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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 12.2 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi all, with the release of the gnumeric on January 27th, 2014 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 12.2 has ended. openSUSE 12.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. openSUSE 12.2 was released on September 5th 2012, making it ca. 17 months of security and bugfix support. Here are some statistics of our released updates (compared to 12.1): Total updates: 748 (-41) Security: 352 (-37) Recommended: 395 (-3) Optional: 1 (-1) Fixed CVE-entries: 1032 (-256) Fixed Bugs (overall): 1260 (-560) A special thanks to the KDE-team, which made it possible to release the first full kde-stack bugfix-update to KDE 4.8.5 for a openSUSE-distribution without any bigger issues. Also thanks at this point to our awesome packagers, community and the OpenBuildService-Team for a really stable and strong release! Your maintenance- and security-team -- Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner(a)suse.com>, SUSE LINUX, Maintenance SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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 Education Li-f-e 13.1.1 has arrived
by Lars Vogdt 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Hello Community What a Christmas present: the openSUSE Education community is proud announce the new openSUSE Education Li-f-e, see the detailed announcement here: https://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/12/17/announcing-opensuse-education-li-f-… Thanks to the openSUSE Evergreen team who will provide addtional support for the base system openSUSE 13.1, openSUSE Education 13.1 will have a total life time of at least three years from now on. As Jigish Gohil shared with us in the original announcement: Spread the word and share the ISO with all your loved ones and perhaps even people you don't love so much ;) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! -- 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 13.1, ready for action
by agustin benito bethencourt 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

THE INTERNET, November 19th, 2013, Dear contributors, friends and fans: The release is here! Eight months of planning, packaging, adding features, fixing issues, testing and fixing more issues has brought you the best that Free and Open Source has to offer, with our Green touch: Stable and Awesome. Please read the Release announcement[1] for further information. Get openSUSE 13.1 at http://software.opensuse.org/131/en [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2013/11/19/opensuse-13-1-ready-for-action/ About openSUSEThe openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use ofLinux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linuxdistributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendlymanner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org[1]. Press Contacts community manager, SUSEjos(a)opensuse.org Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe(a)suse.com -------- [1] http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1 ready
by Ludwig Nussel 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Hi, openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1 is ready for testing! It's pretty solid as it received an extra amount of automated checks via openQA. Nevertheless there's still quite some work to be done to get the quality we need for the final release¹. So please help testing and file bug reports²! Please find more information about the Beta and the activities around it at http://news.opensuse.org/2013/09/19/opensuse-13-1-beta-is-out/ Or go to the download right away at http://software.opensuse.org/developer cu Ludwig [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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 13.1 and Evergreen
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Hello, The openSUSE Evergreen team would like to announce that openSUSE 13.1 will be the next Evergreen release. This means that openSUSE 13.1 will continue to be supplied with security updates and important bugfixes until it has had a total life time of at least three years. The openSUSE Evergreen team expands the lifespan of openSUSE releases by issuing security- and stability fixes after the usual 18 months. The team has kept selected releases maintained for an additional one and a half to three years. The first Evergreen release was openSUSE 11.1. Current releases in the Evergreen maintenance program are openSUSE 11.2 to be maintained until november 2013 (a total of 4 years) and 11.4 to be maintained until July 2014 (reaching over three). Find more information about Evergreen and how to keep your openSUSE release alive on the Evergreen wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen on behalf of the whole Evergreen team Wolfgang Rosenauer -- 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 Conference Sponsors Announced
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

The openSUSE Conference team is happy to announce the sponsors for the openSUSE Conference 2013 which have committed to helping make our event possible. Our Platinum sponsor is SUSE Linux GmbH, the main sponsor of the openSUSE Community. Silver sponsor this year is ARM, a prominent partner to many open source communities. Bronze sponsors are DevHdR, an Dutch independent IT specialist and Oracle, delivering a wide variety of business hard- and software solutions Supporters of the openSUSE Conference include it.auth, GRNET, Thessaloniki (as European Youth Capital 2014), Kolabsys, CISCO. Our main media partners this year are Delta Hacker, Linux Magazin and Muktware. We're very grateful to these partners and supporters as well as everybody who supported us by promoting the conference or buying a supporter ticket! You can find more details on our sponsors as well as the team organizing the event this year on the openSUSE news site: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=16200

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 12.1 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Hi all, with the release of the kernel-update on May 06th, 2013 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 12.1 has ended. openSUSE 12.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. openSUSE 12.1 was the first openSUSE distribution maintained using OpenBuildService methods (known as "OBS Maintenance"), allowing full community participation, from the beginning. openSUSE 12.1 was released on November 16th 2011, making it 18 months of security and bugfix support. Currently, there are no plans to add 12.1 to the evergreen-project. If something changes, I'll inform you as soon as possible. Here are some statistics of our released updates (compared to 11.4): Total updates: 789 (+65) Security: 389 (-28) Recommended: 398 (+92) Optional: 2 (+1) Fixed CVE-entries: 1508 (+193) Fixed Bugs (overall): 1874 (+319) The increase of the resolved issues is related to the easier participation in working on openSUSE with the OpenBuildService. Thanks on this point to our awesome packagers, community and OpenBuildService-Team! Your maintenance- and security-team -- Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner(a)suse.com>, SUSE LINUX, Maintenance SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] Announcing the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.3-1
by Lars Vogdt 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hello Community openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1, this first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Get it from here: http://bit.ly/get-Li-f-e Li-f-e incorporates latest stable versions of all popular desktop environments such as KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon, it includes wide range of software catering to the needs of everyone, selection from openSUSE Education repository, multimedia from the Packman repository, development tools, KIWI-LTSP allowing normal PC or diskless thin clients to network boot from a server running Li-f-e and lot more. To summarize, everything you need to make your computer useful is available right out of the box as soon as Li-f-e is installed on it. Have a lot of fun... Your openSUSE Education Team PS: have a look at the full announcement on http://bit.ly/Life-1231 -- 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 ARMs More Hardware, Gets More Build Power
by Jos Poortvliet 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

openSUSE ARMs More Hardware, Gets More Build Power THE INTERNET, April 15, 2013 -- The openSUSE ARM team is proud to announce the immediate availability of openSUSE 12.3 based ARM images with support for the Calxeda Highbank ARM solution as well as a variety of other SoC's. Thanks to a deployment of Arndale boards with Samsung Exynos 5 Dualcore CPUs, the Open Build Service on build.openSUSE.org has gained a significant upgrade and development has been accellerated. openSUSE 12.3, released March 7 2013, introduced ARMv7 as a fully supported architecture. Due to the wide variety of hardware on the ARM platform, only installation images for a selection of devices can be provided by the openSUSE project and work on support more devices is an ongoing endeavor. Today, stable images for various ARMv7 SoCs have been made available on the openSUSE download servers. The most exciting are those for Highbank, the codename Caldexa’s ECX-1000 series SoC system which presents one of the most promising 32bit ARM boards for the server space. Aside from Highbank, images for 11 other devices are now available with SOC's including the TI OMAP 3 and 4 series, Samsung Exynos 4 and 5, the Raspberry Pi and the Freescale iMX51 and iMX53. The openSUSE ARM team is looking forward to feedback from users of these platforms. Technical collaboration with Samsung has resulted in additional build power for the Open Build Service thanks to a deployment of native ARM Arndale boards, providing dual core Samsung Exynos 5 CPUs. openSUSE employs the Open Build Service to provide a centralized, powerful set of hardware freely available for speeding up the building of packages and images by Open Source developers. The ARM boards replace QEMU emulation on x86 with KVM virtualization on native hardware and will provide swifter compile times for updates and faster development. The Open Build Service on build.opensuse.org now represents the first large production deployment of KVM virtualization on ARM that we are aware off. Seth Bernsen, Senior Director Ecosystem Development, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. said: "We're excited to see the realization of the Arndale development board platform as an enabler for innovative Open Source software development like the openSUSE project." The openSUSE ARM team has also been making steady progress on AArch64 support. Currently we provide over 5700 packages readily built for AArch64, which means openSUSE currently delivers the biggest software pool for AArch64, including Java, Python, Perl, PHP and related packages. Find more details and an update on the current state of openSUSE ARM in the Sneak Preview: https://news.opensuse.org/?p=15779 ### About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org.

