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
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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.
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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) 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).
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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
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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
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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) 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).
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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
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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
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