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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 107 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 107 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Wiki Cleanup – Geeko wants you! * Masim Sugianto: Recover Deleted Files on Linux with Extundelete * Updated GNOME for openSUSE 11.2, and why it's good * Carlos Gonçalves: PySide packages for openSUSE, Mandriva and Fedora * Skype 2.1 beta 2 aka Talking Screens for Linux For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/107/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/107 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2010-01-21 18:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 7th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Wednesday, January 21st, 2010 at 18:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=21&year=20… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please submit your topics to http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Testing_Core_Team/Meetings Best wishes, Holgi - -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053-0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053-483 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAktUKtYACgkQ539IWoEy06UY5gCePYxvCDg6GgYhDcvYh1qjJTHv qlAAnjMaPQsyoOyKpaDWKO0mnRJXPQny =F5+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 106 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 106 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: OBS supports new branch and merge handling * Unixmen/srlinuxx: Five useful extensions for Openoffice * Jussi Kekkonen (Tm_T): KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC1 Codename “Cornelius” released * Sirko Kemter: Building an openSUSE Art-Team * TuxRadar: The best Linux desktop search tools For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/106/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/106 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday January 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Maintenance reboot for our infrastructure
by Lars Vogdt 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hi openSUSE Users There is some maintenance to be done in the following areas of our openSUSE infrastructure: * build.opensuse.org (Buildservice) * download.opensuse.org (Download infrastructure) As result, there will be a brief outage of all services provided by this machines Thursday, 09:00 German time (CET) The downtime is expected to be * 15-30 minutes for download.opensuse.org and * one hour for build.opensuse.org. Apologies for inconveniencies this may cause. Please contact admin(a)opensuse.org with any queries. Your openSUSE Admins -- 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: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday January 13th, 2010 at 16:00
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, December 16th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_1010-01-13 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive New to openSUSE's IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they're run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net[2]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[3]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you're interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/56NvZu [2]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opensuse-project [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #105 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 105 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Spotlight: The next openSUSE Survey * Katarina Machalkova: YaST is falling, make a wish * Joe Brockmeier: Bash 101: Working at the CLI * openSUSE Forums: Kaffeine in KDE4 * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log - Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 1) - Networking For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/105/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/105 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #104 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 104 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * TooManyTabs - Saves Your Memory 1.1.0 * Alcaro Soliverez/kde.news: First KMyMoney Beta Version Available for KDE 4 Platform * Joe Brockmeier: Put some meat on it: Writing release announcements * Sharing a /home Directory between Linux and Windows * kde.news/Dario Freddi: KDE Extends Polkit Support to polkit-1 For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/104/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/104 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #103 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 103 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: Linux for Education Updated * The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Unix Sed Tutorial: 6 Examples for Sed Branching Operation * Ben Kevan: Blogilo – The Blog Gigolo – KDE 4.4 * openSUSE Forums: X Not Starting (11.2) * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.33 enters test phase For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/103/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/103 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Linux for Education Updated
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Linux for Education Updated The openSUSE Education team is proud to announce the availability of the updated Li-f-e hybrid ISO[1]. Unlike the official openSUSE release, the Edu project's Li-f-e flavor[2] will get updated almost on a monthly basis. These minor releases will contain all the official openSUSE 11.2 updates, some important package version updates and may be addition of new features too. With these gradual improvements we are hoping to make one of the best Education OS even better. A number of changes have been made since the last release: * All official openSUSE 11.2 updates. * Sugar 0.86.3 * KIWI-LTSP 0.8.1 including the latest LTSP[3] packages. See the Quick Start[4] instructions to enable the services. LTSP allows you to use old(and new) computers as diskless thin-clients without modification. * New Netboot option in the boot menu, uses gPXE[5] to boot from network. This requires a server (LTSP) serving the PXEboot images. This option is useful if the LAN card on the PC does not support PXE booting. * Inkscape 0.47 * Added new packages: Tomcat, Kdenlive for video editing, and Code::Blocks IDE. * Most of the Education software is updated, including GCompris and Moodle. * Installation improvements: saner partition suggestion and online update is not run in second stage. Do it manually via "zypper ref && zypper up" if required. The list of applications on this disk, including Educational softwares can be found on the openSUSE wiki[2]. You can download the DVD via SourceForge.net[6], using BitTorrent[7], or get the Metalink][8]. The md5sum is 68653e091842642b3c1d4a7387ccba60. It's best to use rsync, wget, or another download manager to download the image as Web browsers are known to get incomplete downloads. The fastest way to download is using a Metalink client[9]. Here is an example of using the command line Metalink client aria2: `aria2c -c http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu- li-f-e-11.2-latest-i686.iso.metalink` As always, we would like to hear from you! See the [communication][10] page on the openSUSE wiki for ways to reach the education team. