- openSUSE Announce

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 41
by Jan-Simon Möller 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 41 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE 10.2 * openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.0 is Ready * openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available * Board Election - Phase 1: Nomination of second voters * openSUSE News: Status of the e1000e Issue [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/41 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/40 Have a lot of fun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available
by Christoph Thiel 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we've decided to do it again! The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for immediate download and testing. Please note: * LiveCDs are being regenerated and released on Monday (Oct 6th). * Also, the x86_64 Beta1-Beta2 delta.iso is currently broken -- to be released on Monday as well. * software.opensuse.org/developer is being updated later today, for the time being browse to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta2/iso/ * the new factory tree is available from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/. What's changed since beta 1? ============================ Major changes in this release include: * Live CDs for GNOME and KDE [currently to big, see bnc#431900] * VirtualBox 2.0.2 * Intel e1000e status (See below) * OpenOffice.org 3.0RC2 * GNOME 2.24.0 * KDE 4.1.2 * Mono 2.0 RC 3 * Compiz 0.7.8 Please also see the 11.1 beta 1 release announcement: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/20/development-release-opensuse-111-beta-1… See DistroWatch [http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse] for an expanded list of packages being shipped in the Factory distribution. Status of the e1000e issue ========================== Our beta1 release contained a bug that would cause the non-volatile memory (NVM) of the e1000e controller to be corrupted in certain hardware combinations. This NVM is shared with other components of the system. We are still working on root-causing the issue, in close cooperation with developers from Intel and the general Linux community. In this release, the e1000e driver has been augmented with several kernel patches that prevent all of the plausible scenarios where the NVM would be overwritten. This includes a patch that enables write-protection of the NVM. In order to corrupt the NVM with this patch in place, an application or kernel module would have to undo this write protection explicitly before being able to erase the NVM. Most of these protective measures have been implemented within the e1000e driver. All tests performed so far have shown that with these protections in place, we are unable to reproduce the NVM corruption that could be seen with beta1. On some machines that were tested, a beta1 installation could lead to NVM corruption within 10-30 reboots, whereas a beta2 installation would perform 270 reboots without corrupting the NVM. Therefore, we have made a conscious decision to leave the e1000e driver enabled by default. We think with the additional safeguards in place (most of which are part of the e1000e driver), the NVM is better protected than without loading the driver. This is based on the assumption that the e1000e driver shares the NVM with other parts of the system. Nevertheless, users have the option to install beta2 with the e1000e driver disabled, by adding the following to the kernel command line when booting from the installation CD/DVD: broken_modules=e1000e This will prevent the driver from being loaded during installation, and will also add it to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, which will prevent it from being loaded automatically in the future. OpenOffice.org Packages ======================= As with the beta 1 release, the OpenOffice.org packages are still in a state of flux. Known bugs with OpenOffice.org in this release include: + the dialog to change macro security level is empty; many other dialogs are affected similar way + "help" and "from template" and many other dialogs do not have icons + the initial wizard (to select document type) is not showed + macro editor does not highlight the lines with breakpoints + macro editor does not mark the line where the code is stopped (arrow) + Suse-puzzler.xls works only partly; e.g. "Sneaky Peak" or "About" works but the "Shuffle" does nothing. Also, the pieces cannot be moved with a mouse. + some missing hacks from ooo-build/bin/package-ooo and older OOo.spec + missing OOo-sdk compat stuff (to build voiko..., bnc#428403) + parallel build problem (basic module) Call for Testing ================ We all want openSUSE 11.1 to be the best release yet, and we need your help to get there. This release is ready for widespread testing, and we're encouraging everyone to download and test the beta release. Please run the release through your usual routine, and let us know about any bugs or other issues that you find. Remember that this is a beta release, and is not suitable for use on production systems, however. If you want to help testing using the standard test cases, look at openSUSE.org/Testing, and in particular see the new features specific to openSUSE 11.1: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.1 This is a definitive list of new features added into 11.1 that need testing. 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. Media and Download ================== The 11.1 beta is just one of the releases that will lead to the final 11.1 release. You can find the entire roadmap on the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap. Downloads are available here: http://software.opensuse.org/developer See http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Selection for a full list of mirrors. Note that you don't need to choose a mirror yourself, but you can use the mirror list if you want or need to select a mirror manually. Most Annoying Bugs ================== - Bug 431900 - LiveCDs to big - Bug 431895 - http and ftp installation broken on x86_64 and ppc - Bug 431861 - beta2 PPC DVD is broken - Bug 431905 - installation over ssh does not work - Bug 431491 - openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 doesn't boot in a VirtualBox - Bug 431880 - nfs broken on beta2 - Bug 431879 - update configuration doesn't work - Bug 427102 - OpenOffice.org split is work in progress. - Bug 427923 - Distro uses openSUSE 11.0 branding. - Bug 431865 - unable to install web development pattern. Future Release Announcements ============================ Note to openSUSE contributors: If you have any changes or features to call out for future release announcements, please send an email to Zonker (zonker(a)opensuse.org) with any information that should be in that announcement. (Preferably at least two days before the scheduled release.) Thanks, and have a lot of fun! -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, 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