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[opensuse-announce] Geeko Pumping Iron Session - openSUSE ARM Hackathon 08-12Apr
by Andrew Wafaa 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Now that openSUSE 12.3 is out, the openSUSE ARM Team[0] want to step up a gear. As the cycle was shorter than normal, there are a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out and also a whole heap of new things that can be added. After some discussion at FOSDEM, it was decided to hold a Hackathon to address these items. The Hackathon will take place on 08 to 12 April, both at the SUSE offices in Nuremberg as well as online for those that can't attend in person. We have a TODO list which comprises the following: * AArch64 fixes for 12.3 & Factory * Resolve outstanding 12.3 package issues * Test and release 12.3 images * Create OpenStack images for ARM * Get KVM and Xen on Chromebook & Arndale running * OBS improvements There will also be the opportunity for new device bring up for those that want to, but our intention is to work through and complete as much of the above TODO list as possible first. For those interested in joining in the fun, please either join us in Nuremberg and/or join the opensuse-arm mailing list[1], the #opensuse-arm IRC channel on Freenode[2] and also keep an eye on the openSUSE on ARM Trello board[3]. If you have any questions please let us know on the mailing list or on IRC. 0 - https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM 1 - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm 2 - irc://freenode.net/#opensuse-arm 3 - https://trello.com/board/opensuse-on-arm/5007cfc12cf0ae352e21d8dc -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- 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 Project Releases openSUSE 12.3
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Latest Linux distro improves search, performance and networking; moves forward with ARM support THE INTERNET, March 13, 2013 -- The openSUSE Project today announced the latest release of its reliable, modern and easy-to-use multi-purpose Linux operating system. openSUSE 12.3 improves search, filesystem performance and networking, as well as makes great strides forward in ARM and cloud support. openSUSE 12.3 is the latest Linux distribution from the openSUSE Project, allowing users and developers to benefit from free and open source software in physical, virtual and cloud environments. “Six months of open collaboration by our international Free Software community has once again resulted in a great product,” said Michael Miller, SUSE. “We are completely committed to the continued growth of the openSUSE Project and are just as passionate about its success as the many people who personally use and contribute to it. As an independent community, openSUSE contributors innovate and build what they’re passionate about and enjoy doing it. This innovation isn’t directed or controlled by SUSE; it’s a free and open project. In fact, that’s exactly why the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE works so well and partly why openSUSE is such a great project for contributors to join.” Search, Performance and Networking openSUSE 12.3 introduces pervasive search features both on-line and locally. On the desktop, GNOME Nautilus and KDE Dolphin offer improved search capabilities. Personal information management software enhancements include automatically updating email search folders in Evolution. The quick filter in Kontact can search through the entire email body versus just the header. For servers, openSUSE 12.3 has replaced MySQL Database Server as the default option with the more openly developed, drop-in replacement MariaDB. PostgreSQL 9.2 introduces NoSQL integration capabilities with its JSON support. In the area of cloud computing, openSUSE 12.3 debuts full packages for setting up OpenStack Folsom, the most recent release from popular OpenStack open source cloud computing project. The Linux 3.7 kernel within openSUSE 12.3 boosts connectivity, performance and networking. It features enhanced file system performance and a much-improved network layer that supports the TCP Fast Open protocol for faster browsing and several new features to decrease bufferbloat. Desktop Desktop users can look forward to the latest Linux desktop software to ship with openSUSE 12.3. Application updates include the new Amarok 2.7 and Rhythmbox 2.98 for music lovers and digiKam 3.0 for handling photos and creating video slide shows. For productivity, the popular LibreOffice 3.6 offers cutting-edge tools from a proven open source office suite. openSUSE 12.3 also debuts a new theme that reflects the distribution's reputation for elegance and attention to detail. Improvements to package management allow better software handling from the graphical tools. Tools In addition to the technical enhancements in openSUSE 12.3, the live images have grown to a larger size̶ ― up to 1 GB ― to be able to include the basic software most users expect. Among other things, Gimp and LibreOffice are now available within the live images. openSUSE 12.3 now ships a smaller XFCE-based Live CD for rescue and backup of an existing system. This provides a lightweight and effective environment and powerful applications for recovering lost data, backing up existing data, and editing disk partitions. This release also brings proper UEFI support for x86_64-bit hardware and experimental support for Secure Boot enabled hardware. The openSUSE ARM team plans to release openSUSE 12.3 for ARM within a few weeks, allowing users to test the abilities of this architecture on laptops and on small servers. A preview of openSUSE 12.3 for ARM 64-bit is already available with over 4300 packages built for this new architecture, putting openSUSE well ahead of all other distributions with AArch64. “We're very proud of openSUSE 12.3 as a stable and current operating system” said openSUSE Board member Richard Brown. “We are looking forward to the openSUSE Conference in Greece this summer, where we can celebrate this release and continue working towards the future of Free Software.” For more details about the latest innovations in openSUSE 12.3 visit http://opensuse.org/12.3 Downloads can be found at http://software.opensuse.org/123 Information about our ARM work and downloads can be found on https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM ### About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org. About SUSE SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed—today and tomorrow. For more information, visit us at www.suse.com. Press Contacts community manager, SUSE jos(a)opensuse.org Amie Johnson PR Manager, SUSE amie(a)suse.com

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[opensuse-announce] Planned maintenance downtime for widehat.opensuse.org 2013-03-05
by Marcus Rückert 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi, on 2013-03-05 we will do some maintenance an widehat.opensuse.org to increase the performance of the machine. During the maintenance a slower machine will take its place to keep the most of the services up. The affected services are: * rsync.opensuse.org * widehat.opensuse.org * tube.opensuse.org * torrent seeder Only the first 3 of those will be running until put the original machine back in place, which can take a few days. With kind regards, Your openSUSE admin team -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- 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] Notification of removal of GNOME:Apps SLE_11_SP1
by Bjørn Lie 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

We will be removing GNOME:Apps SLE_11_SP1 build-target and repository in about a week. Please switch to GNOME:Apps SLE_11_SP2 for continued use of GNOME:Apps on SUSE SLED/S. We are doing this to save build power and HD space on our beloved OBS service. On behalf of your friendly Gnome maintainers, Zaitor / Bjørn Lie -- 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] oSC13: Kicking off with CfP and Registration
by Henne Vogelsang 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

