September 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 17:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '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=19&month=9&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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Re: [opensuse-project] 12.3 Schedule and development - version number
by David Webb (NOC) 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

My vote goes for one major release each year. For me its great advantage is that I would spend/waste less time dealing with the special bits that SuSE does not always fully cover - my backup operating system, my raid setup, the motherboard sensors, graphics card, the fortran bit of hdf5, recompiling all my own software for the new library versions, codecs, sound, etc. etc. If you can do that plus keep major packages like Libreoffice reasonably up to date during the year it would be even better. Regards, David Webb. -- 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] A Free Way To Try openSUSE Without Installing It
by beta.opensuse＠yodasp.com 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello everybody! We are a small team working on setting up a public cloud service to provide desktops and applications access through the web. The service is expected to go live-beta in 2013. In the meantime we have decided to periodically offer temporary services as demo-beta so that we can better test the technologies and the integrations we are working on. We hope that users will provide us feedbacks so that the final service will provide what users want. As a first demo-beta, we chose to start with our beloved openSUSE and are preparing to offer a time limited demo-beta for the lately released 12.2 KDE environment. Anybody interested can subscribe to our "openSUSE Beta" [1] offer from our site, http://www.yodasp.com, and get access to openSUSE 12.2 KDE systems to try them out for free. Please, read the "How does it work ?" description from the subscription page as this demo will be time-limited, restricted to a small number of users based on a FIFO subscription, and will offer dynamic systems where any uploaded data will be periodically deleted. Another interesting part is that we have chosen to use the wonderful ownCloud [2] workspace environment to get access to the openSUSE systems through the NoMachine FreeNX [3] technology. For any additional information, please, refer to beta.opensuse [AT] yodasp [DOT] com and, please, "Have a lot of fun!" [1] openSUSE Beta subscription direct link: http://goo.gl/s41rX [2] ownCloud software: http://owncloud.org/ [3] NoMachine FreeNX: http://www.nomachine.com/ We hope to make openSUSE 12.2 KDE try-out a good experience ! --- YODASP team openSUSE Beta -- 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] 12.3 Schedule and development
by Sven Burmeister 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2012, 07:53:40 schrieb Greg Freemyer: > For leaf packages, from what i see this is happening already through the > normal update channel. > Even evergreen has done version updates, not just backports. Evergreen is not on my radar and doing major upgrades would contradict what I thought it was about. So no idea about them. > And the big kde update for 12.2 that just went out shows an obvious > willingness to do even very large bugfix updates. This only happened because it was meant to go into 12.2 but missed the schedule and it was only meant to go into 12.2 because 12.2 was delayed. > So i'm not sure that your complaint is actually valid. It seems to describe > the situation 2 or 3 years ago, not today. 12.2 shipped an outdated version of KDE, i.e. KDE 4.8. Instead it should have shipped KDE 4.9.0 and offer the upstream bugfix releases through 12.2's lifecycle. I'm pretty sure that 12.1 did not receive the latest minor bugfix release for the KDE version it shipped. Hence I'm pretty sure it is valid for KDE that openSUSE does not ship upstream stable but whatever it claims to be stable. This results in outdated versions with lots of bugfixes not shipped to the user. In fact, there will be no openSUSE release with official KDE 4.9 support. I hope LO will get an update to 3.6 since 3.5 was outdated before the 12.2 release already as well. Sven -- 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] statistics on the release
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

heya all, I'm working on a little "openSUSE 12.2 well received" kind'a article. I need some numbers to prove the point How many downloads, stuff like that - see what we had last year: http://news.opensuse.org/2011/11/19/opensuse-12-1-launch-feedback/ Who can send some stuff my way or help me out a bit? Thanks! Jos

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[opensuse-project] Dropping all java-1_6_0-sun packages?
by Johannes Weberhofer 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

