August 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the openSUSE Foundation created in time for this. For instance, Google would like us to get some form filled before the end of June; this is not a mandatory timeline, but I think it shows that we won't be ready with the Foundation for that. The current plan is to give that money to another organization we feel close to, and I have two candidates in mind: - the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org/) it's a really nice org that provides a home for various cool projects (see http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) and those projects help make openSUSE a great project. - the Desktop Summit (https://www.desktopsummit.org/) it's one of the biggest event this year, and this would help us have some more visibility (since we'd be sponsors, I guess). I'm sure they would welcome this to secure their budget. Note that an alternative solution would be to leave the money to Google for a future GSoC or similar program, but I feel it's better to use the money where it can make a difference today. Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE. Pavol and I will take the final decision since we are the GSoC admins for openSUSE. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks updates
by Gerald Pfeifer 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I am seeing this with an openSUSE 12.1 system at home, and also a Factory system at work: % host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2001:67c:2178:8::13 And then, when running zypper patch or zypper up, I see Retrieving: repomd.xml [error] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable Alas, my provider nor that network at work support IPv6. Still, my system has IPv6 enabled since roaming around on different networks, IPv6 may be present, or even necessary there. (This does not happen all the time, sometimes if I retry a bit later the system uses IPv4 and everything works.) Now, is this just a setup problem and I should simply and unconditionally disable IPv6? Or are some parts of our update or network stack in need of some adjustments? For the time being, unless this is just me running into this, should we disable IPv6 on download.opensuse.org? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> || SUSE || Director Product Management -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Bugzilla requirements gathering exercise
by Will Stephenson 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Following the recent thread [1] on opensuse-project about obstacles to the community's use of our shared bugzilla instance, SUSE has started an internal assessment of how we can improve things for community users, contributors, employees and enterprise customers - in defiance of the "we can't touch that part of the infrastructure" meme. To this end, I'd like to gather here information about your requirements. Some things I've pulled out of "Bugzilla account creation" and other places are: * Easy sign up ** Minimal user information required * Familiar branding * Working integrated login with other project web apps * Community visibility of bugs in openSUSE reported against SLE * Performance * Relating bugs to packages and maintainers * Package<->Bug relation * OBS<->Bugzillazilla relation * Tooling (eg Entomologist, integrated bug reporters like Dr Konqi) If you have any comments on these or on other topics, please add them here. I'm trying not to touch the Pandora's boxes of bug lifetimes, engineering responsiveness and mass-closing, but perhaps if we can make our Bugzilla more community friendly, it will attract more help to solve these. Will [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-08/msg00007.html -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 12.2 Release follow up
by Agustin Benito Bethencourt 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi, this is a short summary of where we are and what is still left to do for this release process: Done or in progress * Gold Master declared. * Feeding mirrors with the Gold Master and extra isos * Promo DVDs ordered * Press kit in progress. Will be done (extracted from the Action Plan) * Finish the Highlight page and the Release announcement. * Once the Highlight page and the Release announcement are done (Monday), we will add them to the wiki. We will do this. * We would like to publish this for release the announcement and, if possible, the highlight page, in several languages, so the impact is bigger in places where English is not the mother tongue. On Monday (probably late) we will point translators to these pages in English so they have Tuesday to translate. This is not optimal, but at least it is an improvement. We will have more time in the next release. Max Lin, our team member in Taiwan, will be the link for this task. If any of you want to coordinate this, that would be great. We will be very busy doing other things. * On Monday afternoon we will try to put some effort into the social media promotion of the release. We will discuss with you a plan so we are partially organize on this. Many of you usually do promo through different social media so we want to make sure we know who you are, you have the contens you need to promote openSUSE and we do not miss any relevant channel. It could be nice also to experiment on social media in different languages. It would be very valuable if those of you willing to do promotion on Wednesday and following days help us here, specially in channels like FB or twitter, where many of us can contribute. Any idea that we can include in the planning, prepare on Tuesday (or even before if do not involve this team) and execute it during the Release day and the following days will be more than welcome. There are many many cool ideas we can try. We just want to make sure the ones we all choose are doable, they are coordinated (at least partially) and, very important, we can track them, so we can learn from them. * On Wednesday we will do the actions needed to make everything public, following the Action Plan that is on the wiki. If nothing really unexpected happens, we will have a good Release on Wednesday at 12:00 UTC. I would like to thank the current and former members of openSUSE Team at SUSE (former Boosters) for their work the last few months to get to this point, to SUSE for its support but, above all, to you, that work with passion to make this project possible. Now....let's make some noise. Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe(a)suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Beautiful 1-Click Installer
