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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 10th June, 1600UTC
by Will Stephenson 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held today, Thursday 10th June, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items *review KDE defaults on 11.3 (mime types especially, the screensaver, Nepomuk (bug#575149)) ** Who wants to open torrents with KGet or iso files with Ark? :-) Amarok's .desktop file has a "InitialPreference" to ensure it's the default app for the types it supports, but Kaffeine doesn't ** Progress regarding font rendering on Konqueror ** InitialPreference system is broken. If/once Amarok starts supporting video you can't set Amarok as the default audio player and Kaffeine as the default video player since both support audio and video. mimeapps.list can't be used because also has effect on Gnome. Add extra, KDE-specific, mimeapps.list file? evaluate increased visibility in general kde community * conclusion of repository reorganization * Is openSUSE/KDE doing anything regarding the dbus thread bug? (see [1] for patch+bug reports) * openSUSE KDE Netbook edition - (https://features.opensuse.org/308401) should we make it easier to select plasma-netbook in 11.3 (AJaeger) * discuss the posibility of building KDE Unstable Live CDs from time to time (helps testing KDE, increases openSUSE/KDE visibility; on the other hand, it requires some resources). * 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=6&year=20… 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 the meeting and participate! -- 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] An update about the Strategy Proposals
by Bryen M. Yunashko 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

We wanted to give you an update regarding the status of our Strategy Team's release of strategy proposals for public discussion. Truth is, despite our best intentions to release on this date, we failed to realize each of our personal schedules leading up to this date. For many of us on the team, we had a number of commitments and didn't realize that most of us had scheduling conflicts. We are 90% done completing the wording of our proposals. While we could have rushed to finish everything by today, it was agreed that quality of the proposals was more important than rushing to meet a deadline. As such, we have agreed to postpone the release for one additional week until everyone is able to return to the table and finalize our proposals. The new release date for the openSUSE Strategy Proposals discussion will now be on June 17th. We thank you for your patience and understanding and look forward to a lively discussion next week once the proposals are published. Sincerely, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board 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] openSUSE Weekly News 126 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 126 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/06/05/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-126- is-out/ -- 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 Weekly News 125 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 May '10

