August 2010 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] "Great" way to celebrate 5th anniversary of openSUSE
by Katarina Machalkova 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hey folks, recently someone asked me if I can point out particular examples of sexist blogposts in the context of openSUSE community. So be it - here's the fresh one: http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/2010/08/parabens-opensuse-5-anos-de- vida.html It's not that I would be a close-minded prude - I wouldn't say a word if someone posted pics of nude or scantily clad chicks to his personal blog, not aggregated on a community Planet - but associating Playboy-like pics with 5th anniversary of openSUSE? How unproffesional (to put it mildly). Unless, of course, the author of the post wanted to imply that we're the best and the stablest distro for pr0n server. Now everyone can answer a question if this is the kind of publicity we want for themselves. Please drop this gentleman some nice comments :) B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o OOo developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter

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Re: [opensuse-project] Package list for 11.3
by Jean Cayron 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hye, The only way I finally got to have that list is to install the package "kiwi-config-openSUSE" and then you go to /usr/share/openSUSE-kiwi/, there you've got the different media as folders in the one you need, the file config.xml has the list under that way: <package name="yast2-live-installer"/> <package name="pam"/> <package name="pam-config"/> <package name="pam-modules"/> <package name="udev"/> <package name="aaa_base"/> <package name="tar"/> <package name="patch"/> <package name="zypper"/> Regards, Jean 2010/8/19 Jean Cayron <jean.cayron(a)gmail.com>: > Hye Rémy, > > 2010/8/19 Rémy Marquis <remy.marquis(a)gmail.com>: > >> Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Package_list >> The link is available from the main Portal:11.3 page ("Resources"). >> >> > > Thanks, I know this list. It's the list of the packages on the repo > OSS. What I'm looking for is the list of the packages on the media's > (KDE live CD especially). > > Regards, > > Jean > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Reminder: OBS scheduled downtime on Saturday 2010-08-21
by Marcus Rueckert 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi openSUSE Users On Saturday, August 21th from 09:00 AM CET to 03:00 PM CET, our infrastructure vendor will be shutting down services in the Nuremberg (Germany) data center to allow for a scheduled maintenance of the main power supply. As result, general network connectivity from and to the location will not be available. * http://build.opensuse.org * http://software.opensuse.org * http://svn.opensuse.org * http://community.opensuse.org * http://education.opensuse.org * http://powerpc.opensuse.org * http://boosters.opensuse.org * http://board.opensuse.org * http://users.opensuse.org * http://hermes.opensuse.org * http://notify.opensuse.org * http://retro.opensuse.org * http://connect.opensuse.org * http://crashdb.opensuse.org * http://gallery.opensuse.org * http://shop.opensuse.org * http://help.opensuse.org * http://i18n.opensuse.org * http://apparmor.opensuse.org * http://count(er|down).opensuse.org * http://gcc.opensuse.org * http://license.opensuse.org * http://xgl.opensuse.org * http://pluginfinder.opensuse.org The staging version of these sites will be similarly affected. Please spread the news about this, so that we can keep user disruption to a minimum. Apologies for inconveniencies this may cause. Please contact admin(a)opensuse.org with any queries. Your openSUSE Admins -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] klnt bul
by Ginny Dominque 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

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[opensuse-project] Package list for 11.3
by Jean Cayron 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hello everyone, I can't find a list similar to this: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Package_List/11.2/KDE4-LiveCD-i686 for openSUSE 11.3. Is it available on the new wiki or somewhere else? Thanks in advance, Jean -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Link Exchange Request
by benjamin 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Dear owner of http://en.opensuse.org, Hi,whats up?? i have visited yoour site and i would like to buy a link on it. please get back to me so we can start working together. Best regards, Benjamin Coloto bencoloto(a)mercado-hq.com This is NOT SPAM -- this is a one-time reciprocal link request. We have NO INTENTION to email you again. You can also reply to this email with REMOVE in the subject line to make sure we'll NEVER send you any more e-mails in the future.

