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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 1 March, 17:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

*** Europe is on summer time now! That means the meeting is probably an hour later than normal for Europeans! The following meeting, 15 April, will be at 1600UTC/1800CEST *** The next openSUSE KDE Team Meeting will take place tomorrow, 2010-04-01 at 1700 UTC The date and time in your timezone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=1&month=4&year=201… For discussion this week: try MeetBot again (Meetings/About) OBS Repo policies - e.g. (when) should betas be allowed in Community/Factory/Backports etc. Default configuration of nepomuk/strigi, dolphin search toolbar in 11.3 Getting KDE meetings in news.o.o calendar Status reports 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=1&month=4&year=201… 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 Stephenson -- 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 116 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 116 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 openSUSE News: Planet SUSE Status o 2.2 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Build Service + 3.1.1 Build Team Meeting + 3.1.2 Pavol Rusnak: zypper – dependency graph o 3.2 Wiki / Communication / Events + 3.2.1 Andreas Jaeger: FOSSCOMM 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece + 3.2.2 Nikanth Karthikesan: Back from National Free Software Conference – 2010 + 3.2.3 Bryen Yunashko: GNOME A11y Hackfest and CSUN Conference 2010 + 3.2.4 Thomas Biege: Being in Prague for a “Secure Development” Training * 4 Tips and Tricks o 4.1 For Desktop Users + 4.1.1 Packt/Bethany Hiitola: Recording an Interview with Skype using Audacity 1.3 o 4.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 4.2.1 Alex Barrios: Solving typical problems of BCM4312 802.11b/g + 4.2.2 Linux Magazine/Jerry Peek: There’s a Lot in the Dot: Filesystem Permissions and Pathnames (Part 1) + 4.2.3 Dedoimedo: Linux cool hacks – Part II o 4.3 For Developers and Programmers + 4.3.1 Andreas Jaeger: How to Add New Packages to the openSUSE Distribution o 4.4 For System Administrators + 4.4.1 Linux Magazine/Ken Hess: Five Easy Ways to Secure Your Linux System + 4.4.2 TechRepublic/Vincent Danen: Replace a failed drive in Linux RAID + 4.4.3 Linux Journal/Mitch Frazier: Use ssh_config To Simplify Your Life + 4.4.4 Novell Cool Solutions: XEN live migration over encrypted connection (ssh tunnel) * 5 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 5.1 Packman: k3b 1.91.0_rc2 o 5.2 Packman: kmymoney4 3.96.1 o 5.3 Packman: FreeCAD 0.9.2646 * 6 Projects Corner o 6.1 Education Project + 6.1.1 openSUSE Education Li-f-e Update o 6.2 Mono Project + 6.2.1 Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft and .NET * 7 Planet SUSE o 7.1 Kohei Yoshida: The book has arrived! o 7.2 Andrew Wafaa: Blogged about: Community Discussion – Part 2 o 7.3 Francis Giannaros: Iris Recognition Project: Success with Qt * 8 openSUSE Forums o 8.1 Dual Booting Windows 7 o 8.2 Broadcom Wireless issue o 8.3 A New Install o 8.4 11.3 Milestone 4 Results * 9 On the Web o 9.1 Announcements + 9.1.1 Technical Preview of PySide-Shiboken + 9.1.2 Linux Foundation Announces 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus + 9.1.3 Free Software Awards Announced o 9.2 Reports + 9.2.1 Miguel de Icaza: OData Client goes Open Source + 9.2.2 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Ceph file system in 2.6.34, kernel and KVM presentations at the CLT2010 + 9.2.3 h-online/Dj Walker-Morgan: OpenSUSE gets an Upstart + 9.2.4 Focus: 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect o 9.3 Reviews and Essays + 9.3.1 Shane Fagan: Linux Game Review + 9.3.2 OStatic/Joe Brockmeier: More Bad English, Please + 9.3.3 Computerworld/Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Now what, Novell? + 9.3.4 Novell Cool Solutions/Ian Roughley: Novell Pulse and Google Wave: Demonstrating Inter-company Collaboration o 9.4 Warning! + 9.4.1 h-online/Chris von Eitzen: Firefox 3.6.2 closes critical security hole * 10 Past Events & Meetings * 11 Upcoming Events & Meetings * 12 Security Updates o 12.1 SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE- SA:2010:018) * 13 Statistics o 13.1 opensuse.org o 13.2 openFATE o 13.3 Bugzilla o 13.4 Localization o 13.5 openSUSE for your ears * 14 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 15 Credits * 16 Translations For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/116/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/116 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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 11.3 Milestone 4 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here's what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features * NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support bluetooth and