December 2008 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE-GNOME Bug Day Proposal
by Christopher Hobbs 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Greetings! I'm a little late getting this message out, so lets hope you all haven't slipped away for holiday festivities yet! In the last GNOME Team meeting, we discussed having a bug triage event on 09 JAN 2009 lasting the majority of the day. We're looking to close up as many bugs in 11.0 as we can and move those that are tagged 'upstream' on their way. We'll discuss the BugDay in our next meeting. Should we have the event, I'll be using Gobby again to coordinate triage assignment. Feel free to drop into #openSUSE-GNOME on Freenode, or reply to me directly if you have any questions. Thank you for your time! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! cmh -- 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 51
by Jan-Simon Möller 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 51 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 out * Lee Matheson: NEWBIES - Suse-11.1 Pre-installation * Joe Brockmeier: Leaping lizards! Lots going on in the openSUSE community * Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.0 beta1 available * Comments on Phoronix Benchmarking openSUSE 11.1 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Indonesian [2], Japanese [3], Polish [4], Portuguese [5], Russian [6] and Spanish [7] (delayed). [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/51 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/51 [6] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/51/indonesian [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/51 [7] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/51 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/51 [2] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/51 [4] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/51 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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 - call for contributors
by Rupert Horstkötter 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Community, this is a call for volunteers. Thanks to your awesome help, the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter Team currently provides the Weekly News in 9 languages (including English) to the openSUSE community. To be able to further enhance the quality of our current offering, the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter Team always welcomes contributors. What we especially need: 1. We did an investigation last week and we are looking for Italian, French and Chinese translators. These three languages with a significant user percentage of openSUSE installations are not supported by the Weekly Newsletter yet. 2. To strengthen our current translation teams we are always looking for translators for currently supported languages, namely German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. 3. As you hopefully already noticed we provide a dedicated openSUSE Forums section with hot topics and asserted threads as of the Weekly News issue #49 to the openSUSE community. This is an area, where we are also in desperate need of contributors - this is especially interesting for community members highly involved in the forums already. If you are interested to participate in one of these areas, you are very welcome to join the team. Please contact either Jan-Simon Möller - jansimon.moeller/at/opensuse.org or Rupert Horstkötter - rhorstkoetter/at/opensuse.org for further information. Any help is much appreciated and we are looking forward to your responses. Best, Rupert -- Rupert Horstkötter, openSUSE community Email: rhorstkoetter(a)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 11.1 Final
by Michael Loeffler 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features[1], improvements to YaST, major updates to GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, and more freedom with a brand new license[2], Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service. All of the Sneak Peeks for this release are available at on openSUSE News[3]. You can also find a bevy of screenshots[4], and a list of features[5] found in openSUSE 11.1. You can also find a lengthy list of packages and version numbers on DistroWatch[6]. Let's take a look at some of the specific additions in openSUSE 11.1! On the Desktop ============================================================================ Desktop users will find a lot to like in this release. Users can choose from the leading edge of GNOME and KDE development with GNOME 2.24.1 and KDE 4.1.3. We've also included KDE 3.5.10 for users who prefer the classic KDE experience. What's new in GNOME 2.24.1? ============================================================================ GNOME has gotten a good set of improvements since the 11.0 release. GNOME 2.24.1 features tabbed browsing and a new compact view in Nautilus, improvements for Gmail users in Evolution, along with mail templates, a new version of Ekiga, and additional improvements in F-Spot. This release also includes a brand-new release of the ever-popular Banshee. Banshee 1.4 sports support for Internet radio, compilation albums, a Now Playing window for video and audio, support