September 2008 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] New Timeshift Meeting for openSUSE-GNOME this Thursday
by Bryen 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Heads up, GNOMEies, there's a new TimeShift in town! The openSUSE-GNOME Team is experimenting with a new timeshift meeting time. We regularly host our timeshifted meetings at 11:00 UTC for the first Thursday of the month. This ended up in very low attendance when we wanted to reach out to as many people globally as possible. The new timeshift will be 22:00 UTC beginning this Thursday, October 2nd. To find out what 22:00 UTC means in your area, check out the http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=02&month=10&year=2… link. Be there! -- Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board -- 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 Team Meeting - October 1st, 16:00 UTC
by Stephan Binner 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting is tomorrow, October 1st at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * general status report * KDE Bug Squashing Days review/planning * NetworkManager-kde4 status report and request for testing * Q&A Further items are welcome; please add them to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=1&year=20… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting happens in #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net. You're welcome to join and participate! -- 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 40
by Stephan Binner 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 40 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available * Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 * openSUSE Build Service Did It! * Board Election Phase 1 Started * openSUSE Homepage Redesigned [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/40 Last week's issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/39 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] openSUSE election status update
by Marko Jung 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update. Since the initial announcement we raised the openSUSE member count by 50% to now 212 approved openSUSE members. I am impressed by the enormous interest in participating in our project. And we have a total of ten candidates running for a seat in the next openSUSE board: Non-Novell * Pascal Bleser * Peter Linnell * Tuukka Pasanen * Alex Rodriguez * Jakub Rusinek * Bryen Yunashko Novell * Marco Michna * Stephen Shaw * Henne Vogelsang * Federico Mena-Quintero Find platforms and contact details for all candidates in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Candidates = What is next? = During the next two weeks, each of the 212 openSUSE members is able to give voting privileges for this election to another user (which is not an openSUSE member). This person should be an active contributor of the openSUSE community and needs an account at users.openSUSE.org which has been created before September, 1st 2008. The possibility to give franchise to another person is for you the perfect chance to get a friend or colleague more involved in the openSUSE project. Do not miss this opportunity and help us to get as much people as possible participating on the election! Unfortunately I used a wrong variable in the mail template for the first notification mail, the appointment of additional voters ends October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 UTC. Until ballots will open on October, 9th 2008 (12:00 UTC) we have now two weeks of campaigning, which should be mainly driven by the candidates themselves. Potentially there will be a public IRC debate with all candidates, but this is not set yet. If you are interested and have time to support us organizing it, please get in touch now! Concluding I would like to thank all candidates for standing, the openSUSE board for checking more than hundret membership requests, my colleagues from the election committee and Zonker for their great support. -- 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 2008/09/24 16:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '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: 2008/09/24 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=09&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/Current 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 -- 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] Last reminder: Deadline for membership and candidates for openSUSE board election
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi all, A quick, and final, reminder -- the deadline for declaring candidacy for the openSUSE board, and the deadline for requesting openSUSE membership, is Sept. 24 at 12:00 UTC. Please see the announcement on openSUSE News for the full details: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/17/reminder-call-for-opensuse-board-candid… Thanks, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- 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 - 2008/09/24 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '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: 2008/09/24 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=24&month=09&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_2008-09-24 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 -- 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] Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

We have an important announcement regarding openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 beta 1: The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer. Intel and Novell are currently working to analyze and solve the issue. For the time being: Please do NOT USE: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 or SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 on systems with Intel e1000e hardware. Any other hardware, including systems with Intel e1000 (without -e) network cards, is not affected by this issue. We will keep you posted. Please watch news.opensuse.org and the opensuse-announce mailing list for more information. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- 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 Build Service did it!