by Saurabh Sood 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Hi, Google Summer of Code has come to an end, and I am pleased to announce that the new 1-Click Installer is ready for testing by the community. While still requiring some work, it is still quite nifty, and simplifies the installation to a great extent. I will be working on the remaining tasks involved, and it would be awesome if I get feedback and how I could make it better. I welcome all feedback on the installer, and hope to make it even better in the future. I also take this opportunity to thank the entire organisation for the opportunity to work on this project, and my mentors, Cornelius Schumacher and Matt Barringer for guiding me throughout the course of the programme. OBS Repository : https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Asaurabhsood91&packag… Cheers, Saurabh Sood PS : I have not yet been able to handle the MIME types, so the application has to be run from the terminal, passing the ymp file as parameter. I will be working on this part soon. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: openSUSE 12.2 Release follow up
by Jim Henderson 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Marcel Kühlhorn <susefan93(a)gmx.de> wrote: > attached you find the banners I came up with together with the artwork > team. Great, thanks, Marcel. What time do we expect to 'flip the switch' on the downloads becoming available? I'd like to make sure we switch the banner at around the same time (I think we can schedule it on our systems). Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] 12.2 and GRUB2
by Basil Chupin 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Will 12.2 have a fully working version of GRUB2 or would we still have to rely on Grub Legacy when installing 12.2? Thanks for any advice or info as to where I can find the answer. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 & kernel 3.5.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] Request for a Blue-Ray version of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2
by Eugene Trounev 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

I'm not sure if something like this is possible for 12.2 which is only just a few days away... p Also there are a few important questions here: 1. How widespread is blueray this days? 2. What does Linux support of those devices look like 3. How much of our market has blue ray devices We should research on those topics and, if we see there is potential market, we can look into investing time and men power into development and deployment of blue ray media... Best regards, Eugene Trounev Alexey Eromenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi All, > >openSUSE project has nearly done it's 12.2 release ! > >One great feature to have - is blue-ray disc (BD) install media, in >addition to current DVD media. Why ? >Because it allows you download once, install everywhere, and >blazing-fast speeds, saving a lot of user time later from downloading >packages on-demand. > >Plus, it will once again let people enjoy the whole openSUSE >experience from a single media, and have a new marketing factor to >tell to the press release guys. > >The BD media should include the full openSUSE repository on a single >media. One BD for 32-bit and another BD for 64-bit PC. >Availability should be via bittorrent protocol-only, if the FTP >server's capacity is limited. >As a side bonus, BD media will let enjoy full openSUSE on offline workstations. >BD media is risk-free bonus, a feature that will not introduce >regressions into current DVD media anyway, and in fact can be done few >days post-release, if time is an issue. > >I'm looking forward into this release ! > >Best wishes and thanks to all the hard-working people, >-- >-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org >

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Short success story
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

On Friday 17 August 2012 13:37:16 Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > First, sorry for replying to another thread, hope it won't mess you > email client. > > I want to share a small openSUSE brand awareness success story with you. > > Last month I was in Washington for Wikimania and in one of the days I > went to visit the Capitol wearing my openSUSE T-shirt. While I was > waiting at the ticket counter, a guy from the Capitol police came to > me and said: „hey, are you using opensuse?” > > I said yes and he continued: „it'a great os, i love it because i don't > have all those problems with viruses.” > > I was very happy to see people on the street recognised our brand and > were aware they could interact with us. That's one of those things that makes someone happy :D Let's share it! > Strainu

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[opensuse-project] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hi, Build0167 is the last we'll do for openSUSE 12.2. Maintenance team is already piling up updates and Factory will soon get a new glibc. All as it should be, thanks for your patience ;) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Request for a Blue-Ray version of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2