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live [3]: http://ltsp.org/ [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Quick_start [5]: http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php [6]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-… [7]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-11.2-la… [8]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-fe-11.2-lat… [9]: http://metalinker.org/ [10]: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Communicating -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #102 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 102 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Joe Brockmeier: openSUSE Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors * Michal Seben: cronie daemon is openSUSE * MakeUseOf.com/Varun Kashyap: 6 Different Ways To End Unresponsive Programs In Linux * Joe Brockmeier: Web Winners and Losers in 2009 * h-online.com/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.33 to include Nvidia graphics driver nouveau For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/102/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/102 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 Board Meeting
by Bryen M Yunashko 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

In case you haven't noticed, openSUSE's Board now holds its meetings in public. Our bi-monthly meetings are held in the #openSUSE-project channel on Wednesdays, the same day as the regular Project meeting. This gives you a chance to not only observe our proceedings, but also to participate by asking questions and making suggestions during our Q&A's. Our next Board meeting will be Wednesday, December 16th at 19:00 UTC. http://bit.ly/92VEwt for the time in your local area. As always, the meetings are on IRC in the #opensuse-project channel on the Freenode Network. [1] So what about this week's meeting? In addition to our regularly conducted business, we will also be closing the end of the first term of the first-ever openly-elected openSUSE Board. We will express our appreciation for departing Board Member Stephen Shaw and welcome new members, Rupert Horstkötter and Pavol Rusnak. The new members will officially assume their new seats on December 22nd. Pascal Bleser (Yaloki) and Henne Vogelsang will begin the second year of their current term, Michael Loeffler will continue on as Board Chairperson and Bryen Yunashko (me) will begin his second term on the Board on December 22nd. This will be the final meeting of 2009. After tomorrow's meeting, we will determine the start date for the first meeting of the Second Board in 2010. We look forward to seeing you there to help us conclude the end of a great year for the openSUSE Project. [1] Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member -- 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: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday December 16, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, December 16th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Note that this will be the last meeting of 2009. The next scheduled meeting would have fallen on December 30, which is not likely to be a convenient time for most contributors. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-12-16 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive New to openSUSE’s IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they’re run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net[2]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[3]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you’re interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/83uGLw [2]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opensuse-project [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #92 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 101 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing New openSUSE Board mebers * Thomas Göttlicher: Install Multiple Kernel Versions using the YaST Qt Package Manager * Ben Kevan: KDE 4.4 Beta 1 – Tabbed Windows Review – openSUSE * Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Affect Flash Player and Adobe AIR * Contemplating Upgrade to 11.2 For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/101/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/101 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hello, we have merged the Content of the Waves into our Wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current#Meeting… -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday December 12) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: https://wave.google.com/wave/?pli=1#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BLdGT… https://wave.google.com/wave/?pli=1#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BWPjZ… We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2009-12-16 18:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 6th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 18:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=16&year=2… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please submit your topics to http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Testing_Core_Team/Meetings Best wishes, Holgi - -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053-0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053-483 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAksg2gkACgkQ539IWoEy06X1igCeKTOzeGP2Ylgkd+ABCWoHKXzd bAoAnRlsnG4nIcyb3gVANt3g/aFZGjDD =fp7/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Spread the word - The new openSUSE Board Members
