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[opensuse-announce] Blast the bugs out of YaST on April 25: Operation YaST Smash
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

The openSUSE Project is going Bug Smashing[1] on April 25, and we want you to join us! We're looking for openSUSE users and contributors who have some time to help triage YaST bugs and clean up Bugzilla. Join us on #openSUSE-Factory from 09:00 to 20:00 CEST. We'll be going through the Bugzilla and reviewing YaST bugs to see which bugs are still valid, gathering information about existing bugs, and generally paring down the bug count to help developers focus on the most crucial problems. Anyone can participate -- you don't have to be a developer or power user to join in, just point your browser at the openSUSE Bugzilla[2], log in (be sure to create an account if you don't have one already) and start searching for bugs against YaST. Help verify bugs that are in Bugzilla, and help close bugs that have already been fixed. Our goal for Friday is to get the YaST bug count in Bugzilla down and clear the field for YaST developers to concentrate on real bugs that need to be smashed for the openSUSE 11.0 release. You can see the current open bugs here[2]. Why do we do Bug Smashing days? We want to do a couple of things. First, we want to help to train new contributors who haven't done bug reporting and triage before. By holding a Bug Smashing Day we can be ready to answer questions and provide support for new bug smashers in real time. Second, we want to focus our attention on a specific application or feature. In this case, we want to focus on YaST and help clean up the bug database so the YaST team can concentrate on the real problems. What do you need to participate? Just a Bugzilla account, a system with a relevant release of openSUSE, and be signed in to #openSUSE-Factory on Freenode. Can't participate in the Bug Smashing days? No problem. We encourage Bugzilla cleanup all year round! See the page[4] on submitting bug reports, and join us on #opensuse-factory on Freenode. Have questions about Bug Smashing? See the Bug Reporting FAQ[4]. If your question still isn't answered, send a note to Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <zonker(a)opensuse.org> or Christoph Thiel <cthiel(a)suse.de>. References: [1] http://en.opensuse.org/BugDays/20080425 [2] http://tinyurl.com/5yqga6 [3] http://en.opensuse.org/Submit_a_Bug [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager zonker(a)opensuse.org http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/04/23 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi Happy Beta1 testing! :-) The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/04/23 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=04&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_2008-04-23 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