by Alexey Eromenko 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hi All, openSUSE project has nearly done it's 12.2 release ! One great feature to have - is blue-ray disc (BD) install media, in addition to current DVD media. Why ? Because it allows you download once, install everywhere, and blazing-fast speeds, saving a lot of user time later from downloading packages on-demand. Plus, it will once again let people enjoy the whole openSUSE experience from a single media, and have a new marketing factor to tell to the press release guys. The BD media should include the full openSUSE repository on a single media. One BD for 32-bit and another BD for 64-bit PC. Availability should be via bittorrent protocol-only, if the FTP server's capacity is limited. As a side bonus, BD media will let enjoy full openSUSE on offline workstations. BD media is risk-free bonus, a feature that will not introduce regressions into current DVD media anyway, and in fact can be done few days post-release, if time is an issue. I'm looking forward into this release ! Best wishes and thanks to all the hard-working people, -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Network configuration future
by Olaf Kirch 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hi all, I would like to revive a proposal that I have made a while ago, regarding a framework for managing network interfaces. I called it wicked at that time, and it's still called that way, but because of potential confusion with WICD I'll probably change the name soonishly. This project has been going on for a while now, and is getting into a more presentable shape. Given the breadth and the width of the whole topic, I won't be able to cover all aspects of the system in one email - instead, I want to give you my perspective on why I think we need something new here, and what it should look like from my point of view. Your feedback is very much welcome! Regards, Olaf -- Neo didn't bring down the Matrix. SOA did. (soafacts.com) -------------------------------------------- Olaf Kirch - Director SUSE Linux Enterprise; R&D (okir(a)suse.com) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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Re: [opensuse-project] Network configuration future
by Richard Brown 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

>>> Andrew Wafaa 08/29/12 11:39 AM >>> >Definitely need the name changing, I'm unfortunately failing to come >up with any suitable cheesy names. Naked? Network Adapter Konfiguration Editor Daemon (KDE Friendly!) Nipple? Network Interface Parameters Provide Lousy Entertainment Connie? Connection Interface Editor Nanager? They're probably cheesy enough, if not good enough -- More seriously, I'm a happy NM user, and I haven't had a problem with it for some time now. When NM was too unusable for me, WICD was a great substitute. Like Andrew, I use ifup/down on my servers, but would ideally like 1 method, something nicely integrated in the UI for desktop work and solid, stable, yet easily controllable from the shell Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Call for help: 12.2 feature collection
by Christopher Hofmann 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Hi all, openSUSE 12.2 will be released on Sept 5th, so there are only about 3 weeks left. To prepare a proper press release we need to collect the most interesting new features of 12.2. For collecting them we need help. So if you know of any super-duper-high-end-brand-new things that are on 12.2 and should go into a press release feel free to add them to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features A good source for finding more product highlights might be http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ChangeLog If you are coltish, feel free to read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_highlights_writing and help us to bring the collected items in a proper form Sorry for the cross post, Christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Announcement for openSUSE-Artwork page on Google+
by Marcel Kühlhorn 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hello Artwork team! We are excited to announce that a number of us have been working on a few social media projects to facilitate easier participation and team collaboration efforts. As many of you know, we have recently started a new Flickr page where friends, fans and users can submit various forms of artwork to share with the rest of the openSUSE community. Our hope is that this new venture will create a portal that increases participation and collaborative efforts on a platform that is very user friendly and recognized by an even greater audience thus pulling from a larger pool of contributors. In addition to the new Flickr project, we are excited to share our announcement of the new G+ page established for the openSUSE-Artwork group. The G+ page will promote a global line of communication between collaborators and those who wish to become one. By providing a means that others can see and share the efforts and motivations of the openSUSE-Artwork group and community, our idea is to increase global collaborative efforts. In other words, we hope to draw more contributors to our group! On this page we will share news and events, artworks found, created and shared related to the openSUSE project, and provide a resource for fans and users to turn to for the latest "what's happening" within the openSUSE-Artwork community. The description on the page is going to be as follows: -- Tagline: Welcome to openSUSE-artwork. Have a lot of fun! Introduction: We are the openSUSE-artwork group. Our mission is to provide a portal for fans, users and members to easily share their thoughts and ideas concerning the development and improvement of the artwork involved with the openSUSE project. We encourage artists and enthusiasts from around the world to share their creativity to help us make the openSUSE project one of the most collaborative, fun and colorful Linux distributions available. Occupation: Global collaborative artwork support for the openSUSE project -- So stop by, join our circles, say "Hi" and leave a little behind to share with the rest of the community. We look forward to everyone’s additions and contributions! Thank you, -- Marcel Kühlhorn freenode: tux93 Have a lot of fun!

