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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - 2007/04/25 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '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) this Wednesday at 2007/04/25 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_2007-04-25 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] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha3 released
by Andreas Jaeger 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

I'm glad to announce the third public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Important Changes Since Alpha2 ============================== The following are some highlights of Alpha3 compared to Alpha2: * On x86-64: Firefox is now a 64-bit package and uses nspluginwrapper to handle 32-bit i386 plugins if needed. * AppArmor uses now a new parser. The kernel patches have been reworked completely. Please do test AppArmor extensively (see below). * GNOME 2.18 mostly integrated. * Update to Kernel 2.6.21 RC5 * New opensuse-updater running natively under GNOME * Further fixes for using libata by default for IDE devices * New yast2-ftp-server module. * The package manager handles more than one CD/DVD drive. A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== So far the following critical bugs have been found, please read before you install: * Java applications are not working due to implementation errors in SUN Java. Bug 252510 Workaround here and also adding "LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1" to the environment. * The installation of vim-normal might fail, just ignore it Bug 262706 * Branding and translations are still at the 10.2 level Bug 240598 * The Radeon driver is broken and crashes the X server Bug 263199. Workaround: Disable the MergedFB option (see bugreport). * Installation with several CD-ROMs might crash at some point Bug 263207 * gnome-main-menu might crash in some installations. bug 263294. Fix: Reinstall gnome-main-menu with --force (you might want to install a new control-center2 package without the duplicated libslab, it's available from the ftp server under 10.3-Alpha3/Extra-RPMs). The list of annoying bugs is found here as well, please update it if you find more: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-dev Call for Testing ================ * libata for IDE devices We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do test that an update works and all files are changed automatically (libata uses /dev/sda for the first harddisk instead of /dev/hda). Disks with more than 15 partitions are not handled right now, we're still evaluating whether there is a good solution. to use the old scheme, boot with "hwprobe=-modules.pata". * Kiwi scripts for LiveDVD We release the Kiwi tool together with a configuration for creating a LiveDVD of openSUSE 10.3. It can be created by anyone, you just need to call one simple script. Please find detailed instructions and a list of known issues here: http://en.opensuse.org/LiveDVD * AppArmor - Behavior Changes: New rules to distinguish directories from files: The previous behavior made no explicit handling for directories. The new kernel module makes access to directories explicit and distinguished by the addition of a trailing '/' to a rule that identifies it as a directory. Old Behavior: /path/to/somewhere r, # Gives read access to the path # whether a file or directory /path/to/somewhere/* r, # Read access to all files and directories # in /path/to/somewhere /path/to/somewhere/** r, # Read access to all files and directories # under /path/to/somewhere New Behavior: /path/to/somewhere/* r, # Gives read access to files in the directory /path/to/somewhere/ r, # Gives read access to the directory # element only /path/**/ r, # Gives read access to all directory entries # under /path /path/to/somewhere/** r, # Gives access to files and directories under # /path/to/somewhere - Included Profiles: The current apparmor-profiles package only ships with the abstractions and a profile for ping. We are working to update the existing profiles and they will be included in the next alpha release. - Testing: Testers and profile developers should focus testing efforts on profile deveopment with the tools (in YaST or at the console). Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets: * 5 CDs * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the 5 CDs contain support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD * CDs/DVDs containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2. 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 Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - TODAY - 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi, sorry for the short notice ... easter weekend and vacations .... The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2007/04/11 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_2007-04-11 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] Network settings survey
by Martin Schmidkunz 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, I would like to invite you to take part in our new survey about nentwork settings! We are interested in knowing how you deal with network settings. The survey will be online until April, 20th You find the survey on: http://en.opensuse.org/Usability Thanks and regards, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting - this time with correct time ;-)
by Michael Loeffler 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

sorry, sorry - I made a mistake on the timing. correct time is: 6pm CET 4pm GMT Noon, EST Thanks to Benji and Stephan for making me aware. Michael Hi, The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2007/03/2818:00 CET (17:00 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_2007-03-28 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). Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/03/28 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Michael Loeffler 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '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) this Wednesday at 2007/03/2818:00 CET (17:00 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_2007-03-28 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). Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-announce] YaST, LiMaL, libzypp mailing lists now @openSUSE.org
by Jiri Srain 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi! I'm happy to announce creating new mailing lists which cover development discussions related to Novell's projects: YaST, ZYPP and LiMaL. YaST is the installation and configuration tool for SuSE Linux. It is popular for its easy use and attractive interface and the capability to customize your system quickly during or after the installation. To learn more about YaST see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST. libzypp is the integration of SUSE's yast2 Package manager and Ximian's libredcarpet. At Novell two solutions before were used - Red Carpet and YaST package manager. To learn more about libzypp see http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp LiMaL (Linux Management Library) provides a system library style, object oriented way of access to the operating system. To learn more about LiMaL see http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?limal Information about the mailing lists as well as links to subscribe are available at http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/ZYPP_Mailing_Lists http://en.opensuse.org/LiMaL_Mailing_Lists Further announcements regarding opening the development of these three projects will be posted to the particular project's mailing list. -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain(a)suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz

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[opensuse-announce] POSTPONED: Status Meeting - Wednesday 2007/03/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Henne Vogelsang 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, due to Brainshare¹ and Cebit² most of the Novell employees working on the openSUSE project are on travel or otherwise engaged. We will postpone the the Status Meeting for one week. Henne ¹ http://www.novell.com/brainshare/ ² http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e -- Henne Vogelsang, Teamlead Core Services http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007 video recordings online
by Christoph Thiel 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi everyone, as many of you know, openSUSE participated in the seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM). All talks that were given in the openSUSE "DevRoom" have been recorded (in audio and video) and are now available from http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM2007 Please refer to these mirrors for instant access to the recordings: * http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/FOSDEM/2007/ * http://bong.uwcs.co.uk/videos/fosdem/2007/suse/ * http://giannaros.org/suse/FOSDEM/2007/ * http://fosdem07.apanela.com/ * http://opensuse-community.org/fosdem/ Many thanks to Jürgen Weigert for recording and postprocessing and Francis Giannaros for help recruiting mirrors! Regards, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-announce] Slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISOs released
by Christoph Thiel 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi everyone, today we are releasing slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISO images. The reason for putting out those updated ISOs is a license issue, which had to be addressed. The following ISOs have be replaced on the mirrors: * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-BiArch.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-ppc.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-ppc.iso * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-x86_64.iso In addition to that, the following torrents will be updated and restarted: * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-BiArch.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon-NonOSS-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-x86_64.torrent To lift some load off our mirrors, we have decided to just remove these ISOs and torrents: * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-i386.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-ppc.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-x86_64.delta.iso * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-i386.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-ppc.torrent * openSUSE-10.2-RC1_GM-DVD-x86_64.torrent Please refer to http://download.openSUSE.org/ for downloading. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N�rnberg)

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