February 2007 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Survey
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Hi We are interested in knowing how you feel about the openSUSE project and the openSUSE 10.2 distribution. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey, and we will enter you in a drawing for five 1 GByte USB sticks and one 80 GByte portable hard disc from Teac! You can find the survey here: http://www.novell.com/productsurveys -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

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 2007/02/21 18:00 CET (17:00 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_2007-02-21 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 Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: FOSDEM 2007 - this weekend!
by Martin Lasarsch 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Hi FOSDEM, 24-25.02.2007, Bruxelles/Brussels Once again you have the chance to meet some SUSE/Novell guys, as we have the chance to meet YOU! We will have again a dev-room for us with a lot of interesting talks: http://fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opensuse And we will have also a small booth on the floor. We hope to see all of you in Brussels this weekend! :-) Genereal Information about the FOSDEM: http://fosdem.org/2007/ -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes are: * GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from older distributions. * KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6. * Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for now. * Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread for details) * Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3. * The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows. * Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME and KDE handle removable LUKS media now. Besides this a lot of bugs have been fixed and various packages updated. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 is an important milestone for us since it is an installable release so that everybody doing development in the last weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as basis for their work. Most annoying bugs for now: * Adding a remote repository shows "/media.1/in not found". Just press OK to continue the install Bug 243498 * ftp installation of mounted CD/DVD images is not possible (http seems to work - and installation from online repositories works as well) Bug 245304 * On x86-64, you need CD4 for a default install since some extra -devel packages are installed Bug 245332 * Some Systems will hang at "Cloning the system ..." when selecting "Clone This System for AutoYaST" Bug 245350 * Registration does not work Bug #240591 * A GNOME installation does not include OpenOffice_org and banshee Bugs 245408 245407 The list of annoying bugs is kept updated at: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-dev openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 comes as 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 NonOSS packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the 5 CDs contain support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (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 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD * CDs/DVDs containing the sources corresponding to the media We have created Delta ISOs from the final version of openSUSE 10.2 Please use them for download. The DVDs and the source media are only available 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. To download media, please use the links provided at: http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads The next planned release is Alpha2 in four weeks (March 15th), Have a lot of fun! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] YaST IRC-Meeting
by Edith Parzefall 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hiho! On request by the openSUSE community, we invite everyone interested in YaST development to chat with the YaST teams on IRC next Wednesday. We want to hear your ideas on how you'd like to contribute to YaST. When: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 5pm CET Where: #opensuse-project on irc.Freenode.net Feel free to add topics to http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/YaST_Meeting_2007-02-14 Thanks for your interest, Edith -- Edith Parzefall Teamleader YaST, SUSE Linux Products GmbH - a Novell Business Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany. Phone +49-911-74053-156

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[opensuse-announce] New Wikis available - nl and pl
by Martin Lasarsch 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hi We have 2 new wikis to announce: http://nl.opensuse.org (Dutch) - thanks Freek de Kruijf, Rinse de Vries and Matthias Van Gestel http://pl.opensuse.org (Polish) - thanks Rafal Kwasny and Rzoolu The splashscreen at http://www.opensuse.org will be fixed soon. If you want to work on the languages use the new wikis now instead of the english one. If you are interested in you own language opensuse wiki, please subscribe to opensuse-wiki(a)opensuse.org and read http://en.opensuse.org/Translation To the maintainers of the new wikis: Please delete all NL- and PL- pages and templates from the English wiki soon. Thanks again to all who made it possible! btw: next wikis: zh_tw (traditional chinese), ro (romanian) (no fixed timeframe at the moment). -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2007/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

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 2007/02/07 18:00 CET (17:00 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_2007-02-07 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] Get Involved! Second openSUSE community meeting 2007-02-11 20:00UTC
by Francis Giannaros 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Details: Date: Sunday - 2007-02-11 Time: 20:00 UTC Location: irc.freenode.net #opensuse-project Explanation: This is the second ever community meeting taking place, and it is run by openSUSE Community members who are not employed by Novell/SUSE. The main aims of this meeting are: - Update on the last Community Meeting - Inform of the current community participation - Kicking off new projects in the community This meeting is open to absolutely anyone and everyone in the openSUSE Community. One of the main goals, again, is to unify and centralise on the community efforts, so everyone's participation in this is quite vital. A core group of people have already agreed to attend. ----- Agenda: - openSUSE-Community.org - Feature/Project Tracking - Unifying the Community - Awareness of other Community projects - Let us know - Other - FOSDEM Talk - YaST Meeting - Brainstorming and Open Discussion More information on these items is available at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Community_Meeting_2007-02-11 Regards, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos (irc.freenode.net)

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