People, Friends, G(r)eekos, The openSUSE Conference (oSC13) team is pleased to announce that registration has opened and our paper committee calls out for submission of session proposals! From July 18 until July 22 2013, Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, will be host to the fifth oSC. Hundreds of hackers from around the globe will come to the country where the modern Age of Reason started. In the place where over 2500 years ago great thinkers sat down and taught the art of logical and critical thinking, we will sit down and talk critically about logic and code. Read on to find out how to register and where to send your session proposals! Registration is open ==================== You can now register for oSC13 using our conference tool. https://conference.opensuse.org/osem Registration for the event will remain open until the conference starts on July 18th. However, if you don’t register as early as possible (within 2 weeks of the event) we may not be able to ensure sufficient space for everyone at the lunch and party locations and we will have less chance of negotiating preferred room rates for you at hotels. So please, please, pretty please register as early as possible! As in previous years registration and attendance of oSC13 is free of charge. But you can support the event by purchasing supporter tickets ($50) or professional tickets ($250) during registration. Funds from these ticket sales are a very important part of the budget for the overall conference. The money is used to fund the event and help with the openSUSE Travel Support Program to allow as many contributors as possible to attend the event. As supporter or professional ticket holder you will receive a special thank you surprise upon check-in. Sponsoring oSC -------------- Are you looking to do more that buying a ticket? Sponsorship opportunities of oSC13 are available. If you think about sponsoring or (might) know a potential sponsor please see our sponsorship brochure. http://conference.opensuse.org/files/oSC13_Sponsorship_Brochure.pdf Call for Papers =============== Starting today, the oSC13 Paper Committee is ready to receive your proposals for sessions! Talk, Workshop and Birds of a Feather session submissions should be focused in the following 3 areas; Community & Project, Geeko tech, and openWorld. Submit your abstracts, workshop and BoF session proposals in our conference tool. The submission period begins today, Tuesday February 19 and ends on April 3, 2013. Session owners will be notified no later than April 24, 2013. Community & Project ------------------- Sessions in this area should focus on the openSUSE project and community activities, including but not limited to project governance, marketing, artwork, ambassador reports and collaboration with other FOSS communities. Geeko Tech ---------- Sessions in this area should focus on openSUSE technologies such as packaging, the distribution, the openSUSE infrastructure etc. openWorld For this area we invite other FOSS projects to share their work and collaborate with the openSUSE community. Sessions are not limited to technical content, you may choose to talk about your favorite pet project such as building a boat, a robot, or other interesting topics. About oSC13 – Power to the Geeko ================================ The openSUSE conference is the annual gathering of many that support the openSUSE project and other FOSS contributors and enthusiasts. The event in Thessaloniki will be our 5th conference and we expect it to once again be a great success. The talks, workshops and BoF sessions provide the framework to exchange information and knowledge. In this framework we provide a great atmosphere for collaboration and the creation of lasting connections and memories. The “Power to the Geeko” motto of this year’s conference connects us with the past of our host country while looking into the future as we continue on our way to changing the world. We’ll have fun! --------------- The Greek Philosophers were part of a revolution which changed the world. So are we, and thus, under the motto of “Power to the Geeko”, we will gather and work on our revolution. Lets get those gears spinning, submit your session proposals, register your attendance, help us find sponsors and make the next openSUSE conference an awesome event. http://conference.opensuse.org -- 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] Notification of removal of GNOME:Apps 11.4 repos
by Bjørn Lie 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Since 12.3 is just around the corner we feel it's now time to drop our 11.4 build targets from GNOME:Apps. This to save build power and HD space on our beloved OBS service. This means that if you are using any of these http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.4/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.4 +GNOME_STABLE_3.0/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.4 +GNOME_STABLE_3.2/ be prepared for it to vanish in about a week. On behalf of your friendly Gnome maintainers, Zaitor / Bjørn Lie -- 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 Conference 2013: Geeko Gets Geared Up!
by Jos Poortvliet 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Today, the openSUSE conference team is happy and proud to announce the openSUSE Conference 2013. From July 18 to 22, the openSUSE Community will flock to the land where 2500 years ago, Philosophers started the Age of Reason. Humbly standing on the shoulders of these giants, we'll work, enjoy the great climate and each other, developing the technology for the future of humankind. The Greek Philosophers were part of a revolution which changed the world. So are we, and thus, under the motto of *"Power to the Geeko"*, we will gather and work on our very own Free Software revolution! The local team of volunteers is working with great dedication to provide an awesome experience for everybody at oSC13. We're always looking for more volunteers to help out! Like last year, we'll have supporter- and professional tickets available but of course entry is free. We do kindly ask you to help us in planning and coordinating by registering. Registration will open in the first half of February and you can also expect our Call for Papers at that time. Read our full announcement on http://news.opensuse.org/?p=14908 Have a lot of fun, The Conference Team

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Packaging guidelines update January/2013
by Michal Vyskocil 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hi all, this is the new announcement of changes in our packaging guidelines have happened last month. The Christmas period is usually calm and people tend to focus on other things, so we have only minor updates. Content =============== 1.) The categorization discussion 2.) Various small changes 3.) Boring diffstat The categorization discussion ============================= The thread [1] started clarify categories in a wiki is still wip. But hopefully we found [2] a good set of categories, which enhances the readability. Various small changes ===================== Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own category, but should be mentioned * new abbreviation bxc has been added to patches guidelines [3] * the s/discriminatory/non-discriminatory/ typo has been fixed in guidelines page [4] * little typo fixes in systemd packaging page [5] Boring diffstat =============== openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 4 ++++ openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 3 ++- openSUSE:Systemd packaging guidelines | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2012-12/msg00107.html [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-01/msg00004.html [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines [4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Systemd_packaging_guidelines Regards Michal Vyskocil

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[opensuse-announce] The New 2013 openSUSE Board Members are:
by Bryen M Yunashko 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board. At stake were two seats of the five electable seats. With 8 candidates, the community definitely had a broad choice of qualified candidates to choose from. In the end, the two top vote-getters were Raymond Wooninck (tittiacoke) and Robert Schweikert, (robjo) respectively. They will join the openSUSE Board on January 9th during the transitional meeting of the regularly scheduled Project meeting heldon the Freenode IRC Channel at 17:00 UTC. The Election Officials would like to congratulate all of thecandidates for a great campaign season. These candidates included Matt Barringer, Richard Brown, Carl Fletcher, Manu Gupta, Chuck Payne and Stefan Seyfried. All of these candidates demonstrated a commitment to the Project and exemplified the Guiding Principles which the Project, as a whole, is founded upon. We join the rest of the community in looking forward to an exciting year to come as the new Board embarks on new initiatives and directions. And we thank the community for giving us the opportunity to serve as members of the election committee. Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Committee - Izabel Valverde - Thomas Schmidt - Bryen M Yunashko -- 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 Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece. OPA!
by Henne Vogelsang 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Geekos all over the world, we are very happy to inform you that next year's openSUSE Conference (oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece. oSC13 will bring together a wide variety of Free and Open Source (FOSS) contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects. In exciting talks, workshops and social events our community will bring alive our motto "Have a lot of fun". We are entering the organization phase right now and have not yet settled on an exact date and location but we will let you know once we have that info. In the meantime how about you help us organize oSC13? We need you at the kick off meeting! To make this the most awesome conference ever, we are looking for people who are willing to help out. We need you! There is a lot of organizing to be done, logos to be drawn, websites to be designed, schedules to be made, hotels to be booked, sponsors to be found and a million of other things you can help with. So to kick off the organization team and to get everyone on the same page we are going to meet this Thursday, December 13th on IRC to discuss what we need to do and how we are going to do it. If you're looking for a chance to give back to the openSUSE community this is it! When: 2012-12-13 at 15:00 UTC Where: #opensuse-project on the freenode network Who: Everybody who want's to make oSC13 great If you, for whatever reason, can't participate but still want to help you should subscribe to our conference mailinglist: opensuse-conference(a)opensuse.org we are going to post meeting minutes there and will use this list to further organize oSC13. Let's get going and make oSC13 in Thessaloniki the best conference ever! Your oSC13 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] 2013 Board Elections Begin Today!
by Bryen M Yunashko 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today -- Election Time! Two seats are open for election by members of the openSUSE Project. The first seat is vacated by Henne Vogelsang who has completed his two-term limit. The second seat is currently held by Manu Gupta, appointed to fill in for Peter Linnel who stepped down in August of 2012. Both seats are for a two-year term that begins in January 2013 and ends in January 2015. How to Vote: If you are a current member of the openSUSE Project, you will soon receive an email with instructions on how to vote via openSUSE Connect polling system. You must be a member in good standing on or before 27 November 2012. If you have not yet received an email within the next 24 hours, please contact the Election Officials committee at election-officials(a)opensuse.org. Each eligible voter will be given two votes to cast, one for each seat to be elected in this cycle. Voting begins today and concludes at 23:00 UTC on 16 December 2012. But I can't decide!: With 8 excellent candidates running for two seats, we feel your pain. Luckily, there's two ways to learn more about the candidates. Option 1: Platforms and Blogs Read the candidates platforms and blogs here. [1] Option 2: Live Q&A Debate Tomorrow, Thursday at 15:00 UTC [2] , candidates will gather in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode IRC network. A two hour session, moderated by the Election Officials, this will be an opportunity for you to ask questions live. Can't make it, no problem. We will post transcript of the debate here. Got a question you want to ask but can't make it? Post your question in the original news posting of this article at [3]. Thank you, openSUSE Election Officials [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Candidates [2] http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx [3] https://news.opensuse.org/2012/12/05/2013-board-elections-begin-today/ -- 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 Packaging guidelines update November/2012
by Michal Vyskocil 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi all, this is the next announcenment of changes in our packaging guidelines have happened last month. Content =============== 1.) Removed pages 2.) Updated Ruby guidelines 3.) Various small changes 4.) Boring diffstat Removed pages ============== Two new pages were added into Category:Packaging_documentation [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lisp http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_vdr however none of those has been properly announced on -packaging, neither -factory as expected by guidelines change process[2]. Therefor I've removed the Category:Packaging_documentation from them and will inform affected users and ask them to go through the process. Updated Ruby guidelines ======================= This page has been the one, which got most updates * how to build against ruby-common to get autogenerated BuildRequires/Requires * how to update gem packages to a new version * how to deal with ommited BuildRequires generated by gem2rpm * as well as more details about how they are automatically handled see http://bit.ly/11vX52P for a detailed diff, if interested. Kudos to Adam Spiers for such great changes Various small changes ===================== Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own category, but should be mentioned * added real-world example to OBS tips and trick page about using multiple repositories [3] * creating a changes got more examples and recommendations [4] * fonts packaging page got some bugfixes [5] Boring diffstat =============== openSUSE:Build Service Tips and Tricks | 17 +++- openSUSE:Build Service Tutorial | 4 +- openSUSE:Build Service cross distribution howto | 2 +- openSUSE:Creating a changes file (RPM) | 37 +++++-- openSUSE:Java RPM Macros | 3 +- openSUSE:Package group guidelines | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging Fonts | 39 +++++--- openSUSE:Packaging Go | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging Java | 3 +- openSUSE:Packaging Lisp | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++ openSUSE:Packaging Lua | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging Multiple Version guidelines | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 10 +- openSUSE:Packaging Ruby | 102 +++++++++++++++++++- openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 9 +- openSUSE:Packaging guidelines change process | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging scriptlet snippets | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging vdr | 91 +++++++++++++++++ 19 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging Lisp create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging vdr [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Packaging_documentation [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Adding_multip… [4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Creating_a_changes_file_%28RPM%29 [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts Regards Michal Vyskocil

