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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 "Remastered" available
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

I'm happy to announce the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1 "remastered". This release combines the 10.1 GM and all online updates that we have released for 10.1 so far, including libzypp, which should make the installing and working experience much smoother for everyone. We have created new CD ISO images and supplied delta ISOs from the goldmaster. The non-OSS DVD images will show up next week, we had to retract and will remaster. The ftp installation tree remains unchanged. The files have a "Remastered" in their name and a symbolic link from the old name to them so that references will continue to work. If you are running SUSE Linux 10.1 already, there is no need to download these images at all. Just do an update from our update repository to get all our security updates. This remastered media are usefull for new installations. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Alpha5 (DVDs, i386, x86-64 only) available
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Our Basilisk Lizard has shown this week its other side and I'd like to thank especially Jürgen, Lars, Christoph, Steffen, Jiri, Ladislav for taming the lizard. Fights come with a prize to pay - ours are two-fold: The PowerPC distribution and the CD installation. We only have DVDs for i386 and x86-64 this time. They are available via ftp.opensuse.org and its mirrors. Mini-ISOs for remote installation are available as well. So, there are neither CDs nor deltas. If you download the DVDs, check the media sizes first, they are: openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5-DVD-i386.iso: 4165675008 bytes openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5-DVD-x86_64.iso: 4203270144 bytes Since most webservers are not setup to deliver files greater than 2 GB via http and our download.opensuse.org handles http download mainly, please use ftp to download from one of the known mirrors (see e.g. http://en.opensuse.org/Factory_Mirror_List). The URL for the DVDs torrents are: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5/openSUSE-10.… The list of known annoying bugs is available as usual at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#openSUSE_10.2_Alpha_5: It currently contains: * Registration fails Bug #205392 * After logging in to KDE, a popup window will inform you that dbus is not running. Just ignore the message - dbus is running Bug #209009 * Suspend to disk will fail with an error message "The resume device configured in /etc/suspend.conf". (fixed powersave package should be in factory by monday, until then you can edit /etc/suspend.conf and put your resume device from the resume=... boot parameter there. However, the fixed package is better). * The x86-64 uses nearly double the disk space for installed packages than usual. It looks like a bug in binutils stripping the binaries Bug #210331 * Instead of /dev/hd for IDE disks using Intel ICHx chipsets the libata interfaces are used and disks show up as /dev/sd Bug #210478 * zen-updater always shows patterns to update Bug #198379 * It's not possible to start applications via kdesu, eg yast2. Workaround: use "su" in a shell. Bug #208272 * The bootloader configuration on BIOS-based RAID (so-called FakeRAID) systems fails. BUG #208076 * gnome-screensaver does not accept the correct password. Bug #204364 * Workaround: Kill the gnome-screensaver process. This is the last external Alpha, we will deliver in three weeks our first Beta of openSUSE 10.2. Alpha5 includes the following important changes: * Linux kernel 2.6.18 * glibc 2.5 * Python 2.5 * Installation allows comfortable LVM partitioning * Setup RAID automatically via the BIOS (so called fake-RAID support) in the partitioner * GNOME 2.16.1 (most packages are updated) * KDE 3.5.5 SVN version * Firmware test as additional bootoption (this is the Intel firmware test tool) Have a lot of fun with openSUSE 10.2 - codename "Basilisk Lizard", Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, 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 2006/09/26 18:00 CEST
by Martin Lasarsch 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

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 Tuesday at 2006/09/26 18:00 CET (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_2006-09-26 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 GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] opensuse.org service outage tomorrow
by Adrian Schröter 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

There will be a number of services of opensuse.org not reachable tomorrow (23th September) for maintainance work in our server rooms. www.opensuse.org and all wikis behind will not be affected. Services which will be down are: download.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org build.opensuse.org api.opensuse.org ftp.opensuse.org stage.opensuse.org bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian(a)suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Localization Portal Launched
by Andreas Jaeger 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

openSUSE is not only for developers. You can join your localization team and help translating openSUSE into your native language. Take a look at the Localization Portal for translation statistics of your language http://i18n.opensuse.org/stats/index.php. The project is stored at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Suse-i18n -- anonymous checkouts are also possible. Find more info in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Localization_Guide http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Localization_Developers_Information Cheers to Klára and Karl for setting this up! Check the translation statistics page for the current language support in our openSUSE distribution and help to improve it for 10.2. I'm grateful for the large support of volunteers for their languages in addition to the languages that SUSE/Novell has been translating! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, 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 2006/09/12 18:00 CEST
by Martin Lasarsch 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