by Shayon Mukherjee 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hello , Its great to see that the new openSUSE Board Members are announced [1].And i would take this time to Congratulate Bryen Yunashko , Rupert Horstkoetter and Pavol Rusnak for the same and hope to have a much more better experience , more enthusiasm and more fun working to/for the openSUSE Community as a openSUSE team. And now its the time to Tweet , Blog , Digg and facebook the announcement and let everyone know the new energetic team of the openSUSE Board is up. So go ahead and spread the Word.And make a point that this time we have more than "Those sweet numbers" like we had for the openSUSE 11.2 release. a) Tweets / Fcaebook status you can use - News: Announcing New openSUSE Board Members http://bit.ly/6jOd7h b) External info -- 1)Tweets . Users can sign-up and look for the list of openSUSE contributers/users and groups associated over http://en.opensuse.org/SocNet/Twitter_user_list 2)Blog - Get your personal blogs on it . With tags like openSUSE and similar ones. 3)Facebook updates - Users can sign-up and look for the list of openSUSE contributers/users and groups associated over http://en.opensuse.org/SocNet/Facebook_user_list 4)Identi.ca - Users can sign-up and look for the list of openSUSE contributers/users and/or groups associated over http://en.opensuse.org/SocNet/Identica_user_list 5)GoogleWave - Users can sign-up and look for the list of openSUSE contributers/users and/or groups associated over http://en.opensuse.org/SocNet/GoogleWave_user_list 6) Diggs - Well this is just not everything as we dont have much innovative ideas like you :) .So if at all you are having something related to this and apart from above ,then you are very much welcome to present views and thoughts. [1] http://bit.ly/6jOd7h -- Regards, Shayon Mukherjee openSUSE Wiki Team http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Email: hkwarlock(a)gmail.com Twitter: ShayonM -- 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 new openSUSE Board Members
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE board: * Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat) * Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat) * Rupert Horstkötter (non-Novell seat) These three will serve two-year terms beginning on December 22nd. Stephen Shaw and Bryen Yunashko have completed their terms on the Board. In addition to those seats, a new seat has been added to the Board effective with the inauguration of the new Board. The full Board will consist of: * Bryen Yunashko * Henne Vogelsang * Michael Löffler (chair) * Pascal Bleser * Pavol Rusnak * Rupert Horstkötter The election committee wants to thank Stephen Shaw for his tenure on the board and the new board members Bryen, Rupert and Pavol for stepping up and volunteering to serve on the openSUSE board. To get in touch with the board send an email to board(a)opensuse.org. The next board election will be starting October 2010. Andreas Jaeger Member of the openSUSE Election Committee -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 10th December, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 10th December, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Bugsquashing * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=10&month=12&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #100 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 100 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Board Election Update * Egbert Eich: The Future of SaX2 * Ben Kevan: KDE 4.3.4 Released – openSUSE Build Service * Linux Weekly News: Firefox locks down the components directory * Linux.com/minaev: Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/100/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/100 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 SC 4.3.4 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop; soon in 11.2 online update
by Will Stephenson 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

The KDE and maintenance teams are taking the unprecedented step of a point release update to KDE SC 4.3.4 in our 'STABLE' repository and from then as an online update to 11.2. Normally we don't do version updates in online updates, preferring to backport patches to the released version. I'll be straight with you; the impetus for doing this comes from putting 4.3.4 on an enterprise product and we don't want to maintain two 4.3 codebases, but we're confident that this is a good thing for openSUSE users, because: - 4.3.4 has 2 months' more upstream bugfixing in it, compared to 4.3.1. This includes a major Plasma performance bug fix. - 4.3.4 is the final planned release in the KDE 4.3 series and will therefore have the longest shelf life. It will be easier to apply future fixes from the KDE 4.3 branch to 4.3.4 packages than to 4.3.1 packages. - having 4.3.4 on an enterprise product gives us additional reasons (customers' money!) to fix bugs in it, benefitting openSUSE users too. - We are aware that any version update has the potential to include regressions, but: - 4.3.4 is a point release with only bugfixes and translation updates - we've seen a lot of use of the KDE:43 repo from 11.2 users without a lot more bugs - other distributions have already shipped 4.3.2 and are going to push point releases as online updates as well We have consulted the openSUSE maintenance team, who were in favour of this move. The online update will take place after a period of testing 4.3.4 on 11.2 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop. The sole drawback to this that we're aware of is that this will be a large online update download; we hope you will agree the benefits will be worth it. Season's greetings! Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Update on openSUSE Board Election
by Andreas Jaeger 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

