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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 121 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 01 May '10

01 May '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 121 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! Read here: http://bit.ly/cu4rHN For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/121/Translations In this week's issue: Contents * 1 Editors Note * 2 Status Updates o 2.1 Distribution + 2.1.1 Bugzilla * 3 Team Reports o 3.1 Build Service Team + 3.1.1 Build Team Meeting + 3.1.2 Build Service Statistics o 3.2 KDE Team + 3.2.1 Klaas Freitag: KDE Finance Apps Group Spring Sprint + 3.2.2 Guillaume DE BURE (gdebure): KDE Finance Sprint, take 2 o 3.3 Mono Team + 3.3.1 Miguel de Icaza: Mono's C# Compiler as a Service on Windows + 3.3.2 Miguel de Icaza: MonoTouch and Apple's Section 3.3.1: Two Theories o 3.4 openFATE Team + 3.4.1 Support C project on KDevelop4 + 3.4.2 add primary user to floppy and cdrom + 3.4.3 Handle variables in repo files similar to yum + 3.4.4 Make "unpublish" files and removing files from :full tree easy + 3.4.5 zypper in $REPO:$PACKAGE should initiate vendor change + 3.4.6 Statistics o 3.5 Testing Team + 3.5.1 Larry Finger: Weekly Minutes from the Testing Team o 3.6 Translation Team + 3.6.1 Localization o 3.7 Wiki-Team + 3.7.1 Rajko Matovic: Amusing when you realize * 4 In the Community o 4.1 Andrew Wafaa: Another outlet for openSUSE TV o 4.2 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - openSUSE and ARM: GSoC and Beyond o 4.3 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Build Your Own Linux Distribution During Your Lunch Break o 4.4 openSUSE TV: Create your own Linux Distribution o 4.5 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - OBS and Cross Platform Packaging o 4.6 Joe Brockmeier: Counting down to Pengicon o 4.7 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Visualizing Package Dependencies o 4.8 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Making Banshee Scream Cross-Platform o 4.9 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Experiences with Linux kernel development in openSUSE o 4.10 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Samba and openSUSE o 4.11 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Closing Keynote: Open Development in the trenches. A decade at the Apache Software Foundation o 4.12 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 - Legal Aspects of Distribution Development o 4.13 Events o 4.14 openSUSE for your ears o 4.15 From Ambassadors + 4.15.1 Alex Barrios: First round of pictures from the FLISOL Venezuela + 4.15.2 Michal Hrusecky: LinuxExpo 2010 + 4.15.3 Jigish Gohil: Trophy from IBM Develothon 2010 + 4.15.4 Raul Libório: FLISOL - Salvador/Bahia - Brazil o 4.16 openSUSE in $COUNTRY o 4.17 Communication o 4.18 Contributors * 5 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 5.1 OBS/Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 beta3 available for openSUSE o 5.2 Packman: ogre 1.7.1-0.pm.1.1 o 5.3 Packman: aMuleAdu-CVS 3.14b3-20.pm.20.5 o 5.4 Packman: Miro 3.0.1-1.pm.1.3 * 6 Security Updates o 6.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:010 * 7 Kernel Review o 7.1 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 2) - File Systems * 8 Tips and Tricks o 8.1 For Desktop Users + 8.1.1 Make Tech Easier/Tavis J. Hampton: How to Use KDE’s Clipboard and Klipper App o 8.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 8.2.1 ITworld/Sandra Henry-Stocker: How-To: Grep Tricks for Linux Users o 8.3 For Developers and Programmers + 8.3.1 Stefan Seyfried: Rebuilding a single kernel module o 8.4 For System Administrators + 8.4.1 Petr Baudis: Fixing NTP Refusing to Sync + 8.4.2 Dedoimedo.com: Collecting and analyzing Linux kernel crashes - crash * 9 Planet SUSE o 9.1 Jakub Steiner: Symbolic Moment o 9.2 Shayon Mukherjee: Part 1 – openSUSE team categorization o 9.3 Michael Andres: libzyppp-7.4: Cleanup when deleting packages o 9.4 Klaus Kämpf: Satsolver bindings documentation available * 10 openSUSE Forums o 10.1 Partitioner gone Haywire o 10.2 Kaffeine not working. o 10.3 Updater hangs, Can't Update. o 10.4 A Success Story * 11 On the Web o 11.1 Announcement + 11.1.1 KDE.news/Andreas Pakulat: KDevelop 4.0 Stable Released into the Wild o 11.2 Reports + 11.2.1 ars technica/Ryan Paul: MeeGo mobile Linux will also do laptops and desktops + 11.2.2 LinuxPlanet/Joe Brockmeier: NetworkManager a Solid Tool with New Features + 11.2.3 IBM developerWorks/Roderick W. Smith: Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice + 11.2.4 Siliconrepublic/John Kennedy: Novell claims to have hit 5,000 Linux app jackpot + 11.2.5 Ostatic/Joe Brockmeier: Interview with Mercurial's Matt Mackall o 11.3 Reviews and Essays + 11.3.1 Journal of an Open Sourcesee/OgMaciel: GNOME: Week in Review: April 18th – 23rd, 2010 + 11.3.2 h-online: The H Week - Microsoft's Android patents, HP gets Palm, Symantec gets PGP and Ubuntu 10.04 arrives o 11.4 Warning! + 11.4.1 US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA10-103C -- Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities * 12 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 13 Credits * 14 Translations -- 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 2010-05-03 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 12th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, May 3rd, 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=3&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----- iEYEARECAAYFAkvaiPkACgkQ539IWoEy06Wq4ACeOEwvf9sjQjJhaEghr8v/VE2w tp0AnR/nRSn8RfWlA8u+tfGi+9eU6f2e =2dpt -----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 29th April, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 29th April, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * status report * calls for testing * 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=29&month=4&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 Weekly News 120 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 120 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 First openSUSE-LXDE Meeting * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Distribution + 3.1.1 LinuxJournal/Ross Larson: Working With Suse Studio + 3.1.2 SUSE Studio: Welcome to the SUSE Studio blog! + 3.1.3 SUSE Studio: New features: base distribution upgrade and appliance notes + 3.1.4 Bugzilla * 4 Team Reports o 4.1 Build Service Team + 4.1.1 OBS MeeGo Developer Meeting + 4.1.2 Jan Kupec: zypper-1.4.2: rewritten package selection code + 4.1.3 Build Service Team Meeting + 4.1.4 openSUSE Build Service (OBS) 1.7.3 released + 4.1.5 Marcus Hüwe: osc 0.126 + 4.1.6 Build Service Statistics o 4.2 KDE Team + 4.2.1 Klaas Freitag (dragotin): Kraft 0.40 for KDE 4 Released + 4.2.2 Mehrdad Momeny (mtux): A new plugin system for Choqok + 4.2.3 KDE Meeting Minutes o 4.3 Mono Team + 4.3.1 Miguel de Icaza: MonoMac Bindings: Blending Cocoa and .NET on OSX o 4.4 openFATE Team + 4.4.1 Remove HAL support from libzypp and YaST + 4.4.2 Show history of accepted requests in webui for a project or package. + 4.4.3 Include Bibus, a bibliography tool that interacts with Openoffice via UNO + 4.4.4 NetworkManager 0.81 + 4.4.5 Statistics o 4.5 Testing Team + 4.5.1 Guest Blog: Testing Team Minutes (Week 16) o 4.6 Translation Team + 4.6.1 Localization * 5 In the Community o 5.1 Alex Barrios: Only a few days for the FLISOL in Venezuela o 5.2 Dorian Pula: Migrating to openSUSE o 5.3 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Meet the openSUSE Board o 5.4 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Open Source Contribution: How Chinese Students Enjoy Open Source o 5.5 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Building Moblin, the openSUSE way o 5.6 Martin Schlander: openSUSE-Guide.org – status report o 5.7 People of openSUSE + 5.7.1 People of openSUSE: Andrew Wafaa o 5.8 Events o 5.9 openSUSE for your ears o 5.10 openSUSE in $COUNTRY o 5.11 Communication o 5.12 Contributors * 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 6.1 Packman: qmmp 0.3.4-1.pm.1.1 * 7 Security Updates o 7.1 Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.0 o 7.2 SUSE Security Announcement: acroread (SUSE-SA:2010:022) * 8 Kernel Review o 8.1 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 1) – Network Support o 8.2 Linux Weekly News: Kernel prepatch 2.6.34-rc5 o 8.3 Guest Blog: Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor (Week 16) * 9 Tips and Tricks o 9.1 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 9.1.1 nixCraft/Vivek Gite: 10 Tools To Add Some Spice To Your UNIX Shell Scripts + 9.1.2 Peteris Krumins: Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained + 9.1.3 Alex Barrios: Encrypt your files quick n’ dirty o 9.2 For Developers and Programmers + 9.2.1 Ars Technica/Ryan Paul: Tutorial: consuming Twitter’s real-time stream API in Python o 9.3 For System Administrators + 9.3.1 Uwe Gansert: AutoYaST and it’s Tools + 9.3.2 Christopher Hobbs: Novell Client on openSUSE 11.2 * 10 Planet SUSE o 10.1 Joe Brockmeier: Where’s the Summer of Documentation? o 10.2 Sascha Manns: Medical Task Force: GNUmed 0.7.1 (electronic medical record) available! * 11 openSUSE Forums o 11.1 Grub/Grub2 Ubuntu and openSUSE? o 11.2 Changing Directory o 11.3 How to access remote media? o 11.4 openSUSE updater not working * 12 On the