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[opensuse-announce] Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

We have an important announcement regarding openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 beta 1: The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer. Intel and Novell are currently working to analyze and solve the issue. For the time being: Please do NOT USE: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 or SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 on systems with Intel e1000e hardware. Any other hardware, including systems with Intel e1000 (without -e) network cards, is not affected by this issue. We will keep you posted. Please watch news.opensuse.org and the opensuse-announce mailing list for more information. -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Build Service did it!
by Adrian Schröter 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

The openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 release marks a significant change for openSUSE. For the first time in 11 years, a SUSE release was not built in the SUSE internal AutoBuild service ? openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 was built using the openSUSE Build Service! AutoBuild was the first full automated system on this planet which built Linux distributions. It served us well, with reliable building of the SUSE distributions. It guaranteed that depending packages got rebuild to avoid unexpected incompatibilities, and guaranteed that a build is reproducible by setting up a complete system for each package build. (This happens around 3,500 times per full distribution build and per architecture. This results in more than 10 thousand system installations for building a openSUSE distribution once!) However, 11 years is a long time in the IT industry. New requirements are appearing and the openSUSE project in particular needed an open system, not limited to SUSE/Novell employees. The openSUSE Build Service is designed with all good ideas from AutoBuild, but as a more transparent and distributable system. We invented for example the Product Definition lately, which describes all needed information describing all openSUSE medias. The Build Service automatically creates needed packages and KIWI image build descriptions, and will create the openSUSE product flavors, like the ISO images, or installation source trees. This functionality makes it easy to rebuild the entire distribution. Together with the functionality of Build Service interconnect it makes it even possible that you can rebuild the openSUSE distribution at home. Either by recompiling it completely, replacing only a few packages, or just adding one. Projects like the Education project can use this to create their derived distribution more easily. The current status is that some of this functionality needs still manual work. We will release a new version of the Build Service as soon as we have automated it fully and integrated it well. It is now really transparent to see what state things are in, just by visiting the openSUSE:Factory project in Build Service. Everybody can also join in to fix stuff using the collaboration features. All this new transparency, flexibility, and reliability of the OBS lead to the situation that we currently switch also internally from AutoBuild to Build Service for building SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This proves that this system is good enough for Novell as well to rely on it. Even though we need to add some more functionality and fix some more bugs. References are listed at: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/22/obs-did-it/ PS: Greetings to SUSE founder Burchard Steinbild, who implemented the first version of AutoBuild, which was the reason of the success of SUSE :) -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg) email: adrian(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] openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 now available