29 May '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 125 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/29/opensuse-weekly-news-125-is-out/#more-3… In this week's issue: * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface o 2.2 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase o 2.3 openSUSE.org Scheduled Outage o 2.4 Klaas Freitag: Novell Hackweek Fife * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Distribution + 3.1.1 Lubos Lunak: On-demand package installation in openSUSE 11.3 + 3.1.2 Schedules for the next Week + 3.1.3 Bugzilla * 4 Team Reports o 4.1 Build Service Team + 4.1.1 Build Team Meeting + 4.1.2 OBS 2.0 Beta 1 released + 4.1.3 Build Service Statistics o 4.2 GNOME Team + 4.2.1 Fridrich Strba: Experimental Evolution installer for Windows o 4.3 openFATE Team + 4.3.1 #309589: Support for WebM media + 4.3.2 #309608: Simulations with Python: SimPy + 4.3.3 #309617: customize hostname at install time + 4.3.4 #309618: Enable CGROUP feature in kerneledit + 4.3.5 #309626: Yast/Zypper should create a List with last installed Packages + 4.3.6 Statistics o 4.4 Testing Team + 4.4.1 Larry Finger: Weekly Review o 4.5 Translation Team + 4.5.1 Localization * 5 In the Community o 5.1 openSUSE TV: Architecture of Collaboration o 5.2 Sirko Kemter: RadioTux@LinuxTag o 5.3 Bryen Yunashko: From Chicago to Paris to Nuremberg! o 5.4 Welcome new Members o 5.5 Events & Meetings o 5.6 openSUSE for your ears o 5.7 From Ambassadors + 5.7.1 Agustin Chavarria: openSUSE Schools! in Nicaragua! + 5.7.2 Ricardo Varas Santana: openSUSE at FLISoL Chile] o 5.8 openSUSE in $COUNTRY o 5.9 Communication o 5.10 Contributors * 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 6.1 Packman: veejay 1.5.3-0.pm.1.4 (openSUSE 11.2/i586) o 6.2 Packman: xmms2 0.7-999.pm.68.2 (openSUSE 11.2/x86_64) o 6.3 Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 rc2 available for openSUSE * 7 Security Updates o 7.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:012 * 8 Kernel Review o 8.1 Rares Aioanei: Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor * 9 Tips and Tricks o 9.1 For Desktop Users + 9.1.1 IBM developerWorks/Martin Streicher: Speaking UNIX: The best-kept secrets of UNIX power users + 9.1.2 linuxplanet.com/Akkana Peck: Making Movies in Linux with Kdenlive, part 2 o 9.2 For System Administrators + 9.2.1 GeekRide/Napster: Tech Tip: Sending Email from Command line + 9.2.2 Novell Cool Solutions/tpetersonalpine: Teaming Cluster on a Laptop using XEN, OCFS2 and Linux Virtual Services * 10 Planet SUSE o 10.1 Han Wen Kam: KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1 o 10.2 Joe Brockmeier: AbiWord: The Underappreciated Word Processor o 10.3 Joe Brockmeier: Good docs, bad docs, missing docs? o 10.4 Dominique Leuenberger: Dominique Leuenberger: VLC / openSUSE 10.3 repository o 10.5 Joe Brockmeier: The Spring 2010 Linux Distro Scorecard (Part 2) o 10.6 Rares Aioanei: Weekly Review of the PostgreSQL * 11 openSUSE Forums o 11.1 Prevent update being installed/Package Lock? o 11.2 11.2 Users Please Check your Firewall o 11.3 zypper dup gave me Milestone 7 o 11.4 Possible cd/dvd hardware failure. * 12 On the Web o 12.1 Announcements + 12.1.1 LinuxCon North America 2010 + 12.1.2 MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project release + 12.1.3 dot.kde.org/KDE SC 4.5 Beta1 Available + 12.1.4 KOffice 2.2 Released o 12.2 Reports + 12.2.1 Richard A. Johnson: Impressions of the latest MeeGo release + 12.2.2 Datamation/Sean Michael Kerner: Novell Revenues, Linux Business Slide + 12.2.3 Miguel de Icaza: Linux for Consumers: MeeGo Updates= + 12.2.4 Michael Meeks: Evolution Express (for MeeGo) + 12.2.5 Aaron Bockover: Banshee for MeeGo o 12.3 Reviews and Essays + 12.3.1 Ghacks/Jack Wallen: Why not try OpenSuSE 11.2 + 12.3.2 Tuxradar: How Linux works: the ultimate guide + 12.3.3 LinuxMagazine/Joe Brockmeier: WebM Poised to Bring Open Video to the Masses * 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 14 Credits * 15 Translations For a list of available translations see the Translations Section on the bottom of the issue. -- 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 KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 27th May, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 27 May '10

27 May '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 27th May, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * http://help.opensuse.org/ksuseinstall * most annoying 11.3 bugs * making the meetings more interesting/well attended * default Akonadi startup/usage * repository reorganization * 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=27&month=5&year=20… 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 Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2010-05-31 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 27 May '10

27 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 13th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 17:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=05&day=31&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----- iEYEARECAAYFAkv+Q4YACgkQ539IWoEy06W35wCfSduoqbT2Re7+T5Xra2g7fJXr edcAn28FK6cJi0oq8U6QN88W4hgKsaG9 =tM2p -----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 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase
by Andreas Jaeger 26 May '10

26 May '10

Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last milestone release, the next release will be RC1 on June 17th. Now it's time for testing and bugfixing! openSUSE 11.3 Progress Compared to M6, this milestone brings many bug fixes, an update to Linux kernel 2.6.34 and the integration of software translations and new artwork. We plan to include in openSUSE 11.3 the following highlights: * Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE * The approaching Btrfs file system can be configured in the installer * The zypper package management command line client has seen further improvements: o Improve package dependency handling: if a package gets removed, dependencies needed only by this package can get removed as well (using option --clean-deps) o Better control over package selection: The package selection code has been enhanced to support the following syntax for use with in/up/rm commands: [+/-]repo:type:nameOPversion.arch o zypper will notify about updates with vendor change (from different repository) * Better graphics driver support for Nvidia cards with integration of Nouveau driver * Back up and File sharing with SpiderOak - still in negotiation but looking good * Kernel 2.6.34 which as usually brings a ton of new or updated drivers and assures better hardware support this time has as key features o support of a number of Intel processors and chip set which will be delivered in the future o improved visualization o more efficient usage of energy saving features provided through state of the art hardware * Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3, LXDE 0.5.5, and XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media. * On demand package installation in KDE, for e.g. debug info packages and missing modules. * Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick * Updated distribution with new upstream packages A detailed list is available in the wiki. Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone and not a final release, 11.3 M7 does contain bugs both known and unknown, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The following annoyances have already been reported: * Firefox crashes at start Bug #608087 - workaround: update gtk2 to the new version from the GNOME factory repo * The x86_64 NET Install CD had a garbled screen for an NVidia GeForce Go 7150M graphics adapter. The workaround is to add "brokenmodules=nouveau" to the Boot Options line. * Accessing LVM partitions is not possible - Bug #598193 "udev deletes device nodes". * LXDM always start default session Bug #607868 Please see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… for the current list. What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from http://software.opensuse.org/developer today! Have a lot of fun! Andreas -- 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 Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface
by Andreas Jaeger 25 May '10

