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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta9
by Andreas Jaeger 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

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SUSE Linux 10.1: Changed Schedule
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

We have looked at the current state of SUSE Linux and decided that we're not ready yet to call this weeks build an RC1, there are far too many open BLOCKER bugs and also some changes that need additional testing. We therefore have to delay RC1 a bit, the updated schedule is as follows: Beta9: 2006-03-31 [1] RC1: 2006-04-12 Goldmaster[2] Release: 2006-04-25 RC1 is followed by a few RCs, we will not put out complete ISOs for the RCs, just delta-ISOs and update the repositories. The final RC will then be made available on the 25th of April, Andreas Footnotes: [1] or 2006-04-01 depending on how fast we can feed the mirrors [2] Goldmaster is the name for the final Release Candidate (RC) -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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openSUSE at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Boston
by Michael Loeffler 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

openSUSE at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Boston April 3-6, 2006 openSUSE.org is present at next week's LWE in Boston at booth #325. We'll show the current SUSE Linux 10.1, the openSUSE build service and give an general overview over the openSUSE project. Adrian and me are happy to meet you there and to discuss all openSUSE topics. For more details about LWE Boston please visit: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A See you there Adrian + Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management Email: michael.loeffler(a)suse.de SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/03/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) CANCELED!!!
by Henne Vogelsang 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi, we are sorry to inform you (so late) that we have to cancel the openSUSE status meeting today because many of the attendees are at the Novell Brainshare in Salt Lake City. The next meeting will take place at 2006/04/04 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) The openSUSE team -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta8 Announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

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openSUSE @ FOSDEM wrap-up
by Christoph Thiel 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Dear openSUSE community, The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) took place during the last weekend of February in the city of Brussels, Belgium. The openSUSE project participated at FOSDEM with both a "DevRoom" and a small booth. Overall it was an outstanding event that all of us really enjoyed. Many thanks to the FOSDEM organizational committee, especially Pascal, for making this possible! For those of you who didn't make it to FOSDEM, we have recorded the nine talks and three speed talks about openSUSE, SUSE Linux, and the work of SUSE R&D. The slides and audio & video recordings of these talks are available at: http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2006 A picture gallery featuring the openSUSE team @ FOSDEM is also available at: http://gallery.openSUSE.org/fosdem2006/ One of the most important topics for the openSUSE project was the first public introduction of the openSUSE build service. Find more information about this project--documentation, source code, and mailing list--at: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service In conclusion, we would like to thank all of you who took part in FOSDEM and helped to make it a great success. Now it's time for your feedback, impressions, suggestions, etc. Have a lot of fun... the openSUSE team

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)]
by Sonja Krause-Harder 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official opensuse IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) today at 2006/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: 1 Bugzilla permissions 2 CDB/HCL - hardware database efforts 3 Cleanup old Action Items 4 Handling of Action Items 5 Status SUSE Linux 10.1 6 Additional Wiki Languages For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For details about this IRC meeting read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-03-07 For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). Please join us! The openSUSE Team -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Michael Loeffler 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official opensuse IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) today at 2006/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: 1.1 Bugzilla permissions - Christian Boltz 1.2 CDB/HCL - hardware database efforts - the_dude 1.3 Cleanup old Action Items - Christian Boltz see also: http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2006-Mar/0023.html 1.4 Handling of Action Items - aj / Christian Boltz 1.5 Status SUSE Linux 10.1 - aj 1.6 Additional Wiki Languages - pflodo 2 Q&A Section For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://www.opensuse.org/Meetings For details about this IRC meeting read: http://www.opensuse.org/2006-01-24-status-meeting Please join us! The openSUSE Team -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg Phone: +49 911 74053-376 Email: michael.loeffler(a)suse.de Novell BrainShare 2006 - Open for Growth Bringing the world together at one location Register at http://www.novell.com/brainshare --------------------------------------------------------

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta6 is ready (revised)
by Andreas Jaeger 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta6 is ready
by Andreas Jaeger 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

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SUSE Linux Schedule
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

We have looked at the current status of our beta versions of SUSE Linux 10.1 and determined that we would like to spent more time to strengthen the quality of SUSE Linux 10.1 especially in the area of virtualization (Xen hypervisor) and package management features. We also like to address all blockers. We have therefore revised the schedule for SUSE Linux 10.1 and like to give an outlook beyond 10.1 as well. SUSE Linux 10.1 Schedule (revised) ================================== After this week's beta6, we will go to a bi-weekly schedule and have one more beta: Fri, Mar 03 SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta6 - beta release Fri, Mar 17 SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta8 - beta release Fri, Mar 31 SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 - release candidate RC1 will be followed by several release candidates. We will only put out the FACTORY tree and delta ISOs during the RC phase. Note that there's no Beta7. For internal consistency we will just skip that one. The final RC will be renamed to Goldmaster and we plan to announce this on thursday, April 13th - and put at the same time the final ISOs online. With the Goldmaster we will create a 10.1 full installation tree as well (a frozen copy of FACTORY). SUSE LINUX 10.2 =============== In order to take better advantage of community participation in the SUSE Linux development process, SUSE Linux 10.2 will be created with an extended development cycle. We will add approximately eight weeks to the development cycle, changing it from six months to eight months. This means that you should expect a finished version of 10.2 at the end of 2006 or in the beginning of 2007. As you might expect, the first alpha build for 10.2 will be delivered some weeks after we release SUSE Linux 10.1. As before, we intend to publish alpha builds approximately every four weeks. Our current plan for these snapshots is: Fri, Jun 16 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha1 (Jun 15 is a holiday for us) Thu, Jul 15 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha2 Thu, Aug 10 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha3 Thu, Sep 7 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha4 Thu, Oct 5 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha5 When the complete schedule is more certain, we will post it here. The Codename for SUSE Linux 10.2 will again be a lizard species, we will announce it later, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta5 is ready
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

