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[opensuse-announce] Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Beta3
by Christoph Thiel 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

It's my pleasure to announce the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta3. This is the last beta release before entering RC phase in two weeks. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release of openSUSE! Important Changes Since Beta2 ============================= * Kernel 2.6.22.5 * libzypp 3.22.1 * improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE * countless bug fixes in every component * reworked concept of language bundles (bundle-lang-* and -lang packages) A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Registration starts full package management stack - which takes _AGES_ (zypp cache is not copied from the RAM disk) [#304310] * 10.2 -> 10.3 Update: pattern:zmd cannot be installed due to missing dependencies [#307743] (To work around this bug, make sure to explicitly refresh/update all patterns on upgrades) * kdepim3: various regressions around POP3 [#307040 and others] -> online update for Beta3 pending * setfont breaks first Xserver start [#302010] -> online update for Beta3 pending * grub entry for booting windows vista is missing [#307802] We'll keep http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated as we go. Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing! (http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists) If you want to help with organized testing, the following topics should be your main focus: * libzypp: - Online Updates with KDE & GNOME openSUSE updater - Update from old distros - using different external repositories - also notice: http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Testsuite * language support: try to install and use your language * 1-Click-Installation from software.openSUSE.org * your $favorite_application! Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Beta3 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software languages supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc, English-only) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc, English-only) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (only to be used with DVDs!) * DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Beta2. Please use them for download. The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained on http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. openSUSE 10.3 Beta3 is available for immediate download from * http://software.opensuse.org/developer and * http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads (which also includes links to Delta ISOs) Have a lot of fun, Christoph -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/08/29 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi, The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) on Wednesday: 2007/08/29 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) 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/Status_Meeting_2007-08-29 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 10.3 Beta2
by Christoph Thiel 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

It's my pleasure to announce the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta2. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release of openSUSE! Important Changes Since Beta2 ============================= * Kernel 2.6.22.3 * glibc 2.6.1 * YaST infrastructure was improved to allow writing complete YaST modules * Bootloader-related improvements: openSUSE 10.3 will use "chainloader" if it detects additional installations' bootloader code in other partitions, otherwise "configfile" sections will be used (see Call for Testing below!) * improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE * countless bug fixes in every component A more detailed list of changes is available from http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Sax2: Configuration issues on Intel-based GFX-cards (#270846) (A fixed sax2 package will be released via the 10.3 update repository. Watch out for details on openSUSE-factory(a)openSUSE.org) * Patterns of remote repositories won't show up in UI (#302385) * libzypp: rpm signature verification broken (#302379) * libzypp: Broken calculation of installing RPM size (#293039) * libzypp: can't skip broken packages (skip => abort) (#297001) * ConsoleKit fails on update (#302148) * Signature verification of Release Notes fails * Registration / Adding of Update Repositories fails (#302152) (You might need to add http://download.openSUSE.org/update/10.3/ as an installation repository, to be able to get online updates.) * Intel wifi card support: iwl3945-ucode and iwl4965-ucode packages aren't being installed automatically. Make sure to install them manually, in order to enable your Intel wireless cards. We'll keep http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated as we go. Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing! (http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists) If you want to help with organized testing, the following topics should be your main focus: * HAL - compare lshal output with lshal output from <= Beta1 - check if you get an info on the desktop when you insert a USB-disk/stick, DVD/CDs etc. and if the volumes get mounted correctly - test if you'r able to umount/eject the media from the desktop - try to mount LUKS (encrypted filesystem) media - check if suspend is working correctly (via KPowersave or g-p-m) - test if you can change the brightness of your laptop panel on <= Beta1, are you able to do the same with the new HAL version? * libzypp / Package Management / Update - before you report a bug, make sure to check for duplicates * perl-Bootloader/Yast-Bootloader As we switched to using chainloader or configfile sections for other installations, instead of just using the default entry as image section, please check if all other installed operation systems are still bootable. Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Beta1. Please use them for download. The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained on http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 is available for immediate download from * http://software.opensuse.org/developer and * http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads (which also includes links to Delta ISOs) Have a lot of fun, Christoph -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/08/15 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi, The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) on Wednesday: 2007/08/15 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) 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/Status_Meeting_2007-08-15 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] Beta1 Live CDs
by Stephan Kulow 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hi! I created and uploaded live CDs of the 1-CD installations to your pleasure: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Beta1/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-B… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Beta1/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-B… Please put "live CD" into the summary of bug reports, so we don't confuse them with the installation CDs. The Live CDs are still very early in development, but we would like to hear your feedback in general. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] Re: [opensuse] Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
by James Tremblay 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:22 -0400, James Knott wrote: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718 > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> > -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- 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] Get Involved! Bug Slashing Weekend 11-12 August
by Francis Giannaros 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

So openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 has now been released and it's looking great. A long-discussed topic on the opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org was the suggestion of having a "Bug Slashing" day or weekend. The aim of the weekend is to try to help developers and packagers by trying to clear up the Bugzilla, finding out which bugs need to be addressed, seeing if particular bugs can be reproduced and how, and where necessary seeing which open 10.2 bugs still apply to current Factory (10.3 Beta1). It's also the place to ask about a particular bug, or ask any other queries about whether you have found a bug. These days have run very successfully within other projects, so it's certainly time for us to give it a go too! It should be good fun all day (though of course showing up for any amount of time is good) and it's a great way to contribute and get directly involved. Here are the details: * Where: #opensuse-bugs on irc.freenode.net. For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ * When: this weekend. 11-12, all day, all timezones. http://opensuse.org/Bug_Slashing will have more up-to-date news and information on bugs to address, bug handling techniques etc. nearer to the time. Hope to see you there and 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] Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1
by Stephan Kulow 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi! It looks like openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 won the race against my son, so I'm glad to announce it to you (I might be able to share the code name of beta2 later the week :). Important Changes Since Alpha7 ============================== * GNOME 2.19.6 * Revised DVD5 (the DVD is now made up mainly from patterns) * We're back on 64bit Mozilla for x86_64 * Revised GNOME CD (after a lot of valueable feedback - thanks) Alpha7 is just a week old, but we've seen 575 package submissions since then. So we got plenty of features finished, but we will also see an amount of new bugs with it, so don't be suprised. A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== * libzypp does not like to have a two yum repositories (we're preparing an online update to this very problem) * We noticed too late that iwlwifi didn't make it on the DVDs. It will be in Factory soon though - and it's on the CDs. * Registration fails in some cases * The signature of the Release Notes can't be checked * GNOME x86_64 ISO is still too big for a CD (you can use a DVD) * glib keeps flashplayer 100% busy in both konqueror and opera * Probably many others, we'll keep http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing If you want to help with organized testing, * HAL The new HAL version unfortunately missed the deadline and we did not want to rush it in late. So we're asking everyone to test the HAL update from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dkukawka:/hal-beta/openSUSE… after installation and test if his devices are correctly recognized, if your burn applications behave correctly, etc. Our internal QA will do the same. Some more information: * you need to update HAL and PolicyKit from the repo * be sure that ConsoleKit is running before HAL What should you test?: * compare lshal output before the update with output after the update * check if you get a info on the desktop if you insert a media (USB-disk/stick, DVD/CD etc), if the volume get mounted correctly and if you are able to umount/eject the media via the desktop tools * are you able to mount LUKS media * are you able to suspend (via KPowersave or g-p-m) * if you could change the brightness of your laptop panel before the update, are you able to do the same with the new HAL version There are some more new features in HAL, but for the moment we need to be sure that there are no regressions between the HAL version on Beta 1 and the new version. We'll integrate this into Factory as soon as possible. Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Beta1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha7. Please use them for download. The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. To download media, please use the links provided at: http://software.opensuse.org/developer or get the delta ISOs from: http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads Greetings, Stephan -- 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] New Software Interface with 1-Click Installation Online
by Adrian Schroeter 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Software.opensuse.org got a completely new face which improves the downloading of the desired openSUSE distribution a lot. It comes with the new look and feel following of www.opensuse.org already. Additionally we got a really easy-to-use software search and installation interface< there as well: http://software.opensuse.org/search/ The search is part of the openSUSE Build Service, which allows features like limitation of search results to a given base distribution. This does work also for Fedora, Mandriva, Debian and Ubuntu distributions, beside the openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. The interface provides also a very easy installation featuring the One-Click Installation YaST module of Benjamin Weber. This means the installation of any package can be started by a single click. YaST will show which repositories are used and which packages will be installed; the dependency solving is also all done automatically by YaST. There is no need to do these steps manually anymore. Even complete software stacks are installable via that feature, if the openSUSE Build Service packager provided a package list in his project. All openSUSE.org infrastructure is available under an open source license (the Build Serivce is under GPL). So feel free to use it also in your company or university or join the development of it. We do still have lot's of plans how to extend also software.opensuse.org, come to http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/End_User_Frontend to find out more about it and our future plans. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany 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] Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Alpha7
by Stephan Kulow 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi! Alpha7 is ready, after 5 rebuilds we're happy to say it looks good enough for the public. Important Changes Since Alpha6 ============================== * Linux 2.6.22.1 * gcc 4.2.1 * libzypp 3.12.1 * the package set of the CDs are heavily reshuffled and with it the patterns also affecting the DVD After Alpha6 was more about testing the first integration of libzypp, Alpha7 is already 10 steps further in regards to libzypp. But we'd like to have your feedback on the refresh policy of yast/zypper. See Duncan's explanation about the problem in the opensuse-factory archive: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-07/msg00169.html A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== * The initrd created doesn't boot on vmware and on some older SCSI controllers Call for Testing ================ * libzypp/zypper Give this good testing. We have good faith, we're at beta quality there now, but give it good testing and give feedback. The zypp team also takes positive feedback. * GNOME CD The patterns for the GNOME CD were redone from scratch to fit on the i386 CD without leaving out major software as it happened with alpha6. Unfortunately the x86_64 ISO does not fit on a CD, but you can test it on a DVD. We wish to get more feedback on the package selection (remember to list a larger package to remove if you want one to be added) Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Alpha7 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * DVD/CDs containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6. Please use them for download. The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. To download media, please use the links provided at: http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads Greetings, Stephan -- 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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