July 2020 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Nominations for the openSUSE Ad-hoc Board Election
by Ish Sookun 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hi folks, A gentle reminder that nomination & application for the openSUSE Ad-hoc Board Election is still open (and will remain so till 2 August). Regards, Ish Sookun -- 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 Meeting Minutes 2020-07-20
by Vinzenz Vietzke 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Dear Community, Here are the minutes for the board meeting at 2020-07-20. These minutes are on the wiki as well. [1] === Meeting Notes 2020-07-20 Participants: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Vinz Absent (excused): Simon Minutes taken: Vinz Agenda: * GDPR Status Report * Formal Complaint * Conflict Resolution * Meeting Minutes * PRIVATE: Sarah # Minutes ## GDPR Status Report Marina reports that there is nothing new yet and she still needs to talk/sort out some details. ## Meeting Minutes Gerald and Marina fell behind. Drafts will be sent to the board ML and minutes will be sent out afterwards. * AI all: Make sure meeting minutes get finalized until end of the week where the meeting took place. ## Formal Complaint There were formal complaints about a member's behaviour. These complaints were handled. ## Conflict Resolution Moderation on mailing lists was discussed but considered not necessary currently. The rules as stated e.g. on Discord [1] before logging in should get adapted and be clearly visible on subscribing. The goal of this all is to install and communicate consistent rules across all openSUSE discussion channels. [1] https://paste.opensuse.org/images/2bdaf2ec.png * AI Vinz: Check how to make that technically possible on https:// lists.opensuse.org ## Next Meeting As agreed on before the next regular meeting will be in the morning slot (for northern hemispherics) to handle Australian DST issues. The board set up August 4th, 8:00 CEST. === Cheers, Vinz. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2020-07-20 -- 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] systemd 234? what the literal eff you cee kay?
by Mathias Homann 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

OK, who decided to stick with a THREE YEAR OLD systemd in Leap 15.2, and why? There are open bugs in that version that have been fixed TWO YEARS AGO. Asking for advice about that kind of stuff upstream is just plain old embarrassing! Can I safely replace that with the up to date systemd from factory? Cheers Mathias -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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[opensuse-project] Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020 - Call for Nominations & Applications
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

Dear openSUSE members, It's time to elect a new Board member to fill an empty seat on the openSUSE Board. This is an Ad-hoc election as defined in our Election Rules [1] so the elected board member will serve till the end of 2021. The election schedule is as follows: == Phase 0 == 20 July 2020 * Announcement of the Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020 * Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy * Membership drive 2 August 2020 * Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close == Phase 1 == 3 August 2020 * Announcement of the final list of candidates * Campaign begins * Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but members will only be eligible to vote and not run as a candidate. == Phase 2 == 17 August 2020 * Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time * Campaign continues 30 August 2020 * Ballots close 31 August 2020 * Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org and * election-officials(a)opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [1]. The Election Committee [2] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board [3]. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [2] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and myself. [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election -- Regards, Ariez Vachha ajv(a)opensuse.org -- 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 Board - Non-Confidence Petition results
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

The results of the openSUSE Board - Non-Confidence Petition are as follows: * Total number of eligible voters: 509 * Total number of votes recorded: 104 * Number of "Yes" votes recorded: 59 * Number of "Blank" votes recorded: 45 * Percentage of "Yes" votes: 11.6% * Result insufficient support. - The petition requires over 20% of the membership for to trigger an election of the whole board. Details of the upcoming election for the unfilled board seats will be published here in the next few days. -- openSUSE Election Committee election-officials(a)opensuse.org -- 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] susepaste.org and logging in with OpenID...?