I'm glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta5 - this time both Delta-ISOs and full ISOs! With Beta5 we smoothed most of the rough edges of Beta4 and I still do not advise to not put it on any production system! IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beta5 is still for the adventurous experts and not for anybody without a good Linux experience: For now let me just point out the following issues: * The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request CD 2.. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail afterwards. * Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not complete, note the following: o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of packages to install: 0" - or "Number of packages to install: 0", or "Software: Default system (0)". o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of "views", currently you get a list of all the packages and can only search in them. o After installation, if you go into the YaST packager, all installed packages are listed twice. o Adding a new installation source does not work. o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the languages asked for. o An upgrade from a previous installation might fail, even one from 10.1 Beta3 153142 * During an update from a previous release, packages that are not available anymore get deleted - once at the start of CD1 and then again at the end of CD1. Pressing Ignore a couple of times allows to continue. Bug 153135 * The partitioner is broken in some cases Bug 151947. which might result in: o mixed up filesystem types - for example one chooses ext2 and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab of the system o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning * Download of Release Notes will fail. * The online test with download of Updates will fail. * The second part of the installation is done in text mode Bug 153066. * X11 configuration during installation is totally broken in Beta5 due to a bug in package manager. Instead of the native X11 driver fbdev or even vesa driver will be configured. In order to create a valid X11 configuration stop xdm ("rcxdm stop") and use SaX2 for configuration ("sax2 -r"). ATI users should update the radeon driver first before executing SaX2. Otherwise the result will likely be a blank screen. Driver RPMs for i386/x86_64 are attached to Bug 153367. Summing up: The installer is in a better shape now, package installation should be ok, system upgrade works with workarounds - and the partitioner still has a couple of regressions. The rest of the system should be stable. An installation from our FACTORY tree should work again. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Further information and updates are available from http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta5-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need (on x86 and x86-64, I haven't tested PPC): * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English * All CDs for other selections Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-bet… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta5: Delta ISOs available, rest tomorrow
by Andreas Jaeger 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I'm glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta5 ! With Beta5 we smoothed most of the rough edges of Beta4 and I still do not advise to not put it on any production system! Note: I'm announcing right now only the delta ISOs, the full ISOs will be announced tomorrow when some more mirrors had a chance to sync. I have not opened up ftp.opensuse.org for this yet! I'll send tomorrow another announcement and update the opensuse wiki as well. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beta5 is still for the adventurous experts and not for anybody without a good Linux experience: For now let me just point out the following issues: * The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request CD 2.. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail afterwards. * Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not complete, note the following: o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of packages to install: 0" - or "Number of packages to install: 0", or "Software: Default system (0)". o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of "views", currently you get a list of all the packages and can only search in them. o After installation, if you go into the YaST packager, all installed packages are listed twice. o Adding a new installation source does not work. o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the languages asked for. o An upgrade from a previous installation might fail, even one from 10.1 Beta3 153142 * During an update from a previous release, packages that are not available anymore get deleted - once at the start of CD1 and then again at the end of CD1. Pressing Ignore a couple of times allows to continue. Bug 153135 * The partitioner is broken in some cases Bug 151947. which might result in: o mixed up filesystem types - for example one chooses ext2 and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab of the system o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning * Download of Release Notes will fail. * The online test with download of Updates will fail. * The second part of the installation is done in text mode Bug 153066. Summing up: The installer is in a better shape now, only installation should be ok, system upgrade works for some - and the partitioner still has a couple of regressions. The rest of the system should be stable. An installation from our FACTORY tree should work again. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Further information and updates are available from http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta5-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need (on x86 and x86-64, I haven't tested PPC): * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English * All CDs for other selections Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official opensuse IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) at 2006/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)¹ This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: * 1.1 Status SUSE Linux 10.1 * 1.2 Status Mailinglists * 1.3 Clean up Old Action Items o 1.3.1 10.1 o 1.3.2 Mailinglists o 1.3.3 FOSDEM o 1.3.4 Bugzilla o 1.3.5 Wiki o 1.3.6 Webfora o 1.3.7 Mirrors For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://www.opensuse.org/Meetings For details about this IRC meeting read: http://en.opensuse.org/2006-02-21-status-meeting Please join us! The openSUSE Team ¹ To get the time and date in your timezone: date -d 'Tuesday 2006/02/21 17:00 GMT' -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 seeks adventurous experts and their *test* systems
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I'm glad to announce that we finally have a Beta4 available. Beta4 has a number of ROUGH edges, so read the following before you decide to download and test it. I advise to not put it on any production system! IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beta4 is really for the adventurous experts and not for anybody without a good Linux experience: * The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request CD 2. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail afterwards. * Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not complete, note the following non working pieces: o Only a fresh installation is supported. Update from a previous installation is not working! o ncurses installation is not supported right now o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of packages to install: 0" - or "Number of packages to install: 0", or "Software: Default system (0)". o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of "views", currently you get a list of all the packages and can only search in them. o Only adding of selections works. If you want to remove a selection, remove all packages in that selection and run the resolver manually with the "Check" button. o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the languages asked for. o It is not possible to abort installation while installing packages. o Network Installations: smb/cifs does not work, http, nfs and ftp should work. o There are cases where during a ftp installation from the FACTORY tree packages for the wrong architecture get installed * The partitioner is broken in some cases which might result in: o mixed up filesystem types - for example one chooses ext2 and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab of the system o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning * There are no Release Notes shown - and the download of them fails. Summing up: The installer is in a rather bad shape, only INSTALLATION is supported - and the partitioner has some regressions as well. The rest of the system should be stable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Further information and updates are available from http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs We renamed also the directories and filenames to remove the "OSS" from the names to make it clear that there's only one SUSE Linux. We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta4-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… Download URLs for the torrents of the full ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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WARNING about FACTORY ftp installations
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