by Christoph Thiel 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, including new versions of KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, improved YaST modules, and much more! The ISOs for this release have been created using KIWI and RPMs created in the openSUSE Build Service. This caused some delay in the release of beta 1, but is part of the transition to using the openSUSE Build Service for all development of openSUSE. What's in openSUSE 11.1 beta 1? =============================== There are plenty of changes in 11.1, here are some of the most notable improvements, upgrades, and new features. GNOME 2.24 * PulseAudio improvements (PulseAudio 0.9.12) * Ekiga 3.0 * Empathy Instant Messenger based on Telepathy framework * File manager improvements, including tab support and "compact" view in Nautilus * New deskbar plugins * New screen resolution controls * Accessibility improvements * Power Manager improvement: Tab added to configure time to automatically wake from suspend/hibernate * Banshee 1.3 KDE 3.5.10 * openSUSE 11.1 will include KDE 3.5.10 on the DVD media, but moved to the "other window managers" selection. KDE 4.1.x * KWin has compositing enabled by default, testing welcome! * Amarok 2.0 beta 1 * Autohiding panels * KWin cube effect * Accessibility support * SVG support "almost everywhere" * Basic SELinux enablement: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux-basic-enablemen… New YaST Modules * Re-written YaST Printer module: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement#Under_construct… * Re-written YaST Partitioner module: Testing wanted! * Re-written YaST Security module: Checks the security of your system configuration. * Cluster stack features significant usability changes and has adopted OpenAIS, an industry standard also supported by leading vendors, for its core infrastructure. See http://openais.org/ for more info. * Support for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) -- using KIWI, users can easily create an EC2 cloud based on openSUSE 11.1. (Documented here: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/kiwi/kiwi-head/doc/kiwi.pdf?op=file&rev=0&sc=0) * Improvements in OCFS2: Full integration with userspace cluster stack, POSIX file locking, extended attributes, and file system sizes up to four Petabytes (4PiB). * IPv6 improvements: openSUSE can be installed in an IPv6 environment and run an IPv6 Web server. * New BlueTooth features with BlueZ 4.6. Also: * Samba 3.2.3 * Python 2.6beta3 and 3.0beta3 * Linux kernel 2.6.27rc5 * Xen 3.3.1 RC * PackageKit 0.3.2 * GCC 4.3.2 * X.org 7.4 * OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC See http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse for a full list of packages and versions being shipped in the Factory distribution. Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Bug #427678: Build key ring of openSUSE-build-key missing in initrd. Workaround: hit "Import" on Public GnuPG Key error message, to import openSUSE:Factory OBS Project key. * Bug #427664: openSUSE-images missing from install media. Note: Installation will be slower. Images will be added for Beta2 * Bug #427692: Desktop selection still offers KDE3. This option will go away in Beta2, and KDE3 will be moved to "other window managers." * Bug #418585: Error: Failed to detect print queues. Workaround: Just hit OK. * OpenOffice.org has been split into new packages for 11.1beta1. OpenOffice.org should be usable, but there are a number of known bugs: + Optional packages are not really optional, because the registry files are not correctly spread over the subpackages. + Java and Python components are not registered, so wizards do not work. + Dialog to change macro security level is empty (other dialogs may be affected as well). + Macro editor does not highlight lines with breakpoints. + Macro editor does not mark the line where the code is stopped (arrow). + "Help" and "From Template" dialogs do not have icons. + Wizard to select document type is not shown. The most annoying problems should be fixed before beta2 and beta3. See the wiki for the latest on annoying bugs: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.1_dev Call for Testing ================= Please remember that this is a beta release, and is not suitable for use on production systems. However, 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. 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. 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 39
by Jan-Simon Möller 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 39 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Board election * OpenOffice_org 3.0rc1 available * Call for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Beta Testers * Duncan Mac-Vicar: Extremely easy driver installation * Distribution status [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/39 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/38 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

