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[opensuse-announce] Recordings of Linuxtag '08
by Thomas Schmidt 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, we have uploaded recordings from talks that took place at the openSUSE day at Linuxtag. You can find the links and descriptions here: http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag_2008 All of the talks are presented in german, beside of Zonkers part. -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- 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 BugDay - Wednesday 2008/06/11 0900 EST (1300 UTC)
by Christopher Hobbs 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Greetings Community! The next openSUSE-GNOME Bug Day will take place on Freenode in #opensuse-gnome (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on Wednesday 2008/06/11 9am EST (13:00 UTC). To see this time for your timezone, take a look at the following page: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=28&year=20… The purpose of this Bug Day will be to continue our clean up any GNOME related bugs and/or enhancements from openSUSE 10.3 that are fixed for the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 release. We have about 100 bugs to go and will keep working until we get everything reviewed. To review topics and protocol, see the Bug Day's wiki entry: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/BugDays/20080611 Previous Bug Days can be reviewed here: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/BugDays 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). We hope to see you there! Regards, Christopher M. Hobbs -- Christopher M. Hobbs, chobbs(a)siloamsprings.com Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs -- 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] OpenOffice_org 2.4.1rc2 available (call for testing)
by Petr Mladek 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 2.4.1rc2 is available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. Call for testing: It is the second and hopefully final release candidate of OOo-2.4.1 and we would like to ask you for testing and reporting bugs. 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. Schedule: If no blocker bug is found, OOo-2.4.1rc2 will be final and it will get available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:STABLE project about Tuesday, June 10, 2008. 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_5/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 (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 Weekly News, Issue 25
by Jan-Simon Möller 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 25 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * People of openSUSE: Matthias Fehring * Interview: KDevelop and the openSUSE Build Service * Status Updates * Gabriel Burt: Banshee 1.0 Release Candidate 1 * Jigish Gohil: Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 out in wild * blogs.zdnet.com: "OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s Volkswagen" [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/25 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/24 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] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/06/04 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '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: 2008/06/04 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=04&month=06&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_2008-06-04 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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