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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 134 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 134 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager * SUSE Studio: SUSE Gallery launch * Michal Hrusecky: openSUSE Paste * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 4) – Architecture and infrastructure * Tuxradar: Reviewed: OpenSUSE 11.3 For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=3977 -- 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] The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager
by Andreas Jaeger 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

We’re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we’ve found a leader with excellent community building experience combined with a very welcoming nature, many fresh, promising ideas and a strong drive to grow the openSUSE Project. Jos holds a degree in Organisational Psychology from the University of Utrecht and has gained valuable experience in several professional roles ranging from Project Manager at KPN to Service Level Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland. Last but not least, Jos is a leading member of the KDE Marketing Team and has helped Akademy and the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit attract a vibrant and collaborative audience. Jos commented, “The opportunity to become part of the international openSUSE community is very exciting. There are a great number of interesting developments going on in the free software world, and openSUSE plays a major role in many of them. I look forward to working with the community on these, helping it grow, finding new directions and ways of developing, and delivering its innovative technologies to users and developers around the world.” We enthusiastically welcome Jos and look forward to his working with the openSUSE community to shape the future of the openSUSE project. After his start he will be deeply involved in the openSUSE conference, other community events and activities, and of course he will have the pleasure of promoting openSUSE wherever possible. 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] Marketing Team Meeting @ 15:00 UTC on 27-July-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi folks, Back home after being on the road nearly two weeks, spreading good openSUSE Cheer! :-) We will have our next openSUSE Marketing Team meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode IRC. For the time in your area [1] Here is our proposed agenda for tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get it on the wiki before the end of today but still trying to figure out the new wiki structure to place in the right area. So please respond here any proposals or suggestions to the agenda. * Opening Comments (5 mins) * Recap of openSUSE 11.3 Launch (15 mins) ** How did we do? What lessons did we learn? ** Things to continue on 11.3 marketing (11.3 marketing is never done until next version!) * openSUSE Conference (10 mins) ** How are we doing? Everything on track? * openSUSE Ambassadors (15 mins) ** Are ambassadors satisfied with 11.3 launch? What did they need to improve their tasks? ** Ambassador organization (This will be ongoing discussion, not concluded in this meeting.) * Miscellaneous Topics which may include: ** Education/Helping Hands revival? ** openSUSE Shop ** Upcoming events ** Others? See you all at tomorrow's meeting! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead [1] Time in your area: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=27&month=07&year=2… -- 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 11.0 has reached End Of Life
by Marcus Meissner 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi, With the release of a rpm security fix on Friday 23rd July we have released the last update for openSUSE 11.0. It is now officially discontinued and out of support. openSUSE 11.0 was released on June 17 2008, making it 2 years and 1 month of security and bugfix support. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 10.3): Total updates: 644 (-71) Security: 485 (-36) Recommended: 157 (-34) Optional: 2 ( -1) CVE Entries: 1141 (+135) There is a 7% decrease in the number of security updates compared to openSUSE 10.3, but there seems to be a 13% increase in CVE numbers fixed. Top issues (compared to 10.3 for issues down to 5): 18 MozillaFirefox (+5) 12 opera (-1) 10 clamav (-2) 10 acroread (+1) 9 kernel (-2) 8 wireshark (-1) 7 seamonkey (-3) 7 MozillaThunderbird (-2) 7 moodle ( 0) 7 java-1_6_0-sun (-5) 7 flash-player (+1) 7 cups (-5) 7 apache2-mod_php5 ( 0) 6 libpng ( 0) 6 java-1_5_0-sun (-4) 6 samba (new) 5 libopenssl-devel (-1) 5 bind (0) 5 viewvc 5 strongswan 5 libopenssl 5 java-1_6_0-openjdk 5 pidgin And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count (down to 5) (compared to 10.3 for the top): 143 MozillaFirefox (+20) 102 java-1_6_0-sun (+27) 93 acroread (+41) 83 seamonkey (-27) 75 kernel (+20) 64 flash-player (+30) 63 java-1_5_0-sun ( -7) 54 MozillaThunderbird ( -4) 50 java-1_6_0-openjdk (new) 40 mozilla-xulrunner190 (new) 36 mozilla-xulrunner181 (-10, went out of maintenance) 35 wireshark ( +7) 27 moodle (+17) 24 apache2-mod_php5 ( +8) 23 opera ( +4) 19 xpdf ( -2) 18 xine-devel ( -5) 18 phpMyAdmin ( -1) 18 pidgin/finch ( +1) 17 ruby ( -2) 17 clamav ( -7) 14 cups (-20) 13 OpenOffice_org ( +3) 13 libpoppler3 ( -4) 13 libmysqlclient-devel ( -1) 12 samba/cifs-mount ( +5) 11 tomcat6 (was tomcat55) ( +2) 11 kdegraphics3 ( 0) 11 ghostscript-devel ( +5) 11 apache2 ( -8) 10 postgresql ( +1) 9 viewvc 9 libopenssl-devel 9 horde 8 xorg-x11-Xvnc 8 python 8 krb5 7 strongswan 7 libpoppler-devel 7 kvm 7 gvim 7 bind 6 timezone 6 qemu 6 lighttpd 6 libxml2 6 libpng-devel 5 xgl 5 squid # security updates by count # grep -l type..secur updateinfo-*|sed -e 's/^updateinfo-//;s/-[0-9]*.xml$//;'|sort|uniq -c|sort -n +0 -r|less # grep CVE- update* |perl -e '%cves=();while (<>) { while (/(CVE-2...-....)/) { $cve{$1}++; s/CVE-2...-....//;} } print join("\n",sort keys %cve)."\n";' | wc -l # for i in updateinfo-* ; do echo -n "$i " ; grep CVE- $i|perl -e '%cves=();while (<>) { while (/(CVE-2...-....)