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[opensuse-project] GSoC: AppStream / Software-Center project - completed
by Matthias Klumpp 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Hi! Sorry for writing this mail relatively late, but I am very busy with stuff again and just haven't had the time for mailing until today. Same applies for my GSoC final blogpost, but this post is delayed because I want to make a video with the working stuff, because screenshots don't say much. So, what did I achieve this summer? == PackageKit == Most work has been done on PackageKit. When I started the project I thought I would spend lots of time on the Software Center, but in fact the stuff I did on PackageKit was far more important. At the beginning PackageKit was not suitable for software-center-like applications, but now it is. The PackageKit backend API is now improved and PackageKit contains many nice options for improved backend-code which backends can use. Also, cache-handling is much easier now. Also, I applied a some speed-optimizations which make PackageKit in general much faster. The biggest new feature is parallel-transactions, which allows PackageKit to execute transactions in parallel if the backend supports this too. This makes it possible to query data like package details while other actions like a installation of new packages is running. It also allows faster querying, because we can run multiple searches at the same time. I'm really excited about the changes done on PackageKit and hope backends will follow soon and implement the new API. Many thanks go to Richard Hughes for his constructive criticism and help. == AppStream == I talked to many people about AppStream to find out what people expect from it, what users want and what distributors want. The results went into my work on all three projects. I created the new software "AppStream-Core" which allows anyone to access the AppStream database using a nice GObject-based API. It also contains some more infrastructure to generate the AppStream database and maintain it. This project will make it possible to build other software-centers based on AppStream really quick. It also makes us independent from the Ubuntu Software Center (USC), because we now don't need to have it installed anymore. (this was required before to generate the AppStream db). This also makes it possible to create e.g. a software-center for KDE sharing lots of the AppStream codebase. I already implemented some small parts of AppStream in Apper last week. (after my GSoC project has finished, as this was not part of it) I also requested a project space for AppStream at Freedesktop, so I can make a release of this software soon, so other project can start using it. There's another software-center implementation, "Light Software Center", which was designed for use with PackageKit from the beginning, which will use my AppStream access library soon. == Software Center == I ported the Software Center to our new API and removed some quirks. I also optimized it for parallelization and improved it's startup time a lot. The SC received many small improvements and bugfixes. Although many things have changed for the better, using it is still not much fun. The USC is optimized for Ubuntu which results in many issues with interfering code. Also, the way SC handles PackageKit is the same way it uses Aptd on Ubuntu, which is not great, as both tools are different in some aspects. Tracking down bugs in SC isn't very easy too. So, summary for the SC: Usable to other distros (when combined with appstream-core, see above), but still no great user experience, unfortunately. I'll do some more changes on it in future, but to be honest: I also count on other software-center projects as possible replacement, if the SC plans turn out to be impossible. (but first see if we can't do more improvements on the SC code) So, that's a short summary of what has been done. I'll keep you updated on my blog [1]. As always, if you have questions, please contact me via mail or just reply here. I also have some more plans for the AppStream stuff, so there will be some more news about this in future too :-) Cheers, Matthias ---- [1]: http://blog.tenstral.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Bugzilla account creation.
