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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 for PowerPC available
by Andreas Jaeger 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

I'm glad to announce the first beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard for PowerPC. Our developers fixed bug #213873 which made installation on PowerPC impossible and we've mastered media for PowerPC now as well. Note that the factory tree still has an old broken installation images and will only be updated with the next sync, please install from CDs or DVD. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. I'd like to point out especially the following significant changes From our list of updates of all open source subcomponents, integration of new subcomponents and improvements in various areas: - Linux Kernel 2.6.18.1 - glibc 2.5 - Firefox 2.0 - GNOME 2.16.1 - KDE 3.5.5 - X11 R7.2 RC - both KDE and GNOME feature improved start menus compared to upstream - improved desktop effects (compiz 0.2) - OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 - Koffice 1.6 - gnucash 2.0.2 - ekiga 2.0.2 VoIP and video conferencing application - python 2.5 - php 5.2 RC - cups 1.2.4 - wink 1.5 software tutorial and presentation creatiation software - Using opensync instead of multisync for much better syncing between mobile devices and software. - numerous improvements to our package manager stack, including a new update notification applet (opensuse-updater) and a console application called zypper which are non-zmd based. The update stack has been improved in both features and speed. - integration of powermanagement features into hal See also http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News - and the ChangeLog file on the first media of each set for a really detailed overview. Thanks to everybody making this release happen - and thanks to all testing it! Beta1 has a couple of rough edges, the most annoying ones are documented at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs . For now let me just point out the following: * On some new installations an error occured preparing a hard disk Bug #214682. This seems to happen on disks without any prior partitioning and when using EVMS. EVMS is broken here. If this happens, start the installation again. * zen-updater is not installed by default Bug #214877 * kpowersave crashes directly Bug #214881 * The product is not completely localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. * Grub installs in MBR no matter what is selected in YaST2-bootloader (Bug #213256) * Major changes in the bluez-libs might lead to problems with connecting to Bluetooth-devices * Help Center Integration of the openSUSE Manuals is work in progress. There are issues with the desktop files (Bug #213573) * yelp segfaults (Bug #210429) * The product is not completly localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory tree) * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory-extra tree) For PowerPC we have created Delta ISOs the CDs of Alpha4. Please use them for download. We have mastered a DVD5 for PowerPC and will distribute it *only* via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Thanks, The spicy POWER Team at SUSE and Andreas Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… Download URLs for the full ISOs: For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 (i386, x86-64) is available
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I'm glad to announce the first beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. We have i386 and x86-64 medias available for download, there's no PowerPC distribution since the installation fails on that platform (Bug #213873). I'd like to point out especially the following significant changes for openSUSE 10.2 from our list of updates of all open source subcomponents, integration of new subcomponents and improvements in various areas: - Linux Kernel 2.6.18.1 - glibc 2.5 - Firefox 2.0 - GNOME 2.16.1 - KDE 3.5.5 - X11 R7.2 RC - both KDE and GNOME feature improved start menus compared to upstream - improved desktop effects (compiz 0.2) - OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 - Koffice 1.6 - gnucash 2.0.2 - ekiga 2.0.2 VoIP and video conferencing application - python 2.5 - php 5.2 RC - cups 1.2.4 - wink 1.5 software tutorial and presentation creatiation software - Using opensync instead of multisync for much better syncing between mobile devices and software. - numerous improvements to our package manager stack, including a new update notification applet (opensuse-updater) and a console application called zypper which are non-zmd based. The update stack has been improved in both features and speed. - integration of powermanagement features into hal See also http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News - and the ChangeLog file on the first media of each set for a really detailed overview. Beta1 has a couple of rough edges, the most annoying ones are documented at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs . For now let me just point out the following: * On some new installations an error occured preparing a hard disk Bug #214682. This seems to happen on disks without any prior partitioning and when using EVMS. EVMS is broken here. If this happens, start the installation again. * zen-updater is not installed by default Bug #214877 * kpowersave crashes directly Bug #214881 * The product is not completely localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. * Grub installs in MBR no matter what is selected in YaST2-bootloader (Bug #213256) * Major changes in the bluez-libs might lead to problems with connecting to Bluetooth-devices * Help Center Integration of the openSUSE Manuals is work in progress. There are issues with the desktop files (Bug #213573) * yelp segfaults (Bug #210429) * The product is not completly localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory tree) * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory-extra tree) We have created Delta ISOs from the DVD of Alpha5 and from the CDs of Alpha4. Please use them for download. We have mastered the DVD5 for i386 and x86-64 and will distribute it *only* via bittorrent - and as deltas from the previous version. For this release we would like to put up a call for testing, focusing especially on these three areas: * Python 2.5: As we upgraded to Python 2.5, we would like to ask you to test all Python-related packages, especially on x86-64. * OpenOffice.org on x86-64 (yes, a native 64-bit OpenOffice.org package) * the OpenSync 0.19 framework and its plugins Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Thanks to everybody making this release happen - and thanks to all testing it! Andreas P.S. Here're the usual handy URLs for download: Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/10/18 18:00 CEST
by Martin Lasarsch 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/10/18 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-10-18 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Remastered - including Install DVDs
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