For the current 2009 election of the openSUSE board, we have three seats for election and three candidates running unopposed. As our existing election rules did not anticipate this scenario, the Election Committee has made the following decision: The seats up for election include one Novell-employed position and two non-Novell-employed positions. Pavol Rusnak is running for the Novell-employed seat and Rupert Horstkötter and Bryen Yunashko are running for the non_novell seats. The election committee will declare the candidates as elected by end of Monday, 7th of December, if nobody else steps up in the respective group to run for the election. Otherwise we will have an election in that group. This means that if further candidates for the non-Novell seats declare candidacy, we will do an election for these two seats - and if further candidates for the Novell seat step up, we run an election for that one seat - and if candidates for both step up, we elect all seats. So, here's the final call: If you're happy with the three candidates, thank them - and if not, step up and declare your candidacy by announcing it on opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org and election-officials(a)opensuse.org. You can find more information on candidacy and the election in general here: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2009 The Election committee is also open for comments on the election before the December 7th deadline when the Election Committee will declare and certify the winners. We'd like to thank Bryen, Rupert and Pavol for stepping up and volunteering to serve on the openSUSE board. For next election the election committee will adapt the rules to cover cases like this one. Andreas Jaeger Member of the openSUSE Election Committee -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (Wednesday, December 2nd)
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-12-02 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive New to openSUSE's IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they're run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Alternatively, you can log into the IRC meeting via a Web-based interface at webchat.freenode.net[2]. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[3]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you're interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/8KQBRg [2]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opensuse-project [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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 Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2009-10-31 18:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 5th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 18:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=29&year=2… We will met in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Best wishes, Holgi - -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053-0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053-483 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAksOVcsACgkQ539IWoEy06VEegCePYx4f8MJtiHm3VLBoNv0aVzZ N3sAn3m/l3joblDLTdnegHMAFHyl4VWQ =VoL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 26th November, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 26th November, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=26&month=11&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #98 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 98 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Board Election 2009 Startup * openSUSE 11.2 Launchparties * openSUSE Spotlight: What does the openSUSE Board do? * Uwe Gansert: Interactive AutoYaST Rules * openSUSE Forums: K3B and mp3 support For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/98/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/98 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Maintenance reboot for our infrastructure
by Lars Vogdt 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi openSUSE Users There is some maintenance to be done in the following areas of our openSUSE infrastructure: * build.opensuse.org (Buildservice) * download.opensuse.org (Download infrastructure) As result, there will be a brief outage of all services provided by this machines Thursday, 09:30 German time (CET) The downtime is expected to be 15-30 minutes. Apologies for inconveniencies this may cause. Please contact admin(a)opensuse.org with any queries. Your openSUSE Admins -- 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: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-18[2] Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive[3] New to openSUSE's IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they're run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About[4]. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org[5]. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[6]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you're interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/3XhSxD [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-18 [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About [5]: http://www.irchelp.org/ [6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday November 16, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 16th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-18[2] Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. Logs of the meeting are posted to the wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive[3] New to openSUSE's IRC meetings? For more on our IRC meetings and how they're run, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About[4]. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org[5]. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[6]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. If you're interested in how the openSUSE Project is run and want to participate, please be sure to join us on Wednesday. See you there! [1]: http://bit.ly/3XhSxD [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-18 [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Archive [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About [5]: http://www.irchelp.org/ [6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #97 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 97 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.2 Released! * Launch Party Locations * KDE.NEWS/Will Stephenson: Introducing KDE 4 KNetworkManager * Joe Brockmeier: Microblogging with Choqok in openSUSE 11.2 * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 2) – Graphics For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/97/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/97 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday November 14) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 11.2 is out!