We are pleased to announce:
Issue 125 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
[0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/29/opensuse-weekly-news-125-is-out/#more-3…
In this week's issue:
* 1 Editors Note
* 2 Announcements
o 2.1 openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface
o 2.2 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase
o 2.3 openSUSE.org Scheduled Outage
o 2.4 Klaas Freitag: Novell Hackweek Fife
* 3 Status Updates
o 3.1 Distribution
+ 3.1.1 Lubos Lunak: On-demand package installation in openSUSE 11.3
+ 3.1.2 Schedules for the next Week
+ 3.1.3 Bugzilla
* 4 Team Reports
o 4.1 Build Service Team
+ 4.1.1 Build Team Meeting
+ 4.1.2 OBS 2.0 Beta 1 released
+ 4.1.3 Build Service Statistics
o 4.2 GNOME Team
+ 4.2.1 Fridrich Strba: Experimental Evolution installer for Windows
o 4.3 openFATE Team
+ 4.3.1 #309589: Support for WebM media
+ 4.3.2 #309608: Simulations with Python: SimPy
+ 4.3.3 #309617: customize hostname at install time
+ 4.3.4 #309618: Enable CGROUP feature in kerneledit
+ 4.3.5 #309626: Yast/Zypper should create a List with last installed Packages
+ 4.3.6 Statistics
o 4.4 Testing Team
+ 4.4.1 Larry Finger: Weekly Review
o 4.5 Translation Team
+ 4.5.1 Localization
* 5 In the Community
o 5.1 openSUSE TV: Architecture of Collaboration
o 5.2 Sirko Kemter: RadioTux@LinuxTag
o 5.3 Bryen Yunashko: From Chicago to Paris to Nuremberg!
o 5.4 Welcome new Members
o 5.5 Events & Meetings
o 5.6 openSUSE for your ears
o 5.7 From Ambassadors
+ 5.7.1 Agustin Chavarria: openSUSE Schools! in Nicaragua!
+ 5.7.2 Ricardo Varas Santana: openSUSE at FLISoL Chile]
o 5.8 openSUSE in $COUNTRY
o 5.9 Communication
o 5.10 Contributors
* 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE
o 6.1 Packman: veejay 1.5.3-0.pm.1.4 (openSUSE 11.2/i586)
o 6.2 Packman: xmms2 0.7-999.pm.68.2 (openSUSE 11.2/x86_64)
o 6.3 Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 rc2 available for openSUSE
* 7 Security Updates
o 7.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:012
* 8 Kernel Review
o 8.1 Rares Aioanei: Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor
* 9 Tips and Tricks
o 9.1 For Desktop Users
+ 9.1.1 IBM developerWorks/Martin Streicher: Speaking UNIX: The best-kept secrets of UNIX power users
+ 9.1.2 linuxplanet.com/Akkana Peck: Making Movies in Linux with Kdenlive, part 2
o 9.2 For System Administrators
+ 9.2.1 GeekRide/Napster: Tech Tip: Sending Email from Command line
+ 9.2.2 Novell Cool Solutions/tpetersonalpine: Teaming Cluster on a Laptop using XEN, OCFS2 and Linux Virtual Services
* 10 Planet SUSE
o 10.1 Han Wen Kam: KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1
o 10.2 Joe Brockmeier: AbiWord: The Underappreciated Word Processor
o 10.3 Joe Brockmeier: Good docs, bad docs, missing docs?
o 10.4 Dominique Leuenberger: Dominique Leuenberger: VLC / openSUSE 10.3 repository
o 10.5 Joe Brockmeier: The Spring 2010 Linux Distro Scorecard (Part 2)
o 10.6 Rares Aioanei: Weekly Review of the PostgreSQL
* 11 openSUSE Forums
o 11.1 Prevent update being installed/Package Lock?
o 11.2 11.2 Users Please Check your Firewall
o 11.3 zypper dup gave me Milestone 7
o 11.4 Possible cd/dvd hardware failure.