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[opensuse-project] SpiderOak not in OBS for 11.2 / 11.1?
by Greg Freemyer 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Powers that be. I've started to use SpiderOak with 11.3 and just bought a couple hundred GB of space. Much to my surprise when I went to install it on a couple 11.2 fileservers I could not find it in OBS. I really think SpiderOak is the kind of package that should be available in OBS for all supported versions of openSUSE. ie. Especially for servers, people like myself will make one decision for multiple machines, so having it available for multiple versions of openSUSE is important. I wasn't sure whether to post here, bugzilla, or openfate. Regardless, I hope it gets addressed. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-factory] Spamming of openFATE
by Satoru Matsumoto 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Atri wrote: > Hi! I am a subscriber to the openFATE mailing list. Of late there > seems to be one person identified by the name jpxviii jpxviii who > has been going around changing the status of all feature reports > [even the done ones] to open for openSUSE 11.4 and HackWeek V, as > well as changing the titles of features without any knowledge of what > it is supposed to mean. For example, about this feature > https://features.opensuse.org/301038 he changes the title from > > "Improved performance in main menu, app browser and control center" > > to > > "Improved performance in main menu, app, browsers and control > center" > > which is ridiculous. > > I understand that this might not be right m-l to complain abt > features.o.o but could somebody please look into this, or at least > point me to where I ought to report this so that some action is > taken against this sort of blatant spamming? > > CC: suserocks [openFATE screening team member]. > > Bye Thank you for letting us know about it, Atri. I've confirmed that at least 50 features are senselessly modified by 'jpxviii jpxviii'. https://users.opensuse.org/show/jpxviii Can anyone contact him and warn him not to change the features unless he takes a real understanding of what it means ? And, as Klaas wrote recently, members of the openFATE screening team don't have privilege to change or rollback the status of each features ATM. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/06/status-openfate-milestone/ Is there any good method to undo such changes based on misunderstanding ? Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Problems with the strategies
by Lubos Lunak 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

As said in my previous mail, I have a strong feeling that the discussions are often pointless and lead nowhere. It seems to me that this is partly also because the strategies, as currently formulated, do not offer a good way to lead somewhere. Specifically, their either poorly or completely fail to address fundamental practical issues, such as the following questions: - who will do the work? - what will openSUSE actually gain from it? - what may openSUSE lose because of it? I hope we can all agree that these are very important questions related to the strategies. Also, to actually better understand the strategies, I think it would be very good if they gave examples and answered the question - what will openSUSE look like in 2 years? For example, looking at the mobile/cloud strategy, let me try to give answers for that strategy, as I see it: In 2 years: With the mobile/cloud strategy, openSUSE will include as much software as possible that connects to web-based services, and those are the preferred solutions. Other solutions are included, if possible, but they are secondary. The distribution makes it very easy to connect to these services and work with them. [This should be longer, but since it's not an area I understand well, I will stop. The 'focus on' and intro sections provide some information for this]. The gains: As a result, openSUSE will attract users who use the web and mobile devices extensivelly, web developers, professionals who work in areas related to cloud/mobile. Number of packages that are necessary for the primary focus will be considerably smaller, because a lot of functionality will be provided by something on the web and not by openSUSE itself, thus reducing the required effort. The loses: Users who prefer solutions that are not heavily web-based may leave openSUSE for another distribution with a focus that suits them better. These people may be developers who focus on other areas than web development, desktop users (i.e. those that prefer local mail client and so on). Who will do the work: I don't know. People focused on the web are more likely to work on something web-based and will be presumably not very good at maintaining a distribution, nor interested very much in it. People who already are contributors or who may become ones are more likely to be driven away by this strategy, possibly eventually leading to existing contributors not being able to handle even the reduced work. => FAIL. So the strategy, as I understand it, is in practice unsustainable and as such a complete failure, even though in theory it may look nice. This may be just because I don't understand the mobile/cloud area well, but that's how I see it. If I'm wrong, create better answers to the questions in the wiki. I suggest that every strategy proposal is extended to provide answers to these important questions. Without it, the discussions are just fluff talk and there is no good base for actually judging the strategy proposals. PS: Just in case it's not clear, there's no point in discussing my analysis of the mobile/cloud strategy itself. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak(a)suse.cz , l.lunak(a)kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] make installation of restricted formats easier and less error prone
by Charles Wight 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello All, I am trying to stimulate a serious discussion about the installation of "restricted formats" on OpenSUSE. I would like to see the process by which "restricted formats" are installed become easier, more reliable, and less susceptible to error. Please join me in a community conversation: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/community/soapbox/444044-opensuse-multim… Please invite others to the conversation! I look forward to reading your ideas. and as my favorite motd of all times says .... "Have a lot of fun...", Charles Wight -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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