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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #95 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 95 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election * Sneak Peeks (Preview 11.2) * nixCraft/Vivek Gite: 20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips * Joe Brockmeier: openSUSE 11.2 final release candidate ready! * openSUSE Forums: openSUSE 11.2 the Perfect KDE Distribution For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/95/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/95 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Social Networking Hackfest for openSUSE
by Bryen M Yunashko 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

As preliminarily announced last week, we will be having an online Social Networking Hackfest for openSUSE on Tuesday, November 3rd in #opensuse-marketing IRC channel on Freenode. The time has now been set, and will commence at 14:00 UTC (http://bit.ly/JKvpw to see the time in your local area). Topics to be covered: - Discussion of Tips and Tricks and Strategy in an ever-fast-changing social networking world. - Documentation of above Tips and Tricks, information about all the social networks we should be participating in. - Creation of a master directory on our wiki so users can enter their information for potential followers. - How to disseminate information to regional language-specific social networks? We started working on http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/SocNet during Community Week earlier this year. This will be our primary work area during Tuesday's hackfest. If you are unable to attend Tuesday's event, please feel free to visit the pages and make additions, corrections, or email us your comments. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you there or hearing from you before then! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility 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 11.2 Final Release Candidate
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

This is it folks! We're almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This release includes an updated kernel, Samba, Firefox, and more. This release should be almost ready for the gold master stamp, but there's still time to shake out remaining bugs. This release should not be deployed on production systems, but should be ready for early adopters and contributors who want to help with testing and development of 11.2. **Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 RC 1** Release Candidate 2 includes a few new packages, and several of the "most annoying bugs" in RC 1 have been fixed for this release. New packages include: * Linux kernel 2.6.31.5 * SeaMonkey 2.0 * Firefox 3.5.4 * Samba 3.4.2 * xorg-x11-server 1.6.5 A more complete list can be found on the wiki[1] and an updated list of Factory packages can be found on DistroWatch[2]. 11.2 is looking fantastic. Want screenshots? We've got 'em! Check out the shots here[3], and/or add your own. **Most Annoying Bugs** As this is a release candidate, we're still shaking the release out for major bugs. However, at this point in the cycle, we're almost ready to call 11.2 RC 2 production ready. We do know of one bug worth noting, however: The Net ISO images will call the factory repository. The URL for repositories needs to be changed from /factory/repo/oss to /factory-snapshot/repo/oss manually. You can find more on adding repositories on the openSUSE wiki[4]. If any major new bugs do crop up, they will be listed on the openSUSE wiki[5]. **Testing! Testing! Testing!** As you can see, 11.2 RC2 does have a few bugs that we know about -- but there may be more lurking somewhere in the release that haven't been found yet. If you want to make sure 11.2 final is free of Most Annoying Bugs, we'll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing[6] pages on the openSUSE wiki. 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. **Get Release Candidate 2 Today!** What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release today! Downloads are available at software.opensuse.org/developer/[7] now. Note, if you need to try the live CD on a machine with no CD-ROM drive, you can copy it to a USB key with the following command: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M Replace "image.iso" with the name of the ISO image that you have downloaded, and replace "sdX" with the actual device name of your USB drive. Be careful! This will erase the target device, so make sure you have the correct device name and have any vital data backed up! The final release for 11.2 is scheduled to be released on November 12, 2009. See the detailed roadmap on the on the wiki[8]. We're at the home stretch. A big thanks to all the contributors who have participated in the 11.2 cycle. Without you, we'd have no openSUSE. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News [2]: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2_Milestones [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.2_dev [6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing/ [7]: http://software.opensuse.org/developer/ [8]: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.2 -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place (Saturday October 31) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 the upcoming openSUSE 11.2
