July 2008 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo next week!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first "openSUSE Day" in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We'll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, the openSUSE Build Service, and much more. Come by and learn all about openSUSE, pick up an openSUSE 11.0 DVD and some of the fabulous door prizes -- We'll be giving away two Chumby's (must be present to win) and tons of openSUSE swag -- including openSUSE t-shirts, caps, and other big prizes. The schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., including an openSUSE Birds of a Feather at 4:15 p.m. See the full schedule at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Day_at_LinuxWorld_Expo. We will also have a booth in the .Org area at LinuxWorld, so stop by and say hi and learn all about openSUSE. Attendance is free, and if you're registered you also have access to the show expo floor. To register, go to http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/register//SN335015. Select the openSUSE Community Day and sign up. Want to help with the openSUSE Day or help staff the openSUSE booth in the LWE .Org Pavilion? We'd love to have you! If you'd like to get involved, speak up on the opensuse-marketing list or contact Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (zonker(a)opensuse.org). -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/31 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '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: 2008/07/31 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=31&month=07&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/20080731 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] Reminder: Kernel bug squashing day (today)
by Lars Marowsky-Bree 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi everybody, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of SuSE's kernel teams, the first openSUSE Kernel bug squashing day: Wednesday, July 30th 2008; that is: as of now! Our goals are: - Reduce the number of (openSUSE) kernel bugs in Novell's bugzilla; - Clean out all those ancient and no longer valid bugs; - Identify duplicates; - Upstream as many of the bugs (and patches) as possible; - For the remaining bugs, help their triaging and resolution along. - Help test and review fixes. No bug is sacred! Interested members from the openSUSE community are invited to join us on irc.freenode.net, channel #opensuse-kernel for live coordination and participation on that day; the SUSE kernel teams will be there too, and we look forward to challenging bugs and successful cooperation. Regards, Lars -- Team lead 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 -- 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] Next Helping Hands Session: Multi-Screening
by Bryen 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Do you want to connect two monitors to your computer? Or perhaps you have a laptop and you'd like to hook up a projector to it? Find out how to make it work at our next Helping Hands session, presented to you by Federico Mena Quintero. This coming Friday, August 1, 2008 at 15:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on the Freenode network. The Helping Hands project is a weekly presentation series designed to introduce you to all the cool things you can do on openSUSE. Past presentations have included general GNOME Tips and Tricks, OpenOffice, and Evolution. And we have many more exciting events just around the corner. If you'd like to volunteer to be a Helping Hands presenter on your favorite topic or a coordinator/organizer, please feel free to contact me. Thanks and see you all on Friday! Bryen -- 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 - 2008/07/02 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '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: 2008/07/30 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=30&month=07&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_2008-07-30 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). btw: congratulations KDE team! http://news.opensuse.org/2008/07/29/kde-41-released-with-opensuse-packages-… -- 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] KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD
by Stephan Binner 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Original openSUSE News story: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=963 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------- KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD The KDE team today released KDE 4.1 [1]. The KDE developers, including the openSUSE KDE Team, have been working on it for the last six months. Lots of feedback from people trying out KDE 4.0 has gone into KDE 4.1, filling most of the gaps people experienced with the 4.0 releases. See the release announcement [2] for more information and screenshots KDE 4.1 Packages, openSUSE-based KDE 4.1 Live CD Regular KDE 4 Packages [3] and an openSUSE-based KDE Four Live CD [4] have been available throughout the whole cycle, and final versions of them are also available now. On openSUSE 11.0 you can use 1-click-install to get the KDE 4.1 desktop environment (for openSUSE 10.3 follow link #3): http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/d/dd/Kde4-ymp.png Or you can choose to install a more basic KDE 4 desktop. Developers can also optionally install the KDE 4 build dependencies: all the packages you need to have installed for compiling KDE 4.x from source (experts only). [1] http://dot.kde.org/1217341401 [2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4 [4] http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live -- 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 32
by Stephan Binner 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

I am pleased to announce: Issue 32 of openSUSE Weekly News [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.0 Survey * openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD * openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 is Available * Bugzilla: Changed Definitions * One Year of openSUSE News * Andrew Wafaa: Lug Radio Live 2008 Report [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/32 Last week's issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/31 Have a lot of fun... -- 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] Short downtime of master download server
by Peter Poeml 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

There will be a brief outage of download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org in about half an hour. It should be functional again after a few 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 11.1 Alpha1 is available
by Christoph Thiel 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi everyone, openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 is available -- but beware, this is an Alpha with very rough edges! While testing this on a Thinkpad R51, the system didn't boot after first stage installation. We are still looking into this issue (#411937). In addition to that, the default GNOME installation will complain about a missing package (providing gnome-session-branding)[1]. With the current bootloader issue, using the DVDs for installing is not recommended, until we have a workaround. Please try the LiveCDs instead! openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 GNOME LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 KDE4 LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-… Please refer to http://software.opensuse.org/developer for further details and all the links. Happy testing, Christoph [1] missing package is available from: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/hotfix/ -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/07/24 16:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by JP Rosevear 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '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: 2008/07/24 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=24&month=07&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/20080724 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 .. JP Rosevear (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -- 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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