May 2007 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] [owner] Reminder: dropping support for old mailinglist names
by Henne Vogelsang 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi, as announced before the migration from lists.suse.com to lists.opensuse.org we will drop support for the old mailinglist names on Friday June 1st 2007 12:00 GMT >From that date on you will only be able to use the new names for the mailinglists. The old names will become unavailable (mails to them will simply bounce). Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, ml-admin -- 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] Last Reminder: Linuxtag 2007 - Berlin - 30.05 - 02.06.2007
by Martin Lasarsch 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi Most of you are aware of it: next week is Linuxtag(day) in Berlin. Some information: - general info about the Linuxtag http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/ - openSUSE talks on Wednesday, 30.05: http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxtag_2007 - schedule on linuxtag: http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-mittwoch.html - openSUSE booth (Hall 12, 52) with: 2x openSUSE, 1x Novell, 1x JackLab counters. - free tickets (first come, first serve ... i hope there are still some left): http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-05/msg00008.html See you in Berlin! -- 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 -- 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] Free visitor vouchers for LinuxTag, Berlin
by Michael Loeffler 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi all, LinuxTag takes place next week from Wed 30 – Sat 2 in Berlin, Germany on the fairground “Messegelände unter dem Funkturm”. We can provide approx. 50 visitor vouchers which enables you to get free access to the event. If you're interested please send Florian (fweber(a)suse.de) an email. He'll than provide you with a code to activate the ticket online. This happens on first come, first serve basis. The openSUSE project will be present on booth #52 in hall 12. There you can meet some of the openSUSE guys, have conversation with them, check out openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4 and get involved in the openSUSE Build Service. Further we have the JackLab project at our booth – feel free to pass by and do a sound check. Our business products SUSE Linux Enterprise Server + Desktop will be presented at the booth as well and we are happy to assist all business customers interested in deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise. On June 30 the openSUSE day take place in room “Wiesbaden” (see also: http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-mittwoch.html) and will cover various topics like openSUSE Build Service, Power Management, outlook to openSUSE 10.3 amongst others. We are looking forward seeing you at LinuxTag! 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 -- 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] SVN repositories on svn.opensuse.org
by Jiri Srain 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi! I'm glad to announce that both YaST and ZYPP repositories have been moved to svn.opensuse.org and hope that other repositories will follow soon. The repositories are used as the primary store of the source code. It can be read-only accessed by everybody without requiring any authentication; for getting write access contacting the maintainer of each repo is needed. The overview of the repositories is available at http://svn.opensuse.org -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/05/23 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 23 May '07

23 May '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) today 2007/05/23 18:00 CEST (16:00 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_2007-05-23 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). Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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-softwaremgmt mailing list available.
by Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi We have a new mailinglists <opensuse-softwaremgmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This mailing list has one mission: bring the people involved in different projects having to do with package management, together. Like: - ZYpp developers - Autobuild & build service - Updater applets and YaST modules. - Community in order to: - define metadata formats, standarize, push upstream, create specifications and centralize the knowledge. - coordinate features in one componet to be used by other components. - discuss ideas to make the user experience better (how to make downloading metadata faster?) - coordinate community projects in order to integrate them with other components. - Discuss having common codebase for tools like metadata generators, validators, packaging tools, etc. To subscribe to the lists, just send an email like this: opensuse-softwaremgmt+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx For more information about the Mailinglists, please look at http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Mailing_Lists with kind regards, -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE R&D, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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 10.3 Alpha4 released
by Adrian Schröter 16 May '07

16 May '07

I'm glad to announce the forth public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Important Changes Since Alpha3 ============================== The following are some highlights of Alpha4 compared to Alpha3: * Inclusion of YaST Meta Packages handler * InstLux allows users to start the Linux installation from Windows * We have removed zmd from the distribution and concentrate now on the tools opensuse-updater and zypper. * TeX Live replaces teTex * First parts of KDE4svn entered Factory, its games are installed * OpenOffice.org 2.2 * GNOME 2.18.1 * Improvements to our init script starter startpar to reduce boottime * First changes to support Sony PS3. The PowerPC installation media do not yet support the installation on PS3, this is planned for Alpha5. * Linux 2.6.21 with an updated AppArmor patchset * Reduced size and cleaned up dependencies of some packages * Initial support for installation in Afrikaans, Gurajati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Xhosa, Zulu. (for complete list of languages and how to participate in translation see http://i18n.opensuse.org/stats/trunk/index.php ) A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== So far the following critical bugs have been found, please read before you install: * No online update offered during installation (Bug 270919) * No NIS offered during installation (Bug 270899) 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 Call for Testing ================ * libata for IDE devices 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". * Instlux Please test InstLux, to start a Linux installation under Windows. Thanks a lot for Jordi for his great work! * OpenOffice.Org 2.2 Please test the new versions Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 6 CDs (CD 6 was needed due to the increase space of TeXLive) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the 6 CDs contain support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the 6 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the 6 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD * CDs/DVDs containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha3. 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 Alpha is planned for Thu, June 14. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N�rnberg) email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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 10.3 Roadmap
by Andreas Jaeger 09 May '07

09 May '07

We are happy to announce the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the community and Novell internal development. The distribution will be build for the x86, x86-64 and Power PC platforms. Major *planned* enhancements are: * 1 CD install (network at install) * Installation of a Linux system on HD directly from a Live-CD image * UMTS support * Enhance zypper * Migration assistant instlux * Integration of external repositories * Dynamic update mirrors * Edu Add-on CD (done largely by the community) * GNOME 2.20 * KDE4 preview * Reduction of boot time * Reduced package dependencies, smaller minimal system Most important dates of the schedule are: Wed, May 16 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 release Thu, Jun 14 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 release Thu, Jul 19 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 release Thu, Aug 9 openSUSE 10.3 Beta1 release Thu, Aug 23 openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 release Thu, Sep 6 openSUSE 10.3 Beta3 release Thu, Sep 20 openSUSE 10.3 Release Candidate 1 release Thu, Sep 27 openSUSE 10.3 Goldmaster release (internal) Thu, Oct 4 openSUSE 10.3 public release The detailed schedule - including internal test releases - is available at: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3 Michael and 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/05/09 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 08 May '07

08 May '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 2007/05/09 18:00 CEST (16:00 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_2007-05-09 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). Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 survey results now online
by Michael Loeffler 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi all, the openSUSE survey results are now online. The survey was live for almost 3 months and more than 27,000 user participated. Thank you all for your participation. With your input we all are able to make openSUSE better and better. The winners will be informed shortly. The results are now available at openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/UX#Explore_user_experiences or direct link to the pdf: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6c/Opensuse_survey_102_data_final.p… 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 -- 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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