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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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