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi all, The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2[1]. openSUSE 11.2 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.2 you'll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications. openSUSE also includes a full suite of server software and a rich selection of open source development tools. Please take a moment to Digg the announcement here: http://digg.com/d319pa7 You can find a bevy of screenshots[2] and more on the openSUSE wiki, and a lengthy list of packages and version numbers on DistroWatch[3]. Let's take a look at some of the more interesting features of openSUSE 11.2! openSUSE Desktop ================ As always, openSUSE provides everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop. openSUSE 11.2 includes KDE 4.3 as the "default" desktop. If you install from DVD without changing anything, you'll have the KDE desktop by default. However, we still provide GNOME as an equal choice, and Xfce and other window managers as alternative desktops too! KDE 4.3 is a major update to the KDE platform. It includes improved networking support, and work to make Firefox and OpenOffice.org better integrated with the KDE enviroment. The openSUSE Project also worked closely with the KDE Project on theming and branding to provide a look and feel that meshes both projects nicely. You'll also find plenty of GNOME greatness in openSUSE 11.2 as well. GNOME 2.28, the latest release of the popular GNOME desktop, is included with 11.2. This release includes a brand new theme, improved software update application, improvements in GNOME's Webcam and video application, and many other enhancements and improvements to prepare the GNOME platform for GNOME 3.0 in 2010. OpenOffice.org 3.1 is a complete office productivity suite compatible with Microsoft Office. This release includes improvements in change tracking and collaboration in Writer, and major improvements to the drawing application. Social networking gets a boost in 11.2 with the addition of GNOME and KDE microblogging clients that handle multiple social network sites, Gwibber[4], and Choqok[5]. With openSUSE 11.2, you have the ability to install GNOME or KDE live media from USB, and numerous improvements to make openSUSE 11.2 much better on netbooks. Under the Hood ============== The desktop improvements are the most noticeable, but there's plenty going on under the hood as well in openSUSE 11.2. Storage improvements include the ability to encrypt the entire hard disk, for users concerned about data security. Users can also take advantage of the next generation of filesystems for Linux with Ext4 or btrfs. In case you'd like to learn more about the new kernel features you can go at KernelNewbies.org[6] and have a look at the "cool stuff" part. Want to manage remote openSUSE servers with a Web interface? That day is coming soon! openSUSE 11.2 users can install[7] the first technology preview of WebYaST: a Web-based remote administration tool for openSUSE systems. Finally, you can upgrade in-place using Zypper! Though it's been possible to do an upgrade in place for some time, with caution, it's finally a "recommended" method of upgrade with openSUSE 11.2. For users who want to move from 11.1 to 11.2 using "zypper dup," see Andreas Jaeger's post on Lizards[8] about the process. It's quick, it's easy, and almost competely painless. Linux for Education =================== The openSUSE Build Service provides thousands of applications as 1-click packages to enhance your experience on openSUSE 11.2. The openSUSE Education Community provides hundreds of Educational applications suitable for students of all ages, parents, teachers and IT administrators of educational institutions via the Build Service. The 11.2 release will be followed closely by a very special spin, Li-f-e: Linux for Education. Li-f-e contains GNOME, KDE as well the the award-winning Sugar learning environment for children. With packages from the Packman repository, Li-f-e provides everything required to get rich multimedia experience too. Media and Download ================== openSUSE is now available for immediate download! You have several choices of installation media and live CDs (which are also installable). * openSUSE 11.2 Installable DVD 32-bit * openSUSE 11.2 Installable DVD 64-bit * openSUSE 11.2 GNOME 32-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.2 GNOME 64-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.2 KDE 32-bit Live CD * openSUSE 11.2 KDE 64-bit Live CD **Booting openSUSE 11.2 from a USB key**: get one of the Live CDs available above, and can copy it to a USB key with the following command: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M Replace "image.iso" with the name of the ISO image that you have downloaded, and replace "sdX" with the actual device name of your USB drive. Be careful! This will erase the target device, so make sure you have the correct device name and have any vital data backed up! We want to hear from you! ========================= The openSUSE Project has many channels of communication[9]! Whether you prefer forums, email, or IRC, there are plenty of ways to communicate about openSUSE. * The official openSUSE forums. * Mailing Lists: be sure to sign up for the mailing lists that fit your interests! * IRC: #opensuse[10] on irc.freenode.net and other channels[11]. * Jabber, usenet, and more[9]. To keep up to date with openSUSE, be sure to keep an eye on openSUSE News[12] and watch Planet SUSE[13] for blog posts from the openSUSE community. We also update the @opensuse account on Twitter[14] and Identi.ca[15] regularly with news about the project. **Want to help the openSUSE Project? To get involved with openSUSE see the How to Participate[16] page on the openSUSE wiki. We can use lots of different skills[17] to help the project, so feel free to jump in!** Thanks! ======= openSUSE 11.2 represents the combined effort of hundreds of developers who participate in openSUSE, and thousands of developers in upstream projects that are shipped in openSUSE. The contributors, inside and outside the openSUSE Project, should be proud of this release, and they deserve a major "thank you" for all of the hard work and care that have gone into 11.2. When we say "contributor," we don't mean only developers and packagers. This includes translators, openSUSE Ambassadors, the openSUSE Board, and the users who help power our forums and support users who are taking their first steps into Linux. We are confident that openSUSE 11.2 is the best openSUSE release yet, and that it will help to encourage the use of Linux everywhere! We hope that you **_have a lot of fun_** while you use openSUSE 11.2! [1]: http://software.opensuse.org/ [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2 [3]: http://distrowatch.com/suse [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Gwibber [5]: http://bit.ly/1HmB3L [6]: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges [7]: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Installation [8]: http://bit.ly/gJvFo [9]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate [10]: irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse/ [11]: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/IRC [12]: http://news.opensuse.org/ [13]: http://www.planetsuse.org/ [14]: http://twitter.com/opensuse [15]: http://identi.ca/opensuse [16]: http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate [17]: http://bit.ly/1MsJpd -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 12th November, 17:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 12th November, at 17:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=12&month=11&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday November 04, 2009 at 12:00 UTC
