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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 7
by Francis Giannaros 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

The seventh issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out![0] For the week starting the 21-01-2008. In this week: * openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS * Sax2 ported to Qt4 * Open Source Meets Business, with openSUSE attendees, kicks off * openSUSE 10.3 PromoDVDs Now Available for Order [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/7 Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Jan 31 at noon EDT/18:00CST/17:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=31&month=01&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080124 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080131 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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 KDE Community Meeting: Wednesday, January 30th, 19:00 UTC
by Stephan Binner 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello, this week we'll be doing our bi-weekly openSUSE KDE Community meeting on January 30th, 19:00 GMT. What? http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings specific topics include: * old action items / status report * Build Service repositories organization * Bugzilla categories restructuring * KDE 4.x for openSUSE 11.0 When? The meeting will happen on Wednesday, January 30th at 19:00 UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=30&month=1&year=20… for the time in your timezone. Where? The meeting is at #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net Bye, Steve -- 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 PromoDVDs
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hi, Again we offer to send PromoDVDs, for more information take a look at the wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/PromoDVD Short: It's a live version with KDE/GNOME, but you can also install it. 32bit only as always. The DVD is made to promote openSUSE, especially on exhibitions and other events, local usergroups, schools, universities and so on. If you want some DVDs, send a mail with: - exactly the subject "openSUSE 10.3 PromoDVDs", send it to marketing(a)opensuse.org. Mails to me or the list will be ignored. - a _brief_ explanation why you want DVDs - a link if it's for a university, school, event etc. - the date of the event or deadline when you need the DVDs. - full postal address, with name and telephone number (i need this for FedEx) if possible the address in latin (western) characters, makes it easier for us. In a perfect world i just have to copy&paste the address from the mail ... - amount of DVDs Please understand that the goal is not to send single DVDs for personal use. Some people already sent me a request. If i didn't answered please resend the mail. First come first serve, no promises ... -- 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] The openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS
by Adrian Schröter 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

The full press release can be found at: http://www.novell.com/news/press/the-opensuse-build-service-expands-support… The openSUSE(R) Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux* distributions, has extended its support to now build packages for CentOS and Red Hat* Enterprise Linux. The openSUSE Build Service already supports several Linux distributions including openSUSE, Ubuntu, SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise, Debian and others. "As its name suggests, the openSUSE project is committed to choice and opposed to the exclusion of innovation simply because it may have originated in another project," said Michael Loeffler, openSUSE product manager at Novell. "By adding support to build packages for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the openSUSE Build Service makes it even easier to build packages across multiple Linux distributions, thus further enabling innovative ideas to spread quickly throughout the free and open source software community. As we seek to streamline and improve collaboration between all Linux developers, the openSUSE Build Service continues to innovate and improve the way packages are built by providing a common framework that works with any Linux distribution." -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Jan 24 at noon EDT/18:00CST/17:00 UTC - Multimedia!
by JP Rosevear 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). We'll be having a special theme meeting this week on Multimedia with Aaron Bockover attending (Banshee maintainer, gstreamer guru) attending. Everything you ever wanted to know about codecs, patents, ipods and more! World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=24&month=01&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080117 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080124 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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 Weekly News, Issue 6
by Francis Giannaros 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

The sixth issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out![0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 Released * Federico unveils the latest community member * In Status Updates: Qt 4.4 in Factory; FOSDEM draft online; more work on imaging support for the OBS * In Tips and Tricks: Kepas - Easy File Sharing Tools * In the Press: Federal Employment Office switches 13,000 workstations to openSUSE [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/6 Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.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] Build Service Repositories Get New GPG Keys
by Adrian Schröter 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

You wonder why zypper or YaST do ask you to accept new keys for some repositories atm ? Please read this mail in this case. The repositories on opensuse.org below the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ directory get currently new GPG keys which are used to sign the repository meta data and the packages. The reason behind this is to increase the security for you and your system. Repositories inside of this directory are created by the openSUSE build service packagers. Everybody can go to http://build.opensuse.org and get at least an own home:<login> project where you can build and publish packages. But also all other projects have different owners, this means people who have write permissions there. As a consequence of this openess of the build service, users should have the possibility to decide whom to trust and whom not. This is easy possible by adding or not adding/removing repositories. However, rpm and package managers do use gpg keys to support users in this approach. These tools use them to verify that a certain repository and each package does indeed come from a certain person or group. In the past, all build service repositories were signed with the same key. This means that a user was able to allow or disallow repositories, but the the tools did not help or even checked this. This approach was therefore not save against attacks. We use from now on own keys per top-level project. Users can decide to accept certain keys or not. Packagers will get an API interface to manage these keys in near future to some degree. These keys are auto generated by the build service and report to come from KDE OBS Project <KDE(a)build.opensuse.org> or home:adrianSuSE OBS Project <home:adrianSuSE@build.opensuse.org> for example. In case you are not sure, if you can trust a certain project, you should log into the build service via http://build.opensuse.org and look at the list of persons who are part of this project. (Yes, a system which makes this more transparent for the End User is in our plan). I hope this helps adrian PS: There was a bug, which caused failures when using rpm checking a signature. This will be solved by rebuilding these packages. YaST and zypper are using gpg and had never this problem. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian(a)suse.de ------------------------------------------------------- -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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] Build Service Repositories Get New GPG Keys
by Adrian Schröter 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

You wonder why zypper or YaST do ask you to accept new keys for some repositories atm ? Please read this mail in this case. The repositories on opensuse.org below the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ directory get currently new GPG keys which are use to sign the repository meta data and the packages. The reason behind this is to increase the security for you and your system. Repositories inside of this directory are created by the openSUSE build service packagers. Everybody can go to http://build.opensuse.org and get at least an own home:<login> project where you can build and publish packages. But also all other projects have different owners, this means people who have write permissions there. As a consequence of this openess of the build service, users should have the possibility to decide whom to trust and whom not. This is easy possible by adding or not adding/removing repositories. However, rpm and package managers do use gpg keys to support users in this approach. These tools use them to verify that a certain repository and each package does indeed come from a certain person or group. In the past, all build service repositories were signed with the same key. This means that a user was able to allow or disallow repositories, but the the tools did not help or even checked this. This approach was therefore not save against attacks. We use from now on own keys per top-level project. Users can decide to accept certain keys or not. Packagers will get an API interface to manage these keys in near future to some degree. These keys are auto generated by the build service and report to come from KDE OBS Project <KDE(a)build.opensuse.org> or home:adrianSuSE OBS Project <home:adrianSuSE@build.opensuse.org> for example. In case you are not sure, if you can trust a certain project, you should log into the build service via http://build.opensuse.org and look at the list of persons who are part of this project. (Yes, a system which makes this more transparent for the End User is in our plan). I hope this helps adrian PS: There was a bug, which caused failures when using rpm checking a signature. This will be solved by rebuilding these packages. YaST and zypper are using gpg and had never this problem. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/01/23 - 13:00 CET (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) on Wednesday: 2008/01/23 13:00 CET (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=01&year=2… 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/Project_Meeting_2008-01-23 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. With this change the openSUSE friends which are living in the eastern parts of the world (seen from Europe) like India, China, Australia (just to name a few) will have it easier to attend the meeting. 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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