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[opensuse-announce] Re: [suse-mirror] download.opensuse.org broken down
by Peter Poeml 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Dear community, On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:58:14PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote: > > I'm sorry to say that download.opensuse.org will be unavailable for some > > time. > > > > Its storage array broke down once again, and we have no backup. > > (We are in need of hardware since ever; if anyone would be able to > > sponsor some, we would be very glad about it.) > > > > This affects stage.opensuse.org as well (same box). > > > > I can't give a timeline yet, but expect it to be offline for one to > > several days. > > download.opensuse.org has suffered severe, but constricted filesystem > damage. > > We are working on a replacement system and hope to have it in place as > soon as possible! > > Please refer to using a mirror in the meantime - see > http://mirrors.opensuse.org/. a temporary solution is in place now. It knows all mirrors, does full geographical redirection and is reachable at http://download.opensuse.org/ as usual. The broken disk array is being worked on while we speak. A time estimate is hard to give. We are confident that the replacement will be ready soon but the amount of time we need to get it finished depends on the amount of damage on the storage. Meanwhile, the workaround should be 98% functional -- so you should not have to worry. Thanks! Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[opensuse-announce] download.opensuse.org broken down
by Peter Poeml 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I'm sorry to say that download.opensuse.org will be unavailable for some time. Its storage array broke down once again, and we have no backup. (We are in need of hardware since ever; if anyone would be able to sponsor some, we would be very glad about it.) This affects stage.opensuse.org as well (same box). I can't give a timeline yet, but expect it to be offline for one to several days. Thanks, Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #62 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 62 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Project Meeting next Wednesday * openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released * Ken Yap: How to clone a VirtualBox Linux VM to a real machine (v0.9) * 11.2 Roadmap and Fixed Release Cycle for openSUSE * Rupert Horstkötter: OSF Status Report #3 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Indonesian [2], Japanese [3], Polish [4], Portuguese [5] (delay), Russian [6], Spanish [7] (delay), Hungarian [8] (Light), Italian [9] (delay), Chinese [10], French [11], NEW: Swedish [12] [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/62 [2] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/indonesian [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [4] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/62 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/62 [6] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/62 [7] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [8] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3/62 [9] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/62 [10] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/chinese [11] http://fr.opensuse.org/Lettre_d%27information_openSUSE/62 [12] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/swedish Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/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] Gearing Up for Google Summer of Code
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good mentors for the Google Summer of Code[1] 2009! The openSUSE Project was a mentoring organization last year, and we're hoping to participate again in 2009. Organization signup starts next week[2], and prospective mentors can sign up next week as well. Signup starts March 9th[3] at 19:00 UTC/12:00 PST and ends March 13th at 19:00 UTC/12:00 PST. Accepted organizations will be announced on March 18th, and there's a week (March 18 through 23) for organizations and students to meet and discuss. The student application period begins March 23rd, and ends April 3rd. All of the dates are on the Google SoC FAQ and we'll be sending out announcements as each of the important dates approach. Right now, we're gathering ideas for the Summer of Code on the openSUSE wiki[4]. (Thanks to Lukas Ocilka, Stanislav Visnovsky, and Jiri Srain[5] for starting this!) Feel free to add your own ideas or help revise the existing ideas. Also, if you're interested in helping out, please add your name[6] to the openSUSE GSoC '09 page. In addition to mentors (and students...) we'll need help finding mentors, reviewing GSoC applications, facilitating communication during GSoC, and so forth. (Again, see the wiki!) If you have questions about openSUSE and GSoC, ask on the opensuse-project list. [1]: http://code.google.com/soc/ [2]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cgha8l [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Important_dates [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Ideas [5]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dx4qe9 [6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Organization -- 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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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting March 11, 2009 at 17:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will be Wednesday, March 11th, at 17:00 UTC on Freenode. Again that's: 2009-03-11 17:00 UTC See all the timezones here: http://is.gd/lZgv. This is going to be a fairly substantial meeting, so if you can attend please do so! We'll be discussin the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-03-11 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-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 http://www.irchelp.org/. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Please spread the word! Best, Zonker -- 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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[opensuse-announce] SuSE in LPAR on as400 featuring openSIS
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