We have received bugreports that our current installer does not handle the FACTORY ftp tree correctly and installs packages for other platforms. [Bug 151933 and Bug 151954] I suggest to not use the tree for now, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Meet the openSUSE project at FOSDEM!
by Michael Loeffler 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi all, we invite everybody to visit FOSDEM and get the facts about the current state of the open source world and the latest news about the openSUSE project there. The openSUSE team will be talking about a broad range of topics, from a general overview of the current status, future plans for the project, and the distribution SUSE Linux to technical tutorials and a first demonstration of the openSUSE build service. We're looking forward to seeing you all there and discussing the future of the project! FOSDEM -- the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting -- takes place on Feb 25/26 in Bruxelles, Belgium. For details, see: http://www.opensuse.org/FOSDEM Michael

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Update
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I'd like to give you an update on our beta process with the following list of topics: * Deliverable of Beta4 and further schedule * non-GPL kernel modules * Kernel Changes km_ packages * Major bug in Beta3: Fontconfig * Package manager major changes * XGL Deliverable of Beta4 and Further Schedule ========================================= Beta4 did not pass our internal tests, we have to delay it by one week. The FACTORY distribution has been updated with our current packages that everybody can use, but doing a complete installation from the current FACTORY tree is NOT recommended. You should just update single packages as needed. We have decided to release Beta 4 on 2006-02-16 and Beta 5 on 2006-02-23. We'll finalize the schedule after testing and evaluating these two betas. non-GPL kernel modules: ======================= Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules to be infringing on their copyright. Novell does respect this position, and will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of future products. Novell is working with vendors to find alternative ways to provide the functionality that was previously only available with non-GPL kernel modules. Kernel Changes / km_, kmp, and kernel-flavor-nongpl packages: ============================================================= We added support to cleanly handle packages that contain kernel modules by representing the dependencies of mouldes on the kernel ABI as rpm dependencies. This allows third party modules to be provided and integrated cleanly. Modules that were previously included in our kernel packages using the km_ package mechanism [1] have been converted to the new package format [2]; the km_ mechanism is no longer supported. Packages that contain additional kernel modules are now named name-kmp-kernelflavor (e.g., wlan-kmp-default. lirc-kmp-smp). The kmp mechanism [2] supports creating and using additional Kernel Module Packages easily and reliably. The kernel-kernelflavor-nongpl packages which contained modules that had non-GPL licenses have been removed. [1] The km_ package mechanism is described at http://www.suse.de/~agruen/kernel-doc/. [2] Kernel Module Packages Manual for CODE10, http://www.suse.de/~agruen/KMPM/ Major Bug in Beta3: Fontconfig ============================== It might be that X11 apps just crash or are really slow (installation of some packages took rather long), which was due to a bug in fontconfig. A first fix is in fontconfig packages in the Beta3 fixed-rpm directory on ftp.opensuse.org . Beta4 will fix most known bugs. Current packages are available at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/10.1 - If you use them, update to both fontconfig and fonts-config. The packages in there are newer than what is currently in the FACTORY tree. If you find bugs in the m17n packages, please report them in bugzilla stating the exact version you're using. Package Manager Major Changes ============================= We're replacing our package manager resolver library with a new version called "libzypp". libzypp is the integration of SUSE's yast2 Package manager and Ximian's libredcarpet. At Novell we used two solutions so far - Red Carpet and YaST package manager - and decided to merge both in a best of breed approach. The advantages for SUSE Linux are: * A better resolver than before * More information about why a package is installed or no solution is found * A better integration of all those feature that were added over the years to our package manager. * A command line interface ("rug") * A common handling of packages *and* patches * Dependency handling for update packages * A better way to handle selections (we call them now "patterns") * Remote management (not yet in SUSE Linux 10.1) * Additional repositories during installation (no GUI in SUSE Linux 10.1) * More flexibility in handling of different repositories, e.g. it is possible to have additional patterns for each repository. The new library handles yum metadata, YaST sources (both also remote via ftp, http, nfs and smb) and additionally Zenworks, Opencarpet and RCE (Red Carpet Enterprise) servers as installation sources. The alternatives smart and apt-get will also work as they did on SUSE Linux 10.0. Together with libzypp, we get the zmd daemon, the rug command line interface, the zen-updater, zen-remover, zen-installer packages. In addition to the existing packages, we're adding these new packages: * zmd: system daemon used by rug, zen-* * rug: Command line client * web-updater: Updater with more features than zen-updater * zen-updater: Simple updater * zen-remover: Tool to remove packages * zen-installer: Tool to add packages We're still working on the integration of "libzypp" into our tree, the package manager in our FACTORY tree is not yet fully functional. XGL === Xgl is an Xserver that uses OpenGL for its drawing operations. Xgl engineer David Reveman has posted enhancements to Xgl and a new compositor, 'Compiz' with a request that it be added to the freedesktop.org CVS repository. Some operations like antialiased font rendering is noticeably faster with this technology, and future graphics hardware might only have support for 3D operations and no 2D core any more. These additional packages have now been added to the SUSE Linux FACTORY tree. Note that compiz has a couple of build problems that need to be fixed before it will go out. For details on XGL, please check http://www.opensuse.org/Xgl . Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official opensuse IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) today at 2006/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: 1. mirror situation 2. frontpage redesign - Pflodo 3. forum discussion results - Henne 4. subfs discussion results - houghi 5. LinuxTag - Christian Boltz 6. Foreign language mailing lists - skh 7. SUSE Linux 10.1 Status / Roadmap - AJ 8. SDB - howtos, migration, what is a SDB article - localhorst For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://www.opensuse.org/Meetings For details about this IRC meeting read: http://www.opensuse.org/2006-01-24-status-meeting Please join us! The openSUSE Team -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta3 is Ready
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

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Localized www.opensuse.org and more....
by Adrian Schröter 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

