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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 is an important milestone for us since it is an installable release so that everybody doing development in the last weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as basis for their work. Call for testing: 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". See below for Bug 250241 as well. For the first time, we do also release the Kiwi tool together with a configuration for creating a LiveDVD of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 2. 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 Most annoying bugs for now: * Branding and translations are still at the 10.2 level Bug 240598 * ide-disk module does not get loaded at installation time. A "modprobe ide-disk" on commandline does workaround this issue. This affects all older IDE chipsets which are not supported via libata, like chipsets used in virtualisation applications Bug 250241 * Firefox on x86-64 does not connect to any website Bug 249686 * KDE-Multimedia is not selected for KDE by default Bug 253022 * GNOME main menu does crash direct after login. Select to delete it, then right click on the panel, select add to panel and then choose menu bar to get a menu. We've put older gnome-main-menu RPMS to http://download.opensuse.org://distribution/10.3-Alpha2/Extra-RPMs * GNOME installation fails to install gail package, just click ignore * Some GNOME applications will crash when closing them. As a result, bug buddy will show up. Do not use bug buddy to report these bugs, but rather go to bugzilla.novell.com and search to see if the bug has already been reported. 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 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 comes in different medias: * 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 Alpha1. 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 The next planned release is Alpha3 in four weeks (April 12th), 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] SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon
by Marcus Meissner 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Dear opensuse-announce subscribers and SUSE Linux users, SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 9.3 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 9.3 after April 15th 2007 will not be fixed any more for this product. We expect to release the last updates around April 30th 2007. Please do not confuse SUSE Linux 9.3 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3, these are two different products. As a consequence, the SUSE Linux 9.3 distribution directory on our ftp server ftp.suse.com will be moved from /pub/suse/i386/9.3/ to the /pub/suse/discontinued/ directory tree structure to free space on our mirror sites. The 9.3 directory in the update tree /pub/suse/update/9.3 will follow, as soon as all updates have been published. The discontinuation of SUSE Linux 9.3 enables us to focus on the SUSE Linux and openSUSE distributions of a newer release dates to ensure that our customers can continuously take advantage of the quality that they are used to with SUSE Linux products. This announcement holds true for SUSE Linux 9.3 only. As usual, SUSE will continue to provide update packages for the following products: SUSE Linux 10.0 SUSE Linux 10.1 and openSUSE 10.2 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. Other products that will be discontinued this year: After 2 years of security support: * SUSE Linux 10.0 - October 31st 2007 After 5 years of maintenance and security support: * SUSE Linux Desktop 1.0 - November 30th 2007 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 - November 30th 2007 SUSE Linux Standard Server 8 SUSE Linux Retail Solution 8 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.0 SUSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.1 United Linux 1.0 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>.

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/03/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 06 Mar '07

06 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 2007/03/07 18:00 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_2007-03-07 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE and GNOME
by JP Rosevear 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

The team at Novell responsible for GNOME have been quiet in openSUSE for sometime, even though we already have several great external contributors like James Ogley and Andreas Hanke and we've pushed in significant general technologies like Compiz/Xgl, NetworkManager and Beagle. All this is changing though, we've had an IRC channel for a while but we haven't really advertised it (#opensuse-gnome on irc.freednode.net) and we have an opensuse-gnome mailing list as well now: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to sign up. Michael Wolf</a> has been pushing in GNOME 2.17 in to Factory and the GNOME:UNSTABLE build service. There is also GNOME Team page if you are so inclined to get involved: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Team -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc.

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Survey
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Hi We are interested in knowing how you feel about the openSUSE project and the openSUSE 10.2 distribution. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey, and we will enter you in a drawing for five 1 GByte USB sticks and one 80 GByte portable hard disc from Teac! You can find the survey here: http://www.novell.com/productsurveys -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '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 2007/02/21 18:00 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_2007-02-21 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

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: FOSDEM 2007 - this weekend!
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Hi FOSDEM, 24-25.02.2007, Bruxelles/Brussels Once again you have the chance to meet some SUSE/Novell guys, as we have the chance to meet YOU! We will have again a dev-room for us with a lot of interesting talks: http://fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opensuse And we will have also a small booth on the floor. We hope to see all of you in Brussels this weekend! :-) Genereal Information about the FOSDEM: http://fosdem.org/2007/ -- 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

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes are: * GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from older distributions. * KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6. * Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for now. * Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread for details) * Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3. * The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows. * Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME and KDE handle removable LUKS media now. Besides this a lot of bugs have been fixed and various packages updated. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 is an important milestone for us since it is an installable release so that everybody doing development in the last weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as basis for their work. Most annoying bugs for now: * Adding a remote repository shows "/media.1/in not found". Just press OK to continue the install Bug 243498 * ftp installation of mounted CD/DVD images is not possible (http seems to work - and installation from online repositories works as well) Bug 245304 * On x86-64, you need CD4 for a default install since some extra -devel packages are installed Bug 245332 * Some Systems will hang at "Cloning the system ..." when selecting "Clone This System for AutoYaST" Bug 245350 * Registration does not work Bug #240591 * A GNOME installation does not include OpenOffice_org and banshee Bugs 245408 245407 The list of annoying bugs is kept updated at: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-dev openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 comes as different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 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 the final version of openSUSE 10.2 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 The next planned release is Alpha2 in four weeks (March 15th), Have a lot of fun! 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] YaST IRC-Meeting
by Edith Parzefall 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hiho! On request by the openSUSE community, we invite everyone interested in YaST development to chat with the YaST teams on IRC next Wednesday. We want to hear your ideas on how you'd like to contribute to YaST. When: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 5pm CET Where: #opensuse-project on irc.Freenode.net Feel free to add topics to http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/YaST_Meeting_2007-02-14 Thanks for your interest, Edith -- Edith Parzefall Teamleader YaST, SUSE Linux Products GmbH - a Novell Business Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany. Phone +49-911-74053-156

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[opensuse-announce] New Wikis available - nl and pl
by Martin Lasarsch 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hi We have 2 new wikis to announce: http://nl.opensuse.org (Dutch) - thanks Freek de Kruijf, Rinse de Vries and Matthias Van Gestel http://pl.opensuse.org (Polish) - thanks Rafal Kwasny and Rzoolu The splashscreen at http://www.opensuse.org will be fixed soon. If you want to work on the languages use the new wikis now instead of the english one. If you are interested in you own language opensuse wiki, please subscribe to opensuse-wiki(a)opensuse.org and read http://en.opensuse.org/Translation To the maintainers of the new wikis: Please delete all NL- and PL- pages and templates from the English wiki soon. Thanks again to all who made it possible! btw: next wikis: zh_tw (traditional chinese), ro (romanian) (no fixed timeframe at the moment). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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