November 2010 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 151 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 151 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE * lex Barrios: Just a small story about my ambassador life * Linux User & Developer/Jon Masters: The Kernel Column * New Kernel speed up patch from Mike Galbraith * Anne-Marie Mahfouf (annma): Bug Squashing: preparing the 4.6 release For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5581 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- 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] News signing key in openSUSE:11.3:Contrib
by Pavol Rusnak 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! The old openSUSE:11.3:Contrib signing key got deleted by an accident, so we have to generate the new one and sign all packages in this repo with it. It is safe to accept key with the following fingerprint when yast/zypper ask you to do so: 4FC8 6B50 8808 B7D7 D36C 59E3 CC9C 2F60 7296 AFB2 Sorry for the inconvenience. - -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkztNd0ACgkQASE5C6aRcUSjQQCfRtIn5DoKyvivsCLRW3xYI4YX bd4AoLss8R01iRGe9CBROHb2LWCeo9PI =35VC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE
by Pascal Bleser 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

As published on http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachm… Is this thing on? *tap* *tap*. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board [1] speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell [2] has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation [3]. What does that mean for the openSUSE Project? We don’t know exactly yet because our crystal ball is currently in the shop and therefore fortune-telling is not our greatest talent ;-) However, we have other talents: we are a software developer community and we’re here to work on one of the greatest GNU/Linux distributions and other world class software distribution tools to advance Free and Open Source software together with the global FOSS community! For now, we don’t know much about Attachmate, we have had no dealings with them yet and, as Novell is a publicly traded company, all of this is as new to us as to anyone else. But the openSUSE Project has had, since its beginning, a very vibrant cooperation with Novell, especially with Novell’s SUSE business, and we are looking forward to continuing this once Novell and SUSE become part of Attachmate! Our best wishes go out to the people of our community that are employed by Novell and SUSE, may this bring nothing but good things for you and your careers. The second part of the deal relates to the intellectual property that is changing hands. Our hope is that this does not add to the minefield that software patents are today for Free and Open Source software developers. The openSUSE Board generally believes, like the rest of the global FOSS community, that software patents impede innovation and are inconsistent with Open Source and Free Software. What makes us proud is that Attachmate wants to further and strengthen the SUSE brand, which is based also on products and technology built by the openSUSE Project. Furthermore we are more than willing and looking forward to teaching another corporation about the principles, values and strengths of the Free and Open Source software development model. If you are reading this as an Attachmate employee, we would like to encourage you to just swing by and talk to us about the opportunites we can offer you to participate in this project! And apart from all that it’s business as usual and we are continuing to work on, rather than predicting, the future of this project and have a lot of fun! By the way if you wonder what that means practically, the next step into the future of this project is described in the post below: Our great bug squashing day on Saturday. See you there! [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board [2] http://www.novell.com/ [3] http://www.attachmate.com/ [4] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/opensuse-bug-day-on-saturday-november-2… In the behalf of the openSUSE Board (board(a)opensuse.org) cheers, -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 150 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 150 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Manu Gupta: Aloha openSUSE Medical * Sirko Kemter: OpenRheinRuhr 2010 * Linux.com/Jack Wallen: How to Configure Wireless on Any Linux Desktop * Thomas Schraitle: Checking EPUBs * h-online/Richard Hillesley: Health Check: openSUSE – Community before code For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5493 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- 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 149 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 149 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd * Sascha Manns: openSUSE medical team releases stable version 0.0.6 * Sirko Kemter: openSUSE A-Z Guide at BLIT 2010 * Sankar P: Detecting Memory Leaks in Kernel * Michael Löffler: /me is leaving For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5480 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- 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 Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd
by Will Stephenson 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone releases of what will become openSUSE 11.4. The bug, a crash in the software rasterizer of the Mesa OpenGL stack, was found by our automated test suite and the openSUSE XOrg developers swung into action so that KDE would work on systems without hardware acceleration, which includes most virtual machines. systemd, the alternative init system, becomes available for testing in M3 with version 11. To test systemd, install it, then reboot with init=/bin/systemd as described by Andreas Jaeger. Otherwise, the existing SysV init is used. M3 includes Gnome 2.32 on the desktop, including metacontact support in the Empathy instant messenger and Banshee 1.8 with Amazon MP3 store plugin, KDE 4.5.3, and a number of independent updates including version 0.11 of the Arora browser, the chemistry tool Avogadro 1.0.1 and Licq 1.5, introducing XMPP support to this venerable IM client. On the productivity front, M3 includes LibreOffice 3.2.99, a host of additional optional packages for KOffice such as lcms2 giving better colour management and image processing options, and Digikam 1.5.0 including automated lens correction while batch processing multiple images, Mono 2.8 replaces Mono 2.6 and adds C# 4.0, an new garbage collector and many performance improvements. At the lower level, Linux kernel 2.6.36 is in, along with smartmontools 5.40 brings SSD support, and Wireshark 1.4 brings many performance improvements and memory footprint reductions. Due to a new liblzma, delta ISOs from M2 to M3 must be applied using a new version of deltarpm. Stephan Kulow provides this in his home:coolo Build Service project. We look forward to your bug reports and test experiences. Automated testing and the openSUSE Factory team have been active to ensure that your download of M3 will be at least minimally functional. The next milestone is scheduled for November 25. openSUSE 11.4 is planned to be released in March 2011. -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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 148 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 148 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Run…Or Help Run! * Kostas Koudaras: 11.3 Late Launch Party * Rares Aioanei: kernel weekly news – 06.11.2010 * Tech Drive-in/rationalbeing: 13 Beautiful Inkscape Tutorials for Creating Stunning Vector Graphics * KDE Ships November Updates: 4.5.3 For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5416 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- 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] Invitation to join Election Officials Team
by Bryen M. Yunashko 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

"Run...or Help Run" First, the Help Run.... Election season in the openSUSE Project is just around the corner. And this means the firsts step is to organize the Election Officials committee. The openSUSE Board is inviting members to submit their name to join the Election Officials committee: Who may join?: * Members of the openSUSE Project How and When?: * Send an email to board at openSUSE dot org, with the subject line: “Election Officials Committee”. Deadline to apply for the committee is November 16. The Board will review and determine the formation of the committee by November 19. We would like to see at least one past Election Official participate for consistency. Duties: * Review current election rules * Coordinate and implement election procedures * Establish relevant dates for the election process. * Report final decisions of the process to the Board * Coordinate with the Membership Officials team to ensure all membership applicants are eligible to vote prior to voting date. * Announce publicly and widely the dates and call for candidacies. * Monitor and certify election results. And now the “Run” part.... 2011 will be an important year for the openSUSE Project and the openSUSE Board will be guiding into a number of significant initiatives including the openSUSE Foundation, finalization of the openSUSE Strategy, and ongoing reviews of openSUSE governance. As such, we want you all to consider the possibility of running for openSUSE Board. While we obviously don't have exact dates for when candidacy is beginning, (That's up to the Election Officials) it is never too early for you to start thinking about it. If you've thought about it and aren't sure yet, just remember the words of fellow Board Member, Henne Vogelsang... “Just do it!” There will be two spots open for the election this year. So give this some thought. Either run for Board or help run the Board elections. -- 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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