www.opensuse.org has been updated to a new MediaWiki version 1.5. We are able to host localized wiki instances now. The Wiki provides 4 languages for now, reachable under http://en.opensuse.org (English) http://es.opensuse.org (Spanish) http://fr.opensuse.org (French) http://de.opensuse.org (German) Further translations are planned. Please read http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Translation_Guide if you want to start a new translated site. Please subscribe also to the opensuse-wiki(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Antje Faber will help you with coordinating the translations. Another new part of the wiki are the imported SDB (Support Database) articles. It is possible from now on for everybody to create or modify support database articles. The Support Database is hosted at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB (English) http://es.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB (Spanish) http://fr.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB (French) http://de.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB (German) And last, but not least, the hated Novell Copyright Disclaimer in the footer has been replaced (except for the few locked pages). bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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Factory tree is outdated (contains 10.1 Beta1)
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Please be aware that the factory tree is currently outdated: The factory tree of our distribution still contains Beta1 packages. Due to a number of technical problems, we could not generate and sync it out. I expect it to be synced out on Sunday again. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta2 Announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta2 is ready for testing. Please report all bugs in bugzilla following http://bugs.opensuse.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPORTANT: The factory tree of our distribution still contains Beta1 packages. Due to a number of technical problems, we could not generate and sync it out. I expect it to be synced out on Sunday again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A list of known issues is on: http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs For now let me just point out the following issues: * KDE's media handling does not work (my computer shows wrong informations and inserting new media does not open a query dialog). Workaround: After installation remove /opt/kde3/share/services/kded/networkstatus.desktop before you log into KDE. * If X applications start very slow, update the the fontconfig RPMs that are available from (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/fixed-rpms) Created within the openSUSE project, SUSE Linux 10.1 is designed for individuals looking to work with latest open source technologies -- a stabilized Linux operating system, solutions for desktop productivity, application development, web hosting, security and more completely integrated to make the world's most usable Linux. SUSE Linux 10.1 supports the Intel and AMD x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the PowerPC platform. The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need: - Only CD1 for a minimal text installation in English - CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English - All CDs for other selections SUSE Linux 10.1 offers a comprehensive selection of open source software for a variety to task from, email, Internet, development, productivity, Security, server, graphics and more. Among many updates and enhancements here the most important ones since beta2: * Fixes for a number of bugs - but note that most of the bugs reported against beta1 are not fixed yet. * Further integration and fixing of NetworkManager. * SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1 comes with the Intrusion Prevention framework AppArmor 2.0 which is started by default in Beta2. * Update to KDE 3.5.1 release packages. * Subfs has been dropped. We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.2-Beta1-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… Download URLs for the torrents of the full ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/SUSE-10… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/delta-iso/SUSE-… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/01/24 18:00 CET
by Henne Vogelsang 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi there, the first openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official opensuse IRC channel at 2006/01/24 18:00 CET This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Topics so far: 1. General overview 2. Mailinglist migration - Henne 3. FOSDEM overview - michl 4. Build Services status - The Build Service Team 5. Bugzilla voting - adrianS 6. SDB import - mlasars 7. Internationalized wikis - darix 8. Official forum - cthiel 9. Doc server 10. Better wiki search - darix For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://www.opensuse.org/Meetings For details about this IRC meeting read: http://www.opensuse.org/2006-01-24-status-meeting Please join us! The openSUSE Team -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1 Released