We're happy to announce that we have put out now the complete remastered version of SUSE Linux 10.1 (including DVD but no LiveDVD or ftp installation source), which includes all patches for SUSE Linux 10.1 released till October 9. It replaces the original ISOs on our mirrors. This version will ease the issues users had with the goldmaster version and should make the installing and working experience much smoother for everyone. The files have a "Remastered" in their name and a symbolic link from the old name to them so that references will continue to work. If you are running SUSE Linux 10.1 already, there is no need to download these images at all. Just do an update from our update repository to get all our security updates. This remastered media are usefull for new installations. We're now focusing on the next milestone, openSUSE 10.2 Have a lot of fun! your openSUSE team -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 "Remastered" available
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

I'm happy to announce the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1 "remastered". This release combines the 10.1 GM and all online updates that we have released for 10.1 so far, including libzypp, which should make the installing and working experience much smoother for everyone. We have created new CD ISO images and supplied delta ISOs from the goldmaster. The non-OSS DVD images will show up next week, we had to retract and will remaster. The ftp installation tree remains unchanged. The files have a "Remastered" in their name and a symbolic link from the old name to them so that references will continue to work. If you are running SUSE Linux 10.1 already, there is no need to download these images at all. Just do an update from our update repository to get all our security updates. This remastered media are usefull for new installations. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Alpha5 (DVDs, i386, x86-64 only) available
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Our Basilisk Lizard has shown this week its other side and I'd like to thank especially Jürgen, Lars, Christoph, Steffen, Jiri, Ladislav for taming the lizard. Fights come with a prize to pay - ours are two-fold: The PowerPC distribution and the CD installation. We only have DVDs for i386 and x86-64 this time. They are available via ftp.opensuse.org and its mirrors. Mini-ISOs for remote installation are available as well. So, there are neither CDs nor deltas. If you download the DVDs, check the media sizes first, they are: openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5-DVD-i386.iso: 4165675008 bytes openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5-DVD-x86_64.iso: 4203270144 bytes Since most webservers are not setup to deliver files greater than 2 GB via http and our download.opensuse.org handles http download mainly, please use ftp to download from one of the known mirrors (see e.g. http://en.opensuse.org/Factory_Mirror_List). The URL for the DVDs torrents are: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5/openSUSE-10.… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Alpha5/openSUSE-10.… The list of known annoying bugs is available as usual at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs#openSUSE_10.2_Alpha_5: It currently contains: * Registration fails Bug #205392 * After logging in to KDE, a popup window will inform you that dbus is not running. Just ignore the message - dbus is running Bug #209009 * Suspend to disk will fail with an error message "The resume device configured in /etc/suspend.conf". (fixed powersave package should be in factory by monday, until then you can edit /etc/suspend.conf and put your resume device from the resume=... boot parameter there. However, the fixed package is better). * The x86-64 uses nearly double the disk space for installed packages than usual. It looks like a bug in binutils stripping the binaries Bug #210331 * Instead of /dev/hd for IDE disks using Intel ICHx chipsets the libata interfaces are used and disks show up as /dev/sd Bug #210478 * zen-updater always shows patterns to update Bug #198379 * It's not possible to start applications via kdesu, eg yast2. Workaround: use "su" in a shell. Bug #208272 * The bootloader configuration on BIOS-based RAID (so-called FakeRAID) systems fails. BUG #208076 * gnome-screensaver does not accept the correct password. Bug #204364 * Workaround: Kill the gnome-screensaver process. This is the last external Alpha, we will deliver in three weeks our first Beta of openSUSE 10.2. Alpha5 includes the following important changes: * Linux kernel 2.6.18 * glibc 2.5 * Python 2.5 * Installation allows comfortable LVM partitioning * Setup RAID automatically via the BIOS (so called fake-RAID support) in the partitioner * GNOME 2.16.1 (most packages are updated) * KDE 3.5.5 SVN version * Firmware test as additional bootoption (this is the Intel firmware test tool) Have a lot of fun with openSUSE 10.2 - codename "Basilisk Lizard", Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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