July 2007 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] New mailing list: opensuse-kernel
by Lars Marowsky-Bree 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Good morning everyone, I'm happy to announce the creation of a new mailing list: opensuse-kernel. This list is dedicated to the discussion of the openSUSE kernel development (Factory et al) and the kernels in the buildservice. Packaging or openSUSE-specific patches (though hopefully rare and growing more so) are on-topic; general Linux kernel development is best served by the existing public lists (LKML et al). Regards, Lars -- Teamlead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE translation
by Martin Lasarsch 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi Thanks to everybody who already replied to aj's mail on opensuse-translation. We still need some help with some languages, especially German, Spanish, Brasilian Portuguese and Japanese. Also help on other Languages is welcome. Here is some usefull information about localization: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Localization_Guide http://i18n.opensuse.org/ (here you can find also an overview what already is translated) If you want to join the opensuse translation team please read the mail below. Thanks! --- for convenience the mail from aj --- There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. We have now decided to open up the translation process completely and not put any restrictions on it. Therefore I invite you to create language teams for those eight languages mentioned above, join one of the existing teams or start a new language team for a language we currently do not support. If you're interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join! We currently have 55 languages - and I would like to thank everybody involved with these. It's impressive to see those translations, especially for those languages where I would not directly expect that many openSUSE users! Thanks a lot! Additionally I propose to have during the installation slide show a slide with the following content: openSUSE Localization The openSUSE project is a community project and many individuals are involved in bug fixing, packaging, testing, documentation and also localization. Localization for openSUSE specific software is done by different language teams and the localization portal is reachable under http://i18n.opensuse.org/ . Each translation teams should then add a new sentence to this parargraphwith e.g. in German "Die deutsche Übersetzung wurde durchgeführt von Karl Eichwalder und Andreas Jaeger " (translated back to English: "The German translation has been done by Karl Eichwalder and Andreas Jaeger" - assuming Karl and myself did the work). What do you think about this? Should we add this slide? Should we do it differently? We're a little bit late with this announcement - sorry about that. We will try to stretch every deadline to get localized packages into 10.3 and especially Karl Eichwalder and Stephan Kulow will help you to move this forward! Andreas ---- -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services Phone: +49 911 74053 181 Mobile: +49 179 206 74 74 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/08/01 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '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: 2007/08/01 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_2007-08-01 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] openSUSE 10.2 PromoDVDs
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi We just fixed more or less our schedule until 10.3 will arrive, and we have still some openSUSE 10.2 PromoDVDs. This is your chance, we offer them to you! For what? - you have a local linux/it event in the near future - you are in a LUG - you are the computer guy/gal at school/university - you already promote openSUSE in another way - maybe some other reason ... I don't want to send out some DVDs for personal use, so please answer only if you can really spread them. The intention is to give them away to openSUSE/Linux beginners ... Please send your request directly to me, including: - subject: PromoDVD - if possible an url of the LUG/event/school/university - number of wanted DVDs - reason why you want the DVDs - Address a sort email is enough ... First come first serve, no promises ... More information about the PromoDVD: http://en.opensuse.org/PromoDVD -- 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] Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6
by Stephan Kulow 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi! AJ used to write here, that he's glad to announce. I can't say I am - I am relieved I can announce openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 to you. I didn't have a chance to put too much testing into more than the i586 DVD5 and the KDE CD. But I didn't want to wait any longer either. So I'm left with hoping the best. Important Changes Since Alpha5 ============================== * Linux 2.6.22 * libzypp 3.11.8 * gcc 4.2 * Continued splitting of packages to reduce size * Introduction of x86_64 CDs for both KDE and GNOME This is a first alpha release containing the new refactored libzypp software management library. The goal was to deliver a working version for this alpha, so expect rough edges, unusal slowdown and behavior, for example YaST integration is really alpha quality. All bug reports are very welcome. A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Network setup is still broken (e.g. Bug 292401) * Public key for checking release-notes.rpm is unavailable (Bug 292402) * Registration is broken (Bug 292404) * GNOME 2.19 is W.I.P. (Bug 292706 and Bug 292837) * "Add default repositories" crashes the installation (Bug 292643) As mentioned above, this might be the first alpha we release with known alpha quality. Call for Testing ================ * libzypp/zypper Give this good testing. The integration into yast needs testing, zypper needs testing, updates would be good to test. Please note that the zypp development team collected a huge collection of test cases and these pass. So while the new libzypp version didn't get much real life testing, our hopes are high it will work out for you. * GNOME The desktop doesn't give a good impression to first time users at the moment. Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc yet) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc yet) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * DVD/CDs containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5. 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 Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, 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] news.opensuse.org goes live
by Andreas Jaeger 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to send important announcements to the opensuse-announce mailing list, but they should also be added to http://news.opensuse.org as well. Comments on the news articles is open for everybody, just for contributing new story, you need to have an account. If you like to contribute, contact admin(a)opensuse.org - and if you like to submit a story without an account mail to news-submit(a)opensuse.org. We also have a calendar (with .ical) for events and other important openSUSE events. In general, for blogs of openSUSE folks, I'd like to point to the Planet SUSE agregator (reachable via http://www.planetsuse.org) and say a big thank you to James Ogley for running this service for several years now! 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] openSUSE distribution Project Manager change
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

I'm glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de>. As from now on Stephan is project manager for the openSUSE distribution. Stephan - known also as Coolo - the "born release dude", has been with Novell/SUSE for five years. Before that he worked on Linux distributions at Caldera. His wide experience in Linux includes the dinosaurs (called s390), desktop technology (KDE), several build systems (including his own at Caldera), and SUSE tools like package translation. Stephan's first challenge will be the release of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 this week and I fear I've left him some hard nuts to crack. Having worked with Stephan for many years, we can expect nothing but an excellent openSUSE 10.3 release in the end. ;-) Btw. in my new function as Director of Platform and openSUSE, I'll stay involved with openSUSE, 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 - 2007/07/18 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '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: 2007/07/18 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_2007-07-18 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] Announcing ENOS 2007
by Carlos Goncalves 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

The acronym ENOS stands for 'Encontro Nacional de openSUSE', a Portuguese expression which can be translated to 'National openSUSE Meeting', an event meant to unite the Portuguese openSUSE users. The purpose of ENOS is to give an opportunity to the Portuguese openSUSE users to be together, as well as provide the participants an insight view on the latest developments on the openSUSE project and stimulate them to take an active part on the community itself. The first ENOS will take place on the first of Setember (01/09/2007) at Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal, hosted and promoted by Carlos Gonçalves, with the support of the Caldas Rainha Network. The current schedule, subject to changes, defines the following (all the times refer to Portugal Local Time): * 11:00 am - Gathering at Parque D. Carlos I (wireless is available) * 01:00 pm - Lunch at 'O Canas' restaurant * 03:00 pm - Community Space at 'Centro da Juventude' (wireless is available) * Talks: - "The upcoming openSUSE 10.3" - Carlos Gonçalves - "openSUSE-i18n-pt" - António Martins - "The openSUSE-pt community needs" - Tiago Santos * Ideas & Discussion * +6:00 pm - Caldas da Rainha at night :-) More informations: http://en.opensuse.org/Events/ENOS | http://pt.opensuse.org/Eventos/ENOS -- Regards, Carlos Gonçalves

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/07/04 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '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: 2007/07/04 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_2007-07-04 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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