March 2007 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - this time with correct time ;-)
by Michael Loeffler 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

sorry, sorry - I made a mistake on the timing. correct time is: 6pm CET 4pm GMT Noon, EST Thanks to Benji and Stephan for making me aware. Michael 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 2007/03/2818:00 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_2007-03-28 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). Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/03/28 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Michael Loeffler 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

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 2007/03/2818:00 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_2007-03-28 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). Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-announce] YaST, LiMaL, libzypp mailing lists now @openSUSE.org
by Jiri Srain 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi! I'm happy to announce creating new mailing lists which cover development discussions related to Novell's projects: YaST, ZYPP and LiMaL. YaST is the installation and configuration tool for SuSE Linux. It is popular for its easy use and attractive interface and the capability to customize your system quickly during or after the installation. To learn more about YaST see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST. libzypp is the integration of SUSE's yast2 Package manager and Ximian's libredcarpet. At Novell two solutions before were used - Red Carpet and YaST package manager. To learn more about libzypp see http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp LiMaL (Linux Management Library) provides a system library style, object oriented way of access to the operating system. To learn more about LiMaL see http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?limal Information about the mailing lists as well as links to subscribe are available at http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/ZYPP_Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/LiMaL_Mailing_Lists Further announcements regarding opening the development of these three projects will be posted to the particular project's mailing list. -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain(a)suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz

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[opensuse-announce] POSTPONED: Status Meeting - Wednesday 2007/03/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, due to Brainshare¹ and Cebit² most of the Novell employees working on the openSUSE project are on travel or otherwise engaged. We will postpone the the Status Meeting for one week. Henne ¹ http://www.novell.com/brainshare/ ² http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e -- Henne Vogelsang, Teamlead Core Services http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007 video recordings online
by Christoph Thiel 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi everyone, as many of you know, openSUSE participated in the seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM). All talks that were given in the openSUSE "DevRoom" have been recorded (in audio and video) and are now available from http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2007 Please refer to these mirrors for instant access to the recordings: * http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/FOSDEM/2007/ * http://bong.uwcs.co.uk/videos/fosdem/2007/suse/ * http://giannaros.org/suse/FOSDEM/2007/ * http://fosdem07.apanela.com/ * http://opensuse-community.org/fosdem/ Many thanks to Jürgen Weigert for recording and postprocessing and Francis Giannaros for help recruiting mirrors! Regards, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-announce] Slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISOs released
by Christoph Thiel 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi everyone, today we are releasing slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISO images. The reason for putting out those updated ISOs is a license issue, which had to be addressed. The following ISOs have be replaced on the mirrors: * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-BiArch.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-ppc.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-ppc.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-x86_64.iso In addition to that, the following torrents will be updated and restarted: * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-BiArch.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-x86_64.torrent To lift some load off our mirrors, we have decided to just remove these ISOs and torrents: * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-i386.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-ppc.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-x86_64.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-i386.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-x86_64.torrent Please refer to http://download.openSUSE.org/ for downloading. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N�rnberg)

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 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. Call for testing: We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do test that an update works and all files are changed automatically (libata uses /dev/sda for the first harddisk instead of /dev/hda). Disks with more than 15 partitions are not handled right now, we're still evaluating whether there is a good solution. to use the old scheme, boot with "hwprobe=-modules.pata". See below for Bug 250241 as well. For the first time, we do also release the Kiwi tool together with a configuration for creating a LiveDVD of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 2. It can be created by anyone, you just need to call one simple script. Please find detailed instructions and a list of known issues here: http://en.opensuse.org/LiveDVD Most annoying bugs for now: * Branding and translations are still at the 10.2 level Bug 240598 * ide-disk module does not get loaded at installation time. A "modprobe ide-disk" on commandline does workaround this issue. This affects all older IDE chipsets which are not supported via libata, like chipsets used in virtualisation applications Bug 250241 * Firefox on x86-64 does not connect to any website Bug 249686 * KDE-Multimedia is not selected for KDE by default Bug 253022 * GNOME main menu does crash direct after login. Select to delete it, then right click on the panel, select add to panel and then choose menu bar to get a menu. We've put older gnome-main-menu RPMS to http://download.opensuse.org://distribution/10.3-Alpha2/Extra-RPMs * GNOME installation fails to install gail package, just click ignore * Some GNOME applications will crash when closing them. As a result, bug buddy will show up. Do not use bug buddy to report these bugs, but rather go to bugzilla.novell.com and search to see if the bug has already been reported. The list of annoying bugs is found here as well, please update it if you find more: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-dev openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs * 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 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1. 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 Alpha3 in four weeks (April 12th), Andreas -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon
by Marcus Meissner 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers and SUSE Linux users, SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 9.3 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 9.3 after April 15th 2007 will not be fixed any more for this product. We expect to release the last updates around April 30th 2007. Please do not confuse SUSE Linux 9.3 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3, these are two different products. As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 9.3 distribution directory on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved from /pub/suse/i386/9.3/ to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our mirror sites. The 9.3 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/update/9.3 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 9.3 enables us to focus on the SUSE Linux and openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our customers can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with SUSE Linux products. This announcement holds true for SUSE Linux 9.3 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following products: SUSE Linux 10.0 SUSE Linux 10.1 and openSUSE 10.2 for a two-year period after the release of the respective distribution. 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. Other products that will be discontinued this year: After 2 years of security support: * SUSE Linux 10.0 - October 31st 2007 After 5 years of maintenance and security support: * SUSE Linux Desktop 1.0 - November 30th 2007 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 - November 30th 2007 SUSE Linux Standard Server 8 SUSE Linux Retail Solution 8 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.0 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.1 United Linux 1.0 To learn more about SUSE Linux business 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>.

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

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 2007/03/07 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_2007-03-07 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). -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE and GNOME
by JP Rosevear 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

The team at Novell responsible for GNOME have been quiet in openSUSE for sometime, even though we already have several great external contributors like James Ogley and Andreas Hanke and we've pushed in significant general technologies like Compiz/Xgl, NetworkManager and Beagle. All this is changing though, we've had an IRC channel for a while but we haven't really advertised it (#opensuse-gnome on irc.freednode.net) and we have an opensuse-gnome mailing list as well now: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to sign up. Michael Wolf</a> has been pushing in GNOME 2.17 in to Factory and the GNOME:UNSTABLE build service. There is also GNOME Team page if you are so inclined to get involved: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Team -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc.

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