by Henne Vogelsang 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hi, The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday November 04th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-11-04 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[2]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://bit.ly/2RhgsY [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #95 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 95 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election * Sneak Peeks (Preview 11.2) * nixCraft/Vivek Gite: 20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips * Joe Brockmeier: openSUSE 11.2 final release candidate ready! * openSUSE Forums: openSUSE 11.2 the Perfect KDE Distribution For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/95/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/95 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Social Networking Hackfest for openSUSE
by Bryen M Yunashko 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

As preliminarily announced last week, we will be having an online Social Networking Hackfest for openSUSE on Tuesday, November 3rd in #opensuse-marketing IRC channel on Freenode. The time has now been set, and will commence at 14:00 UTC (http://bit.ly/JKvpw to see the time in your local area). Topics to be covered: - Discussion of Tips and Tricks and Strategy in an ever-fast-changing social networking world. - Documentation of above Tips and Tricks, information about all the social networks we should be participating in. - Creation of a master directory on our wiki so users can enter their information for potential followers. - How to disseminate information to regional language-specific social networks? We started working on http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/SocNet during Community Week earlier this year. This will be our primary work area during Tuesday's hackfest. If you are unable to attend Tuesday's event, please feel free to visit the pages and make additions, corrections, or email us your comments. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you there or hearing from you before then! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- 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 11.2 Final Release Candidate
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

This is it folks! We're almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This release includes an updated kernel, Samba, Firefox, and more. This release should be almost ready for the gold master stamp, but there's still time to shake out remaining bugs. This release should not be deployed on production systems, but should be ready for early adopters and contributors who want to help with testing and development of 11.2. **Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 RC 1** Release Candidate 2 includes a few new packages, and several of the "most annoying bugs" in RC 1 have been fixed for this release. New packages include: * Linux kernel 2.6.31.5 * SeaMonkey 2.0 * Firefox 3.5.4 * Samba 3.4.2 * xorg-x11-server 1.6.5 A more complete list can be found on the wiki[1] and an updated list of Factory packages can be found on DistroWatch[2]. 11.2 is looking fantastic. Want screenshots? We've got 'em! Check out the shots here[3], and/or add your own. **Most Annoying Bugs** As this is a release candidate, we're still shaking the release out for major bugs. However, at this point in the cycle, we're almost ready to call 11.2 RC 2 production ready. We do know of one bug worth noting, however: The Net ISO images will call the factory repository. The URL for repositories needs to be changed from /factory/repo/oss to /factory-snapshot/repo/oss manually. You can find more on adding repositories on the openSUSE wiki[4]. If any major new bugs do crop up, they will be listed on the openSUSE wiki[5]. **Testing! Testing! Testing!** As you can see, 11.2 RC2 does have a few bugs that we know about -- but there may be more lurking somewhere in the release that haven't been found yet. If you want to make sure 11.2 final is free of Most Annoying Bugs, we'll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing[6] pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, and join the #openSUSE- Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. **Get Release Candidate 2 Today!** What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release today! Downloads are available at software.opensuse.org/developer/[7] now. Note, if you need to try the live CD on a machine with no CD-ROM drive, you can copy it to a USB key with the following command: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M Replace "image.iso" with the name of the ISO image that you have downloaded, and replace "sdX" with the actual device name of your USB drive. Be careful! This will erase the target device, so make sure you have the correct device name and have any vital data backed up! The final release for 11.2 is scheduled to be released on November 12, 2009. See the detailed roadmap on the on the wiki[8]. We're at the home stretch. A big thanks to all the contributors who have participated in the 11.2 cycle. Without you, we'd have no openSUSE. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News [2]: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2_Milestones [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST [5]: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.2_dev [6]: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing/ [7]: http://software.opensuse.org/developer/ [8]: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.2 -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place (Saturday October 31) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Maintenance of the upcoming openSUSE 11.2