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[opensuse-announce] Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
by Francis Giannaros 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more. For an overview and links to additional information on the changes, see the announcement over at http://news.opensuse.org/2008/04/18/announcing-opensuse-110-beta-1/ Digg the story! http://digg.com/linux_unix/Announcing_openSUSE_11_0_Beta_1 Some updates ================ The package management stack of openSUSE, libzypp, has seen constant improvements since the last release. We introduced a new SAT solver[0] and repository metadata that means that openSUSE's package management works at a lightning-fast speed.[1] [0] http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/b/b9/Fosdem2008-solver.pdf [1] http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/296 Installation in 24 minutes: Due to changes within the installation media itself and the advances in openSUSE's package management, an openSUSE installation is now well over 60% faster, completing in roughly just 24 minutes! (Your mileage may vary, offer not valid for 486s…) Other: * Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc9 * updated gcc 4.3 branch * libzypp 3.12.1 * PackageKit 0.2.0 * AppArmor 2.3 * Xen 3.2.1 RC1 * glibc 2.8 CVS * PulseAudio 0.9.10 A more detailed list of changes is available via the Factory/News[3] page. [3] http://opensuse.org/Factory/News Most Annoying Bugs ================ Remember that this is a beta. It may not be safe to run for production systems, and should be used by users interested in testing the next release of openSUSE for bugs. * Changing something in the bootloader proposal causes broken menu.lst (Bug #380781) * Patterns or patches will never be shown as selected (Bug #380356) * x86_64 live CDs do not fit on 700MB, need to be tested with DVD-R * gtk live installer is broken (Bug #381153) * live installation freezes kernel (Bug #377565) * License text still from 10.3 (Bug #381158) * GDM does not start, missing gdm user (Bug #381227). Work-around: re-install GDM. See the Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev[4] page on the wiki for an up-to-date list. [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test-cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to the opensuse-testing(a)opensuse.org mailing list to help with our organized testing. Media and Download ================ openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 for i386, x86-64 and PPC comes as different media sets, all of which can be downloaded from http://software.opensuse.org/developer Comments, Feedback and Helping ================ openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 is a great time to start testing-out openSUSE 11.0 before it is officially released. You can directly help and contribute to the openSUSE distribution by filing bug reports and giving feedback to the developers. * Reporting bugs: Please report all bugs you find on in our Bugzilla as explained on bugs.openSUSE.org. * Discussion and feedback is very welcome as well; the most appropriate place is the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Or in the #opensuse-factory IRC channel. For other queries and ways to communicate with the openSUSE community take a look at the Communicate[5] wiki page. [5] http://opensuse.org/Communicate The next planned release is openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2 on May 2. Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday April 17 at 1pm EDT/7pm CET
by JP Rosevear 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 6pm GMT. We'll wrap up 11.0 feature discussions now that beta 1 is upon us. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&month=04&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080410 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080417 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -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] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 18
by Jan-Simon Möller 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 18 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service * Counting down to 11.0 - Get your counter here! * LugRadio Live (so far) * Tips and Tricks: Colored shell * Stephan Kulow: openSUSE 11.0: Package installation 743% faster for default patterns [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/18 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 Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service
by Adrian Schröter 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Nuremberg, Germany -- April 16, 2007 The openSUSE team is proud to announce another major release of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This release brings a new level to OBS scalability by adding the ability for OBS instances to interact. The 0.9 release will help grow a world-wide network of build service instances. OBS instances can automatically interact with each other and reuse projects residing on other OBS instances. New installations of OBS are automatically configured to work with the main openSUSE Build Service, which makes it easy to set up new instances and minimize network traffic while keeping data in sync automatically. Developers now have the ability to build all packages from the openSUSE Factory (development) distribution. The 0.9 release also adds the ability to automatically create multilib packages using baselib for processor architectures that support 32- and 64-bit binaries. Another important feature in order to get a complete distribution development system is the image generation support. OBS can now create images based on KIWI configurations automatically, which will allow projects and developers to create installable images from packages stored in a Build Service instance. Furthermore, this release adds Qemu support, which frees developers from the need to have hardware for every platform they wish to build packages for. Using Qemu, developers can target any hardware platform supported by Qemu (x86, x86_64, SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, and m68k). To help developers improve quality of packages, the Build Service now supports automated tests using rpmlint after a build is finished. The OBS team has also made significant progress in the area of submission requests. This is an important step towards the 1.0 release, which will allow developers to contribute directly to any project -- including the openSUSE distribution itself -- without requiring manual patch creation and submission via Bugzilla. This should greatly enhance the community's ability to collaborate with Novell developers in working on the openSUSE distribution. Developers can already request submissions to other projects, and accept or decline submissions from others. However, OBS will not support submissions to openSUSE distributions before the release of 1.0. The 0.9 release is available as source or prebuilt as an RPM, and is also now running on the servers at build.opensuse.org. Due to storage space limitations, imaging support is only enabled on request for projects. The OBS can be downloaded as source package at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?opensuse or as rpm package set build by itself at http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3ATools&q=obs_serv… Special Thanks ======= The openSUSE project would like to extend special thanks to Martin Mohring from 5e Technologies for extensive testing and bug reports. We would also like to thank openSUSE sponsors AMD and IP eXchange for providing infrastructure for openSUSE. Without these sponsors, we would not be able to run openSUSE.org. openSUSE also thanks our mirror network for providing storage and bandwidth. Convenient installtion of hosted software would not be possible without our mirror network. We welcome any additional mirrors. Companies or organizations interested in providing complete or partial mirrors please email at ftpadmin(a)suse.com. About the openSUSE Project ============= The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. More information can be found on http://www.opensuse.org/. Contact: ==== Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <zonker(a)opensuse.org> Martin Lasarsch <martin.lasarsch(a)opensuse.org> -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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 KDE Community meeting: April 16th, 18:00 GMT
by Dirk Mueller 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

A fresh and new openSUSE KDE Community meeting is coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16th. Some topics that have been scheduled so far: * KDE 4 blocker list, topics for 11.0 * 11.0 beta1: a Call for testing! * old Action Items / Status report if you want to bring something up in addition, please add it to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings. Please join us if you're interested. We'll meet at #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net at 19:00 GMT. Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=16&year=20… to figure out when this is in your time zone :) Greetings, Dirk -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday April 10 at 17:00 GMT
by Akhil Laddha 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

( apologies for the late notice ) Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC Today's meeting http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080410 Thanks, -- Akhil Laddha <lakhil(a)novell.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, Issue 17
by Jan-Simon Möller 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 17 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE-Education 1.0 RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 is Ready * Tips and Tricks: Quick host-to-host transfer * Stephan Binner: openSUSE's KDE 4.0.3 Packages * Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 * Reminder: openSUSE project meeting * Event: LugRadio Live USA 2008 [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/17 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] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/04/09 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '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: 2008/04/09 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=09&month=04&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_2008-04-09 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

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