for syncing to Android phones, and many other features that make Banshee an excellent multimedia player for the Linux desktop. What's new in KDE 4.1.3? ============================================================================ KDE 4 has a huge number of improvements since openSUSE 11.0. In this release you'll find the KDE-PIM suite back in KDE 4, new games, the KSCD CD player, KSystemLog to keep track of system changes, improvements to Dolphin, Konqueror, and Marble integration with OpenStreetMap. KDE has now standardized on PackageKit for its backend, which means both desktops are using the same update stack. The openSUSE KDE team has also backported some key features from KDE 4.2, including compositing features for KWin to provide more desktop effects, and auto-hiding of the panel, and power management thanks to PowerDevil. Classic KDE ============================================================================ If you're not quite ready to make the transition to KDE 4, relax. openSUSE 11.1 includes KDE 3.5.10 for the "classic" KDE experience. Simply install openSUSE 11.1 from the DVD media and choose KDE 3.5.10 from the selection of other window managers in the desktop selection screen. OpenOffice.org ============================================================================ This release includes OpenOffice.org 3.0, which features many improvements over the 2.4 release found in openSUSE 11.0. OpenOffice.org 3.0 Novell edition provides better Excel interoperability, performance enhancements, 3D slide transitions, and other features not found in upstream OpenOffice.org. This release also includes support for ODF 1.2, import filters for OOXML, Gstreamer and Mono integration, and a lot more. For developers, this is the first release that includes the split build, making it easier to work on components of OpenOffice.org and get involved in its development. Under the Hood ============================================================================ openSUSE 11.1 also includes several changes "under the hood," including a new kernel release, updated Glibc, new version of PackageKit, Smolt integration, and many other updated applications and utilities: * Linux 2.6.27.7 * Glibc 2.9 * Python 2.6 * Perl 5.10 * Mono 2.0 YaST Improvements ============================================================================ The YaST team has been busy with this release, working on a number of improvements including new and re-written modules. openSUSE 11.1 includes a new printer module, redesigned partitioner module, and a security module that allows you to check the overall security of your system. Media and Download ============================================================================ openSUSE is now available for immediate download[7]. openSUSE 11.1 comes with many choices of installation media. * openSUSE 11.1 DVD 32-bit * openSUSE 11.1 DVD 64-bit * openSUSE 11.1 DVD PowerPC * openSUSE 11.1 GNOME 32-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4 32-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.1 GNOME 64-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4 64-bit Live CD You can also purchase a retail box[8] with openSUSE 11.1 that includes 90-day installation support, physical media, and a printed Getting Started guide. Communicate ============================================================================ We want to hear from you! The openSUSE Project has many channels of communication[9]: * Official openSUSE Forums: forums.opensuse.org[10]. * Mailing Lists: The openSUSE mailing lists[11]. * IRC: #opensuse[12] on irc.freenode.net and and other channels[13]. * Jabber, Usenet, and more[9]. To keep up to date with openSUSE, be sure to keep an eye on openSUSE News[14] and watch Planet SUSE[15] for blog posts from the openSUSE community. Want to help the openSUSE Project? To get involved with openSUSE see the How to Participate[16] page on the openSUSE wiki. We can use lots of different skills[17] to help the project, so feel free to jump in! Thanks! ============================================================================ openSUSE 11.1 represents the combined effort of thousands of developers who participate in openSUSE and upstream projects shipped in openSUSE. The contributors, inside and outside the openSUSE Project, should be proud of this release, and they deserve a major "thank you" for all of the hard work and care that have gone into 11.1. We hope that openSUSE 11.1 is the best openSUSE release yet, and that it will help to encourage the use of Linux everywhere! We hope that you _have a lot of fun_ while you use openSUSE 11.1, and we look forward to working with you on 11.2! [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.1 [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/EULA [3]: http://news.opensuse.org/category/sneak-peeks/ [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/openSUSE_11.1 [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/Featurelist_11.1 [6]: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse [7]: http://software.opensuse.org/ [8]: http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE [9]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate [10]: http://forums.opensuse.org/ [11]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists [12]: irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse [13]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/IRC [14]: http://news.opensuse.org/ [15]: http://www.planetsuse.org/ [16]: http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate [17]: http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate#What_skills_are_necessary.3F -- Michael Löffler, Product Management 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] openSUSE-GNOME Meeting