by Andreas Jaeger 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta1 is ready for testing. Please report all bugs in http://bugzilla.novell.com . A list of known issues is on: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs For now let me just point out the following issues: * Theming is not complete, there's still 10.0 theming used in many places. * Enabling the firewall during installation does not work and/or internet test does not work [Bug #143751] * If you use NetworkManager, network is not setup after installation. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network/config and set: NETWORKMANAGER=yes (instead of no) and then run "rcnetwork restart" * The software selection for a 64-bit x86-64 installation does complain about a conflict in the package selection. Enter the package manager and press "Ignore all" in the dialog which shows conflicts for compat-32bit. Created within the openSUSE project, SUSE Linux 10.1 is designed for individuals looking to work with latest open source technologies -- a stabilized Linux operating system, solutions for desktop productivity, application development, web hosting, security and more completely integrated to make the world's most usable Linux. SUSE Linux 10.1 supports the Intel and AMD x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the PowerPC platform. SUSE Linux 10.1 offers a comprehensive selection of open source software for a variety to task from, email, Internet, development, productivity, Security, server, graphics and more. Among many updates and enhancements here the most important ones: * The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need (on x86 and x86-64, I haven't tested PPC): - Only CD1 for a minimal text installation in English - CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English - All CDs for other selections * We're integrating NetworkManager into the product. Currently it is enabled by default, with Beta2, it will be enabled on Notebooks only - with the choice to enable/disable it as you like. We have improved NetworkManager to support WPA encryption for WLan, Modems and ISDN and written a new frontend kdenetworkmanager so that NetworkManager has native graphical frontends for both GNOME and KDE. * The partitioner proposes to put /home on a separate partition. * The SUSE Linux 10.1 core system comes with CVS versions of glibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1, X.org 6.9, KDE 3.5, GNOME 2.12.2, Linux 2.6.15. * SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1 comes with the Intrusion Prevention framework AppArmor 2.0. * The latest versions from the Mozilla project: Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 pre-release. * Further details are documented at: http://www.opensuse.org/Factory-News * PPC only: The jsm serial driver is gone, its maintainers failed to fix it. There is thus no way to boot on (old or new) PPC systems with 8250 serial ports. We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta1-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… Download URLs for the torrents of the full ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/SUSE-10… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/delta-iso/SUSE-… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-beta1/iso/SUSE-10.1-C… Thanks to everybody that participated in Beta1 - with testing, bug reports, comments etc, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha4 released
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha4 Uploading
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha4 is ready, since our mirrors are still syncing (we had some blocker bugs to fix and were rather late), I've only uploaded the torrent files to ftp.opensuse.org. Everything else will go online at 11am UTC on friday. New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha4 since 10.1 Alpha3: * Further integration of NetworkManager (note: NetworkManager is on by default on NLD/SUSE Linux and off on SLES) * Updates to all parts of the system, especially new bash version (3.1), new Linux kernel (2.6.15 rc5), KDE 3.5 final, GNOME 2.12.2, X.Org 6.9 rc3. Further details are - and ongoing changes will be - documented at http://www.opensuse.org/Factory-News . Known CRITICAL issues: * The first time a user logs in on the console, an error is reported. A second login works. * The graphical login does not work. Workaround: Login on the console and change /etc/X11/xdm/Xession as follows: --- /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession 2005-11-21 22:22:10.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession 2005-12-15 12:09:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ */rzsh) shell=/bin/zsh ;; *) shell=/bin/bash ;; esac - exec -la ${shell} ${shell} -c ${1+"exec $@"} + exec -l -a ${shell##*/} ${shell} -c ${1+"exec $@"} } * The distribution identifies itself as "10.0.42 Alpha4" - and has in quite a lot places the 10.0 branding. This is a known feature;-) * Internet test will not work since downloading to patches is not setup. Note: Alpha4 will be followed by Beta in four weeks, Alpha4 is not supported and we advice to not use it on production systems. Please report bugs in http://bugzilla.novell.com . A list of known issues will appear on: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/inst-source-extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… Download URLs for the torrents of the full ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha4/SUSE-1… The other files will be published tomorrow. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Reminder: openSUSE Build Service Team Q&A session
by Henne Vogelsang 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi, recently we published meeting minutes from a two day offsite meeting of the initial openSUSE build service team. It summarizes expectations, concerns, ideas and opportunities around the build service part of the openSUSE project. http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/BST_3linden_Minutes_en Today the minutes were joined by a technical whitepaper about the concept of the openSUSE Build Service. http://www.opensuse.org/images/1/19/Oss_whitepaper.pdf We invite you to join us on the official IRC channel #opensuse at the freenode.net IRC network irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE for a question and answer session about these two documents and the ideas behind it. The session will take place, as announced on the opensuse mailinglist, at Monday 2005/12/12 17:00 CET! Which is roughly in one hour. We hope to see you there! The openSUSE Build Server Team