GSM. * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2, it "adds over 67 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.11, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD support, supply level and status reporting for network printers via SNMP, an improved web interface, and the CUPS DDK tools." * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added. These are userspace tools that allow system administrators interact with the Connection Tracking System, which is the module that provides stateful packet inspection for iptables. * The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2. * Python has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone. * The LiveCDs have virtualbox guest tools. Now features like screen resizing, seamless mode, and shared clipboards work fine and automatically after boot-up! Check this (~8,5MB) ogv video to see the guest addition features in action. Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92). * With the next milestone, empathy will be the default IM client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag & drop and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such as /join. * Tomboy's startup time has been drastically improved. Syncing is now done automatically. * Natilus' user interface now includes a new split view mode and the default is set to browser mode. Nautilus features a number of user interface changes including a new split view mode and is now set to browser mode by default, replacing spatial mode. KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1 the most important changes: * A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed * Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as the analog clock and the picture frame * A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE's powerful terminal application * Amarok is now at version 2.3, "Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)". * k3b is updated to 2.0 RC2 LXDE desktop users: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9. Now lxde fully supports trash, automount, gvfs, "menu-browsing" and much more. * lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The known bugs include: * gwibber has been updated but depends on desktopcouch and that stack is not yet integrated into openSUSE. You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing 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. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday, April the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from http://software.opensuse.org/developer today! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2010-03-29 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Daylight Saving Time in most areas! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * the 10th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 17:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=29&year=2… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please submit your topics to http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Testing_Core_Team/Meetings Best wishes, Holgi - -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053-0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053-483 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAkurgKEACgkQ539IWoEy06WTdgCfQPg5glGVl3EiQ7PFS6miR6ue TOwAn2ggSHunaSHwMNYddth/fRAIMfBc =faER -----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] Planet SUSE Status
by Andreas Jaeger 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Planet SUSE aggregates blog posts from the SUSE Linux universum, including openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. It aggregates not only English blog posts but also as separate feeds German, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese posts. Planet SUSE has been unavailable for the last days due to some problems while renewing the domain. We have therefore setup an alternative DNS entry for the server under the openSUSE domain, you can reach the planet now as planet.openSUSE.org. The alternative name will stay, so feel free to change your bookmarks permantelty to it. If you'd like to see a blog shown on Planet SUSE, please tell the admins James Ogley and Pascal Bleser. A special thanks to our Planet heros - James, Pascal, Darix and Justin, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 115 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 115 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] Contents [hide] * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 openSUSE News: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out! * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Distribution + 3.1.1 Andrea Florio: openSUSE-LXDE Live CDs + 3.1.2 Pavol Rusnak: openSUSE Xfce Live CDs o 3.2 Boosters Team + 3.2.1 Michal Hrušecký: openSUSE Search + 3.2.2 Boosters Standup 2010-03-16 o 3.3 Build Service + 3.3.1 Build Team Meeting + 3.3.2 Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters update: build.opensuse.org improvements o 3.4 Wiki / Communication / Events + 3.4.1 Jan Weber: 800 DVDs left in Chemnitz :-) + 3.4.2 Sirko Kemter: A few things about last weekend + 3.4.3 Petr Uzel: openSUSE @ Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2010 + 3.4.4 Alex Barrios: FLISOL 2010 in Venezuela * 4 Tips and Tricks o 4.1 For Desktop Users + 4.1.1 Worldlabel.com/Dmitri Popov: Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool o 4.