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Board official candidates announced
by Bryen M Yunashko 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

The openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year's official list of candidates for the openSUSE 2013 Board. They are: - Matt Baringer - Richard Brown - Carl Fletcher - Manu Gupta - Chuck Payne - Robert Schweikertz - Stefan Seyfried - Raymond Woonick The official announcement and relevant links can be read in today's published news.opensuse.org article at: [1] Please use the time this week prior to the election to engage with the candidates and ask them questions about their positions and goals. Voting begins next week and we want you all to be well-informed voters. :-) Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Officials committee [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/28/meet-the-opensuse-board-candidates/ -- 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] Planned maintenance downtime December 1st 2012
by Marcus Rueckert 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

On Saturday, December 1st 2012, at approximately 05:00 UTC our data center team will do a backend storage upgrade. The planned window is 8-10 hours for the maintenance, and specific applications will probably be not available until 24:00 UTC as listed below. * openSUSE Forums (http://forums.opensuse.org) * openSUSE Lizards (http://lizards.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE News (http://news.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE (landing page (http://www.opensuse.org) and wikis (http://wiki.opensuse.org/)) * Novell Open ID for SUSE Studio (https://www.suse.com/openid/) The plan is to keep read only versions of each affected site running. We will keep this announcement updated with the current state and also report changes to opensuse-announce(a)opensuse.org. To avoid confusion - the services listed below are not scheduled for any downtime and accordingly up for the whole time: * openSUSE download page (http://download.opensuse.org/) * Documentation (http://doc.opensuse.org/) * Video recordings (http://tube.opensuse.org/) * Mailing lists (http://lists.opensuse.org/) * IRC channels (irc://irc.opensuse.org/opensuse-project) * Planet openSUSE (http://planet.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE Connect (http://connect.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE Shop (http://shop.opensuse.org/) * Features openSUSE (http://features.opensuse.org/) * Build Service (http://build.opensuse.org/) * Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.novell.com/) With kind regards, your openSUSE admin team -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- 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] Reminder: Last Call for Candidates for openSUSE Board Elections
by Bryen M Yunashko 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

It's not too late to throw your hat into the ring and represent your community on the openSUSE Board. The deadline to submit your intention to run for the board is tomorrow, 27 November, 2012. Please review the full details of our election procedures on our wiki [1]. Being a board member is one of the many great ways you can help shape the direction and future of the openSUSE Project. If you care and want to give something back to the community, this is your chance. Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Officials Team [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election -- 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 IRC meeting: Wednesday 21 November 17:30 UTC
by Raymond Wooninck 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

I would like to inform all of you that there is an openSUSE KDE Team meeting planned for next week Wednesday 21 November at 17:30 UTC in the irc channel #opensuse-kde. The main agenda for this meeting is: 1) Action Items 2) Status report 3) KDE Team task list (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_packaging_tasks) (tittiatcoke) 4) Does the openSUSE KDE Team want to have Apper as updater and application/x- rpm MIME type handler for 12.3? (unknown) 5) Q&A, Misc I hope to see you all. Regards Raymond -- 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] Survey about new contributor experience on openSUSE and other FOSS projects
by Kevin Carillo 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi everyone, If you have joined the openSUSE project within the last 3 years, I would like to kindly request your help for a survey: https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en (open until November 21). The purpose of the project is to work out how newcomers to a FOSS community become valued sustainable contributors. This is part of my PhD thesis. Vincent Untz and Jos Poortvliet are supporting this research. Thanks! Kevin Carillo -- 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 Packaging Guidelines Update
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

On the opensuse-packaging mailing list, we've recently formed a team that will take care of the packaging guidelines and introduced a small process to change them: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process As part of that process, we're announcing regularly the changes to the packaging guidelines. Since this is a first such announcement, it is not a complete change but just points out a few things from the past few months. In the future, we will send out this email once a month. The Packaging guidelines can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines . List of changes =============== 1) New Lua Guidelines 2) Reworked font guidelines 3) Documenting changes in packages 4) Teams involved, contact Details ======= 1) New Lua Guidelines We now have guidelines for lua: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lua. 2) Reworked font guidelines The packaging of fonts has been completely changed, and is documented at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts 3) Documenting changes in packages The openSUSE review team is now also enforcing proper documenting changes in packages: First, the .changes entry (rpm changelog) surves two purposes: - News for the user - History tracking of packaging changes (often referenced in bugs to verify if a user has the latest packaging bugfixes). 3.1) Information about updates A simple "Update to version x.y.z" is, as before, not accepted. There should be some buzz around the update for the user; some major reasons to the upgrade should be listed. Changes on the package itself should be mentioned in a way that any other contributor to the same package can follow traces of why something is the way it is. Commonly, Added (build)dependencies are interesting to be seen, special hacks to make something work in a particular way [..]: Always consider that package maintenance is a distributed task and various contributors need to be able to step up at will. 3.2) Documenting patch life cycle The rules about patches are listed at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines . Most prominent is likely the mentioning of the patches life cycle, which forces you to mention additions and removals of patches in the changelog. As history shows, this can be helpful if a patch got removed, and later a regression is reported; finding out when a patch was removed can be crucial in reconstructing feature sets (including contacting the contributor that dropped it.. which is easily extracted from the .changes if listed) The main appeal is to the devel project maintainers / reviewers, to keep out for those rules, to live according to them, as it is frustrating for everybody if a package needs to be declined by the openSUSE Factory Review team: - The dev prj maintainer is the one getting the 'decline' (as it was usually a forwarded request), which often leaves the 'fixing' to the devel project maintainers, where the 'originator' of the fix would have been willing to actually do that... Note: The review team is not enforcing the usage of patch markup unless the package already follows this convention. 4) Teams involved, contact I mentioned two teams previously, these are the openSUSE review team (details at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_review_team) and the team taking care of the guidelines (details at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process#Team_me…) You can reach both via the openSUSE-packaging mailing list. On behalf of the teams, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 11.4 has reached end of SUSE support - 11.4 Evergreen goes on
by Marcus Meissner 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, With the release of ruby on Monday 5th of November the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 11.4 has ended. openSUSE 11.4 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. openSUSE 11.4 was the first openSUSE distribution maintained using OpenBuildService methods (known as "OBS Maintenance"), allowing full community participation. We also migrated it from the old internal SUSE method to the OBS method on the fly during the lifetime without any interruption. openSUSE 11.4 now will be continued to be maintained by the Evergreen community team. Their wikipage is on http://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen , please check it out for more information. Here are some statistics: openSUSE 11.4 was released on March 4th 2011, making it 20 months of security and bugfix support. (2 openSUSE releases + 2 months) Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.3): Total updates: 723 (+142) Security: 416 (+58) Recommended: 306 (+85) Optional: 1 (-1) Quite some increase on updates, both security and bugfix wise. Some of this is due to the 2 months increased lifetime compared to openSUSE 11.3, some of this is due to a more open community bugfix involvement. CVE Entries: 1113 (-99) Top issues (compared to 11.3 for issues down to 5) 10 seamonkey (-4) 10 MozillaFirefox (-2) 9 php5 (+4) 9 MozillaThunderbird (-2) 8 flash-player (-4) 6 wireshark (+1) 6 opera (-4) 6 java-1_6_0-openjdk (-1) 6 bind ( 0) 5 openssl (-2) 5 libpng14 (new) 5 icedtea-web (new) And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count down to 10) (comparison to 11.3 for some ... but due to the OBS maintenance migration some CVEs are not easily accounted for) 139 MozillaThunderbird (+26) 139 MozillaFirefox (+28) 135 seamonkey (-3) 67 kernel (-61) 56 java-1_6_0-openjdk 44 flash-player (+38) 41 mozilla-nspr 30 mysql-community-server 29 php5 26 mozilla-kde4-integration 21 mariadb 21 freetype2 20 java-1_6_0-sun 18 wireshark 18 mozilla-xulrunner192 17 mysql-cluster 13 rubygem-actionpack-2_3 12 xen 11 rubygem-activerecord-2_3 10 rubygem-activesupport-2_3 10 puppet 10 libpng14 -- Open Linux Security Engineer Position at SUSE: http://bit.ly/Li4RbS