by Rajko 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

This is what new bug reporters and everyone else that needs Novell account have to fill in before they can access openSUSE infrastructure: https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp Don't you think that is a bit excessive if we want more contributors? Is there any other way to have account? -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] 12.2 feature list for release PR
by Will Stephenson 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

The openSUSE Team is preparing an big 12.2 feature list. This is intended to be an exhaustive list for the technical reader. We're writing up that using milestone announcements and changelogs into a descriptive wiki page, going to distill a Product Highlights page from it, and that in turn will inform PR materials and the release announcements. If you have additional features we have missed please add them in the bottom MISSING FEATURES section to the wiki page here [1], and we will add them to the descriptive document (in preparation) on the next iteration on Monday. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board Appointment Announcement
by Alan Clark 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi, Within the past few weeks, board member Peter Linnell accepted a position with SUSE. Peter will continue to participate in the the openSUSE community but to maintain compliance with the openSUSE project election rules, Peter recognized that he needed to resign from the openSUSE Board. The rules state that "In the event that individuals affiliated with a company or organization hold more than 40 per cent of the electable seats, affiliates from that corporation will be required to resign until fewer than 40 per cent of electable seats are controlled by that company or organization." With Peter's resignation, the Board has opted, in accordance to the election rules, to appoint a new member to fill the vacancy until the election is completed later this year. Having reviewed the results from last years elections and discussed the opportunity with the top vote recipients, the openSUSE board members would like to announce and welcome Manu Gupta to the board. Welcome Manu! Manu, we look forward to working with you. Regards, openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Lizards go swim!!!
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hello friends, After our summer camp in Greece, take those pictures. Some people are fanatics!!! http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9041.jpg http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9042.jpg http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9043.jpg Check the place here: http://bit.ly/NRgaDG Sikia, Chalkidiki!!! Have a lot of fun, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://iosifidis.co.cc or http://eiosifidis.tk http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://eiosifidis.wordpress.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eiosifidis Google+: http://bit.ly/IU5p3I Connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/diamond_gr Ένα γραμμάριο δράσης αξίζει ένα τόνο θεωρίας -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 17:00 UTC
by Alan Clark 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Top on the agenda for this weeks project meeting is an overview of the openSUSE Summit. At the project meeting, the latest plans, program, parties and fun will be shared. The Summit plans are very exciting. It is going to be a great event and a lot of fun. Come check it out. AlanClark >>> On 8/21/2012 at 04:00 AM, openSUSE Meeting Reminder <no-reply(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 17:00 UTC > in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and > participate! > > Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: > > http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&month=8&year=2012&h… > =17&min=00&sec=0 > > Agenda of the meeting: > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting > > If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered > during the meeting, please add your question to: > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section > > Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: > http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ > > Thanks, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 17:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 17:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&month=8&year=2012&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] UEFI Secure Boot
by Andreas Jaeger 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Olaf Kirch and Vojtech Pavlik, two SUSE colleagues of mine that are also kernel developers, have been looking with others at the UEFI situation and wrote up their findings and a proposal on what to do for openSUSE. We'll share here whatever they write, I guess they do a post a day for the next few days. First post is at: http://www.suse.com/blogs/uefi-secure-boot-overview/ I'm copied the text: In case you don’t know what this blog is talking about: UEFI is the “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface”, and “Secure Boot” is one of its more recent features that is generating a bit of a stir in the Open Source world. At SUSE, we have been looking at UEFI Secure Boot long and hard. On one hand, we agree that closing down some of the loopholes in the boot process is a worthwhile goal. For decades, we have accepted that this process has been one of the soft spots that are essentially unfixable without a major change in the BIOS. Now that this change is coming, we are ready to embrace it. And we’re also happy to see a much bigger change happening as part of this, which is the establishment of UEFI as the standard firmware on all x86 platforms. On the other hand, as a Linux company, we are seeing a number of issues that have been causing us quite some headaches, which we wanted to resolve before we publicly state our plans in this