Web o 12.1 Announcements + 12.1.1 Wine Version 1.1.43 + 12.1.2 Linuxfoundation: Announcing the 2010 were linux video winners o 12.2 Call for participation + 12.2.1 FrOSCon: Call for Papers + 12.2.2 TechSource/jun auza: The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest o 12.3 Reports + 12.3.1 ServerWatch/Sean Michael Kerner: IBM Adopts Novell’s Linux OS for Lotus, Websphere Appliances o 12.4 Reviews and Essays + 12.4.1 People of KDE: Interview with Thiago Macieira + 12.4.2 ConsortiumInfo.org/Andy Updegrove: Oracle’s ODF Plug-in Pricing: What’s up with That? o 12.5 Warning! + 12.5.1 US-CERT Current Activity – VideoLAN Releases Security Advisory for VLC Media Player * 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 14 Credits * 15 Translations For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120 -- 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] Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.0
by Marcus Meissner 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers, SUSE Security announces that openSUSE 11.0 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for two years, we will stop releasing updates after June 30th 2010. As a consequence, the openSUSE 11.0 distribution directory on our server download.opensuse.org will be removed from /distribution/11.0/ to free space on our mirror sites. The 11.0 directory in the update tree /update/11.0 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. Also the openSUSE buildservice repositories building openSUSE 11.0 will be removed. The discontinuation of openSUSE 11.0 enables us to focus on the openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our users can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with openSUSE products. This announcement holds true for openSUSE 11.0 only. As usual, Novell/SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following products: openSUSE 11.1 (supported until December 31st 2010) openSUSE 11.2 (supported until approximately May 12th 2011) openSUSE 11.3 (currently in development, to be released around July 8th 2010) for the next two openSUSE releases plus two months overlap period. Please note that the maintenance cycles of SUSE Linux Enterprise products and products based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system are not affected by this announcement and have longer life cycles. To learn more about SUSE Linux Enterprise products, please visit http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ . For a detailed list of the life cycles of our Enterprise Products please visit http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ and http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?sl=suse If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact SUSE Security at <security(a)suse.de>. -- 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] First openSUSE-LXDE Meeting - Tuesday 2010-04-27 15:00 UTC
by Andrea Florio 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The next openSUSE LXDE meeting will be held Thursday 27th April, at 15:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * Status of the openSUSE-LXDE, plans for future * Status of LXDE introduction video * Branding * status report * calls for testing * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/LXDE/Meetings/LXDE_Meeting_2010-04-27 Please use http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2010&mo=04&d=27&h… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-lxde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! Andrea Florio - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvNcKoACgkQyCZT87TFPuib3ACdF6RzB4FLUCkOIh8XUN8ionft +yEAoLU9P9FpwFgsBCNunN/6OiI9JXiy =Z19j -----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 119 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 119 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: Contents * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back o 2.2 Andrew Wafaa: oSC09 videos * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Distribution + 3.1.1 Schedules for the next Week + 3.1.2 Bugzilla * 4 Team Reports o 4.1 Build Service Team + 4.1.1 Build Team Meeting + 4.1.2 Build Service Statistics o 4.2 GNOME Team + 4.2.1 Marcus Meissner: libgphoto2 2.4.9 + 4.2.2 Vincent Untz: GSettings Hackfest: Day 1 o 4.3 KDE Team + 4.3.1 Will Stephenson: File Transfers in KDE 4 o 4.4 Mono Team + 4.4.1 Moonlight 3 Preview 6 + 4.4.2 MonoTouch 3.0 o 4.5 openFATE Team + 4.5.1 New: openFATE 309343 Support release number in (rp-md) repositories + 4.5.2 New: openFATE 309342 Do not loose Hermes events ever. + 4.5.3 New: openFATE 309341 Make new status for “unsigned” + 4.5.4 Statistics o 4.6 Testing Team + 4.6.1 openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2010-04-19 17:00 UTC o 4.7 Translation Team + 4.7.1 Bug report against webyast files + 4.7.2 Localization o 4.8 Wiki-Team + 4.8.1 German Wiki & Multi-Language Concept * 5 In the Community o 5.1 Andrew Wafaa: Community Discussion – Part 5 o 5.2 Events o 5.3 openSUSE for your ears o 5.4 From Ambassadors + 5.4.1 Agustin Chavarria: Conference in FLISOL Nicaragua 2010 + 5.4.2 Chuck Payne: Texas Linux Fest o 5.5 openSUSE in $COUNTRY o 5.6 Communication o 5.7 Contributors * 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 6.1 Packman: KDoodle 0.2.3-0.pm.1.25 o 6.2 OBS: Barrage o 6.3 OBS: New Package for openSUSE: assuma (Association Subscribers Manager) o 6.4 OBS: new openSUSE Package: bleachbit 0.7.4 o 6.5 KDE-Apps: KDropbox 0.1.0 * 7 Security Updates o 7.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:009 o 7.2 SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9 (SUSE- SA:2010:021) * 8 Kernel Review o 8.1 KernelTrap: Linux: 2.6.34-rc4, “Hunting A Really Annoying VM Regression” o 8.2 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 1) – Network Support o 8.3 LinuxWeeklyNews/Corbet: Kernel prepatch 2.6.34-rc4 o 8.4 Rares Aioanei: Weekly Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor 15th Week * 9 Tips and Tricks o 9.1 For Desktop Users + 9.1.1 Stefan Seyfried: Rearranging Accounts in Claws- Mail + 9.1.2 Free Software Magazine/Daniel Escasa: New-line search & replace in OpenOffice.org Writer — the lazy way o 9.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 9.2.1 Joe Shaw: avchd to mp4/h264/aac conversion + 9.2.2 The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Unix Bash Alias Tutorial – Handle Alias Command Like Jennifer Garner o 9.3 For Developers and Programmers + 9.3.1 IBM developerWorks/Roderick W. Smith: Migrate to GRUB 2 – Transitioning to a new boot loader o 9.4 For System Administrators + 9.4.1 Ghacks.net/Jack Wallen: Luckybackup: Linux backup made easy + 9.4.2 MakeTechEasier/Joshua Price: Choosing The Best Linux Filesystem For Your PC + 9.4.3 Linux.com/Joe Brockmeier: Ncat: The Network Swiss Army Knife * 10 Planet SUSE o 10.1 Mike McCallister: Reminder: Speaking to Milwaukee PHP User Group o 10.2 Frank Karlitschek (karli): ownCloud status * 11 openSUSE Forums o 11.1 su or su – which? o 11.2 Browsers won’t play Flash sound!? o 11.3 Configure Xen Virtualization o 11.4 What You do not like about openSUSE? * 12 On the Web o 12.1 Announcements + 12.1.1 Aaron Seigo: 2010 Plasma Javascript Jam Session Winners Announced o 12.2 Call for participation + 12.2.1 GNOME 3.0 cleanup: Call to module developers o 12.3 Reports + 12.3.1 Security Blanket Technical Blog: File Systems + 12.3.2 CNET News/Dave Rosenberg: Linux: Strong and getting stronger + 12.3.3 LinuxPlanet/Sean Michael Kerner: Linux Kernel Devs: We Need New Blood o 12.4 Reviews and Essays + 12.4.1 TechRadar/Graham Morrison: How to switch your small or home office to Linux – Save time and money with free, open source software o 12.5 Warnings + 12.5.1 US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA10-103C — Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities o 12.6 LOL + 12.6.1 Datamation/Oliver Widder: Tech Comics: “A Day in the Life of a Coder” * 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 14 Credits * 15 Translations For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/119/Translations [0] http://bit.ly/9WfViC -- 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 2010-04-19 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 11th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Monday, April 19th, 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=04&day=19&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----- iEUEARECAAYFAkvIJLcACgkQ539IWoEy06U4jgCYgG9XEDLU3m1CZyITEoFDqc89 SQCfRhLJSCFH1bZbITmMSHaEcZ43IGA= =UIzM -----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 5: The Community Strikes Back
by Andreas Jaeger 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I'm forwarding the following from James: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by James Mason Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE Community, and the larger Linux community. We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented. Release News: * Update to Perl 5.12 (release notes) * Update to parted 2.2; M5 has a complete toolkit for supporting 4K phyisical sector disks. (openSUSE-factory list) * KMS integration for Intel and Nvidia (via nouveau driver) graphics, and the ability to disable it. (bugzilla 591400) * Update to PackageKit 0.6.2, requiring revisions to KPackageKit (openSUSE-factory list) * Added librcd and librcc, which provide on-the-fly language