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[opensuse-announce] Live streams from the openSUSE Conference
by Lars Vogdt 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, I want to announce the availability of 4 live streams from the openSUSE Conference currently taking place in Prague. Just visit our "openSUSE-TV Channel" on Bambuser here: http://bambuser.com/channel/opensusetv and choose the room you like to see. Maybe combine this with the official schedule here: http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/ Let's have a lot of fun...! With kind regards, Lars -- 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] Advance SUSE support discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.4 - Evergreen goes on!
by Marcus Meissner 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers and openSUSE users, SUSE Security and the openSUSE Maintenance Team announce that the SUSE sponsored security and maintenance teams will stop releasing updates for openSUSE 11.4 soon. Having provided both security and bug fixes for the last two releases and two months, we will stop releasing updates after November 5th 2012. However, the community Evergreen team plans to provide ongoing maintenance for openSUSE 11.4. More details on this will be published when they are known. As a consequence, the openSUSE 11.4 distribution directory on our server download.opensuse.org will be removed from /distribution/11.4/ to free space on our mirror sites. The 11.4 directory in the update tree /update/11.4 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. Also the openSUSE buildservice repositories containing openSUSE 11.4 will be moved to DISCONTINUED:openSUSE:11.4 and building against openSUSE 11.4 will be disabled and removed in all buildservice projects. The discontinuation of openSUSE 11.4 enables SUSE to focus on the openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our users can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with openSUSE products. This announcement holds true for openSUSE 11.4 only. As usual, the openSUSE project will continue to provide update packages for the following products: openSUSE 12.1 (supported until 2 months after openSUSE "Next" release, around May 2013) openSUSE 12.2 (supported until 2 months after openSUSE "Next+2" release) openSUSE Next (naming is discussed currently) (currently in development, to be released early 2013) for the next two openSUSE releases plus a two months overlap period. (As the schedule is under discussion these dates cannot be predicted exactly at this time. It will be 2 releases + 2 months usually.) Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE Linux Enterprise products and products based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system are not affected by this announcement and have longer life cycles. Our openSUSE lifetimes are tracked on http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime . To learn more about SUSE Linux Enterprise products, please visit http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ . For a detailed list of the life cycles of our Enterprise Products please visit http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ and http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?sl=suse If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact SUSE Security at <security(a)suse.de> or openSUSE Maintenance at <maintenance(a)opensuse.org>. -- 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] KDE Team Meeting planned for 17 October at 17:30 UTC
by Raymond Wooninck 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Dear All, A new KDE openSUSE Team meeting is planned for next week Wednesday evening (17th October) at 17:30 UTC (or 19:30 GMT) The meeting is also mentioned on our webpage (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meeting ) and you can add topics to discuss to the indicated list. I hope to have a good participation like the previous meeting and to have some good discussions. Thanks Regards Raymond -- 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] KDE 4.9.2 Packages available for 12.2 and 12.1
by Raymond Wooninck 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

This afternoon KDE 4.9.2 was officially released by the KDE team. (http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.9.2.php) The last few days the openSUSE KDE team has been preparing the update to KDE 4.9.2 and we would like to announce that the packages are available for the openSUSE 12.2 and 12.1 distributions. The packages can be found in our KDE:Relaase:49 repository. Enjoy this new release !! Regards openSUSE KDE 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] openSUSE ARM 12.2 RC1 is out!
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. Since the openSUSE Conference in 2011, the openSUSE ARM team has managed to bring up openSUSE ARM from nothing to a truly usable and functional distribution on the ARM version 7 architecture. Andrew Wafaa, who continues to be heavily involved in the openSUSE-on-ARM initiative and now works for the UK CPU designer, remarks: "It was a fast and hard ride. Supporting a new architecture is always a lot of work, especially one as diverse and versatile as ARM's, but with the right tools and the right help it is possible to do it in record time!" *Hardware and device support* This release focusses on ARMv7 with the Cortex-A profile from ARM Ltd. Due to the complicated landscape of ARM devices, only a subset is supported at the moment: Texas Instruments’ OMAP3 & OMAP4, Marvell ArmadaXP 510 and Freescale I.MX51; the supported devices running with these SoCs are the Beagleboard, Beagleboard-xM, Pandaboard, Pandaboard-ES and the EfikaMX smarttop/smartbook. There is also an image for the VersatileExpress which is suitable for use in Qemu as well as a generic root file system tarball that users and developers may use to help bring up unsupported devices. *More information* Downloads can be found at [1]. Find information about supported boards at [2] and how-to's at [3]. If you'd like to get involved in the openSUSE ARM efforts, read [4] and have a look at our tasks on Trello [5]. Most collaboration takes place through the opensuse-arm(a)opensuse.org mailing list and the IRC channel #opensuse-arm on Freenode.net. *Thanks* The team builds upon OBS, Qemu and KIWI as main technologies and is grateful for the support and sponsorship from Texas Instruments/Pandaboard Project, Genesi,ARM and the wider openSUSE Community. Find the the openSUSE News article with more details at http://news.opensuse.org/?p=14138 About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org. [1] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/12.2-RC1/images/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Supported_ARM_boards [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_on_your_ARM_board [4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ARM_distribution_howto [5] https://trello.com/#board/opensuse-on-arm/5007cfc12cf0ae352e21d8dc

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[opensuse-announce] GNOME 3.6 now also for openSUSE 12.2
by Dominique Leuenberger 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hello GNOMEs! It's official: GNOME 3.6 has been published for openSUSE 12.2. Want to read more? Head over to http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2012/09/gnome-3-6-for-opensuse-12-2/ Enjoy it! Dominique -- 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] Downtime of some openSUSE services on 2012-09-27
by Marcus Rueckert 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

hi, during the maintenance window on 2012-09-27 from 06:00 UTC to 09:00 UTC the following services might experience some downtime to move them to new hardware: tracker.opensuse.org apparmor.opensuse.org connect.opensuse.org retro.opensuse.org openbuildservice.org beans.opensuse.org the individual downtimes should not be longer than 30minutes. with kind regards your openSUSE admin team -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- 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] GNOME 3.6 Enters GNOME:Factory
by Bryen Yunashko 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