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 completely published
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 is on its way to the mirrors
by Andreas Jaeger 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 is ready, since our mirrors are still syncing, I've only uploaded the torrent files to ftp.opensuse.org. Everything else will go online at 11am UTC on friday. New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha3 since 10.1 Alpha2: Further details are - and ongoing changes will be - documented at http://www.opensuse.org/Factory-News . Known issues: * The distribution identifies itself as "10.0.42 Alpha3" - and has in quite a lot places the 10.0 branding. This is a known feature;-) * Due to the upgrade of the mono core to 1.1.10 some mono packages did not build and since they require the previous mono version, they cannot be installed. The affected packages are banshee and f-spot. * Internet test will not work since downloading to patches is not setup. * wpa_supplicant does not work with madwifi based cards, like Atheros chips. NetworkManager also seems unable to access such cards. For Atheros cards, read also http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#How_to_use_Atheros_WLAN_dev… * powersave dies directly, get updated packages as documented on the "Most Annoying Bugs" page. Note: Alpha3 will be followed by Alpha4 in four weeks, Alpha3 is not supported and we advice to not use it on production systems. Please report bugs in http://bugzilla.novell.com . A list of known issues will appears on: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs Download URLS for the torrents: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha3/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha3/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha3/SUSE-1… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 is ready
by Adrian Schroeter 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 is ready for testing. New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha 2 since Alpha 1: * New experimental libfontconfig It contains bug which is causing segmentation faults in all KDE and Gnome applications after update/installation. You need to workaround this by calling "fc-cache -f" as root. (#128080) * APT successor SMART is provided in the smart rpm package. It can be used like apt-get using apt or YUM package repositories (all inst-source directories contain YUM meta data) * Update to KDE 3.5 Beta 2 * Update to Gnome 2.11.1 * Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC 3 Note: Alpha 2 will be followed by Alpha 3 in four weeks, Alpha 2 is not supported and we advice to not use it on production systems. It has only gone through minimal testing on our side. Please report all bugs according to http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug This time we have made a tri-arch (i386, x86_64, ppc) ftp tree. We will release next week 10.0 Final with a tri-arch ftp tree as well if no issues are found with this 10.1 Alpha2 tri-arch tree. A list of important known issues appears on: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs Download URLS: BitTorrent already works: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-O… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-O… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-O… Mirrors are still syncing and might not yet be available. However, existing mirrors near to you can be found behind the new http://download.opensuse.org/ URL: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/MD5SUMS x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… (Delta isos are also available, please read the README inside the directory) For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-… bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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Roadmap: Changed Dates for 10.1 Alphas
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Since I announced the roadmap a few weeks ago on the list, I thought it would be good to announce a change of it as well ;-) We've moved the 10.1 Alpha release one week earlier so that the new dates are as follows: Oct 20, 2005: SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS alpha2 release. Nov 17, 2005: SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS alpha3 release. Dec 15, 2005: SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS alpha4 release. The complete roadmap can be found at: http://www.opensuse.org/Roadmap Adrian will handle the next Alpha release since I'm now on vacation for two weeks. Please discuss the Alpha releases on the opensuse-edge(a)opensuse.org mailing list - Reply-To is set to that list. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.0 Final
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

