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[opensuse-announce] Announcing Hack Week
by Nat Friedman 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi everyone, At Novell we've been planning a special internal event that will run this week, from June 25th to 29th. We're calling it Hack Week. During Hack Week, our entire Linux engineering team -- hundreds of people -- will be working on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them. Everyone will work alone or in teams, on existing open source projects or new ideas of their own. No one will tell them what or what not to do -- it's a free week for free hacking, driven by individual passion. To make it easier for our hackers to find and publicize their projects, we've created an Idea Pool web site where we've all spent the last couple of weeks sharing ideas and finding collaborators. This web site is open to the public here: http://idea.opensuse.org/ Although this is a Novell event, we're running it with full transparency. You'll be able to follow our progress and projects on the Idea Pool web site, either with the blog on the front page where we'll post videos from our seven main engineering sites[1], or by watching individual project pages. We invite you to participate where you can. If you'd like to help with a project, feel free to add a comment to the discussion section of the page and volunteer your support. We hope that you'll at least enjoy watching Hack Week progress. If it is successful, we hope to run it again sometime soon, with even more participation from the community. If you're interested in following along, you might check the following sites first: - Hack Week Overview: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/hackweek - Tags: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/blog/welcome-to-the-idea-pool - Idea Pool code of conduct: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/etiquette - Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/hackweek/pool/ During the week, we'll use the channel #opensuse-hackweek on irc.freenode.net for general discussion (project-specific discussion will find its own venue). Hope to see you there! Happy hacking, Nat [1] Beijing, Bangalore, Prague, Nuernberg, Boston, Provo, Portland are the main sites -- 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] Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE
by Michael Loeffler 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, the survey we did on proprietary software can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/UX#Surveys It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam etc.). Software which is hardly used we don't neet to ship on our media. Therfor my suggestion is to drop some software totally and offer some software only via ftp. To be discussed on opensuse-project. Best Michael PS: The question on TexLive was confusing. TexLive is open source but we wanted to know the use of it as it needs meanwhile so much space. -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/06/20 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '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) on Wednesday: 2007/06/20 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) Yes, that is TODAY! 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_2007-06-20 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 -- 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] SUSE Linux 9.3 security support is now discontinued.
by Marcus Meissner 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hi, With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update we have released the last security update for SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support. Notable is the reduction of kernel security updates. Otherwise a slight increase of the total number of security issues is apparent. SUSE Linux 9.3 was released begin of April 2005. Total: 654 (320 active) (+73) Security: 498 (211 active) (+11) Recommended: 108 ( 68 active) (+34) Optional: 48 ( 41 active) (+28) Top issues (compared to 9.2): 17 clamav (+1) 15 apache2-mod_php4 (+1) 13 MozillaFirefox (+-0) 12 php5 (new) 12 opera (+1) 10 kernel (-7) 9 squirrelmail (+2) 9 ethereal (-1) 8 phpMyAdmin (-1) 8 mediawiki (new) 7 xine-lib (+3) 7 MozillaThunderbird (+1) 7 ImageMagick (+2) 6 xorg-x11-server (+-0) 6 ruby (+1) 6 OpenOffice_org (new) 6 mozilla (+1) 6 kdelibs3 (+-0) 6 horde (+1) 6 gpg2 (+1) 6 gpg (+1) 6 apache2 (-1) 5 spamassassin (+2) 5 postgresql (+-0) 5 OpenOffice_org1 (+1) 5 java-1_5_0-sun (new) 5 java-1_4_2-sun (+-0) 5 acroread (+-0) Ciao, Marcus -- Working, but not speaking, for the following german company: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- 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] service downtime tomorrow
by Adrian Schröter 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Some openSUSE services will be down, tomorrow 16th June at 06:00 UTC for approximate 2 hours due to maintenance reasons. The affected services are the file content delivery services and the openSUSE build service: download.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org ftp.opensuse.org stage.opensuse.org rsync.opensuse.org drpmsync.opensuse.org source.opensuse.org gallery.opensuse.org build.opensuse.org api.opensuse.org The wiki and www.opensuse.org will not be affected. thank you for your patience. adrian -- 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 Alpha5 Released
by Andreas Jaeger 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

I'm glad to announce openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5. Important Changes Since Alpha4 ============================== The following are some highlights of Alpha5 compared to Alpha4: * Linux 2.6.22 rc4 * Reduced size and cleaned up dependencies of some packages * glibc 2.6 * Emacs 22.1 * OpenOffice.Org 2.2.1 rc3 * Lots of package renames and splits to create smaller systems and allow a one CD installation. * Two one CD installation media: A GNOME CD and a KDE CD. Both contain a small desktop. Please review the media and tell us changes. This is our very first version - I would call it pre-Alpha ;-) * If openSUSE is installed from CDs, user is offered to bring up network connection in order to be able to install a remote add-on product together with openSUSE. 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: * YaST do not accept the default gpg key by default and asks for import during registration. (Bug 283738) * grub config completely broken on update (Bug 283709) * No remote repository gets added during installation (Bug 283740) * ifup/getcfg are broken, so the traditional network scripts will not work - workaround: Use NetworkManager (Bug 283724). * 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 ================ * Please test the new 1 CD GNOME and KDE installation media and tell us how to improve them. Please keep in mind the space constraints. * Please test the network setup at the beginning and that you can add remote installation sources even if installing from CD. * Live DVD A live DVD is not part of this release, but it can be create by anyone using the kiwi config for current Factory. 1) Add the openSUSE:Tools project repository, if you do not have it yet: zypper sa -r 'http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE%3A/Tools/openSUSE_10.2/openS…' Please note that you may need a different repo, if you do not use openSUSE 10.2 on your workstation. 2) install or update the kiwi live system description: zypper install kiwi-desc-livesystem 3) Create a Live image, be sure that no /tmp/mydvd directory does exist before: /usr/share/kiwi/tools/createLiveCD Kiwi will create an image for that architecture what you run as host system. 4) Burn the image and boot it :) * Instlux Please test InstLux, to start a Linux installation under Windows. Thanks a lot for Jordi for his great work! Our first tests showed that this might not work under Vista since the binary is not signed. Take care about the uninstaller of the openSUSE installer which gets blocked by Vista Popup Blocker after login. Network installation with InstLux is now available and needs some further testing. InstLux Network Installer needs no special media only a working internet connection. The InstLux Network Installer can be found at: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha5/misc/openSUSE10_3_NET… * OpenOffice.Org 2.2.1 RC3 Please test the new version! * 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". Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 1 GNOME Installation CD for i386 (NEW!) * 1 KDE Installation CD for i386 (NEW!) * 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 Alpha4. 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 Alphas are: * Thu, Jul 6 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5+ release (internal) * Thu, Jul 19 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 release Have a lot of fun, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de 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 - 2007/06/06 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '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) on Wednesday: 2007/06/06 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_2007-06-06 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 -- 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] Survey on commercial software for openSUSE distribution
by Andreas Jaeger 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

We like to know a bit more about the usage of proprietary software we ship on some versions of our openSUSE distribution. Therefore we created a 16 question survey and ask you to participate and give us feedback. The survey is online till June 12. http://www.surveymonkey.com/Users/33889499/Surveys/413433852485/CC07C39C-76… Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de 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] [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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