(Originally posted by Dominique Leuenberger) Hi GNOMEs! I know you are all eagerly awaiting it! * AND IT JUST HAPPENED * GNOME 3.6 (at least what has been released so far; official release date is tomorrow, so there can still some more packages appear) has been submitted and accepted into GNOME:Factory. * FACTORY USERS * GNOME:Factory, as you all know, is the staging project where all packages are being tested against each other and, once deemed working, be forwarded to openSUSE:Factory, to be included into our next release of openSUSE. GNOME:Factory is NOT compatible to 12.2 (due to dependencies). * BUT * Don't be afraid just yet: All this great work has also been submitted and accepted into a new repository GNOME:STABLE:3.6 (which, at this moment, is not published; we will be doing at least a few integration tests on 12.2 before crashing _your_ machine(s).) If all goes well and may the OBS be with us (giving us the build power we need), this should not take too long. Once all this is ready, we'll let you know here again! * BUT BUT * _YOU_ are really brave and don't mind crashing your machine... should this happen, you are a) capable of extracting log files (even if NO gui comes up b) formulate readable bug reports c) FIX the bug :) then there is even a repository for 12.2 published (actually, it is GNOME:STABLE:3.6 published in a different namespace). So if you feel adventerous and comply to at least 2 of the 3 points above (:)), then you are allowed to use the repository home:dimstar:broken on your machine and get up to GNOME 3.6 (don't do this just now: the repository is in a full rebuild due to the checkins!) * WHAT MORE * What? you want even MORE??? Well, formulate your needs, and we'll find a way to make you work on them :) After all, this is a community effort! We need YOU to make this all possible. Hope you're having a lot of fun! The openSUSE GNOME Team * THE END * Dominique Leuenberger openSUSE GNOME 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] GNOME 3.6 entered GNOME:Factory]
by Dominique Leuenberger 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi GNOMEs! I know you are all eagerly awaiting it! * AND IT JUST HAPPENED * GNOME 3.6 (at least what has been released so far; official release date is tomorrow, so there can still some more packages appear) has been submitted and accepted into GNOME:Factory. * FACTORY USERS * GNOME:Factory, as you all know, is the staging project where all packages are being tested against each other and, once deemed working, be forwarded to openSUSE:Factory, to be included into our next release of openSUSE. GNOME:Factory is NOT compatible to 12.2 (due to dependencies). * BUT * Don't be afraid just yet: All this great work has also been submitted and accepted into a new repository GNOME:STABLE:3.6 (which, at this moment, is not published; we will be doing at least a few integration tests on 12.2 before crashing _your_ machine(s).) If all goes well and may the OBS be with us (giving us the build power we need), this should not take too long. Once all this is ready, we'll let you know here again! * BUT BUT * _YOU_ are really brave and don't mind crashing your machine... should this happen, you are a) capable of extracting log files (even if NO gui comes up b) formulate readable bug reports c) FIX the bug :) then there is even a repository for 12.2 published (actually, it is GNOME:STABLE:3.6 published in a different namespace). So if you feel adventerous and comply to at least 2 of the 3 points above (:)), then you are allowed to use the repository home:dimstar:broken on your machine and get up to GNOME 3.6 (don't do this just now: the repository is in a full rebuild due to the checkins!) * WHAT MORE * What? you want even MORE??? Well, formulate your needs, and we'll find a way to make you work on them :) After all, this is a community effort! We need YOU to make this all possible. Hope you're having a lot of fun! The openSUSE GNOME Team * THE END * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org -- 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] Announcing Vincent Untz as new openSUSE Board Charman
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

This week Alan Clark announced to the openSUSE Board that he is stepping down from his position as Board Chair. His duties in SUSE keep him increasingly busy and SUSE has decided, after almost two years, the time has come for someone else to take on his role. So, after thinking about what skills are most relevant for the openSUSE Board right now and who would fit in best, SUSE managers Michael Miller (Marketing and Product Management) and Ralf Flaxa (Engineering) have brought in former GNOME Foundation Chairman Vincent Untz to take on the role as chair. The Board is very pleased having someone with the skills and experience of Vincent on board! Read more about this on our news site: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=14113 And the official announcement from SUSE: https://www.suse.com/company/press/2012/9/opensuse-project-announces- appointment-of-vincent-untz-as-opensuse-board-chair.html Both Alan and Vincent Untz as well as number of the other openSUSE Board members are at the openSUSE Summit right now. If you're there, go and look them up for a chat about where openSUSE is going. If you can't make it, they will surely be at the openSUSE Conference in Prague in October!

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[opensuse-announce] Planned maintenance downtime of rsync.opensuse.org, Monday 2012-09-17
by Lars Vogdt 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi Our public rsync server 'rsync.opensuse.org' will be not available on Monday, 2012-09-17, starting 11:00 local time (CEST) which is 17th of September, 09:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. Please have a look at our webpage with local mirrors: http://mirrors.opensuse.org/ of our distribution and choose one of the closest to your region/country. With kind regards, Your openSUSE admin team -- Lars Vogdt <Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com> - OPS Engineering Services Team Lead - SUSE Linux Products GmbH - GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany - HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- 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] Cinnamon Repository
by Nelson Marques 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

I would like to inform of the following: 1) Cinnamon has been moved to the X11:Cinnamon repository and will be normally maintained; 2) As the Cinnamon code base depends a lot on GNOME 3, to simplify things, I've opted for the following repo layout: a) X11:Cinnamon (empty repository) b) X11:Cinnamon:GNOME34 - Cinnamon releases compatible with GNOME34 code base; c) X11:Cinnamon:GNOME36 - Cinnamon releases compatible with GNOME36 code base; d) X11:Cinnamon:Factory - Cinnamon development project for openSUSE:Factory (if it happens); Users who are relying on GNOME:Cinnamon should migrate to X11:Cinnamon:GNOME34 as soon as possible, as GNOME:Cinnamon will be disabled in the nearby future. There are currently no plans of submitting Cinnamon to openSUSE:Factory since I'm not really confortable with this. If it proves to be reliable, I'll submit it. The current release available of Cinnamon is 1.5.7 (muffin 1.0.9) and it's the preview of the upcoming 1.6 series. NM -- 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] Fwd: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed is now empty for 12.2
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Greg just announced the following for Tumbleweed, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed is now empty for 12.2 Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2012, 09:33:04 From: Greg KH <gregkh(a)linux.com> To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org As part of the Tumbleweed lifecycle, with the 12.2 release of openSUSE, the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo is now empty so that you can start out with a "clean" 12.2 release. It will stay that way for a few weeks for things to settle down with 12.2, and then will start to add packages back to it (new kernel, KDE 4.9, etc.) as time permits. So, if you wish to stay at 12.1 with Tumbleweed right now, I recommend NOT updating your system until you feel comfortable moving to 12.2. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h -- ----------------------------------------- -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 Project Releases openSUSE 12.2
by Christopher Hofmann 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

