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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 36
by Jan-Simon Möller 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 36 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Hack Week III * openSUSE Election Committee Founded * openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference * T&T: Accelerate your build speed with Icecream * linux.com: A video tour of openSUSE 11 (with KDE 4 desktop) [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/36 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/35 Have a lot of phun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] No project irc meeting this week ...
by Martin Lasarsch 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi Because of Hackweek there will be no irc project meeting this week. -- 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference See the openSUSE Project at the Utah Open Source Conference this week! The Utah Open Source Conference is going on August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community College. [http://2008.utosc.com/] The openSUSE Project will be hosting a table to show off the latest and greatest in openSUSE, and Novell and openSUSE also will have several speakers/talks on the agenda including: * Aaron Bockover: Banshee Media Player [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/117/] * Brian Merrel, Sanford Armstrong: Linux accessibility efforts at Novell [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/124/] * Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier: How to bootstrap a community [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/103/] * Andrew Jorgensen: openSUSE Build Service [http://2008.utosc.com/presentation/18/] As part of Hack Week, we'll also have a room set aside for Hack Week III participants [http://blog.utos.org/2008/08/19/novell-hack-week-coming-to-utosc-2008/], so you can watch the hacking in real time. The schedule runs from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. local time Thursday and Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. See the full schedule on the UTOSC Web site: http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/schedule/, and the events and activities here: http://2008.utosc.com/pages/events/ We're also looking for more booth volunteers. If you'd like to help with the openSUSE booth, please contact me about times and availability during the show. Thanks! -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] OpenOffice_org 3.0-beta available (call for testing)
by Petr Mladek 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that the first OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. The package version is 3.0.0.1. It is based on the upstream ooo300-m3 milestone. Call for testing: We kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs into bugzilla.novell.com, see below for more details. Note that the package is still a beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore it is not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before using it, ... Where to get it: The list of installation repositories can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_… Installation problems: There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You might need to select the right version by hand, see http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update IMPORTANT The packages with localizations are renamed from OpenOffice_org-<lang> to OpenOffice_org-l10n-<lang>. Also the localized help content is split into the optional OpenOffice_org-help-<lang> packages. Finally, the American localization is split into extra packages OpenOffice_org-l10n-en-US and OpenOffice_org-help-en-US. We are sorry, the 64-bit packages are not available for SLED10 and openSUSE-10.2. You could install the 32-bit (i586) packages there. We hope to solve the build problems within the following weeks. Bug reports: Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo. Known bugs: + mono extensions does not work Changes in this version: The GO-OO project changes are listed at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_3_0_0_1/NEWS General information about the build: The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build: * better startup performance * improved VBA interoperability * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect) * additional import filters (SVG, WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...) * native KDE Open/Save dialog * WebDAV locking * new 3D slide transitions * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1) * ... , see also http://go-oo.org/discover/ -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 35
by Jan-Simon Möller 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 35 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available * Hack Week III is almost here! * openSUSE to add SELinux Basic Enablement in 11.1 * Masim Sugianto: Linux Distribution Popularity Across the Globe [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/35 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/34 Have a lot of phun! -- Jan-Simon Möller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Hack Week III is almost here!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hack Week III is almost upon us! Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week, from August 25th through August 29th, and we want the openSUSE community to be in on it! What's Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell's developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell's developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on. Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code. During Hack Week, developers can work on any project of interest. So far Hack Week has spawned a number of impressive projects and improvements, such as Debian package support in the openSUSE Build Service, Tasque, Giver, and many others. For HW3, we'e encouraging members of the openSUSE community to get involved as well, either by working on their own Hack Week projects, or by collaborating with Novell developers to create or enhance open source projects. To post your ideas or see what others are working on, visit ideas.opensuse.org. We'll have awards for several Hack Week projects, including best overall project, and the coveted First Penguin Award. As part of the effort to expand Hack Week outside of Novell, we're bringing several community members to Novell offices to work with Novell developers on HW3 projects, and we'll be hosting a Hack Week room at the Utah Open Source Conference [http://2008.utosc.com/pages/home/] next week, August 28 through August 30. For questions or comments on Hack Week, please contact Andreas Jaeger [aj(a)opensuse.org]. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: Helping Hands Hosts the F-Spot Developer Team
by Bryen 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, Friday August 22, Helping Hands will host the F-Spot Developer Team with their presentation of 10 Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot. Place: #opensuse-gnome in the IRC Freenode network. When: Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Time: 14:30 UTC About Helping Hands: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos Thanks and see you all there! Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available
by Christoph Thiel 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi everyone, openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available and ready for testing. This time it is actually installable and bootable ;) But you'll need to be quick and select the right boot option from the bootmenu. Due to bug #418619, "Failsafe" is the default boot option. Please make sure to always select real "openSUSE 10.0.42 - 2.6.26-14" option! On x86_64, please make sure to always disable the image-based installation from the summary screen, before the actual instllation starts! There will be no LiveCD with this Alpha, but we are planning on doing an Alpha2plus LiveCD next week. openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha2/iso/ Please also refer to http://software.opensuse.org/developer for further details and all the direct links. Known issues / workarounds: - image-based installation on x86_64 will not work without problem, as the images on the ISO don't match the RPMs. You'll get errors around "unable to remove pam-config". Workaround: always disable image-based installation on x86_64! - Bug 418619: Failsafe kernel is default in menu.lst Important: Please make sure to boot the right kernel -- failsafe can cause trouble on some maschines - Bug 418592: gdm doesn't start on some maschines - Bug 418577: Bootloader: cannot update the dynamic configuration policy - Bug 418729: Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_... - various AutoYast-related bugs * Bug 418574: AutoYast is ManualYast in 2nd stage * Bug 418707: Firewall services still enabled although disabled in Autoyast profile * Bug 418568: uuidgen missing Happy testing, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Helping Hands: 10 Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot
by Bryen 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

This week, the Helping Hands Program is proud to host "Ten Things You Didn't Know about F-Spot" presented by the F-Spot Developer Team. This event will be held on Friday, August 22nd at 14:30 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome IRC Channel on the Freenode Network. Each week, the Helping Hands program hosts presentations about various applications and features you can find on your openSUSE installation. FOr more information and to volunteer, visit http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos See you all there! Bryen Yunashko Helping Hands Coordinator -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE at FrOSCon!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Join the openSUSE Project this weekend, Saturday August 23, and Sunday August 24, at third annual FrOSCon [http://www.froscon.org]. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne. Come to the openSUSE booth to meet other openSUSE community members, and get your own copy of the openSUSE 11.0 DVD if you don't have one already! You can also catch Marko Jung's talk on his concept of a trust system for the openSUSE Build Service on Sunday, at 11:15 a.m. in lecture room HS5. In addition to the openSUSE-related activities, the whole conference program features many highlights. On Saturday, Andrew S. Tanenbaum will give a keynote on "Minix 3 - A Reliable and Secure Operating System", held at 12:45 in HS1 Tanenbaum is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He became famous as developer of the system Minix. In 1992 he caused a sensation by criticizing Linux as an obsolete operating system. On the second day of the conference, PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf will give his keynote titled "Simple is hard." Lerdorf will talk about the trouble of finding a simple solution and the increasing affinity to comlexity which causes problems in performance, scalability, and security. If you'd like to help with the openSUSE booth at FrOSCon, we're still looking for additional volunteers. Please contact Marko Jung [http://en.opensuse.org/User:Markojung]. -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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