* 12 On the Web
o 12.1 Announcements
+ 12.1.1 LinuxCon North America 2010
+ 12.1.2 MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project release
+ 12.1.3 dot.kde.org/KDE SC 4.5 Beta1 Available
+ 12.1.4 KOffice 2.2 Released
o 12.2 Reports
+ 12.2.1 Richard A. Johnson: Impressions of the latest MeeGo release
+ 12.2.2 Datamation/Sean Michael Kerner: Novell Revenues, Linux Business Slide
+ 12.2.3 Miguel de Icaza: Linux for Consumers: MeeGo Updates=
+ 12.2.4 Michael Meeks: Evolution Express (for MeeGo)
+ 12.2.5 Aaron Bockover: Banshee for MeeGo
o 12.3 Reviews and Essays
+ 12.3.1 Ghacks/Jack Wallen: Why not try OpenSuSE 11.2
+ 12.3.2 Tuxradar: How Linux works: the ultimate guide
+ 12.3.3 LinuxMagazine/Joe Brockmeier: WebM Poised to Bring Open Video to the Masses
* 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved
* 14 Credits
* 15 Translations
For a list of available translations see the Translations Section on the bottom of the issue.
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The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow,
Thursday 27th May, at 16:00 UTC.
The current list of scheduled topics is:
* http://help.opensuse.org/ksuseinstall
* most annoying 11.3 bugs
* making the meetings more interesting/well attended
* default Akonadi startup/usage
* repository reorganization
* old action items
* status report
* Q&A, misc
Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings
Please use
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The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
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the 13th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on:
Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 17:00:00 UTC
Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local
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We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC
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Please submit your topics to
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Best wishes,
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Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build,
leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download.
M7 is the last milestone release, the next release will be RC1 on June 17th.
Now it's time for testing and bugfixing!
openSUSE 11.3 Progress
Compared to M6, this milestone brings many bug fixes, an update to Linux
kernel 2.6.34 and the integration of software translations and new artwork.
We plan to include in openSUSE 11.3 the following highlights:
* Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE
* The approaching Btrfs file system can be configured in the installer
* The zypper package management command line client has seen further
improvements:
o Improve package dependency handling: if a package gets removed,
dependencies needed only by this package can get removed as well
(using option --clean-deps)
o Better control over package selection: The package selection code
has been enhanced to support the following syntax for use with
in/up/rm commands: [+/-]repo:type:nameOPversion.arch
o zypper will notify about updates with vendor change (from
different repository)
* Better graphics driver support for Nvidia cards with integration of
Nouveau driver
* Back up and File sharing with SpiderOak - still in negotiation but
looking good
* Kernel 2.6.34 which as usually brings a ton of new or updated drivers
and assures better hardware support this time has as key features
o support of a number of Intel processors and chip set which will be
delivered in the future
o improved visualization
o more efficient usage of energy saving features provided through
state of the art hardware
* Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3, LXDE 0.5.5, and
XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media.
* On demand package installation in KDE, for e.g. debug info packages and
missing modules.
* Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick
* Updated distribution with new upstream packages
A detailed list is available in the wiki.
Testing! Testing! Testing!
As this is a milestone and not a final release, 11.3 M7 does contain bugs both
known and unknown, but should not stand between courageous contributors and
release testing.
The following annoyances have already been reported:
* Firefox crashes at start Bug #608087 - workaround: update gtk2 to the
new version from the GNOME factory repo
* The x86_64 NET Install CD had a garbled screen for an NVidia GeForce Go
7150M graphics adapter. The workaround is to add "brokenmodules=nouveau"
to the Boot Options line.
* Accessing LVM partitions is not possible - Bug #598193 "udev deletes
device nodes".
* LXDM always start default session Bug #607868
Please see
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles…
for the current list.
What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from
http://software.opensuse.org/developer today!
Have a lot of fun!
Andreas
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The openSUSE Build Service (obs) is an open package and distribution
development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure that allows
developers to build for various major Linux distributions and
architectures.
The public server build.opensuse.org is available for all open source
developers to build packages for the most popular distributions incl.
Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, SUSE Linux Enterprise and
Ubuntu. It is also used to build the openSUSE distribution.
This is the first beta release of version 2.0. Version 2.0 is planned to be
released on June 10th. We have updated the public server
http://build.opensuse.org with the current code stream as part of our
testing. We invite others running a build service to test the code and give
feedback via the opensuse-buildservice mailing list and report bugs in
bugzilla.
Beta1 is feature complete, new features will go in the next major release
(release planned for end of 2010), we will concentrate on fixing bugs now.
Beta1 includes the following major changes:
New Web UI Tailor-Made for Packagers
The new Web UI makes your work more efficient as stuff is where it is
expected, it loads faster and gives you a better access to projects,
packages and meta data.