by Christian Dengler 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi openSUSE community, the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 is the first release of openSUSE which will be coordinated by the openSUSE community when it comes to the update process. In the past the maintenance team was working in the background and provided you with the newest and best updates. The update decision was a completely internal process. Now we will make it more transparent and let the whole community participate. The future is: The community will do updates for openSUSE in self-responsibility. The update process will be coordinated by the new openSUSE maintenance team. At the moment it consists of 5 people, 2 SUSE employees and 3 openSUSE community members. Every user can send an update request now to this team. This team will decide over the requests and coordinates the whole updates progress (plan the release time according to the severity, interact with the package maintainer, coordinate QA testing, ...) based on a new update policy. It guarantees the best supply with updates. Only maintenance (tagged as recommended, optional, YOU) updates are affected by this change. Security updates will be provided on the old and approved way by the SUSE security team. This is the fastest and established way to react on security problems. Everybody can enjoy and help to improve openSUSE and influence the development. There is a lot of work in the whole update process. So enjoy! Every openSUSE user can help to improve our distribution. You can help e.g. in: - notify interesting bugs that should be fixed by a maintenance update - work as a QA tester and check testing updates to improve the quality and give feedback - help us to create a new maintenance policy - work in the maintenance team - work as a package maintainer and provide the updates - work as a junior maintainer and learn to build packages and provide minor fixes - ... For questions, update request, feedback you can use the mailing list of the maintenance team (maintenance(a)opensuse.org) So enjoy and have a lot fun :-) Greetings, Christian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 29th October, 16:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 29th October, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Evaluate the possibility of showing the up splash-screen at KDE login slightly longer to give a polished first look * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc * Best bad K-word pun competition - to win a signed 11.2 KDE CD! Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=29&month=10&am… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! Will Stephenson -- 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] Call for Participation: New Project - openSUSE Medical
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Abstract: I'm pleased to announce an new Subproject from openSUSE: openSUSE_Medical. This new Project tries to package more Software for doctors's practice or clinical needs. With our work we try to bridge a gap in the market. Logistic: For better logistic we have opened an new OBS Project called "medical". You can use it as Repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/medical/. Our new Wikisite is placed under: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Medical. There you find our new Mailinglist for our Project. What is to do? We try to package more Software. I've found this List [1] about Free Medical Software. we thought, that we can try to build one Software each purpose. If this is done, we can try to package more Software. But it is important to package not too much. This is an Joy- Project. What we need: First of all we need Packager. and one who updates the wikipage and make status updates. This Project is for packaging Beginners to Specialists. We have stuff for everyone. If you want to join our Team, just send a Message to: saigkill(a)opensuse.org [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 Second openSUSE Board Election
by Andrew Wafaa 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on the Board, and their seats are up for election. There is also a new seat available to be occupied by a non-Novell member. Henne Vogelsang (henne) and Pascal Bleser (yaloki) have another year to complete and will remain, Michael Löffler (michl) as chairman will remain as well. This means that as of this year's election the openSUSE Board will be made up of equal numbers of Novell and non-Novell employees, 2 seats+Chairperson and 3 seats respectively. Candidates for this election will be voted in for a two (2) year term, ensuring that there is continuity within the Board. The election is broken into three phases similar to last year: October 26th, 2009 (Phase 0) * Start of 4 week period for non-members to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote). * Start of 4 week phase for members to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board. November 23rd, 2009 (End of Phase 0) * Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close . November 24th, 2009 (Phase 1) * Start of 2 week campaign for the Board Candidates before the ballots open. Candidates may campaign until the final bell when ballots close, should they wish. December 8th, 2009 (Phase 2) * Ballots open December 22nd, 2009 (End of Phase 1 & 2) * Ballots close Should anyone have any questions, you can contact the Election Committee by emailing election-officials(a)opensuse.org or speaking to one of the members on IRC. It is best to always email the committee even if you speak to someone on IRC. Full details of the election can be found on the wiki[0]. Prospective candidates are highly encouraged to read this[1] lwn.net article on some of the tasks required of Board members. Regards, Andy [0] = http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2009 [1] = http://lwn.net/Articles/211548/ -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://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] OpenSUSE weekly News #94 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 94 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Novell’s Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier hosts new Network World podcastseries * Will Stephenson: Update from the openSUSE Boosters * Pavol Rusnak: Wrong usage of LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Pascal Bleser: Packman upgrading to SVN OBS * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 1) – Network subsystem and network drivers For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/94/Translations. [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/94 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21st, at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-10-21 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. We also take live questions, of course. