shows "/media.1/in not found". Just
press OK to continue the install Bug 243498
* ftp installation of mounted CD/DVD images is not possible (http
seems to work - and installation from online repositories works as
well) Bug 245304
* On x86-64, you need CD4 for a default install since some extra
-devel packages are installed Bug 245332
* Some Systems will hang at "Cloning the system ..." when selecting
"Clone This System for AutoYaST" Bug 245350
* Registration does not work Bug #240591
* A GNOME installation does not include OpenOffice_org and banshee
Bugs 245408 245407
The list of annoying bugs is kept updated at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-dev
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 comes as different medias:
* 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or
KDE (any language)
* 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it
* 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra
languages (the 5 CDs contain support for english, french, italian, spanish,
german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer,
hungarian, polish) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all
languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media)
* 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD
* CDs/DVDs containing the sources corresponding to the media
We have created Delta ISOs from the final version of openSUSE 10.2
Please use them for download.
The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent.
Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in
http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the
opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list.
To download media, please use the links provided at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads
The next planned release is Alpha2 in four weeks (March 15th),
Have a lot of fun!
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Hiho!
On request by the openSUSE community, we invite everyone interested in YaST
development to chat with the YaST teams on IRC next Wednesday. We want to
hear your ideas on how you'd like to contribute to YaST.
When: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 5pm CET
Where: #opensuse-project on irc.Freenode.net
Feel free to add topics to
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/YaST_Meeting_2007-02-14
Thanks for your interest,
Edith
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Edith Parzefall
Teamleader YaST, SUSE Linux Products GmbH - a Novell Business
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany. Phone +49-911-74053-156
Hi
We have 2 new wikis to announce:
http://nl.opensuse.org (Dutch) - thanks Freek de Kruijf, Rinse de Vries and
Matthias Van Gestel
http://pl.opensuse.org (Polish) - thanks Rafal Kwasny and Rzoolu
The splashscreen at http://www.opensuse.org will be fixed soon.
If you want to work on the languages use the new wikis now instead of the
english one.
If you are interested in you own language opensuse wiki, please subscribe to
opensuse-wiki(a)opensuse.org and read http://en.opensuse.org/Translation
To the maintainers of the new wikis: Please delete all NL- and PL- pages and
templates from the English wiki soon.
Thanks again to all who made it possible!
btw: next wikis: zh_tw (traditional chinese), ro (romanian) (no fixed
timeframe at the moment).
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with kind regards,
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Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg
martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de
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Hi
The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official
#opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode
(irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project)
this Wednesday at
2007/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around
openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2007-02-07
as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have
questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki
page as well.
For general info about our IRC meetings read:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About
For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC
help" into your preferred search engine.
The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including
how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with
openSUSE either).
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with kind regards,
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Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg
martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de
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Details:
Date: Sunday - 2007-02-11
Time: 20:00 UTC
Location: irc.freenode.net #opensuse-project
Explanation:
This is the second ever community meeting taking place, and it is run by
openSUSE Community members who are not employed by Novell/SUSE.
The main aims of this meeting are:
- Update on the last Community Meeting
- Inform of the current community participation
- Kicking off new projects in the community
This meeting is open to absolutely anyone and everyone in the openSUSE
Community. One of the main goals, again, is to unify and centralise on the
community efforts, so everyone's participation in this is quite vital. A core
group of people have already agreed to attend.
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Agenda:
- openSUSE-Community.org
- Feature/Project Tracking
- Unifying the Community
- Awareness of other Community projects
- Let us know
- Other
- FOSDEM Talk
- YaST Meeting
- Brainstorming and Open Discussion
More information on these items is available at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Community_Meeting_2007-02-11
Regards,
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Francis Giannaros
Web: http://francis.giannaros.org
IRC: apokryphos (irc.freenode.net)