by Christopher Hobbs 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Greetings All! Just a friendly reminder that we will be holding our openSUSE-GNOME meeting tomorrow (18 DEC 2008) at 1700 UTC. Please join us in #openSUSE-GNOME on irc.freenode.net! Thanks, -- 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 - 2008/12/17 - 13:00 GMT (14:00 CET)
by Martin Lasarsch 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '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) tomorrow: 2008/12/17 13:00 GMT (14:00 CET) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&month=12&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_2008-12-17 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 has reached End of Life
by Marcus Meissner 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, With the release of an squirrelmail security/regression fix on December 16 we have released the last update for openSUSE 10.2. It is now officially discontinued and out of support. openSUSE 10.2 was released on December 7 2006. Some statistics on the released patches: Total updates: 643 ( -20) Security: 486 ( 0) Recommended: 154 (-14) Optional: 3 ( -6) CVE Numbers: 706 (+50) There is no notable change in the number of security updates compared to previous products. Top issues (compared to 10.1 for issues down to 5): 15 clamav (same) 14 opera (+2) 13 MozillaFirefox (-1) 12 cups (+2) 9 seamonkey (-3) 9 MozillaThunderbird (same) 8 kernel (+2) 8 java-1_5_0-sun (same) 8 squirrelmail (+2) 7 wireshark (+1) 7 krb5 (same) 7 acroread (+2) 6 OpenOffice_org (-1) 6 lighttpd (+1) 6 java-1_4_2-sun 6 ImageMagick (-2) 6 flash-player (+1) 6 apache2-mod_php5 (same) 5 xine-devel (-1) 5 tomcat5 5 sylpheed-claws 5 squid 5 mozilla-xulrunner181 5 moodle 5 GraphicsMagick 5 bind 5 asterisk And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count (down to 5) (compared to 10.1 for the top): 116 MozillaFirefox (+2) 87 seamonkey (-10) 58 kernel (+19) 57 MozillaThunderbird (+9) 41 php5 (+2) 34 mozilla-xulrunner181 (+17) 33 java-1_5_0-sun (+10) 29 java-1_4_2-sun (+7) 19 clamav (+3) 17 wireshark (-1) 17 cups (-1) 15 krb5 (same) 13 apache2 (+1) 12 flash-player (-1) 11 opera (-1) 11 OpenOffice_org (-2) 11 lighttpd 11 epiphany 11 asterisk 10 xorg-x11-server 10 ImageMagick 10 GraphicsMagick 10 acroread 9 squirrelmail 9 ruby 9 libmysqlclient-devel 8 apache2-mod_jk 7 xgl 7 phpMyAdmin 6 xine-devel 6 mysql 6 moodle 6 libvorbis 5 xorg-x11-Xnest 5 tomcat5 5 squid 5 python 5 postgresql 5 poppler 5 NX 5 libxml2

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 50
by Jan-Simon Möller 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 50 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Pre-order openSUSE 11.1 * Wanted: Tester from SUSE Studio * Password Protect for GRUB * KDE4-Repository changes * SELinux in openSUSE 11.1 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Russian [2] (delay), Japanese [3], Spanish [4], Portuguese [5] (delay), Indonesian [6] and Polish [7]. [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/50 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/50 [2] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/50 [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/50 [4] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/50 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/50 [6] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/50/indonesian [7] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/50 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- 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] Maintenance of opensuse.org infrastructure tomorrow 10:00 UTC
by Peter Poeml 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

There will be a brief outage of several parts of the opensuse.org infrastructure tomorrow, Thursday the 11th of December, at 11:00 German time / 10:00 UTC. It will affect * download servers, * mirror stage server, * subversion/git server. The downtime is expected to be 5-15 minutes. Apologies for any inconveniency this may cause. Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Wednesday 10th December, 17:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday 10th December, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * KDE 4 accessible/low graphics theming (something useful I noticed in the big opensuse@ thread). If you are interested in this matter please attend, or if you cannot, reply to the topic mail on opensuse-kde@ and I will stand in for you. * KDE 4 Sneak Peeks suggestions - article authors wanted * wiki.opensuse.org/KDE improvements * general status report * Q&A Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=10&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! your openSUSE KDE Team

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