After Oracle's announcement "Retiring the DLJ" [1][2][3] in Septenber 2011, it is no longer allowed to distribute the sun JRE packaged for distributions. Therefore I'd recommend to remove all java-sun packages from the OBS. Having the latest huge security issues with the sun-plugin in mind, it could be good to enforce a de-installation of all the old Java installations or at least the plugin - not to break servers requiring the original sun JRE/SDK. [1] http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html [2] http://jdk-distros.java.net/ [3] http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Linux-ohne-Java-1335027.html Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Weberhofer Weberhofer GmbH, Austria, Vienna -- 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] RFC: Naming 'borderline' a derivate of openSUSE 12.2
by Nelson Marques 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi all, As some are aware I've hammered down MATE (though it still a lot of polishing) for openSUSE; I'm make a small iso with Kiwi and I was planning to call it 'Borderline'. This is a pure openSUSE 12.2 without any changes which defaults to MATE and LightDM. The MATE implementation is upstream (with some tweaks done directly on mate packages so I don't have to follow the road of pain with branding) and is mainly the same used by openSUSE. In addition this will get: - Armored with all sort of codecs available (gstreamer/ffmpeg and friends (ex: libdvdcss2)); - Font Rendering through Infinality - Other stuff I might find interesting. Is openSUSE ok with the usage of 'borderline' for a derivative? Why I ask this is because 'borderline' is a mental disturbance and somehow rare, in a way close to bi-polarity. This is a cool metaphore :) (borderline-project.eu will come soon). While I don't get own branding, this will be 'based on openSUSE'. NM PS: Cool name! [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder -- 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] LinuxDay 2012 in Austria
by xela＠lugv.at 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello OpenSUSE project members, the 14th LinuxDay in Dornbirn/Austria will take place on Nov. 24th 2012. We are seeking proposals for lectures (german). Interested speakers are invited to submit their proposals until Sep. 23rd. Details can be found here: http://www.linuxday.at/call-for-papers-2012 We are also interested in an openSUSE booth. People who want to contribute, please contact papers(a)linuxday.at Sorry for posting this so late. I hope to be on the right mailinglist for this request now, at first I tried opensuse-marketing, but that was definitely the wrong place. Some general information about LinuxDay (german): Der LinuxDay ist im 4-Ländereck von Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich mit bis zu 500 Besuchern die größte Veranstaltung zu Linux und Freier Software. Mittlerweile zum 14. mal organisiert die LUGV den LinuxDay in Vorarlberg. In drei parallelen Vortragsreihen erfahren Einsteiger, Linuxprofis bzw. Entscheidungsträger aus Wirtschaft und öffentlicher Verwaltung Wissenswertes über Freie und Open Source Software. Während der gesamten Veranstaltung können Besucher ihren zusätzlichen Wissensdurst an zahlreichen Informationsständen international bekannter Projekte und regionaler Dienstleister stillen. Der Eintritt ist frei! Greetings from Austria, Xela --- LUGV - Linux User Group Vorarlberg www.lugv.at www.linuxday.at -- 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] Need help with assignation of bug Bug 517959
by Carlos E. R. 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The default asignee is assigning repeatedly that bug to me without explanation. I'm a reporter, I don't solve bugs, and even less that one. Who can tell the default asignee to do his job? :-// - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlBOGf8ACgkQja8UbcUWM1y0UAD+L0G+6i9QbvkOYzOcPSdyjfss fCdj46ZgAjBhGNnJDBoA/3fJl0jebDAjuDe+WjLAOdcv19QiWgz5FVm6PPpZMUgB =+kJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Cinnamon & MATE Desktop
by Nelson Marques 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Just as a heads up for everyone: 1) Cinnamon has been moved to X11:Cinnamon and has the following repository layout: + X11:Cinnamon:GNOME34 - For GNOME 3.4 enabled systems + X11:Cinnamon:GNOME36 - For future GNOME 3.6 enabled systems + X11:Cinnamon:Factory - For Factory development if someday it becomes reliable 2) MATE Desktop has been moved for X11:MATE; Currenlty all 'base' packages are available, and we're missing only a few python bindings packages and some extras.Builds for the following platforms: + openSUSE 11.4 + openSUSE 12.1 + openSUSE 12.2 + Tumbleweed + Factory Regarding MATE Desktop, before considering Factory submissions (and this is pretty much something I want to see on openSUSE in the Future), there are few more things that are required: a) Packages need some reviewing from GNOME experienced people; b) Some packages need approval from SUSE Security Team regarding DBus services, PAM modules, etc (I will open Bug Report later on for this); c) Need deployment tests on all platforms; d) more fixes as broken stuff pops out. NM -- 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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