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[opensuse-announce] Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE
by Pascal Bleser 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

As published on http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachm… Is this thing on? *tap* *tap*. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board [1] speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell [2] has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation [3]. What does that mean for the openSUSE Project? We don’t know exactly yet because our crystal ball is currently in the shop and therefore fortune-telling is not our greatest talent ;-) However, we have other talents: we are a software developer community and we’re here to work on one of the greatest GNU/Linux distributions and other world class software distribution tools to advance Free and Open Source software together with the global FOSS community! For now, we don’t know much about Attachmate, we have had no dealings with them yet and, as Novell is a publicly traded company, all of this is as new to us as to anyone else. But the openSUSE Project has had, since its beginning, a very vibrant cooperation with Novell, especially with Novell’s SUSE business, and we are looking forward to continuing this once Novell and SUSE become part of Attachmate! Our best wishes go out to the people of our community that are employed by Novell and SUSE, may this bring nothing but good things for you and your careers. The second part of the deal relates to the intellectual property that is changing hands. Our hope is that this does not add to the minefield that software patents are today for Free and Open Source software developers. The openSUSE Board generally believes, like the rest of the global FOSS community, that software patents impede innovation and are inconsistent with Open Source and Free Software. What makes us proud is that Attachmate wants to further and strengthen the SUSE brand, which is based also on products and technology built by the openSUSE Project. Furthermore we are more than willing and looking forward to teaching another corporation about the principles, values and strengths of the Free and Open Source software development model. If you are reading this as an Attachmate employee, we would like to encourage you to just swing by and talk to us about the opportunites we can offer you to participate in this project! And apart from all that it’s business as usual and we are continuing to work on, rather than predicting, the future of this project and have a lot of fun! By the way if you wonder what that means practically, the next step into the future of this project is described in the post below: Our great bug squashing day on Saturday. See you there! [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board [2] http://www.novell.com/ [3] http://www.attachmate.com/ [4] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/opensuse-bug-day-on-saturday-november-2… In the behalf of the openSUSE Board (board(a)opensuse.org) cheers, -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 150 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 150 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Manu Gupta: Aloha openSUSE Medical * Sirko Kemter: OpenRheinRuhr 2010 * Linux.com/Jack Wallen: How to Configure Wireless on Any Linux Desktop * Thomas Schraitle: Checking EPUBs * h-online/Richard Hillesley: Health Check: openSUSE – Community before code For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5493 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 149 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 149 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd * Sascha Manns: openSUSE medical team releases stable version 0.0.6 * Sirko Kemter: openSUSE A-Z Guide at BLIT 2010 * Sankar P: Detecting Memory Leaks in Kernel * Michael Löffler: /me is leaving For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5480 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd
by Will Stephenson 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone releases of what will become openSUSE 11.4. The bug, a crash in the software rasterizer of the Mesa OpenGL stack, was found by our automated test suite and the openSUSE XOrg developers swung into action so that KDE would work on systems without hardware acceleration, which includes most virtual machines. systemd, the alternative init system, becomes available for testing in M3 with version 11. To test systemd, install it, then reboot with init=/bin/systemd as described by Andreas Jaeger. Otherwise, the existing SysV init is used. M3 includes Gnome 2.32 on the desktop, including metacontact support in the Empathy instant messenger and Banshee 1.8 with Amazon MP3 store plugin, KDE 4.5.3, and a number of independent updates including version 0.11 of the Arora browser, the chemistry tool Avogadro 1.0.1 and Licq 1.5, introducing XMPP support to this venerable IM client. On the productivity front, M3 includes LibreOffice 3.2.99, a host of additional optional packages for KOffice such as lcms2 giving better colour management and image processing options, and Digikam 1.5.0 including automated lens correction while batch processing multiple images, Mono 2.8 replaces Mono 2.6 and adds C# 4.0, an new garbage collector and many performance improvements. At the lower level, Linux kernel 2.6.36 is in, along with smartmontools 5.40 brings SSD support, and Wireshark 1.4 brings many performance improvements and memory footprint reductions. Due to a new liblzma, delta ISOs from M2 to M3 must be applied using a new version of deltarpm. Stephan Kulow provides this in his home:coolo Build Service project. We look forward to your bug reports and test experiences. Automated testing and the openSUSE Factory team have been active to ensure that your download of M3 will be at least minimally functional. The next milestone is scheduled for November 25. openSUSE 11.4 is planned to be released in March 2011. -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters 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] openSUSE Weekly News 148 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 148 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Run…Or Help Run! * Kostas Koudaras: 11.3 Late Launch Party * Rares Aioanei: kernel weekly news – 06.11.2010 * Tech Drive-in/rationalbeing: 13 Beautiful Inkscape Tutorials for Creating Stunning Vector Graphics * KDE Ships November Updates: 4.5.3 For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5416 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Invitation to join Election Officials Team
by Bryen M. Yunashko 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