by Mathias Homann 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Hi, Why isn't susepaste.org using the same user authentication backend as the whole rest of the openSUSE infrastructure? I mean, I don't even know if I **have** an OpenID somewhere, let alone how to use it there. Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet obs: lemmy04 gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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[opensuse-project] SUSE to acquire Rancher
by Gerald Pfeifer 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

[ Please find below a message from Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE's President ] [ of Engineering and Innovation. Note that Thomas is copied, and I am ] [ sure you may have lots of questions ;-), not all of which we may be ] [ able to answer (yet). -- Gerald ] Dear openSUSE community, Today, SUSE embarks on a new chapter to accelerate its growth aspirations as the world’s largest independent open source company. SUSE has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs, a market-leading Enterprise Kubernetes Management vendor based in Cupertino, California. I’m sure this community is no stranger to Rancher, given its widespread adoption, the many open source projects it’s contributing to and involved with, and importantly the fact that it is 100% open source. Combining Rancher’s strength in multi-cluster multi-tenant container management and Kubernetes distributions, and SUSE’s strengths in Enterprise Linux, Edge Computing and AI will continue and expand market adoption of open source technologies. It will drive, contribute and support innovation within, with and from the various open source communities, and specifically with the openSUSE community and project(s) that are very close to our heart. We will deliver open source based computing everywhere with the latest AI and other technologies, and seamless deployment of containerized workloads from core to the edge to the cloud. The agreement is signed but the acquisition has not yet closed. After closing, the open source communities and openSUSE will benefit from great and continued involvement from SUSE and Rancher but as one combined company. SUSE remains committed to delivering 100% true open source technologies with no vendor lock-in. Sharing this ethos, Rancher Labs will continue its strategy to be open and support multiple Kubernetes distributions and operating systems. Rancher's infrastructure- agnostic architecture can support any Cloud Native Computing Foundation- certified Kubernetes distribution including Google GKE, Amazon EKS, and Microsoft AKS, as well as RKE, k3s, and other projects like Gardener and last, but not least, Kubic! Best, Thomas

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[opensuse-project] Membership status
by Jochen Breuer 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Hello everybody! I'll make it short… although this seems to be a never ending story. Some time ago I tried to become an openSUSE member. Due to contradicting information that was rejected. I didn't provide the requested information in the right place. I fixed that and re-applied. That was a few months ago. Since then connect.o.o tells me this: "Membership request already sent. Please wait for the result." I have the feeling that the whole membership application system is severely broken. But I really, really hope that it's only broken in my case. Because I don't think that other people would suffer through this! Cheers Jochen https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/brejoc -- 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 Community Releases Leap 15.2 Version
by ddemaio 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Hi all, On behalf of the release team and all contributors to the openSUSE Project, I would like to inform you that we have released openSUSE Leap 15.1. Please view the announcement online at https://news.opensuse.org/2020/07/02/opensuse-leap-15-2-release-brings-exci… I would like to thank all those involved in the release. A special thank you to developers, release team, packagers, testers, bug reporters, partners and community projects. I want to personally thank those who helped with release notes, translations, release announcement, artwork and social media. Thank you to Open Source Press, Tuxedo Computers, Linode and Slimbook. v/r Doug openSUSE Leap "15.2" Release Brings Exciting New Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Container Packages ISO 639-1 Languages - CA <https://en.opensuse.org/Anunci_de_publicaci%C3%B3_15.2> - CS <https://cs.opensuse.org/Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%AD_nov%C3%A9ho_vyd%C3%A1n%C3%AD_15.2> - DE <https://de.opensuse.org/Release-Ank%C3%BCndigung_15.2> - FR <https://fr.opensuse.org/Annonce_de_version_15.2> - ID <https://opensuse.id/2020/07/02/pengumuman-rilis-opensuse-152> - IT <http://it.opensuse.org//Annuncio_di_rilascio_versione_15.2> - ES <http://es.opensuse.org/Anuncio_publicaci%C3%B3n_15.2> - JA <https://ja.opensuse.org/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A2%E3%83…> - ZH-TW <https://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2> NUREMBERG, Germany (02/07/2020) – The openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> release team is proud to announce the availability of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2>. Professional users, from desktops and data-center servers to container hosts and Virtual Machines (VM), will be able to use Leap 15.2 as a high-quality, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade Linux operating system. Download openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap> This release provides security updates, bug fixes, network enhancements, and many new features for openSUSE users who depend on a stable and scalable distribution. openSUSE’s rich and mature Linux platform supports workloads on x86-64, ARM64 and POWER systems. The dependability of core packages found in previous Leap 15 versions and newer open source technologies in Leap 15.2 are ready for multiple use cases and workloads. “Leap 15.2 represents a huge step forward in the Artificial Intelligence space,” said Marco Varlese, a developer and member of the project. “I am super excited that openSUSE end-users can now finally consume Machine Learning / Deep Learning frameworks and applications via our repositories to enjoy a stable and up-to-date ecosystem.” What’s New Several exciting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning packages are added in Leap 15.2. Tensorflow <https://www.tensorflow.org/>: A framework for deep learning that can be used by data scientists, provide numerical computations and data-flow graphs. Its flexible architecture enables users to deploy computations to one or more CPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device without rewriting code. PyTorch <https://pytorch.org/tutorials/>: Made for both server and compute resources, this machine learning library accelerates power users’ ability to prototype a project and move it to a production deployment. ONNX <https://onnx.ai/>: An open format built to represent machine learning models, provides