/) { $cve{$1}++; s/CVE-2...-....//;} } print join("\n",sort keys %cve)."\n";' | wc -l ; done -- 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 133 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 133 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion * Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design 2 * Alex Barrios: openSUSE present in the Especial Edition of CIBESS * python4kids: WhyPy? * KDENews/Stuart Jarvis: Ever wanted your ownCloud? For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news -- 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 KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 22nd July, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held on Thursday 22nd July, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * repositories specific for KDE SC versions (e.g. 4.5.x) * unstable repositories reorganization * wiki move * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&month=7&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 Weekly News 132 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 132 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.3 is here! * OBS Development Team Member Job Position * Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design * Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 2) – File systems and storage * IBM developerWorks/Ian Shields: Learn Linux, 101: Create partitions and filesystems For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/18/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-132-it-out/ -- 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] Please welcome openSUSE 11.3
by Michael Loeffler 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 [1] is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird. Among these many new features, openSUSE also provides support for netbooks and the Btrfs file system support. Users can expect to see improved hardware support with the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers. And support for the next generation of interactive computing for touchscreens like the HP TouchSmart. openSUSE continues its tradition of delivering the popular KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments, and now also provides the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. With GNOME, you can use the latest 2.30.1 version or take your installation for a drive with a preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.0. Or choose KDE SC 4.4.4 for the latest updates. They all feature the polish and integration that the openSUSE distro has been known for. For a full view check the complete collection of screenshots [2] or install it right away [3]. As we expect very large demand for the ISOs we suggest you check out BitTorrent as download method ;-) For servers and development platforms, administrators can take full advantage of the new MariaDB and MySQL Cluster services as well as Conntrack to filter network packets for iptables. Developers will appreciate the plethora of tools available at their fingertips with GCC, GDB and Mono and IDEs such as Netbeans, Qt-Creator and many others. This is all on top of the countless libraries available through the openSUSE Build Service [4] (OBS). Visit our Product Highlights [5] page for a detailed list of new features. The next release will be openSUSE 11.4 in March, 2011. Thank you, and have a lot of fun! [1] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:11.3 [2] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Screenshots [3] http://software.opensuse.org/113/en [4] https://build.opensuse.org/ [5] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Product_highlights -- Michael Löffler, Product Management 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] New wiki, what now?
by Henne Vogelsang 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

We just switched to the new wiki. So here it is. And now? Let me explain what you can do to help! ===================== Create your user page ===================== Every user of the wiki has a personal page and we did not transfer any of them. We wanted to use this opportunity to brush them up and standardize them. Your userpage should be your first task in the new wiki. If your username is Geeko, just go to http://en.opensuse.org/User:Geeko and press “create”. After that load the userpage teamplate by pressing on the “Load” button. Then fill out the form and you will get a nice standardized userpage! You can also of course transfer your old userpage. Just go to http://old-en.opensuse.org/User:Geeko to find the content. ==================== Report Missing Pages ==================== Can’t find your page? Think we missed something? Just report the page to the opensuse wiki team! We will try our best to help you getting it back! ====================== Transfer Missing Pages ====================== Want to get your hands dirty? Dive right into the new wiki and learn how it works on the Wiki Portal or the previous posts on this blog. After you did that and know all the new wiki Kung-fu you go and find the pages you think are missing on http://old-en.opensuse.org. Now you have two options, either use the Special:Export page on the old wiki and the Special:Import on the new wiki if you want to transfer the article with all of its history or you just copy and paste the article if the history is not that important. Otherwise Just Keep Calm And Carry On! The openSUSE Wiki Team -- 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] The Final Push - Marketing Meeting 13-July-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Folks, Time seems forever and then when time is up seems like we want more time. :-) Tuesday, Marketing team will have its Final Push meeting before the official launch of openSUSE 11.3 on July 15. Meeting is held in its regular channel on IRC #opensuse-marketing at 15:00 UTC. An agenda will be posted later today for you all to observe and participate in our meeting tomorrow. looking forward to seeing you all there. let's make 11.3 ROCK! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- 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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