openSUSE Project Releases openSUSE 12.2 Latest community distro delivers a reliable, modern platform with improved performance and a polished user experience on top of an evolved infrastructure THE INTERNET, September 5, 2012 -- The openSUSE Project, a global open source community, announced today the general availability of openSUSE 12.2. The latest release delivers a reliable, modern and easy to use multi-purpose operating system with improved performance and a polished user experience on top of an evolved infrastructure. openSUSE 12.2 is the latest Linux distribution from the openSUSE project allowing users and developers to benefit from free and open source software in physical, virtual and cloud environments. “openSUSE 12.2 is the shining result of 10 months of global collaboration on Free Software,” said Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager for SUSE. “The community has again delivered an important update for this long-established Linux Distribution, finding that exciting sweet spot combining the cutting edge with dependability.” openSUSE 12.2 brings performance enhancements with the latest kernel and system libraries as well as adoption of newly matured distribution technologies and polish to existing features. Performance enhancements openSUSE 12.2 leverages the latest distribution technologies to deliver greater performance and speed. The latest capabilities of systemd 44 make booting quicker. The Linux kernel 3.4 introduces a faster storage layer by preventing blocking of the system during large data transfers. The updated GNU C Library (glibc) version 2.15, speeds up many functions, especially on 64 bit systems. openSUSE ships with the latest version of the cross-platform application framework, Qt 4.8.1, making the desktop more fluid and responsive. Evolution of infrastructure openSUSE adopts the latest developments in Linux distribution technology as they mature. GRUB2 is the default bootloader laying the foundation for booting from LVM and btrfs partitions as well as support for UEFI Secure Boot. Plymouth version 0.8.6.1 provides flicker-free transitions and attractive animations during bootup. openSUSE 12.2 begins the process of revising and simplifying the UNIX filesystem hierarchy to improve compatibility across distributions while also making it easier for packagers and testers. Polished features openSUSE 12.2 delivers improvements to existing functionality to improve the overall user experience. The popular btrfs filesystem includes improved error handling and recovery tools, as well as the Snapper snapshot tool, GNOME 3.4 brings smooth scrolling to all applications and features a reworked System Settings and Contacts manager. KDE 4.8 includes a faster Dolphin file manager. XFCE 4.10 offers an enhanced application finder. In addition to the technical enhancements of openSUSE 12.2, the documentation team has made a major revision of the reference manuals, and has introduced changes to the authoring process to make it easier for community contributors to write openSUSE documentation. “We are proud of this release, maintaining the usual high openSUSE quality standards.” says openSUSE Board member Andrew Wafaa. “Our growth in the last two years means we have to work on scaling our processes. We're looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE conference on October 20 to 23, 2012 in Prague to gather as a community and discuss how we can evolve our current development in order to maintain quality while also making it easier to learn and work together.” For more details about the latest innovations in openSUSE 12.2 visit http://opensuse.org/12.2 Downloads can be found at http://software.opensuse.org/122 ### About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit http://www.opensuse.org. About SUSE SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed—today and tomorrow. For more information, visit us at http://www.suse.com. Press Contacts Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team, SUSE abebe(a)suse.com Amie Johnson PR Manager, SUSE amie(a)suse.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 12.2 RC2 released for testing
by Will Stephenson 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Today, the openSUSE project has published Release Candidate 2 of openSUSE 12.2, with a final release targetted for mid September. In the two weeks since the previous release candidate, a flurry of last minute fixes have arrived, mostly in higher level packages as the basic stack has been stabilised and locked. Read on for detailed coverage of the changes. In a late change to the layout of the release, it was decided to move many manuals and books off the DVD medium to save space. These are now part of a 'books' pattern which can be installed separately. Smaller low level fixes were made to systemd, kiwi, clicfs and udev. The kernel firmware package and PCI ID lists were updated with support for the latest hardware. GRUB2 saw fixes and a branding update for its terminal views. Mesa was updated to the latest version. Polkit privileges were relaxed slightly to allow all users to install online updates, when logged in. Several errors in PackageKit's zypp backend affecting the GNOME client were resolved. As security issues become apparent in the software versions to be shipped in 12.2 become known, fixes are proactively applied. This includes openjpeg and tiff libraries. libjpeg-turbo and libgadu received minor version updates, and crashes in libimobiledevice and gphoto2 were fixed. GPhoto2 also received the latest USB IDs for PTP cameras and devices. The base system saw some cleanups to the default filesystem package, including the removal of legacy symlinks to removable disk devices from very old versions of SUSE Linux, as well as many fixes in bind, patch updates and a security fix to bash, systemd improvements were made to autofs and rsync, the SSL feature of ntp was unbroken, and an AppArmor profile was added to colord. NetworkManager received a patch to enhance certificate checking in enterprise networks. Plymouth, the new splash screen in 12.2, had a version bump and received many minor fixes. IPv6 support was enabled in avahi. Mysql had an important bugfix that caused excessive disk usage on UPDATE queries, security fixes came to apache2, systemd support was fixed in tomcat, and postfix and kvm both saw minor version updates. YaST fixes were relatively minor: the bootloader utilities saw a few GRUB2 fixes, including support for adding failsafe kernel parameters, and the ntp tool had a couple of fixes including one that the ntp service is actually started when configured to do so. Developer platform updates came to gcc, llvm, python (2) and php5. Python 3 was updated to version 3.2.3. The intel video driver was updated to version 2.19.0, enabling new SNA and GLAMOR backends, and including many fixes to the default UXA backend. A critical bug was found and fixed that caused gnome-shell to crash after resume or suspend. lxdm, the LXDE display manager, received a bugfix preventing excessive CPU usage. A patch was added to XFCE's panel clock applet to show a calendar popup, and its netload applet was updated. KDE 3 was patched for udisks2 to properly unmount optical devices when a physical eject button is pressed. KDE 4 had a long-running mail duplication bug when using local filtering fixed, and USB sticks are now mounted with flush instead of async options, preventing an error on unmount when a long-running write is still in progress. GNOME saw many bugfixes across its packages, including inkscape, rhythmbox, Eye of Gnome, gnumeric, evolution, gnote, rednotebook, vinagre, virt-manager, texmaker, and gnome-screensaver. Gnome Shell was updated to 3.4.2 with many fixes, gtk went to version 3.4.4, and the accountsservice backend for Gnome Online Accounts also saw many improvements. Tap-to-click and disabling the touchpad while typing were set by default. Additional translated documentation was added to Gnucash. LibreOffice got a version bump, and its artwork and branding was updated to the final release versions. Finally, the translation teams have been hard at work and those have been integrated in 12.2, and the multinationalisation developers made fixes to input methods. Of course you're wondering how you can help. This can start with testing. Go to http://software.opensuse.org/developer/ , download the latest RC and try it out on your system! You can then check the most annoying bugs http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_12.2_dev to see if your problems are there, if not, you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/query.cgi?classification=openSUSE&field0-0-0=op… &type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=openSUSE If the bug you find is very serious, add it to the list of annoying bugs! If you are a packager (or want to be one!) there is of course also plenty to do. Fixing bugs in packages is a nice way of learning the ways of packaging (see the Packaging portal for documentation: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging ). You can read about how to do this: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory via a simple set of steps which in openSUSE are commonly known as 'BURP-ing': http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/05/16/have-you-burped-yet-today/ We'd like to thank everyone working on openSUSE for being so cool. As we're focussing on 12.2, no top-ten factory contributors this time but we might start releasing that number more frequently in the future ;-) -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- 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] Outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTC for 3 hours
by Andreas Jaeger 09 May '12

09 May '12

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. The following openSUSE services might be effected and thus not reachable at all: * all openSUSE wiki instances, e.g. en.opensuse.org * the wordpress instances like news.opensuse.org and lizards.opensuse.org * our forums at forums.opensuse.org -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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] Open Build Service version 2.3 released
by Adrian Schröter 03 May '12

03 May '12

The Open Build Service(OBS) version 2.3.0 brings new features esp. in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections. It is also the first version which comes with official support offerings from our partner B1-Systems backed by SUSE. Please find the html version of this text here: http://www.open-build-service.org/2012/05/03/open-build-service-version-2-3… OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes * Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release an update. This includes also the tracking of new, running and processed updates * QA and Review integration: The current state of an update is always visible and trackable. Review processes can be integrated * Release Management: Isolated build and tested updates can be released or revoked via OBS mechanism * Multiple code stream support: An issue can be handled for multiple code stream * Documentation support: The documentation of an update for the end-user is integrated This functionality is already used for doing the maintenance updates for the openSUSE distributions<. The features can be used all together or in parts for own products. In addition OBS 2.3 provides * A greatly improved web interface, including user management, syntax highlighted source editor and improved source diff review views * Improved Cross Build Support via Qemu * Functionality to hide entire projects * Issue tracking support, tracking documented fixes in external bugzilla, fate and CVE instances in packages. It is recommended to read the Release Notes before updating an instance. OBS packages can be found in the openSUSE Tools project or as an appliance which can be used on hardware or in VM. Your Open Build Service team Links ===== OBS home page: http://www.open-build-service.org Support: http://www.open-build-service.org/contact/ Release Notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3 Download: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Appliance: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Appliance The Team: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianschroeter/7135213251/ About Open Build Service ======================== The Open Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution development platform. It provides the infrastructure to easily create, release and maintain software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions on different hardware architectures. It is developed under the umbrella of the openSUSE project, but is licensed under GPL and used by other open source projects like MeeGo, Mer, Packman or Tizen. It is also used by universities, ISVs and companies like Intel, Dell, SGI. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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 12.2 Milestone 3 is released
by Andreas Jaeger 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features including GNOME 3.4, LibreOffice 3.5.2, Plymouth and more. Like the M2, there has been a bit of a delay getting this testing milestone out. Some kernel changes made it initially impossible to build the 32bit version of openSUSE but these have been fixed. Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is being maintained and you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla. Read on for some details on the release and how to help! The roadmap aims Milestone 4 for April 26th. Factory development openSUSE, as you might know, is being developed in Factory. Factory is a project on the openSUSE Build Service against which you can build a package. If it works fine, you can submit it to Factory and keep it working there. List of build failures in Factory List of failures in Factory - help get rid of them! Status: in! Factory has now received the latest versions of GNOME 3.4, KDE SC 4.8.2 (with numerous KDE PIM bugfixes!) and finally LibreOffice 3.5.2 has landed as well. In a recent blog openSUSE contributor 'tittiatcoke' gave an update on Plymouth support in openSUSE. Plymouth itself is merged and integration into other packages is nearly finished, the issues are being worked out through some team efforts, for this milestone plymouth is not yet the default. The latest status can be tracked on this wiki page. Currently the team works on openSUSE branding to complete the new boot experience. The integration of grub2 as bootloader has seen further steps and we ask for testing of grub2. Unfortunately the LiveCDs cannot install grub2 in this milestone (see most annoying bugs for a workaround). Status: Close... We're very close to getting GCC 4.7 in - the latest status update concluded that a bug in GCC 4.7 blocks zypper from being build. This will be fixed in the 4.7.1 release expected in June but to facilitate testing a patch will probably be applied on 4.7.0 to have it in the next milestone. USRMove and tmp-on-tmpfs is still being debated, a final decision has not been made yet but it looks like we'll wait with this for at least another release. improved software search Improved software search Software search The software search improvements being tested over the last weeks have moved to software.opensuse.org and users looking for software to install on their openSUSE system can now enjoy the new UI, featuring screen shots and more extensive information about the applications available. Help out! Of course you're wondering how you can help. This can start with testing. Go to software.opensuse.org/developer, download Milestone 3 and try it out on your system! You can then check the most annoying bugs to see if your problems are there, if not, you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla. If the bug you find is very serious, add it tho the list of annoying bugs! If you are a packager (or want to be one!) there is of course also plenty to do. Fixing bugs in packages is a nice way of learning the ways of packaging (see the Packaging portal for documentation). You can read about how to do this here, via a simple set of stepps which in openSUSE are commonly known as 'BURP-ing'. openSUSE Factory workflow Factory Workflow If you're already a packager for openSUSE, don't forget to get your packages in Factory or start to maintain one! Thanks! We'd like to thank everyone working on openSUSE for being so cool. Special hugs to the top-ten factory contributors over the last 6 weeks (according to some scripting by AJ): Vincent Untz Stephan Kulow Dirk Mueller Dominique Leuenberger Jan Engelhard Sascha Peilicke Marcus Schäfer Ciaran Farrell Ralph Lang Cristian Rodriguez Note that the list above doesn't credit the hard work being done by the Packman team or people building packages outside of factory! -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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] Open Build Service Brings Website Integration
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