interoperability in the AI tool space. It enables AI developers to use models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers. Grafana <https://grafana.com/> and Prometheus <https://prometheus.io/> are two new maintained packages that open up new possibilities for analytical experts. Grafana provides end users the ability to create interactive visual analytics. Feature-rich data-modeling packages: Graphite, Elastic and Prometheus give openSUSE users greater latitude to construct, compute and decipher data more intelligibly. In general, software packages in the distribution grew by the hundreds. Data fusion, Machine Learning and AI aren’t all that is new in openSUSE Leap 15.2; a Real-Time Kernel for managing the timing of microprocessors to ensure time-critical events are processed as efficiently as possible is available in this release. “The addition of a real time kernel to openSUSE Leap unlocks new possibilities,” said Gerald Pfeifer, chair of the project’s board. “Think edge computing, embedded devices, data capturing, all of which are seeing immense growth. Historically many of these have been the domain of proprietary approaches; openSUSE now opens the floodgates for developers, researchers and companies that are interested in testing real time capabilities or maybe even in contributing. Another domain open source helps open up!” Container Technologies openSUSE users will have more power to develop, ship and deploy containerized applications using the newer container technologies that are being maintained in the distribution. For the first time, Kubernetes <https://kubernetes.io/> is an official package in the release. This gives a huge boost to container orchestration capabilities, allowing users to automate deployments, scale, and manage containerized applications. Helm <https://helm.sh/>, the package manager for Kubernetes, is also added. Helm helps developers and system administrators manage complexity by defining, installing, and upgrading the most complex of Kubernetes applications. Container Runtime Interface (CRI) using Open Container Initiative (OCI) conformant runtimes (CRI-O) is also new to this release. CRI-O is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime, which allows Kubernetes to use any OCI-compliant runtime as the container runtime for running pods or processes running on a cluster. Even with Docker, the use of microservices will be secure thanks to more container packages arriving in this release. Cilium <https://cilium.io/> helps in transparently securing network connectivity and load-balancing between application containers and services deployed using Linux container frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes. Cilium provides an efficient way to define and enforce both the network-layer and the application-layer security policies, which are based on a container/pod identity. Leap 15.2 offers both Server and Transactional Server system roles. The Server system role uses a small set of packages that are suitable for servers with a text mode interface while the Transactional Server system role is similar to the Server role, but uses a read-only root filesystem to provide atomic, automatic updates of the system without interfering with the running system. Installation process The openSUSE installer remains as powerful and as versatile as ever, allowing to easily tweak every single aspect of the system including the mitigation for CPU based attacks like Spectre or Meltdown. The installation process presents several improvements like a more user-friendly dialog for selecting the system role, improved information about the installation progress, better compatibility with right-to-left languages like Arabic and many other small enhancements. In Leap 15.2, it offers a more accurate detection of MS Windows partitions encrypted with BitLocker and a better management of storage devices for Raspberry Pi.The installer also makes it easy to tweak the mitigation for CPU based attacks like Spectre or Meltdown. Unattended installations with AutoYaST is greatly improved. Many aspects are polished at all levels. More configuration options are added and the possible errors in the user’s profile and the installation process are now handled and reported in a more sensible and informative way. Improvements to YaST - The most complete configuration tool for Linux The YaST Partitioner remains the most powerful tool to configure all kinds of storage technologies in Linux, both during installation of the system or at any later point. This release incorporates the possibility of creating and managing a Btrfs file-system that expands over several devices, and the release allows for the use of more advanced encryption technologies. Leap 15.2 is the first openSUSE release to introduce a gradual change that splits system’s configuration between /usr/etc and /etc directories. YaST supports this new structure in all the affected modules, offering to system administrators a central point to inspect the configuration that will help them during the transition and beyond. Leap can be executed on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), delivering the power of openSUSE to the Windows world. The YaST version in Leap 15.2 improves the compatibility with that platform, specially when executing YaST Firstboot in order to perform all the needed initial adjustments. Desktop Environment While the desktop environments in this release will be new, the focus remains on more conservative fixed release. The Long-Term-Support version of KDE’s <https://kde.org/> Plasma 5.18 is available in Leap 15.2. The newer LTS has a significant amount of polish and new features. Notifications are clearer, settings are streamlined and the overall look is more attractive. GNOME <https://www.gnome.org/> 3.34 updates from the previous 3.26 version that was available in Leap 15.1. The new GNOME provides a considerable amount of visual refreshes for a number of applications. More data sources in Sysprof makes performance profiling of an application even easier and there are multiple improvements to Builder including an integrated D-Bus inspector. Xfce <https://www.xfce.org/> has a minor update to version 4.14 after four plus years of development; the new version produced a slew of updates and features, including enhancements for the window manager, file manager, application finder and power management. Cloud Images, Hardware and Architectures Linode <https://www.linode.com/> cloud images of Leap are available today and ready for all infrastructure needs. Cloud hosting services will offer images of Leap 15.2 in the coming weeks like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine and OpenStack. Leap 15 is continually optimized for cloud usage scenarios as a host and virtualization guest. TUXEDO Computers <https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/> and Linux notebooks can be purchase with Leap 15.2 preinstalled. Leap 15.2 can also be ordered preinstalled with Slimbooks <https://slimbook.es/en/linux2>. Leap deployment scenarios include physical, virtual, host and guest, and cloud. Ports to other architectures like ARM64 and POWER are expected in the coming weeks. Core