25 May '10

The openSUSE Build Service (obs) is an open package and distribution development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure that allows developers to build for various major Linux distributions and architectures. The public server build.opensuse.org is available for all open source developers to build packages for the most popular distributions incl. Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu. It is also used to build the openSUSE distribution. This is the first beta release of version 2.0. Version 2.0 is planned to be released on June 10th. We have updated the public server http://build.opensuse.org with the current code stream as part of our testing. We invite others running a build service to test the code and give feedback via the opensuse-buildservice mailing list and report bugs in bugzilla. Beta1 is feature complete, new features will go in the next major release (release planned for end of 2010), we will concentrate on fixing bugs now. Beta1 includes the following major changes: New Web UI Tailor-Made for Packagers The new Web UI makes your work more efficient as stuff is where it is expected, it loads faster and gives you a better access to projects, packages and meta data. Public Read Access For Convenient Collaboration Anonymous access gets you to packages and projects without log-in. This is pretty convenient for the users and promotes all packages in the Build Service more to the world as now search engines can index the Build Service as well. It makes it also easy to collaborate with other developers to show them your patches or log files. New Features for Cooperation in a Team With obs 2.0 review handling by a team is possible and roles can get assigned to groups instead of just to a single person. Additional Changes The full list of changes is available as part of the OBS Roadmap and includes also the following enhancements: * An easy way to view unsubmitted changes in development projects or new upstream releases. This is used especially for our openSUSE distribution development. * The request system has been enhanced: A new request type to add or change the user list of packages or projects has been added. Also review handling is now possible to allow a team to review changes prior to accepting a request. * Developers can receive notifications if one of their package gets branched by others. * Improved source handling: It’s possible to undelete packages. Meta data are now under version control. * The build service has seen many speedups so that packages get build faster. You can try the obs 2.0 beta1 either on http://build.opensuse.org or in your own infrastructure. Deployment is possible directly from source code or from our combined server and worker virtual appliance image. Thanks! This is a release where many different people were involved in development and even more in testing by using the openSUSE instance. We received also a number of good feature requests that got implemented. Thanks to everybody that participated! I’d like to give special credit for the great WebUI work done by the Boosters team, mainly Coolo and Tom! Andreas -- 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 Weekly News 124 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 May '10

22 May '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 124 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE:Weekly_News/124/Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/22/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-124-is-out/ -- 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] News about openSUSE Strategy
by Pavol Rusnak 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hi everyone! For the past few months we, the openSUSE Board [1], together with the great help from Kurt Garloff [2],Jan Weber [3] and Andreas Jaeger [4], held a series of strategy sessions to address the future of openSUSE. We discussed the role of openSUSE as a community and project and looked at data from a variety of sources, including the recent openSUSE Survey [5] to identify and build a strategy of strength and empowerment within our community, with a goal of establishing a common unified ground for answering the question to ourselves and to the world... "Why openSUSE?" and openSUSE's role in the operating system market, both today and in the future. After much discussion, we're finally ready to bring together these important bits of information into a cohesive statement that everyone can unify around. As such, we, the members of the Strategy Team, will be meeting in Nuremberg the weekend of May 28th to formalize a draft of our strategy that will be available publicly for open discussion and comment. The weekend strategy retreat will be preceded by a General Board Meeting Friday morning and a Meet & Greet for the general public Friday evening. If you are in the Nuremberg area or are willing to travel to Nuremberg, we invite you for a sociable evening of chat and drinks at the SUSE-Nuremberg offices [6] at 6:00 p.m. Meet the Board, members of the openSUSE Boosters team and other SUSE guys there. We'll do a few short presentations but the focus lays clearly on communication and having fun. For more information about our work, please feel free to review our documents at http://en.opensuse.org/Documents. And we'll be sure to keep you informed of our progress results from this exciting retreat. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Board [2] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Garloff [3] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Japa83 [4] http://en.opensuse.org/User:A_jaeger [5] http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010 [6] SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Ground Floor/Erdgeschoß, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 -- Best Regards, openSUSE Board and Strategy Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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