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 4.2.1 nixCraft/Vivek Gite: Bash History: Display Date And Time For Each Command + 4.2.2 ServerWatch/Juliet Kemp: Get the Most Out of Your Open-Source Software With Redirection in Bash o 4.3 For System Administrators + 4.3.1 Ghacks/Jack Wallen: Understanding Samba security modes * 5 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 5.1 Packman: sockso 1.2.3 o 5.2 Packman: kmediafactory 0.7.5 o 5.3 OBS/Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 beta1 available for openSUSE o 5.4 OBS/Klaas Freitag (dragotin): Kraft 0.40 Beta 2 available * 6 Projects Corner o 6.1 KDE Project + 6.1.1 openSUSE KDE meeting 20100318 * 7 Planet SUSE o 7.1 Andrew Wafaa: Bugging Bugs - A Call For Help o 7.2 Klaas Freitag (dragotin): The KDE Plasma Reference * 8 openSUSE Forums o 8.1 Can't Install Thunderbird o 8.2 Numpad Issue o 8.3 Wireless Problem o 8.4 Virtual Box USB Issue * 9 On the Web o 9.1 Announcements + 9.1.1 Frank Karlitschek (karli): ownCloud - development started + 9.1.2 Advances in audio + 9.1.3 Eclipse 3.6 M6 (Helios) available for download + 9.1.4 Gustavo Noronha: WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90 is out! o 9.2 Call for participation + 9.2.1 Linux.com/Jennifer Cloer: One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com? o 9.3 Reports + 9.3.1 Aaron Reichman (areichman): ownCloud features + screenshots + 9.3.2 Aaron Seigo: The Plasma Netbook Reference Platform + 9.3.3 Mario Carrion: Comparing Ruby and C#: Equality + 9.3.4 THINQ.co.uk/Paul Hales: Linux powers 9 out of 10 top supercomputers + 9.3.5 ZDNet/Zack Whittaker: Top 100 sites in 2010: Search giants, shopping, Facebook and a bit of porn + 9.3.6 Computerworld/Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux on the cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat + 9.3.7 The Register/Timothy Prickett Morgan: Novell, Ingres partner for appliances + 9.3.8 Techworld/Paul Krill: Novell Mono project bringing Silverlight to Apple iPhone o 9.4 Reviews and Essays + 9.4.1 TuxRadar: Reviewed: OpenOffice.org 3.2 + 9.4.2 Ars Technica/Ryan Paul: Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs o 9.5 LOL + 9.5.1 handlewithlinux.com: Linux coolness: Linux Cooler, Linux serves you beer * 10 Past Events & Meetings * 11 Upcoming Events & Meetings * 12 Security Updates o 12.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:006 o 12.2 SUSE Security Announcement: OpenOffice.org (SUSE- SA:2010:017) * 13 Statistics o 13.1 opensuse.org o 13.2 openFATE o 13.3 Bugzilla o 13.4 Localization o 13.5 openSUSE for your ears * 14 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 15 Credits * 16 Translations For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/115/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/115 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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 18th March, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 18th March, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * on-demand package installation * old action items * status report * calls for testing * 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=18&month=3&year=20… 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! -- 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 11.3 Milestone 3 is out!
by Henne Vogelsang 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Beloved community, associates and everybody else, The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a great deal of the work in the hands of the openSUSE Build Service after a few issues (such as kernel panics) were resolved. Read about what you may find interesting in the new release on our blog http://bit.ly/113_milestone_3 Have a lot of fun... Your openSUSE Project -- 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 114 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 114 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Sascha Manns: Geeko wants you: Weekly News Team searches for new Translators * Cornelius Schumacher: Are you up for a new challenge in the SUSE Studio team? * Richard Bos: Build your own Google Earth rpm * TuxRadar: The newbie’s guide to hacking the Linux kernel * Andrew Wafaa: Community Discussion – Part1 For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/114/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/114 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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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