Hi everyone,
I've been an intermittent user of SuSE and openSUSE for well over a
decade, starting back in the 6.x days if I remember correctly. I've
always admired the project for its professionalism and broad scope. I
recently switched back to openSUSE thanks to the rolling Factory (now
Tumbleweed) announcement, and I also have 13.2 installed on other
machines. I'm really enjoying the experience, and this time, I'd like to
stay.
I really want to see openSUSE succeed, but unfortunately I tend to see
it dismissed by potential new users as "a nice distro, but..." followed
by certain annoyances or "paper-cut" issues. This week's openSUSE 13.2
review on Distrowatch is the most recent example of such comments. I
feel that openSUSE is fundamentally extremely well designed and
executed, but I have also noticed the same recurring "paper-cut" issues
year after year, release after release. So I'm wondering if anything
could be done about them, or if the developers have any interest in
fixing them.
Without going into detail, here are a few general areas of concern that
I often hear and/or have personally noticed throughout many openSUSE
releases:
1. Ugly font rendering
2. Automatic installation of extraneous/unrequested packages, especially
after initial installation.
3. Crippled packages meant to prevent compatibility with proprietary
multimedia formats.
4. Difficult to install multimedia and/or proprietary formats and drivers.
5. Breakage of YaST modules.
All of the above issues do have workarounds, and think it would be best
for this thread to not get into the technical details of these
aforementioned issues. But in general terms, these issues come up time
after time in reviews and forum posts about openSUSE. So my question is:
Would the openSUSE project be interested in working to resolve any or
all of these issues? And if so, where would be the best place for me to
bring up these issues and work with developers to make improvements?
Some of the issues are not related to any one specific package, but are
rather of a more systemic nature. In some cases legal/patent issues are
probably involved. (Again, let's please avoid legal discussions in this
thread.) Although I am not a coder or developer *at all*, I do have an
eye for detail and polish, and I have a good idea of what typical users
expect out of a Linux distro on the desktop. I'd like to help to
identify and test solutions to these papercuts if any developers are
willing to look into some of these long-standing issues with a fresh eye.
Any comments? Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.
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Hi,
Two people (one an Alpine developer) have complained to me that they can
not send email to me on my opensuse.org alias, because it gets bounced to
them with this message from from a suse.de server:
The mail system
<robin.listas (aatt) telefonica.net> (expanded from <carlos.e.r (aatt) opensuse.org>): host
tnetmx.telefonica.net[86.109.99.69] said: 522 - Failed SPF (in reply to
MAIL FROM command)
I just sent emails to my opensuse address from gmail and from another
account, and both got through, so I can't replicate the problem, nor do I
have full headers.
I don't know how to investigate this, where lies the problem: on the
opensuse redirector, on my ISP being too strict, on the sender side not
supporting spf or setting data incorrectly, or what?
In case there is a problem with the opensuse redirector I ask here first,
otherwise I'll move to another list.
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Cheers
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Hi everyone,
I just want to make sure everyone is aware of our plans for openSUSE
at SCALE 13x 2015.
Not only will we have a booth, but the fine people at SCALE have
agreed for us to have an openSUSE miniSummit at SCALE 13x. This means
we will have our own dedicated openSUSE track as well as a Geeko
Lounge and as usual, an awesome booth!
As you can imagine, we will need a lot of help to make this happen so
if anyone is interested in helping prepare (marketing, artwork, make
contacts), work the booth or Geeko Lounge, or if you are interested in
giving a talk for the miniSummit, please let me know.
I really want to thank our amazing openSUSE Board for giving us the
support to make this happen!
This really should be a lot of fun! :)
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Drew Adams
Member & Advocate,
openSUSE Project
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Hi,
Request for discussion: Should we offer firewalld as alternative for
SuSEfirewall2?
I think we should...
reasoning:
mobile users (laptops) who use NetworkManager / Wicked for managing
their ip connectivity "in userspace" would want to be able to have
multiple wifi setups that end up being in different zones.
I'm going to try to package the latest firewalld from fedora for
openSUSE, and test it with 13.2.
Progress report will follow in due time.
cheers
MH
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Bountysource automatically creates teams based on what they see in
Github, so we had one. It however was enetirely empty so I sent an email
and was able to take administrative control of it. I don't totally
understand the benefit of having a team on Bountysource, but I was more
concerned with making sure we had control of things with our name on it.
What can/should we do with this?
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Roger Luedecke
openSUSE Project
Member and Advocate since 2011
http://www.opensuseadventures.blogspot.com
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I just noticed today that the gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user group is
missing from gmane.org - did the project request the list be removed from
gmane?
Just wondering if it was intentional or if something went wrong somewhere.
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Henderson
Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits
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Hi All,
We had a nice long discussion during the Project Meeting in IRC today,
minutes are below:
* Tumbleweed
Feedback was given about the timing of the merger, the nature of the
announcements, and the lack of a broader discussion in the Project
before the decision to merge the two rolling releases.
sysrich (Richard Brown) explained that these issues were caused by a
desire to have the situation clear for Tumbleweed users before the
release, mixed in with unavailability caused by travel surrounding
openSUSE summit.
sysrich apologised, accepted the feedback, and agreed that standard
practices should have been followed like involving the News team
before making the announcement and starting a discussion/heads up to
the opensuse-factory mailinglist at the earliest opportunity.
* AoB
* News/Marketing Teams
It was suggested that the News and Marketing Teams should be merged.
Arguments against this include the fact that the whole point of the
News team is to allow private news items to be discussed before they
go public, whereas the Marketing team operate in the public.
However, this did raise the issue that both teams and many of our
other 'non-technical' areas of contribution seem to be lacking lately,
and ideas were discussed on how to get more people enthusiastic,
contributing, and (also very importantly) contributing to the right
areas where the Project needs it most
Ancorgs asked for help filling in the Major Features wiki page for
13.2 at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features which is still
incomplete
* Board Elections
Board elections are coming up, we need Election committee volunteers
and candidates, see the announcement on -project
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