by Christian Dengler 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi openSUSE community, the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 is the first release of openSUSE which will be coordinated by the openSUSE community when it comes to the update process. In the past the maintenance team was working in the background and provided you with the newest and best updates. The update decision was a completely internal process. Now we will make it more transparent and let the whole community participate. The future is: The community will do updates for openSUSE in self-responsibility. The update process will be coordinated by the new openSUSE maintenance team. At the moment it consists of 5 people, 2 SUSE employees and 3 openSUSE community members. Every user can send an update request now to this team. This team will decide over the requests and coordinates the whole updates progress (plan the release time according to the severity, interact with the package maintainer, coordinate QA testing, ...) based on a new update policy. It guarantees the best supply with updates. Only maintenance (tagged as recommended, optional, YOU) updates are affected by this change. Security updates will be provided on the old and approved way by the SUSE security team. This is the fastest and established way to react on security problems. Everybody can enjoy and help to improve openSUSE and influence the development. There is a lot of work in the whole update process. So enjoy! Every openSUSE user can help to improve our distribution. You can help e.g. in: - notify interesting bugs that should be fixed by a maintenance update - work as a QA tester and check testing updates to improve the quality and give feedback - help us to create a new maintenance policy - work in the maintenance team - work as a package maintainer and provide the updates - work as a junior maintainer and learn to build packages and provide minor fixes - ... For questions, update request, feedback you can use the mailing list of the maintenance team (maintenance(a)opensuse.org) So enjoy and have a lot fun :-) Greetings, Christian -- 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 - Thursday 29th October, 16:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 29th October, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Evaluate the possibility of showing the up splash-screen at KDE login slightly longer to give a polished first look * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc * Best bad K-word pun competition - to win a signed 11.2 KDE CD! Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=29&month=10&am… 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! Will Stephenson -- 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] Call for Participation: New Project - openSUSE Medical
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Abstract: I'm pleased to announce an new Subproject from openSUSE: openSUSE_Medical. This new Project tries to package more Software for doctors's practice or clinical needs. With our work we try to bridge a gap in the market. Logistic: For better logistic we have opened an new OBS Project called "medical". You can use it as Repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/medical/. Our new Wikisite is placed under: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Medical. There you find our new Mailinglist for our Project. What is to do? We try to package more Software. I've found this List [1] about Free Medical Software. we thought, that we can try to build one Software each purpose. If this is done, we can try to package more Software. But it is important to package not too much. This is an Joy- Project. What we need: First of all we need Packager. and one who updates the wikipage and make status updates. This Project is for packaging Beginners to Specialists. We have stuff for everyone. If you want to join our Team, just send a Message to: saigkill(a)opensuse.org [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 the Second openSUSE Board Election
by Andrew Wafaa 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on the Board, and their seats are up for election. There is also a new seat available to be occupied by a non-Novell member. Henne Vogelsang (henne) and Pascal Bleser (yaloki) have another year to complete and will remain, Michael Löffler (michl) as chairman will remain as well. This means that as of this year's election the openSUSE Board will be made up of equal numbers of Novell and non-Novell employees, 2 seats+Chairperson and 3 seats respectively. Candidates for this election will be voted in for a two (2) year term, ensuring that there is continuity within the Board. The election is broken into three phases similar to last year: October 26th, 2009 (Phase 0) * Start of 4 week period for non-members to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote). * Start of 4 week phase for members to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board. November 23rd, 2009 (End of Phase 0) * Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close . November 24th, 2009 (Phase 1) * Start of 2 week campaign for the Board Candidates before the ballots open. Candidates may campaign until the final bell when ballots close, should they wish. December 8th, 2009 (Phase 2) * Ballots open December 22nd, 2009 (End of Phase 1 & 2) * Ballots close Should anyone have any questions, you can contact the Election Committee by emailing election-officials(a)opensuse.org or speaking to one of the members on IRC. It is best to always email the committee even if you speak to someone on IRC. Full details of the election can be found on the wiki[0]. Prospective candidates are highly encouraged to read this[1] lwn.net article on some of the tasks required of Board members. Regards, Andy [0] = http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2009 [1] = http://lwn.net/Articles/211548/ -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at 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 weekly News #94 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 94 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Novell’s Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier hosts new Network World podcastseries * Will Stephenson: Update from the openSUSE Boosters * Pavol Rusnak: Wrong usage of LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Pascal Bleser: Packman upgrading to SVN OBS * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 1) – Network subsystem and network drivers For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/94/Translations. [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/94 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21st, at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-10-21 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[5]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/4ro3q [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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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