"Run...or Help Run" First, the Help Run.... Election season in the openSUSE Project is just around the corner. And this means the firsts step is to organize the Election Officials committee. The openSUSE Board is inviting members to submit their name to join the Election Officials committee: Who may join?: * Members of the openSUSE Project How and When?: * Send an email to board at openSUSE dot org, with the subject line: “Election Officials Committee”. Deadline to apply for the committee is November 16. The Board will review and determine the formation of the committee by November 19. We would like to see at least one past Election Official participate for consistency. Duties: * Review current election rules * Coordinate and implement election procedures * Establish relevant dates for the election process. * Report final decisions of the process to the Board * Coordinate with the Membership Officials team to ensure all membership applicants are eligible to vote prior to voting date. * Announce publicly and widely the dates and call for candidacies. * Monitor and certify election results. And now the “Run” part.... 2011 will be an important year for the openSUSE Project and the openSUSE Board will be guiding into a number of significant initiatives including the openSUSE Foundation, finalization of the openSUSE Strategy, and ongoing reviews of openSUSE governance. As such, we want you all to consider the possibility of running for openSUSE Board. While we obviously don't have exact dates for when candidacy is beginning, (That's up to the Election Officials) it is never too early for you to start thinking about it. If you've thought about it and aren't sure yet, just remember the words of fellow Board Member, Henne Vogelsang... “Just do it!” There will be two spots open for the election this year. So give this some thought. Either run for Board or help run the Board elections. -- 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 147 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 147 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * From the Developer to the User and back – Announcing Project Bretzn * SUSE Studio: Gold rush * Jos Poortvliet: oSC successful? Absolutely! * ServerWatch/Joe Brockmeier: Using Strace to Trace Problems * h-online: KDevelop 4.1 adds Git support For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5375 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] 1hour Scheduled Outage of build and mirror.opensuse.org
by Lars Vogdt 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi openSUSE Users Tomorrow, Thu 28th from 09:00 AM CET to approx. 10:00 AM CET, we need some maintenance on the following hosts: http://build.opensuse.org http://software.opensuse.org http://widehat.opensuse.org/ http://tube.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] openSUSE Weekly News 146 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 146 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE ass-kickin’ keynote * openSUSE News: The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released * Rares Aioanei: Kernel Weekly News 23.10.2010 * Make Tech Easier/Tavis J. Hampton: Advanced KDE Administration * Nelson Marques: openoffice.org and Libre Office… For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5240 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Build Service 2.1 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

The openSUSE Build Service - OBS - is now officially at release 2.1. We're delighted with the improvements in this release, including an enhanced web interface, integration with online code management systems and better access controls. OBS 2.1 Introduces New Features =========================== Enhanced web user interface This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes and who did them, with associated comments. This means that the full work flow needed to build packages, contribute them to projects and collaborate on them is available from the web interface. Integration with online source code management tools Users of the Build Service may now access a new concept called 'source services'. Source services allow, for example, the automatic checkout of source code for a package from a remote server via Git or Subversion, building a tar ball from these checked out sources, and using them for building a package. It also enables direct download of tar balls from remote sites. This allows packagers to work with external sources without downloading them to their own workstations, and makes it easy to rebuild packages after upstream changes with a single click. Better access controls The access controls have been enhanced so that read/write access to a project can be granted on an individual basis. This allows for tighter control of work flows where needed. You can for example ensure people don't have access to security updates while they are being tested. Using OBS ========= To use the Open Source Build Service, you can access the public instance on build.opensuse.org or install it on your own hardware to have a private Build Service. For local installations you can install from source, or use the ready-to-run appliance image, either directly or in a virtual machine. You can also obtain an installation image to install an openSUSE 11.3 system with the Build Service pre-installed. For details check http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_installations For more information about the Build Service, check http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service. Thanks ====== This release of the OBS has received many contributions from other companies, community members and foundations, making this release a truly collaborative product. We would like to thank everyone who helped make the openSUSE Build Service 2.1 possible! Special thanks go to Martin Mohring and the OBS team at The Linux Foundation, who contributed the extended access handling. About the Build Service ================== The Build Service is an open package and distribution development platform providing a transparent infrastructure for developers to build packages for a variety of Linux distributions and hardware architectures. build.opensuse.org is a freely available service and can build packages for the most popular distributions besides openSUSE including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. The Build Service aims to significantly reduce the costs and risks related to the distribution of applications, from building, providing and maintaining them. It does so by providing a convenient web and command-line interface, which developers can use to upload their code and build instructions. The Build Service will then create a clean, virtualized operating system, install any required build dependencies and create the package. This process will be repeated for each supported operating system. Once the build is finished, all packages will be made available in a set of repositories for easy distribution. The Build Service at build.opensuse.org currently builds about 100,000 packages from 25,000 users working on 15,000 different projects. Communities and companies using their own Build Service installation include the MeeGo Project, VLC team, Dell, Cray and many others. For more information about the Build Service, check http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service. -- 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 -- 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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