I'm glad to announce the final version (aka the Goldmaster) of SUSE Linux 10.0. Developing 10.0 as part of the openSUSE project with an open bugzilla was a new and great experience. Thanks a lot to everybody that contributed in testing, reporting and fixing bugs, discussions etc. We've created the following flavors of SUSE Linux versions and installable trees: * 10.0-OSS - the Open Source (OSS) version (available from ftp.opensuse.org and its mirrors): - i386 (Intel 32-bit, AMD 32-bit x86), x86_64 (AMD64, Intel EM64T) and ppc (PowerPC) architectures - 5 CDs for each architecture - experimental jigdo files to create i386 CDs and DVDs from the ftp trees - delta-ISOs from RC1 to the final version * 10.0 - the retail and Eval versions including some non-OSS software (available from ftp.suse.com and its mirrors): - i386, x86_64 architecture - 5 CDs i386 - one i386 DVD with the contents of these 5 i386 CDs - one x86_64 DVD with the same packages as the i386 DVD - a LiveDVD for i386 * Multi-arch ftp trees that can be used as YaST repositories and come with debuginfo and source RPMs: - inst-source: the OSS install tree (on ftp.opensuse.org) - inst-source-java: the install tree for Java packages including Sun Java (on ftp.opensuse.org) - inst-source-extra: same non-OSS packages (on ftp.suse.com) The mirrors are still downloading all the files and it will take a few days until all are synced. Detailed download instructions can be found at: http://www.opensuse.org/Download Bugreports ========== Please report all bugs according to http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug Note that we're concentrating on SUSE Linux 10.1 now. For SUSE Linux 10.0 we will fix security problems and critical bugs only, other bugs might only get fixed for 10.1. Bittorrent Files ================ We advise to use bittorrent for fastest download and have prepared bittorrent files as follows: OSS CDs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… OSS Deltas: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/SUSE-10.0-CD-… Retail CD: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM.iso.torrent LiveDVD: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso.torrent i386 Eval DVD http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso.to… x86-64 Eval DVD http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso.… Download URLS for OSS Media =========================== Mirrors are still syncing and might not yet be available. However, existing mirrors near to you can be found behind the new http://download.opensuse.org/ URL, e.g.: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-GM/iso/MD5SUMS x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-… Delta isos are also available, please read the README inside the directory delta-iso first: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/delta-iso/SUSE-10.0-C… etc. Download URLS for Eval/Retail Media =================================== CDs for x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD1.iso http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD2.iso http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD4.iso http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD5.iso DVD for i386 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso DVD for x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture: http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso LiveDVD for i386 architecture: http://download.suse.com/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD-i386.iso Boot Image ========== The boot image for network installationis available here: i386 and x86-64: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/boot/boot… ppc: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/boot/boot… A special thanks to Adrian, Christian, Christoph and Roman for getting everything to our own servers - and to all mirrors for mirroring it! Have a lot of fun, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org
by Christoph Thiel 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello everyone, just wanted to give you a short heads-up that we have created some new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org. Check out http://www.opensuse.org/Communicate for further information: - opensuse-packaging(a)openSUSE.org We have had numerous request for a list to discuss packaging related topics. Here it comes... - opensuse-edge(a)openSUSE.org For discussion about the latest development version of SUSE Linux. - opensuse-doc(a)openSUSE.org If you are interested in documentation, this is the list for you. This list was requested by members of our documentation team, who are eager to work together with you. - opensuse-wiki(a)openSUSE.org As we are preparing the launch of internationalized spin-offs of the openSUSE.org wiki, this will be the list to discuss wiki related topics (textual as well as technical). Have a lot of fun... Christoph

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defaced wiki on www.opensuse.org
by Adrian Schroeter 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Dear openSUSE community, For 45 minutes on October 1st, the openSUSE website was defaced by an Internet attacker. The attacker exploited a vulnerability with a blogging application that was running on the same server as the www.openSUSE.org home page. The servers were taken offline when the attack was detected and were replaced with new servers so that the attack could be studied in more detail by our forensics team. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused while bringing the new servers on line. Our distribution, SUSE Linux, the SUSE Linux build system or any other services below the opensuse.org domain were not exposed to attack at any time. The wiki was the only openSUSE service that was compromised. We have restored the wiki and are back to business as usual. Thank you for your continued support The openSUSE team -- Adrian Schroeter Project Manager openSUSE SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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SUSE Linux 10.1: FTP Trees, Delta ISOs
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