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[opensuse-announce] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/09/18 16:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 18 Sep '08

18 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: 2008/09/18 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=11&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

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[opensuse-announce] Less than 7 days for Nominations and Applications
by Andrew Wafaa 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

OK people listen up... please? Thanks! OK, just a reminder that you have less than 160 hours to register for the openSUSE board election if you haven't done so already. For the mathematically challenged, 160 hours is just under seven full days! Yes, that is how long you have left to get your membership[0] application in to be able to vote on the upcoming board election[1]. It is also the amount of time you have left to get your notification of intention to run for the first community elected Board[2]. You can only run for the board if you hold openSUSE Membership, you can only vote for your favourite candidates if you have openSUSE Membership. Do you see a pattern here? Good! Also it would be good if all of the current candidates could ensure that they have filled in their platforms on the as requested before then. Some have already, I appreciate that people are busy, but if you want to be on the Board (or vote for the board) you have to be prompt. Slackers will not be tolerated! ;-) Regards, Andy [0] http://en.opensuse.org/Members [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008 -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: GNOME / Marketing / Board Election. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org awafaa(a)opensuse.org | http://www.wafaa.eu -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-edu Meeting 2008/09/16 17:00 (UTC/GMT)
by Lars Vogdt 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hi The next openSUSE-Education meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-edu IRC channel on freenode ( irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-edu ) on upcoming Tuesday, 2008/09/16 17:00 (UTC/GMT) To convert UTC/GMT to your time zone, please use this link: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2008&mo=09&d=16&h… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-Education. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Current Have a lot of fun .. kl_eisbaer Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Education team) -- 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). -- 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] OpenOffice_org 3.0rc1 available (call for testing)
by Petr Mladek 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.0.0.3.1 packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project. They are the first release candidate of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 version. We kindly ask for testing. Please, try and report bugs. Note: They might still include bugs and are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, ... Where to get it: The list of installation repositories can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_… Installation problems: There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You might need to select the right version by hand, see http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update IMPORTANT The packages with localizations are renamed from OpenOffice_org-<lang> to OpenOffice_org-l10n-<lang>. Also the localized help content is split into the optional OpenOffice_org-help-<lang> packages. Finally, the American localization is split into extra packages OpenOffice_org-l10n-en-US and OpenOffice_org-help-en-US. We are sorry, the 64-bit packages are not available for SLED10 and openSUSE-10.2. You could install the 32-bit (i586) packages there. We hope to solve the build problems within the following weeks. Bug reports: Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo. Changes in this version: The GO-OO project changes are listed at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_3_0_0_3_1/NEWS General information about the build: The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build: * better startup performance * improved VBA interoperability * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect) * additional import filters (SVG, WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...) * native KDE Open/Save dialog * WebDAV locking * new 3D slide transitions * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1) * ... , see also http://go-oo.org/discover/ -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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, Issue 38
by Jan-Simon Möller 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 38 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Last Call for openSUSE Board Candidates * openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing Days (20-21 September) * Board election * openSUSE 11.0 survey * KDE in openSUSE 11.1 and beyond [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/38 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/37 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing Days (20-21 September)
by Carlos Goncalves 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

The openSUSE KDE team wants to dedicate some time on KDE bugs before openSUSE 11.1 gets released, focusing on reported KDE bugs on bugzilla.novell.com inviting the community to take part of it. Let's stamp out bugs in KDE for openSUSE 11.1! The openSUSE KDE team is holding a Bug Squashing event to work the KDE bugs reported in bugzilla.novell.com. You can be a part of a bug-free KDE! The openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing event is scheduled September 20 through September 21 (right after openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 release), and the main goal is to have zero bugs! In order of priority, we have the following list: * Find duplicated bugs, and obviously close then as DUPLICATE; * Non openSUSE KDE bugs (KDE upstream bugs) should be: * Reported on bugs.kde.org (if not yet); * Added the upstream bug URL to the URL field on bugzilla.novell.com; * Closed as UPSTREAM (resolution field). * Filter KDE 4.0 bug reports and try to reproduce them on KDE 4.1: * If you can't reproduce close them as WORKSFORME and leave a comment as it was most probably fixed on KDE 4.1; * If you still can reproduce them, try to investigate why/how that happens (eg: step-by-step on how to reproduce) and state it's still reproducible; * Same as above but for KDE 4.1 - taking in consideration the quickly development of KDE4 it's really easy that those bugs reported have been fixed meanwhile. * Help providing info for bugs marked as NEEDINFO * Set priority for bugs with Priority = P5(None). * Explore KDE3 and KDE 4.1 looking for bugs. See if KDE3 ones are fixed for KDE4. Bug report them. Note: Bug squashers should start from higher severity/priority bug reports to lower ones. To successfully achieve all these tasks, the openSUSE KDE team needs as many people as possible. All you need to help is one (or more) of the following to help us with debugging: - An updated openSUSE 11.0 or openSUSE 11.1 system - KDE 3.5.10 installed from KDE:KDE3 OBS repository - KDE 4.1 installed from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop OBS repository During the event the community will be in the #opensuse-kde channel on irc.freenode.org to help you out in whatever you might need. The openSUSE KDE mailing list is also a great way to communicate with the KDE community. See the openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing Days page for more and updated information at http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Bug_Slashing/20080920 -- Regards, Carlos Goncalves -- 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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