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 Tuesday at 2006/09/12 18:00 CET (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_2006-09-12 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). btw: last mail on opensuse(a)opensuse.org regarding meetings, next mails going only to opensuse-announce and opensuse-project. But opensuse-project is still very new ... So sorry for the crossposting :-) -- 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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[opensuse-announce] new mailing list openSUSE-bugs@openSUSE.org available
by Christoph Thiel 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce the availability of a new mailing list, openSUSE-bugs(a)openSUSE.org. If you are addicted to bugs, this is the mailing list for you! It broadcasts all changes that are being made to bugs related to openSUSE. Caution, this list can be very high traffic! You might want to filter the stream of mails that is coming through that list by the following headers: X-Bugzilla-Status, X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone, X-Bugzilla-Product, X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields, X-Bugzilla-Severity, X-Bugzilla-Partnerid, X-Bugzilla-Reason, X-Bugzilla-Component, X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To or X-Bugzilla-Changed-BY To subscribe to the list, please send a mail to openSUSE-bugs+subscribe(a)openSUSE.org Have a lot of fun... Christoph

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[opensuse-announce] New Mailinglist opensuse-project
by Stephan Binner 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Hello, as previously suggested by Sonja we have now created a new mailing called opensuse-project to separate the project and community related discussion from the generic support questions the "opensuse" list gets flooded with. To subscribe send an email to opensuse-project+subscribe(a)opensuse.org . Bye, Steve

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Alpha4 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

I'm glad to announce the fourth alpha release of our openSUSE 10.2 distribution. The codename of openSUSE 10.2 is "Basilisk Lizard". With the rename of the distribution from SUSE Linux to openSUSE, we renamed also the name in bugzilla.novell.com so that you have to report bugs against "openSUSE 10.2". Compared with Alpha4, we've made a number of significant changes: * We switched to kernel 2.6.18rc5 - and use only SMP kernel, the default kernel is smp, the kernel-smp is now dropped. Now all kernel module packages (kmp) and the Xen packages have been adopted for the new kernel. * KDE now uses the new kickoff menu. * We switched to GNOME 2.16 Beta (2.15.92) and have now all packages in. * The new branding "openSUSE" should be shown in all places. Any SUSE Linux 10.1 branding is worth a bug report. * Finished integration of X11 R7.1. * Further refinement of patterns used in the package manager for grouping of software. Please look at them and discuss the contents on the opensuse-factory mailing list. * Start of removal of unneeded SuSEconfig scripts * No reboot after CD1, displaying of the slideshow during all media * YaST runs during installation in a window (the background is blue, this will change to a nice wallpaper) * Update of sysfsutils to 2.1.0, dbus to 0.92. * integration of new tool pam-config and fixes to pam configuration. * Further work on package management: Support for patch and delta RPMs in YaST online update (not yet in zmd), refactoring and improving of code. * Option to install JFS in YaST again - as experimental, unsupported filesystem. All these changes needed changes by other packages, so a lot of other packages have been fixed to build again (and updated), and a few still need updating. All changes are shown on CD1 in the file ChangeLog. Alphas of openSUSE are rather untested and more for the experimental folks. I do not suggest to use it in production. But I do consider especially Alpha4 an important milestone for development and testing and use it on my own Laptop. WARNING: The current factory tree is not in sync with this release, please use the ISOs to install. The list of known bugs is available as usual at: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#openSUSE_10.2_Alpha_4 The current ones are: * zen-updater always shows patterns to update Bug #198379 * Registration fails with an internal server error Bug #198381 * usb mouse is not working in X, this breaks especially installation Bug #203609 Andreas P.S. Here're the URLs for our download redirector which brings you to one of our mirrors. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/openSUSE-10.… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/delta-iso/op… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/iso/openSUSE… Download URLs for the Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/non-oss/open… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4/non-oss/open… Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, 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
by Martin Lasarsch 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hi there, sorry for the late mail ... the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Tuesday at 2006/08/29 18:00 CET (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_2006-08-29 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). Note: afaik this is the first meeting in the #opensuse-project channel -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Subsystems SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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