We're proud to announce that the Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability to integrate the intelligent OBS 'download package' page into websites. This is useful for projects who want to offer their users easy access to downloads for a wide variety of Linux (and non-linux) systems. Moreover, the Open Build Service 2.3 Release Candidate is out and the final release is near. Integration in Websites The Open Build Service installation provided by openSUSE keeps growing. The number of packages is now well over 170.000, with more than 32.000 developers using build.opensuse.org either for personal use, to provide packages for one or more Linux distributions publicly or to contribute to openSUSE. Many projects depend on the public OBS or their own, internal Open Build Service to get software to their users. Right now, developers need to move the packages from OBS to a place where they are easy to download, or point users to the repository. The project page on OBS usually provides a 'download' button but this page is clearly not designed for end users. We decided to do better and now provide a download page which can be properly integrated in any website. It offers several layers of integration, starting with a convenient multi-distribution download page one can link to or an iframe which can be included in a web page; to PHP and html objects one can use to really offer deep integration. New is also the option to also provide Appliances this way so those building OS images on OBS can provide access to them directly via the same interface. In Action The full functionality including the downloading of Appliances can be seen on the openbuildservice.org website which got a major redesign. David Rosca from the Qupzilla project, who was the first external developer to integrate OBS into his website, noted that it took only minutes to implement and told us: "It saves interested users an extra click to install the application and looks better at the same time." Upcoming OBS 2.3 release Besides this new functionality which is already available on build.opensuse.org, the upcoming OBS 2.3 release comes with many new features. The 2.3 release candidate was recently made available and the final release is expected within 2-3 weeks. The main features for the 2.3 release of the Open Build Service are the introduction of full product maintenance handling in OBS, offering all the tools required for the maintanance of a full Linux distribution. A second major feature is the ability to set projects upon creation to be private, closing off source and binary access from anyone not part of the project. The 2.3 release also fixes a vulnerability for XSS attacks. Other new features including tracking of bugzilla or CVE issues, web interface improvements, API improvements and a new dispatcher improving the build times for crucial projects. About the Open Build Service The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS, through it’s project model, has collaboration build in and will help users to harness the power of the open source development model. Learn more at www.open-build-service.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's most popular Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org Links: The Open Build Service: http://www.open-build-service.org How-to on integrating the download page in a site basic: http://software.opensuse.org/download/doc Extensive: http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/OBS/obs-best- practices_draft/cha.obs.best-practices.upstream.html#id364653 Example of a download page on OBS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=openSUSE:Tools&packag… integration in download site of Qupzilla: http://qupzilla.com/download OBS 2.3 RC1 release announcement: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00178.html OBS 2.3 release notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3

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[opensuse-announce] KDE and openSUSE Announce Opening of CfP for Dedicated COSCUP Track
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

COSCUP, the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan, will feature a special track dedicated to KDE and openSUSE, jointly organized by these communities. The CfP team is happy to announce today that we're ready to accept your session proposals! At COSCUP 2011, several KDE and openSUSE contributors gave talks and presented ‘cool stuff’ at their booths. This year, we'll do even more! KDE and openSUSE will collaboratively organize a full two-day track at the upcoming COSCUP conference in August 2012. A CfP committee has been set up and proposals can be send in starting today. June 15 is the deadline for proposals which can be send to cfp(a)opensuse.org. Call for Papers The program committee is looking for presentations about KDE and openSUSE. Please note that the talks do NOT have to be related to both KDE and openSUSE. KDE and openSUSE happily welcome talks about KDE on other distributions or other (non) desktop technologies like GNOME or OpenStack on openSUSE. The committee suggests the following topics: * desktop technologies (d-bus, gstreamer, etcetera) * embedded and mobile * distribution technologies (packaging tools, build systems, etcetera) * challenges in adapting software to local needs (L10N, I18N) * cross-desktop and cross-distribution collaboration * cloud computing and integration into the desktop * or anything else you think the world should hear about! The call for papers ends on June 15. Please send in a proposal of about 200 words, accompanied by a ~50 words biography, in either English or Chinese, to cfp(a)opensuse.org before that date. Program committee The Program Committee for the KDE/openSUSE track at COSCUP consists of the following people: * Franklin Weng (KDE) * Aaron J. Seigo (KDE) * Sakana (openSUSE) * Al Cho (openSUSE) * Bryen Yunashko (openSUSE) * Greg Kroah-Hartman (the Linux Foundation) About KDE KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. For more information, visit www.kde.org About openSUSE The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. For more information, visit www.opensuse.org.

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Summit website up and CfP started!
by Jos Poortvliet 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

The openSUSE community is happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from September 21-23, 2012 in Orlando Florida at the Caribe Royale Hotel. The proposal submission period ends on June 15, 2012 at midnight EDT. Final announcement of the program will occur on or before July 23, 2012. Starting today our website on summmit.opensuse.org is online and ready to inform you about our summit! The Summit aims to continue the tradition of fun and exciting gatherings for openSUSE in the Americas. We will deliver a bi-lingual event with some sessions offered in English and some in Spanish. In good openSUSE spirit we also want to make this event as welcoming as possible by inviting other projects to participate in the Summit. =Paper submissions= We hereby invite the openSUSE and wider Free Software community to submit session proposals for the openSUSE summit. The openSUSE Summit will have 3 tracks as outlined below. Presentations, BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions and work shops are expected to align with the track topic. * openSUSE Community The openSUSE Community track provides information and discussion around the openSUSE community. Topics include but are not limited to Project governance and organization, ambassadorship and getting involved. * openSUSE Tech The openSUSE Tech track provides information, discussion, and hands on experience with the technology that makes openSUSE tick. Topics in this track include, but are not limited to the openSUSE development model, Packaging workshops, the Open Build Service, KIWI and more. * open World The open World track provides a platform to present your project, or listen to the interesting things our sponsors want to share. Topics in this track may cover demos and HowTos, FOSS project introductions, or other interesting topics from areas such as the "Maker movement". This is also the platform for cross-community collaboration with upstream or other Linux distributions. =Fun= The openSUSE Summit, by virtue of being an openSUSE event, has fun high on the agenda. Therefore, proposals that are "outside the box" of a "regular" software focused conference are encouraged. Collaboratively Building a Giant Paper Mache Geeko has already been proposed and rejected due to environmental concerns. =How to submit session proposals= Submit proposals for the openSUSE Summit using the registration and submission website at [1]. If you have not spoken at a previous openSUSE event, please create a new account to submit an abstract. The abstract submission should contain at least a 200 word description of the topic you plan to discuss, as well as a short (~ 50 word) description of yourself. *Please note:* All openSUSE events are governed by the openSUSE Code of Conduct [2]. The speaker guidelines [3] outline requirements for the submission of proposals and provide other valuable information for speakers. [1] http://bit.ly/HiXb2X [2] http://bit.ly/HmIqwJ [3] http://bit.ly/HiXydO

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Paste maintenance
by Michal Hrusecky 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi everybody, due to the maintenance on the server openSUSE Paste is hosted on, it will be down on Saturday approximately form 11pm CET to early morning of Sunday (also CET). Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal.Hrusecky(a)opensuse.org> -- 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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