openSIS is proud to announce that we are beginning construction of a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR. This is a joint venture proof of concept with one of IBM's premier hardware resellers, Mainline Information Systems. The goal of this effort is to demonstrate that openSIS and many of the other packages offered in the openSUSE for Education project will be viable solutions that run natively on the IBM iSeries. The proof of concept is designed to demonstrate the viability of openSIS and openSUSE on the iSeries platform, which runs an older green screen SIS (TERMs) for approximately half of Florida's school districts. If the proof of concept is successful, OS4Ed and Mainline will be positioned to offer Florida districts an alternative SIS that is free and modern and will run natively on the same hardware they use today. This will allow these school districts to migrate to a modern web-based SIS with no licensing costs, no proprietary software licensing costs and no hardware costs. Best of all, school IT personnel will not have to be retrained to support the hardware platform as it will remain the same. This is very important during a time where Pearson School Systems is ending SasiXP support in 2010 and state budget cuts in the billions are being made. Please stay tuned as we will post follow announcements and updates as we move forward with this exciting proof of concept. -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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 - EDU Meeting
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

On Tuesday March 10th we will be having our next IRC meeting on Freenode.net in the #opensuse-edu channel. Please join us . For details read http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education_Meeting_2009-03-10 These are the current topics - perhaps someone has some additional ones? 1) Status of openSUSE-Education 1.0 2) Targets for openSUSE-Education 2.0 3) Google Summer of Code 2009 4) Old action items -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- 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] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Wednesday 4th March 17:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 4th March, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * calls for testing (get your 4.2.1 installed!) * bugzilla screening, upstreaming bugreports * the KDE team's input to Distribution Focus discussion * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=4&month=3&year=200… 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 in and participate! Will

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #61 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 61 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Joe Brockmeier: Addressing the layoffs * Andrew Wafaa: Open Support * Masim Sugianto: Apache Web Server & Virtual Host on openSUSE : Part 1 * pablo2525: opensuse 11.1 - kupdateapplet * {lizards,news,zonker}.opensuse.org updated to Wordpress 2.7.1 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Indonesian [2], Japanese [3], Polish [4] (delay), Portuguese [5] (delay), Russian [6], Spanish [7] (delay). Hungarian [8] "Light" and Italian [9] (delay) NEW: Chinese [10], NEW: French [11]. [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/61 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/61 [2] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/61/indonesian [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/61 [4] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/61 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/61 [6] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/61 [7] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/61 [8] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3/61 [9] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/61 [10] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/61/chinese [11] http://fr.opensuse.org/Lettre_d%27information_openSUSE/61 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/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] openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines[1] (PDF). With the guidelines, the openSUSE Project is looking to clarify the use of the openSUSE marks and make it easier to redistribute openSUSE-based projects. Since it's easier than ever to create customized versions of openSUSE, we've seen a lot of interest in the branding of derivative distros. When is it OK to call a distro "openSUSE," or "powered by openSUSE," and when does the branding need to be removed entirely? The guidelines are an attempt to answer as many of those questions as possible in one concise document. What Do the Guidelines Cover? ============================= The openSUSE Trademark Guidelines cover using the openSUSE marks for derivative distributions, merchandise, domain names, advocacy groups, events, publications, advertising materials, and much more. If you're doing anything that involves redistributing openSUSE or materials with the openSUSE marks, you should look over the trademark guidelines to ensure that your use is permitted. Seeking Special Permission ========================== If you want to use the official openSUSE marks, but fall outside the permitted uses_ _it is still possible to get permission. If you'd like to seek special permisison, send an email to permission(a)novell.com[2] with your contact information and an explanation of the situation. Have Questions? =============== For discussion of the guidelines and policies around the openSUSE marks, feel free to ask on the openSUSE-project mailing list. (opensuse- project(a)opensuse.org, subscribe using opensuse-project+subscribe(a)opensuse.org[3].) Discussion about openSUSE branding in general can be directed to the openSUSE marketing mailing list (opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org, subscribe using opensuse-marketing+subscribe(a)opensuse.org[4].) [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:OpenSUSE_Trademark_Guidelines.pdf [2]: mailto:permission@novell.com [3]: mailto:project+subscribe@opensuse.org [4]: mailto:opensuse-marketing+subscribe@opensuse.org -- 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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