We've really created now the deltas (and not just announced them;-) and made them available via bittorent as well, the torrent files are: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… We've also updated the extra ftp trees (the java one on ftp.opensuse.org and the extra one on ftp.suse.com) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 "Auckland" is ready
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 Codename "Auckland" is ready for testing. New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha1 since 10.0: * Update to KDE 3.5 Beta1 * Update to openldap 2.3.7 * Update to Linux 2.6.13.2 kernel * YaST does not install the bootloader in the MBR * We use ifplugd by default for network interfaces * a number of package updates and package fixes to reduce compile warnings (especially about missing declarations and aliasing) * Update of pilot-link packages - currently these are broken: GNOME installation: Do not install multisync-ldap, multisync-palm KDE installation: Do not install kdebluetooth, kdepim3-kpilot, kdepim3-sync, taskjuggler, taskjuggler-kde, kdepim3 - note this means you miss kontact! Some of the known issues: * The distribution identifies itself as "10.0.42 Alpha1" - and has in quite a lot places the 10.0 branding, including the 10.0 release notes. This is a known feature;-) * kdepim3 cannot get installed. We've put on the mirror besides the ISOs a kdepim directory * Internet test will not work since downloading to patches is not setup. Note: Alpha1 will be followed by Alpha2 in four weeks, Alpha1 is not supported and we advice to not use it on production systems. It has only gone through minimal testing on our side. Please report all bugs according to http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug This time we have made a tri-arch (i386, x86_64, ppc) ftp tree. We will release next week 10.0 Final with a tri-arch ftp tree as well if no issues are found with this 10.1 Alpha1 tri-arch tree. A list of important known issues appears on: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs Download URLS: BitTorrent already works: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/SUSE-1… Mirrors are still syncing and might not yet be available. However, existing mirrors near to you can be found behind the new http://download.opensuse.org/ URL: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/MD5SUMS x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… (Delta isos are also available, please read the README inside the directory) For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/iso/SUSE-10.1-… The boot image for network installation (i386 and x86-64 only atm) is available here: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/inst-source/bo… Have a lot of fun, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Roadmap Announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I'd like to share the following information regarding our roadmap with you before I take off for the weekend ;-). First let me introduce myself: I'm responsible as project manager for the engineering side of SUSE Linux. SUSE Linux 10.1 Roadmap ======================= We've added the following SUSE Linux 10.1 milestones to the openSUSE roadmap (http://www.opensuse.org/Roadmap) 2005-09-29: SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 2005-10-27: SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha2 2005-11-24: SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 2005-12-22: SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha4 2006-01-19: SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1 2006-01-26: SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta2 2006-02-02: SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta3 2006-02-09: SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 2006-02-16: SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 For the Alpha phase of the project we will release a full release that has gone through *some* internal testing approximately every four weeks. Then, just as we did with SUSE Linux 10.0, we will release builds weekely during the beta phase. For the near future we plan to provide regular syncs of RPMs directly out of our buildsystem (without any testing). SUSE Linux 10.1 Features ======================== Next week I'll start looking closely at the feature wishlist (http://www.opensuse.org/Feature_Wishlist) and the various package wishlists (http://www.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist) I'd like then to start a discussion with you on these topics and let's see what we can do together. New Packages for SUSE Linux =========================== For the SUSE Linux 10.1 release, we hope to be able to integrate some of the packages and features that have been requested on the wishlists into SUSE Linux. We will, however, focus our resources on our next-generation build infrastructure which will allow more direct participation for every interested packager and developer in the openSUSE project. Expect a first version of the new build server early in 2006 If you want to build packages for openSUSE now, consider contributing to the existing packaging initiatives. One development goal for SUSE Linux 10.1 is improving YaST to better integrate those existing package repositories. SUSE Linux 10.0 Status ======================== Congratulations! We have finished development of SUSE Linux 10.0! My personal thanks go out to all of you who participated and contributed to the creation of SUSE Linux 10.0. This week we have released the final ISO images to our internal testing/verification/manufacturing process - that process takes a little time. The final "approved ISOs" will be uploaded and released to you on the 6th of October. We will be releasing CD images of SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS and a DVD Eval of SUSE Linux 10.0 (I'll document these media on the wiki later). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SUSE Linux 10.0 RC1 "=?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCrnberg?=" is available
by Adrian Schroeter 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

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SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta4 "Provo" is available
by Adrian Schroeter 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

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SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta3 "Bangalore" is available
by Adrian Schroeter 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta3 Codename "Bangalore" is ready for testing Highlights: - A PowerPC version has been also uploaded. It might not have the same quality as the i386 or x86_64 version, but it is save to install if you read this description from our ppc team before: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PowerPC_Documentation - Lots of the most annoying bugs have been fixed. - The ftp tree contains YUM meta data. This can be used with YaST or any other installer using YUM repositories. (It is not officially supported for now) Please report all bugs according to http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug A list of important known issues is available here: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs For now let me just point out the following call for testing We ask everybody for a short check of the Powermanagement and Suspend. Please try to suspend-to-disk and if you notice any problems after resuming please make a bugzilla-entry containing the following logfiles: - the output of /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/powersave_logs (a file named powersave_logs.tar.gz) - the output of hwinfo --all --log /tmp/hwinfo.txt ( file /tmp/hwinfo.txt) It would be very helpful if you could try suspend-to-ram, too, but before doing so you should read /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/README.suspend2ram If you have a notebook, we would although ask you for another simple test: Please make sure that you have started the kpowersave ('ac-adapter-icon in taskbar'). Pull the ac-adapter (you should have a notebook with a battary pack!) and look if the icon changes to display the battery charge level. Move you mouse over the icon and check the tool tip if it has changed, too. We had one (strange) laptop with problems, so please help us here. Download URLS: BitTorrent already works: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/SUSE-10… http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/SUSE-10… Mirrors are still syncing and might not yet be available. However, existing mirrors near to you can be found behind the new http://download.opensuse.org/ URL: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/MD5SUMS x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… (Delta isos are also available, please read the README inside the directory) For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/iso/SUSE-10.0-C… The boot image for network installation (i386 and x86-64 only atm) is available here: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/inst-source/boo… happy testing :) bye Adrian Schroeter Andreas Jaeger -- Adrian Schroeter Project Manager openSUSE SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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