Public Read Access For Convenient Collaboration
Anonymous access gets you to packages and projects without log-in. This is
pretty convenient for the users and promotes all packages in the Build
Service more to the world as now search engines can index the Build Service
as well. It makes it also easy to collaborate with other developers to show
them your patches or log files.
New Features for Cooperation in a Team
With obs 2.0 review handling by a team is possible and roles can get
assigned to groups instead of just to a single person.
Additional Changes
The full list of changes is available as part of the OBS Roadmap and
includes also the following enhancements:
* An easy way to view unsubmitted changes in development projects or
new upstream releases. This is used especially for our openSUSE
distribution development.
* The request system has been enhanced: A new request type to add or
change the user list of packages or projects has been added. Also review
handling is now possible to allow a team to review changes prior to
accepting a request.
* Developers can receive notifications if one of their package gets
branched by others.
* Improved source handling: It’s possible to undelete packages. Meta
data are now under version control.
* The build service has seen many speedups so that packages get build
faster.
You can try the obs 2.0 beta1 either on http://build.opensuse.org or in
your own infrastructure. Deployment is possible directly from source code
or from our combined server and worker virtual appliance image.
Thanks!
This is a release where many different people were involved in development
and even more in testing by using the openSUSE instance. We received also a
number of good feature requests that got implemented. Thanks to everybody
that participated!
I’d like to give special credit for the great WebUI work done by the
Boosters team, mainly Coolo and Tom!
Andreas
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Hi everyone!
For the past few months we, the openSUSE Board [1], together with the
great help from Kurt Garloff [2],Jan Weber [3] and Andreas Jaeger [4],
held a series of strategy sessions to address the future of openSUSE.
We discussed the role of openSUSE as a community and project and looked
at data from a variety of sources, including the recent openSUSE Survey
[5] to identify and build a strategy of strength and empowerment within
our community, with a goal of establishing a common unified ground for
answering the question to ourselves and to the world... "Why openSUSE?"
and openSUSE's role in the operating system market, both today and in
the future.
After much discussion, we're finally ready to bring together these
important bits of information into a cohesive statement that everyone
can unify around. As such, we, the members of the Strategy Team, will be
meeting in Nuremberg the weekend of May 28th to formalize a draft of our
strategy that will be available publicly for open discussion and comment.
The weekend strategy retreat will be preceded by a General Board Meeting
Friday morning and a Meet & Greet for the general public Friday evening.
If you are in the Nuremberg area or are willing to travel to Nuremberg,
we invite you for a sociable evening of chat and drinks at the
SUSE-Nuremberg offices [6] at 6:00 p.m.
Meet the Board, members of the openSUSE Boosters team and other SUSE
guys there. We'll do a few short presentations but the focus lays
clearly on communication and having fun.
For more information about our work, please feel free to review our
documents at http://en.opensuse.org/Documents. And we'll be sure to keep
you informed of our progress results from this exciting retreat.
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Board
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Garloff
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Japa83
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/User:A_jaeger
[5] http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010
[6] SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Ground Floor/Erdgeschoß,
Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409
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Tomorrow we have our regularly scheduled Marketing Team meeting at 15:00
UTC in #opensuse-marketing on IRC. For the meeting times in your area,
please see http://bit.ly/d33FWx
Please review our proposed Agenda at
http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2010-05-18 and if you have any additions/suggestions, make them!
Even if you can't make it to the meeting, please do review the relevant
links in the agenda. We have a list of tasks we need to perform before
the OBS 2.0 release and if you can volunteer, please do so. You can
even add a task that you might be interested in that isn't listed yet.
Thanks!
Bryen
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Ladies & Germs it has been far too long since the GNOME Team actually
put their heads together and talked about what is going on in the
garden. As such regular meetings are re-starting, but with a slight
difference - it will be monthly on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at
1400UTC, for localised times please see[0].
That means the next meeting will be held this Tuesday, 18th May 2010, in
the garden (otherwise known as #opensuse-gnome on Freenode). The Agenda
is pretty simple and can be added to on the wiki[1]. For those curious
it will kind of follow the lines of:
1. openSUSE GNOME Status
1.1 Packaging
1.2 Bugs
1.3 Q & A
2. Upstream GNOME Status
2.1 What's New
2.2 Bugs
2.3 Q & A
3. General Q & A
So please come buy the garden, pull up a chair and crack a cold one
open. Join in the fun and add anything you need to the agenda.