by Adrian Schröter 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

The openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 release marks a significant change for openSUSE. For the first time in 11 years, a SUSE release was not built in the SUSE internal AutoBuild service ? openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 was built using the openSUSE Build Service! AutoBuild was the first full automated system on this planet which built Linux distributions. It served us well, with reliable building of the SUSE distributions. It guaranteed that depending packages got rebuild to avoid unexpected incompatibilities, and guaranteed that a build is reproducible by setting up a complete system for each package build. (This happens around 3,500 times per full distribution build and per architecture. This results in more than 10 thousand system installations for building a openSUSE distribution once!) However, 11 years is a long time in the IT industry. New requirements are appearing and the openSUSE project in particular needed an open system, not limited to SUSE/Novell employees. The openSUSE Build Service is designed with all good ideas from AutoBuild, but as a more transparent and distributable system. We invented for example the Product Definition lately, which describes all needed information describing all openSUSE medias. The Build Service automatically creates needed packages and KIWI image build descriptions, and will create the openSUSE product flavors, like the ISO images, or installation source trees. This functionality makes it easy to rebuild the entire distribution. Together with the functionality of Build Service interconnect it makes it even possible that you can rebuild the openSUSE distribution at home. Either by recompiling it completely, replacing only a few packages, or just adding one. Projects like the Education project can use this to create their derived distribution more easily. The current status is that some of this functionality needs still manual work. We will release a new version of the Build Service as soon as we have automated it fully and integrated it well. It is now really transparent to see what state things are in, just by visiting the openSUSE:Factory project in Build Service. Everybody can also join in to fix stuff using the collaboration features. All this new transparency, flexibility, and reliability of the OBS lead to the situation that we currently switch also internally from AutoBuild to Build Service for building SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This proves that this system is good enough for Novell as well to rely on it. Even though we need to add some more functionality and fix some more bugs. References are listed at: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/22/obs-did-it/ PS: Greetings to SUSE founder Burchard Steinbild, who implemented the first version of AutoBuild, which was the reason of the success of SUSE :) -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg) 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] openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 now available
by Christoph Thiel 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, including new versions of KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, improved YaST modules, and much more! The ISOs for this release have been created using KIWI and RPMs created in the openSUSE Build Service. This caused some delay in the release of beta 1, but is part of the transition to using the openSUSE Build Service for all development of openSUSE. What's in openSUSE 11.1 beta 1? =============================== There are plenty of changes in 11.1, here are some of the most notable improvements, upgrades, and new features. GNOME 2.24 * PulseAudio improvements (PulseAudio 0.9.12) * Ekiga 3.0 * Empathy Instant Messenger based on Telepathy framework * File manager improvements, including tab support and "compact" view in Nautilus * New deskbar plugins * New screen resolution controls * Accessibility improvements * Power Manager improvement: Tab added to configure time to automatically wake from suspend/hibernate * Banshee 1.3 KDE 3.5.10 * openSUSE 11.1 will include KDE 3.5.10 on the DVD media, but moved to the "other window managers" selection. KDE 4.1.x * KWin has compositing enabled by default, testing welcome! * Amarok 2.0 beta 1 * Autohiding panels * KWin cube effect * Accessibility support * SVG support "almost everywhere" * Basic SELinux enablement: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux-basic-enablemen… New YaST Modules * Re-written YaST Printer module: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement#Under_construct… * Re-written YaST Partitioner module: Testing wanted! * Re-written YaST Security module: Checks the security of your system configuration. * Cluster stack features significant usability changes and has adopted OpenAIS, an industry standard also supported by leading vendors, for its core infrastructure. See http://openais.org/ for more info. * Support for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) -- using KIWI, users can easily create an EC2 cloud based on openSUSE 11.1. (Documented here: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/kiwi/kiwi-head/doc/kiwi.pdf?op=file&rev=0&sc=0) * Improvements in OCFS2: Full integration with userspace cluster stack, POSIX file locking, extended attributes, and file system sizes up to four Petabytes (4PiB). * IPv6 improvements: openSUSE can be installed in an IPv6 environment and run an IPv6 Web server. * New BlueTooth features with BlueZ 4.6. Also: * Samba 3.2.3 * Python 2.6beta3 and 3.0beta3 * Linux kernel 2.6.27rc5 * Xen 3.3.1 RC * PackageKit 0.3.2 * GCC 4.3.2 * X.org 7.4 * OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC See http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse for a full list of packages and versions being shipped in the Factory distribution. Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Bug #427678: Build key ring of openSUSE-build-key missing in initrd. Workaround: hit "Import" on Public GnuPG Key error message, to import openSUSE:Factory OBS Project key. * Bug #427664: openSUSE-images missing from install media. Note: Installation will be slower. Images will be added for Beta2 * Bug #427692: Desktop selection still offers KDE3. This option will go away in Beta2, and KDE3 will be moved to "other window managers." * Bug #418585: Error: Failed to detect print queues. Workaround: Just hit OK. * OpenOffice.org has been split into new packages for 11.1beta1. OpenOffice.org should be usable, but there are a number of known bugs: + Optional packages are not really optional, because the registry files are not correctly spread over the subpackages. + Java and Python components are not registered, so wizards do not work. + Dialog to change macro security level is empty (other dialogs may be affected as well). + Macro editor does not highlight lines with breakpoints. + Macro editor does not mark the line where the code is stopped (arrow). + "Help" and "From Template" dialogs do not have icons. + Wizard to select document type is not shown. The most annoying problems should be fixed before beta2 and beta3. See the wiki for the latest on annoying bugs: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.1_dev Call for Testing ================= Please remember that this is a beta release, and is not suitable for use on production systems. However, this release is ready for widespread testing, and we're encouraging everyone to download and test the beta release. Please run the release through your usual routine, and let us know about any bugs or other issues that you find. If you want to help testing using the standard test cases, look at openSUSE.org/Testing, and in particular see the new features specific to openSUSE 11.1: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.1 This is a definitive list of new features added into 11.1 that need testing. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. Media and Download =================== The 11.1 beta is just one of the releases that will lead to the final 11.1 release. You can find the entire roadmap on the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap. Downloads are available here: http://software.opensuse.org/developer See http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Selection for a full list of mirrors. Note that you don't need to choose a mirror yourself, but you can use the mirror list if you want or need to select a mirror manually. Thanks, and have a lot of fun! -- 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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