Components Compilers, scripting languages, system configuration tools and graphical user interfaces have all been improved. GNU Compiler Collection 7 through 9 are available in this newer Leap minor version along with an updated version of the 3D Graphics package Mesa to support the use of the professional grade operating system. Leap 15.2 has the same 234 version of systemd used in Leap 15.0 and 15.1. New graphics hardware support has been backported for the release of Leap 15.2 and Linux Kernel 5.3 will be used for the release. Kernel features automatically become available in Leap since the distribution shares the same kernel as SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). openSUSE Leap 15.2 is a distribution with community packages built on top of core sources of SLE 15 Service Package 2. The shared common core and alignment with SLE makes migrations to SUSE’s enterprise product easy for professional who want to extend the life cycle of their maintenance and security past the life cycle of Leap. Migrating from the community version of Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise is an available option for those who desire to migrate. The migration from openSUSE Leap server installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy for system integrators developing on Leap code who may decide to move to an enterprise version for SLAs, certification, mass deployment, or extended Long Term Support. Health Packages This Leap release increases the capabilities of health services. The award-winning health- and hospital management system GNU Health comes in version 3.6.4. It has an updated GUI and is prepared for COVID-19 pandemic tracking, including updated ICD-10 codes and improved laboratory functions. GNU Health can directly interface with Orthanc, the free PACS Server, which is newly shipped in this release. Developers of the health and medical fields have several open-source tools with openSUSE Leap that can be be used for creating powerful User Interfaces (UI) and User Experiences (UX) for medical devices. Healthcare device developers can be confident in the use and performance of Leap and rely on the system supporting newer and older hardware. Configuration Management System administrators will have the most up-to-date tools for configuration management. Salt 3000 has arrived in Leap; the new Salt version removes the date versioning and provides new functions to chroot: apply, sls, and highstate. It also updates slot syntax to support parsing dictionary responses and to append text. Ansible is also availble for sysadmins. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Groupware and File Hosting File sharing and cloud services include software such as NextCloud and even the groupware application suite Kopano (formerly known as Zarafa) is part of the official Leap 15.2 repositories. Like prior versions, System Administrators and small businesses can use Leap for hosting web and mail servers or for network management with DHCP, DNS, NTP, Samba, NFS, LDAP, and hundreds of other services. Life Cycle of Leap Minor versions of the Leap 15 series have about an 18-month life cycle; minor releases come roughly once a year. Users of openSUSE Leap 15.1, which was released in May of 2019, should upgrade to Leap 15.2 within the next 6 months. The first release of Leap 15 was released two years ago. Download Leap 15.2 The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org. Categories: openSUSE <https://news.opensuse.org/category/opensuse> Announcements <https://news.opensuse.org/category/announcements> Kubic <https://news.opensuse.org/category/kubic> Leap <https://news.opensuse.org/category/leap> Project <https://news.opensuse.org/category/project> Weekly News <https://news.opensuse.org/category/weekly-news> Tags: openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/opensuse-leap-15-2> KDE <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/kde> Plasma 5.18 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/plasma-5-18> Xfce 4.14 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/xfce-4-14> GNOME 3.34 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gnome-3-34> arm64 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/arm64> Power <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/power> X86 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/x86> Artificial Intelligence <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/artificial-intelligence> Machine Learning <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/machine-learning> community <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/community> Tensorflow <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/tensorflow> PyTorch <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/pytorch> ONNX <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/onnx> Grafana <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/grafana> Prometheus <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/prometheus> CRI-O <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/cri-o> Kubernetes <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/kubernetes> Docker <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/docker> SUSE Linux Enterprise <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/suse-linux-enterprise> SUSEConnect <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/suseconnect> sysadmins <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/sysadmins> TUXEDOComputers <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/tuxedocomputers> microservices <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/microservices> AutoYaST <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/autoyast> VM <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/vm> Slimbooks <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/slimbooks> Linode <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/linode> Cloud <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/cloud> GCC 9 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gcc-9> GNU Health <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gnu-health> DHCP <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/dhcp> DNS <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/dns> Samba <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/samba> Upgrade <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/upgrade> yast <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/yast> -- 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] Error 502 to access Wiki
by victorhck 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Hello. I get an error 502 when I try to get https://en.opensuse.org/ Someone else?? Greetings! -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xcc742e8dc9b7e22a Fingerprint = 6FE2 3B1F AAC8 E5B7 63EA 88A9 CC74 2E8D C9B7 E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Mi blog sobre openSUSE, GNU/Linux y software libre: https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/ Herramientas para proteger tu privacidad https://victorhck.gitlab.io/privacytools-es/ -- 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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