June 2008 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

We're pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages [1] for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today. A number of openSUSE users have expressed interest in having the client packaged for openSUSE, so our developers have been working on building the client against openSUSE. Please download the package and give it a try on your systems. Novell is also working on a package for openSUSE 11.0, though we don't have an official timeline for that package yet. We will also post an announcement when it's available, and will post announcements for any further betas or the final release of the Novell Client for Linux. [1]: http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2585&type=1 -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 fate of KDE3 in openSUSE v11.1
by Basil Chupin 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

If you are interested in this subject then read the openSUSE Weekly News, issue 128, whose availability was announced only a short time ago by Jan-Simon Moller. (Whoever wrote the article about KDE3/KDE4 deserves a job in any lawyers office -- or in an advertising agency.) Ciao. -- It's not possible to operate honestly using a basis of dishonesty. -- 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 28
by Jan-Simon Möller 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 28 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * GNOME Helping Hands Project Launches * People of openSUSE: Tanja Roth * Masim Sugianto: How to Make openSUSE 11.0 GM Live USB * Benjamin Weber: openSUSE 11.0 KDE4 inclusion * tuxmachines.org: Battle of the Titans - Mandriva vs openSUSE: The Rematch [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/28 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/27 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] Helping Hands First Event
by Bryen 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

The GNOME Team will host its first Helping Hands event this coming Friday, June 27th at 14:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the FreeNode Network. This will be an extended two-hour event where various members of the GNOME team will talk about different features of the GNOME desktop and offer assistance in setting up your custom environment. You can find out more about the Helping Hands project at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos. Incidentally, there has already been talk on several fronts about expanding the Helping Hands project to cover all areas of openSUSE. If you're interested in being part of the project, feel free to contact me via email or suseROCKs in IRC. Bryen Yunashko Helping Hands Coordinator -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/06/26 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/06/26 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=26&month=06&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080626 as soon as possible. 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). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team)

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[opensuse-announce] OpenOffice_org 2.4.1 available
by Petr Mladek 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 is available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:STABLE project. We are sorry for the delay. It was mostly caused by the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398244. It was very annoying, hard to reproduce and hard to fix. We delayed the announce because we wanted to make sure that you get really stable build. Where to get it: The list of installation repositories can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_… Installation problems: There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You might need to select the right version by hand, see http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update Bug reports: Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo. Changes in this version: The GO-OO project changes are listed at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_2_4_1_6/NEWS The upstream changes are listed at http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.1rc2.html General information about the build: The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build: * better startup performance * improved VBA interoperability * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect) * additional import filters (SVG, WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...) * native KDE Open/Save dialog * WebDAV locking * new 3D slide transitions * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1) * ... , see also http://go-oo.org/discover/ -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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: June 24th, 16:00 GMT
by Dirk Mueller 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hi, There's an openSUSE KDE Community meeting is coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24th. Contrary to our usual schedule, the meeting is two hours earlier (!), starting at 16:00 GMT Topics can be proposed also in advance on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings The current list of topics: * old action items * KDE repository splitting (remove :Extra-Apps?) * KDE3 to KDE4 migration for openSUSE 11.1 * take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Ideas for 11.1. Please join us if you're interested. We'll meet at #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net at 16:00 GMT. Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=24&year=20… to figure out when this is in your time zone. :-) Greetings, Dirk -- 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 Helping Hands Project Launches
by Bryen 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

The openSUSE-GNOME Team is proud to announce the launch of the Helping Hands Project. Our first event will be the Helping Hands Grand Opening in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the FreeNode IRC network, June 27th at 14:30 UTC. To find out the time in your area, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=27&year=20… The Helping Hands Project is designed to bring together experts from various areas of the GNOME environment with users who want to learn more about openSUSE-GNOME and applications that run in the GNOME environment. Helping Hands Experts will present on the topic of the week and then open the floor up for questions and answers from users. The Grand Opening event will be an extended two hour event attended by many of our GNOME team members to offer advice and answer questions for setting up and customizing your new openSUSE 11.0 GNOME environment. For those of you new to openSUSE, this will be a great time to get those questions answered and learn just how great the 11.0 distribution is. Check out our Helping Hands section at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos for upcoming topics of interest. We promise an exciting season covering a wide array of topics. And if you can't make it to the event, we'll post a transcript afterwards. Interested in a topic not listed? Submit it! An expert in an area of GNOME or an application? Volunteer! Want to promote and increase awareness of your project? Be a Helping Hands Expert! If you have questions, feel free to shoot me an email at bryen(a)opensuse.org. -- ---Bryen--- Let's rejoice a "There are no dumb questions" culture. But I really need you to have a "No dumb answers" policy before I answer your question. -- 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 11.0 GM
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 -- everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop and on the server. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE Project provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. The 11.0 release of openSUSE includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, and much more. Read all about the updates in the release at http://news.opensuse.org/?p=891. All of the Sneak Peeks for this release are available at http://news.opensuse.org/category/sneak-peeks/. Media and Download openSUSE is now available for immediate download. The openSUSE 11.0 release brings several new options for installation media, as well as familiar choices: â€¢ openSUSE 11.0 DVD â€¢ openSUSE 11.0 KDE 4 32-bit Live CD â€¢ openSUSE 11.0 GNOME 32-bit Live CD â€¢ openSUSE 11.0 KDE 4 64-bit Live CD â€¢ openSUSE 11.0 GNOME 64-bit Live CD You can download openSUSE 11.0 via HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink from http://software.openSUSE.org. You can also purchase a retail box with openSUSE 11.0 that includes 90-day installation support, physical media, and a printed Getting Started guide: http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE. Communicate We want to hear from you! The openSUSE Project has many channels of communication: * Official openSUSE Forums: forums.opensuse.org. * Mailing Lists: The openSUSE mailing lists. * IRC: #opensuse on irc.freenode.net and and other channels. * Jabber, Usenet, and more. Check out all your communication options at: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate To keep up to date with openSUSE, be sure to keep an eye on openSUSE News (http://news.opensuse.org/) and watch Planet SUSE (http://www.planetsuse.org/) for blog posts from the openSUSE community. Want to help the openSUSE Project? To get involved with openSUSE see the How to Participate page on the openSUSE wiki. We can use lots of different skills to help the project, so feel free to jump in! See how to help at: http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate All of the contributors who have worked on openSUSE deserve a huge thank you. Without your hard work, this release would not have been possible. openSUSE 11.0 is the best openSUSE release yet, and will help promote the use of Linux everywhere! Now, get openSUSE 11.0 and have a lot of fun! -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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 27
by Jan-Simon Möller 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 27 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * HOT! Upcoming o p e n S U S E 1 1 . 0 * People of openSUSE: Rupert Horstkötter * Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE with Stephan Binner * Tips and Tricks: Jigish Gohil: Getting NVIDIA and ATI drivers on openSUSE 11.0 * Planet SUSE: Ben Kevan: Why upgrade to openSUSE 11 from openSUSE 10.x [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/27 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/26 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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