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[5]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/4ro3q [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #93 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 93 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final – Release candidate available! * Pavol Rusnak: RPM Summit at the openSUSE Conference 2009 * linuxgravity.com: Manipulating, converting and editing audio and video * Cornelius Schumacher: 4,273,291 lines of code * LinuxSecurity.com/Bill Keys: Security Features of Firefox 3.0 For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/93/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/93 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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: Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday October 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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 11.2 on its way to become final - Release candidate 1 available
by Michael Loeffler 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

We're well on the way to openSUSE 11.2! Today we're happy to announce the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2. This release includes quite a few bugfixes and several updates, including GNOME 2.28 final, Linux 2.6.31.3, and many others. What's new in openSUSE 11.2? The new version includes latest versions of all kind of software and delivers: * Live version upgrade. No need to stop working while upgrading from openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2 * Support for several social networks like Facebook, Twitter and identi.ca * Running openSUSE from an USB stick (especially for that we ask you for testing) * For more new stuff check this wiki page [1] As the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2, it should be almost ready for final release. However, there still are a few remaining known issues and the purpose of the release candidate is to discover any major issues _before_ 11.2 final. It may not be suitable for production systems, but is ready for contributors who want to help with testing and development for 11.2. **Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8** Release Candidate 1 includes a few new packages, and several of the "most annoying bugs" in milestone 8 have been fixed for this release. New packages include: * Linux kernel 2.6.31.3 * GNOME 2.28 * PulseAudio 0.9.19 * Evolution 2.28 * Qt 4.5.3 * SeaMonkey 2.0 RC 1 A more complete list can be found on the wiki[2] and an updated list of Factory packages can be found on DistroWatch[3]. 11.2 is looking fantastic. Want screenshots? We've got 'em! Check out the shots here[4], and/or add your own. **Most Annoying Bugs** As this is a release candidate, 11.2 RC1 does contain a few bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The most annoying known bugs in 11.2 RC 1 are: * Bug 545753[5]: GNOME icon is only partially visible during Desktop selection on DVD installer. * Bug 544079[6]: sonar: gdm panel contains GtkComboBox that is unreadable. * Bug 546359[7]: Messages "not a regular file or has tail and normal blocks" on console during boot caused by preload bug. * Bug 546838[8]: "soft" lockup on shutdown in qemu * Bug 540482[9]: Restart fails to restart computer * Bug 543468[10]: all repos are lost on update You can track the Most Annoying Bugs on the wiki[11] along with 11.2 development. **Testing! Testing! Testing!** As you can see, 11.2 RC1 does have a few bugs that we know about -- but there may be more lurking somewhere in the release that haven't been found yet. If you want to make sure 11.2 final is free of Most Annoying Bugs, we'll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing[12] pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, and join the #openSUSE- Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. **Get Release Candidate 1 Today!** What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release today! Downloads are available at software.opensuse.org/developer/ now. Note, if you need to try the live CD on a machine with no CD-ROM drive, you can copy it to a USB key with the following command: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M Replace "image.iso" with the name of the ISO image that you have downloaded, and replace "sdX" with the actual device name of your USB drive. Be careful! This will erase the target device, so make sure you have the correct device name and have any vital data backed up! The next and final release candidate is scheduled to be released on October 29, 2009. See the detailed roadmap on the on the wiki[13]. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.2 [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News [3]: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse [4]: http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots/11.2_Milestones [5]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545753 [6]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544079 [7]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546359 [8]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546838 [9]: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540482 [10] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543468 [11]: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.2_dev [12]: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing/ [13]: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.2 -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 15th October, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 15th October, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Merging science repo into the education repo/ Enhancing the number and relevance of scientific packages on offer. * old action items * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=15&month=10&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenSUSE weekly News #92 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 92 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: Introducing the ‘openSUSE Boosters’ Team * The Geek Stuff/Ramesh Natarajan: Unix Sed Tutorial: How To Write to a File Using Sed * Martin Vidner: WebYaST Beta 1 * openSUSE Forums: openSUSE 11.2 will support live updates. * KDE 4.3.2 Stabilizes Free Desktop For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/92/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/92 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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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