regard. In order to explain our concerns, let’s take a brief look at what Secure Boot really does, in a nutshell. In the world of UEFI, securing the bootstrapping process means establishing a chain of trust. The “platform” is the root of this chain of trust; I tend to think of it as the motherboard and the on-board firmware ROM. Or, put slightly differently, it’s the hardware vendor, and the chain of trust flows from that hardware vendor to the component manufacturers, the OS vendors, etc. On the legal side, this trust is established by a lot of contracts and other legal paperwork. On the level of bits and bytes, this trust is expressed via public key cryptography. The vendor puts a so-called Platform Key into the ROM, representing the root of trust. The trust relationships with operating system vendors and others is documented by signing their keys with the Platform Key. Finally, security is established by requiring that no code will be executed by the firmware unless it has been signed by one of these “trusted” keys – be it an OS boot loader, some driver located in the ROM of some PCI Express card, or be it an update of the firmware itself. Of course, one could make this a very long chain of trust, by requiring that everything that ever gets run on that machine be signed: the OS itself, the modules it loads, the binaries and shared libraries it loads, all the scripts executed by any random interpreter, and even the commands you type into a shell session. So obviously, that has to stop somewhere; and in the UEFI specification, that point is reached when the firmware hands control to the operating system. Essentially, if you want to use Secure Boot, you need to have your OS loader signed with a key trusted by the firmware, and you need the OS loader to verify that the kernel it loads can be trusted. Admittedly, this is glossing over quite some details – but that is of no real importance for this discussion. The crux of the matter is that this conflicts with the way the Open Source community has been developing code for several decades now. The Open Source movement began as an act of emancipation from the operating system vendors of that time. Open Source was and is about Freedom, not in a dogmatic, but really in some very practical sense. The Linux community is where it is today because people could just start their own distribution, build their own boot loader and kernel, and grow a community. It is thriving the way it is thriving today because there are thousands of people around the globe who rebuild their kernel ten times a day to fix bugs, to add enhancements, or to run their test harness on the latest set of changes. And it will only continue to thrive in this way if we keep it that way. From this point of view, Secure Boot is very much at odds with the Linux development model. Just for the record, I do not think this is a conspiracy, or a sinister attempt to kill Linux. That’s not going to happen. But while Secure Boot can be a significant improvement for many, it definitely creates obstacles for the Linux community. Granted, the Windows 8 Logo certification requires that BIOS vendors should allow users to turn off Secure Boot on x86 platforms, and we have hope that all BIOS vendors will actually implement this in a way that works well for Linux developers. But ideally, Linux developers should not be required to switch off a security feature in order to run their operating system. Thus, over the past months, our guiding questions when dealing with Secure Boot have been, how can we make it work for our customers, and how can we reconcile the requirements of Secure Boot with the needs of the Linux community. We plan to continue this series of blog postings soon with an overview of how we intend to support Secure Boot in SUSE Linux Enterprise, and what solutions we propose to the openSUSE community. -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Scanny: week report
by Piotr Niełacny 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Hi guys, this is my first report about scanny for #1 week: http://ruby-blog.pl/GSoC/2012/05/28/scanny-week-1/ -- Piotr Niełacny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Leaving the board.
by Peter Linnell 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Hi, Some of you know, I have recently taken a position at SUSE here in Silicon Valley. I've joined the Sales Engineer/ SUSE Linux Technical Specialist team. It has been a bit more than a month and I can say it has been a really great experience. As I am now on the "inside", I can see that SUSE has never been better positioned to succeed in a long time. I've not had the chance to engage the business side of SUSE before in the same way I have with the engineering and openSUSE team side of things. That said, I've never had the kind of welcome joining a company like I have at SUSE. It's been extraordinary. Because of this, I must resign from the board. I've thoroughly enjoyed working with my fellow board members and I now consider them friends. It does not matter if they are SUSE employees or not. They all care a lot about the community. All my dealings with them have been very forthright and correct. As for me, I will not disappear from the community. Far from it. Now that I am here in North America, I am one more voice inside the company who will be actively evangelizing on the community's behalf. As I have reached out to my new colleagues, there is definitely an openness to listen, learn about and engage the community. I could go on longer, but I do want to thank publicly Alan Clark for helping me get on board. We as a community are really lucky to have him as a board member and chair. Alan has done a terrific job on behalf of the community, though often times it is quite invisible and not recognized publicly. I've learned he has enormous respect inside SUSE and he is a great ambassador for the community. Thanks for listening. Peter Linnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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