0 -
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=5&year=20…
1 - http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20100518
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We are pleased to announce:
Issue 123 of openSUSE Weekly News is out!
http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/15/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-123-is-out/
Contents
* 1 Editors Note
* 2 Status Updates
o 2.1 Distribution
+ 2.1.1 Schedules for the next Week
+ 2.1.2 Bugzilla
* 3 Team Reports
o 3.1 Boosters Team
+ 3.1.1 Standup Meeting 2010/05/10
o 3.2 Build Service Team
+ 3.2.1 Build Service Statistics
o 3.3 KDE Team
+ 3.3.1 openSUSE KDE meeting 20100513
o 3.4 Mono Team
+ 3.4.1 Miguel de Icaza: Group Completion in MonoDevelop 2.4
o 3.5 openFATE Team
+ 3.5.1 Provide an easy way to find Factory devel package with unsubmitted changes
+ 3.5.2 Create Spacewalk compliance
+ 3.5.3 Update to GRUB v2
+ 3.5.4 update digikam
+ 3.5.5 Statistics
o 3.6 Testing Team
+ 3.6.1 Larry Finger: Testing Team Informations
o 3.7 Translation Team
+ 3.7.1 Guiseppe Gran: Italian Wiki home updated
+ 3.7.2 Localization
o 3.8 Wiki-Team
+ 3.8.1 Sascha Manns: Move Weekly News to new Instance
* 4 In the Community
o 4.1 Andrew Wafaa: Community Discussion - Part 7
o 4.2 Events
o 4.3 openSUSE for your ears
o 4.4 From Ambassadors
+ 4.4.1 Sirko Kemter: Linuxwochen Vienna
+ 4.4.2 Pavol Rusnak: LinuxWochen Vienna 2010
o 4.5 openSUSE in $COUNTRY
o 4.6 Communication
o 4.7 Contributors
* 5 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE
o 5.1 Dominique Leuenberger: Network Manager 0.8.1 Beta 1
o 5.2 Packman: Miro 3.0.1-1.pm.1.5 (openSUSE 11.2/x86_64)
o 5.3 Packman: decibel-audio-player 1.04-2.pm.2.1 (openSUSE 11.2/x86_64)
* 6 Security Updates
o 6.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:011
o 6.2 SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:2010:023)
* 7 Kernel Review
o 7.1 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: New stable kernels and drivers
o 7.2 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 4) - Architecture and virtualisation
o 7.3 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis:Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 5) - Drivers
o 7.4 Rares Aioanei – Kernel News with openSUSE Flavor
* 8 Tips and Tricks
o 8.1 For Desktop Users
+ 8.1.1 Petr Baudis: pulseaudio – quick’n'dirty playback over the network
o 8.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies
+ 8.2.1 The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Bash Positional Parameters Explained with 2 Example Shell Scripts
+ 8.2.2 Gabriel Stein: Problems with Grub?
o 8.3 For Developers and Programmers
+ 8.3.1 Tuxradar: Python + PyGTK + WebKit in 20 minutes
o 8.4 For System Administrators
+ 8.4.1 Jiří Suchomel: Your own OEM configuration: YaST Firstboot
* 9 Planet SUSE
o 9.1 Duncan Mac-Vicar: openSUSE as a ruby development platform
o 9.2 Andrea Florio: Lugaru is opensource – Lugaru is on packman
* 10 openSUSE Forums
o 10.1 openSUSE Super Laggy all of a sudden!
o 10.2 openSUSE and Parted don't recognize my HD
o 10.3 Bouncing Icon - Program does not start!
o 10.4 Amarok Crashing
* 11 On the Web
o 11.1 Announcements
+ 11.1.1 Wine Reviews: Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux Released
o 11.2 Reports
+ 11.2.1 Techsource/Jun Auza: 8 Best Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG) for Linux
+ 11.2.2 Linux Magazine/Dmitri Popov: Keep Your System Clean with BleachBit
+ 11.2.3 Datamation/Thor Olavsrud: Cloud Computing
+ 11.2.4 Thomas McGuire: Akonadi Meeting and the KDE SC 4.5 release
+ 11.2.5 Linux Gaming News/Maxim Bardin: Heroes Of Newerth Gone Retail !
o 11.3 Reviews and Essays
+ 11.3.1 Computerworld/Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Running Windows games on Linux gets easier
* 12 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved
* 13 Credits
* 14 Translations
For a list of available translations see this page:
http://wiki.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE:Weekly_News/123/Translations
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