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE 10.2
by Marcus Meissner 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers and openSUSE users, SUSE Security announces that openSUSE 10.2 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, we will stop releasing updates after November 30th 2008. As a consequence, the openSUSE 10.2 distribution directory on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved from /pub/suse/*/10.2/ to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our mirror sites. The 10.2 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/update/10.2 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of openSUSE 10.2 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 10.2 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following products: openSUSE 10.3 (supported until October 31st 2009) openSUSE 11.0 (supported until June 30th 2010) and openSUSE 11.1 (currently in development, to be released December 2008) for a two-year period after the release of the respective distribution. 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 business 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>. -- Working, but not speaking, for the following german company: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] New Timeshift Meeting for openSUSE-GNOME this Thursday
by Bryen 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Heads up, GNOMEies, there's a new TimeShift in town! The openSUSE-GNOME Team is experimenting with a new timeshift meeting time. We regularly host our timeshifted meetings at 11:00 UTC for the first Thursday of the month. This ended up in very low attendance when we wanted to reach out to as many people globally as possible. The new timeshift will be 22:00 UTC beginning this Thursday, October 2nd. To find out what 22:00 UTC means in your area, check out the http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=02&month=10&year=2… link. Be there! -- Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - October 1st, 16:00 UTC
by Stephan Binner 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting is tomorrow, October 1st at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * general status report * KDE Bug Squashing Days review/planning * NetworkManager-kde4 status report and request for testing * Q&A Further items are welcome; please add them to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=1&year=20… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting happens in #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net. You're 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

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 40
by Stephan Binner 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 40 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available * Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 * openSUSE Build Service Did It! * Board Election Phase 1 Started * openSUSE Homepage Redesigned [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/40 Last week's issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/39 Have a lot of fun! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE election status update
by Marko Jung 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update. Since the initial announcement we raised the openSUSE member count by 50% to now 212 approved openSUSE members. I am impressed by the enormous interest in participating in our project. And we have a total of ten candidates running for a seat in the next openSUSE board: Non-Novell * Pascal Bleser * Peter Linnell * Tuukka Pasanen * Alex Rodriguez * Jakub Rusinek * Bryen Yunashko Novell * Marco Michna * Stephen Shaw * Henne Vogelsang * Federico Mena-Quintero Find platforms and contact details for all candidates in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Candidates = What is next? = During the next two weeks, each of the 212 openSUSE members is able to give voting privileges for this election to another user (which is not an openSUSE member). This person should be an active contributor of the openSUSE community and needs an account at users.openSUSE.org which has been created before September, 1st 2008. The possibility to give franchise to another person is for you the perfect chance to get a friend or colleague more involved in the openSUSE project. Do not miss this opportunity and help us to get as much people as possible participating on the election! Unfortunately I used a wrong variable in the mail template for the first notification mail, the appointment of additional voters ends October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 UTC. Until ballots will open on October, 9th 2008 (12:00 UTC) we have now two weeks of campaigning, which should be mainly driven by the candidates themselves. Potentially there will be a public IRC debate with all candidates, but this is not set yet. If you are interested and have time to support us organizing it, please get in touch now! Concluding I would like to thank all candidates for standing, the openSUSE board for checking more than hundret membership requests, my colleagues from the election committee and Zonker for their great support. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/09/24 16:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/09/24 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=24&month=09&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. JP Rosevear (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Last reminder: Deadline for membership and candidates for openSUSE board election
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi all, A quick, and final, reminder -- the deadline for declaring candidacy for the openSUSE board, and the deadline for requesting openSUSE membership, is Sept. 24 at 12:00 UTC. Please see the announcement on openSUSE News for the full details: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/17/reminder-call-for-opensuse-board-candid… Thanks, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/09/24 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/09/24 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=24&month=09&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-09-24 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0