translation/detection, from the RusXMMS project. (openSUSE-factory list) * Added xdiskusage, a visual disk-space analyzer. (openSUSE-factory list) * A bug in OpenOffice.org that caused crashes when copying spreadsheet cells has been resolved. (bugzilla 588957) * Access to the official SUSE manuals has been improved. (bugzilla 586682) * Documentation has been corrected for the smbfs to cifs changes. (bugzilla 561993, bugzilla 578621) * The installation slideshow now talks about version 11.3 instead of 11.2. (bugzilla 588396) * Lithuanian keyboard layout added. (bugzilla 569554) * Encrypted swap volumes no longer need to be formatted during install; YaST will prompt for LUKS volume passwords. (bugzilla 581341) * A locking issue with reiserfs has been resolved and no longer prevents installs. (bugzilla 591807) * An M4 annoyance with udev init scripts has been fixed. (bugzilla 592445) System Administrators: * ssh now shows a visual fingerprint on all relevant activities, and the .ssh/known_hosts file is hashed for increased security. (openSUSE-factory list) * cron has been replaced by cronie, which ships as cron-1.4.4 (openSUSE-factory list) * pam_mount updated to the latest stable version (1.2.4, libHX 2.7). (openFATE 305351, bugzilla 438457) * KVM/qemu SDL windows no longer freeze. (bugzilla 586260) Developers/Packagers: * Update to rpm 4.8.0 (release notes) * Update to zypper 1.4.1 resolves issues with ‘zypper ref’ and ‘zypper up’. (bugzilla 586979, bugzilla 591760) * Update to NetBeans 6.8 in Java:packages. (bugzilla 593600) * rpmlint properly finds RPM_BUILD_ROOT again. (bugzilla 584952) Multimedia Authors: * The JACK team is coordinating with openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian, among others, to upgrade to jack 1.9.5 (JACK2) during the spring/summer release cycle. (openSUSE-factory list) * lilypond is now in multimedia:apps, to support rosegarden4. (openSUSE-factory list) GUI Users: * Update to X11 7.5 & xorg-server to 1.8.0. (openFATE 306903, bugzilla 586157, bugzilla 586350, bugzilla 587514, bugzilla 576481, bugzilla 593878) * Added nouveau driver for Nvidia graphics. (openFATE 307588) * VMWare mouse drivers are functioning again. (bugzilla 574857, bugzilla 592193) * Update to gutenprint 5.2.4 with support for many new printer models. (openFATE 309091) * An hplip update resolves deprecation issues related to udev. (bugzilla 577035) * Update to PCManFM’s (a lightweight file manager) libfm-0.1.9beta resolves some file access issues. (bugzilla 591731) * xscreensaver-recommended only installs a recommended subset of screensavers, and is selected by default instead of xscreensaver-extras. (openFATE 308474) * iwl3945 (an Intel Wireless LAN driver) no longer needs to be reloaded after NetworkManager startup. (bugzilla 586711) * Gnome 2.30 ’About Me’ no longer looses information. (bugzilla 588172) * gnome-keyring works properly under LXDE. (bugzilla 580043) * Update to gnuplot 4.4. (bugzilla 592563) * Update to seamonkey 2.0.4. (bugzilla 592587) Mobile Users: * Update to pm-utils to 1.3.0; power management utilities now use udisks/upower and have no dependencies on HAL; video quirks are included. (openSUSE-factory list) * NetworkManager has support for PEAP with Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC). (openFATE 309158) * Uacklight controls are working in MacBooks with Intel graphics. (bugzilla 581474) Gamers: * Added Dungeon Crawl (a nethack clone) to the Games repository. (openSUSE-factory list) Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 M5 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. Some of the most critical bugs are listed on the wiki. Get Milestone 5 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! ----- You can find the Release Notes for openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 also on News.o.o. : http://news.opensuse.org/2010/04/14/opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-the-community- strikes-back/ Please head over to the Annoying Bugs list and make any necessary updates: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… ----- ----------------------------------------- -- 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 15th April, 16:00 UTC
by Lubos Lunak 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday 15th April, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * try MeetBot again * finalize repo layout and timing (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2010-04/msg00012.html) * old action items * status report * calls for testing * 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=4&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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