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[opensuse-announce] Update on openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 release
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi all, A quick update on the 11.1 beta 4 release. After work on the remaining show-stopper bugs we found this week, we have solved the blocker bugs, but were unable to generate all the necessary media and have it propagated to the mirrors in time for a Friday release per our release policy. [1] We are confident that we will be able to release on Monday, however, so please check back Monday for the release announcement. [1] Please see Andreas Jaeger's post on the release policy here: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/10/22/why-do-we-release-opensuse-on-thursd… Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- 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 final available
by Petr Mladek 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, I’m happy to announce that the build 3.0.0.3.5 passed testing and OpenOffice.org 3.0 final packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:STABLE project. Note that OOo is very complex application. We are sure that some annoying bugs will be found within the following weeks. Please report bugs into bugzilla. See also known bugs below. I would like to update the package once again within next two weeks with some important fixes that will be available in the meantime. Note that openSUSE-11.1-betaX and FACTORY include totally reworked packages where the build is split into many source packages. It is a bit broken right now. We would like to put it into the Build Service as soon as possible but it will take some time to fix the build on older distributions again. Please be patient. 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. 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: ----------- * TOC with hyperlinks is corrupted when exporting to MS Word file format (bnc#438525) * can’t change text size in merged cells (bnc#437137) 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_3_5/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: * 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 KDE Team Meeting - October 29th, 16:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

[This time with correct subject ;)] The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting is tomorrow, October 29th at 16:00 UTC. Since the clocks went back, this is 17:00 Central European Time - if you don't read this mail, we'll see you arriving at the end of the meeting ;) The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * general status report * calls for testing * default desktop setup * Q&A Further items for discussion are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=29&month=10&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join in and participate! -- 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 KDE Team Meeting - October 15th, 16:00 UTC
by Stephan Binner 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting is tomorrow, October 15th at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items * general status report * calls for testing * default desktop setup * Q&A Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=15&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join and participate! -- 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] Results of the 1st openSUSE Board Election
by Marko Jung 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

So the polls are closed now and all votes have been accounted for and confirmed valid, and we are now proud to announce the election results! The openSUSE project would like to welcome the first community elected board, and would like to thank all voters for taking the time to use their vote. The new board members are, from the Non-Novell side of the community Pascal Bleser and Bryen Yunashko and from the Novell side we have Henne Vogelsang and Federico Mena-Quintero. We are proud to announce that Michael Loeffler has been appointed by Novell as chairman of the new board. Being the candidates with the most votes in their category, Pascal and Henne already agreed to serve the board for the next two years. Bryen and Federico have been elected for one next year, hence the next election will take place about the same time next year. The election committee would like to congratulate them on their election and wish them all the best in steering our fine community and project. We would also like to thank all of the candidates for their interest in serving on the board, and we're proud to have so many excellent candidates to choose from for the board. For those that like numbers, the spread of votes is as follows: ==Non-Novell== Bleser, Pascal 148 45.96 % Yunashko, Bryen 69 21.43 % Linnell, Petee 42 13.04 % Rodriguez, Alex 30 9.32 % Pasanen, Tuukka 18 5.59 % Rusinek, Jakub 15 4.66 % Total: 322 ==Novell== Vogelsang, Henne 126 38.18 % Mena-Quintero, Federico 86 26.06 % Shaw, Stephen 71 21.52 % Michna, Marco 47 14.24 % Total: 330 A total of 75.11% (178 of 237) voters participated in the poll. Voters had the option of casting two votes for each category, for a possible total of 356 votes per category for the election. Some voters, however, choose not to use both of their votes for each category. The final count does not convey how close the election was in some parts, but it does show that the openSUSE community is committed to ensuring that they take a stake in their own project and that the understand that to make the project prosper they need to be active. The election committee wants to thank the first openSUSE Board, Marcus 'darix' Rückert and Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier for their ongoing support. In addition to this we want to thank again all openSUSE members for their participation. The official results including some nice graphs can be found at https://users.opensuse.org/elections/2/result Best regards, Marko Jung (on behalf of the election committee) -- 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 43
by Jan-Simon Möller 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

We are pleased to announce: Issue 43 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Build Service Webclient Survey Started * Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Now Available * We want YOU - for openSUSE Weekly Newsletter * People of openSUSE: Henne Vogelsang The openSUSE Weekly News is not only translated to German [1], but now also available in Russian [2] and Japanese [3]. [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/43 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/43 [2] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/43 [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/43 Last weeks issue: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/42 Have a lot of fun! -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/10/23 16:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/10/23 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=10&year=2… This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/Current as soon as possible. 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). Have a lot of fun .. JP Rosevear (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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: G:C to Contrib Meeting today
by Bryen 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is a meeting today in the #opensuse-gnome IRC channel to discuss the migration of packages from GNOME:Community repository to Contrib repository and to get volunteers to participate in this great project. The meeting is today at 22:00 UTC in #opensuse-gnome channel. See you all there, the more the merrier! -- Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board -- 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] Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Now Available
by Christoph Thiel 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It's a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for immediate download and testing. As mentioned on news.opensuse.org, this release was delayed significantly by the power outage in Nuremberg over the weekend of October 11th. Important: Call for Testing =========================== We all want openSUSE 11.1 to be the best release yet, and we need your help to get there. This release is ready for widespread testing, and we're encouraging everyone to download and test the beta release. Please run the release through your usual routine, and let us know about any bugs or other issues that you find. Remember that this is a beta release, and is not suitable for use on production systems, however. We have a page of new features specific to openSUSE 11.1 here: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.1 This is a definitive list of new features added into 11.1 that need testing. Please use this page to identify and test new features -- and then mark them complete when you've finished testing. See openSUSE.org/Testing for more information on Testing. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list, and join the openSUSE-Factory channel #on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. What's changed since beta 1? ============================ Major changes in this release include: * Live CDs for x86 and x86_64 GNOME and KDE * OpenOffice.org 3.0 * Mono 2.0 Final * Linux 2.6.27.1 (fixes e1000e issue) * CUPS 1.3.9 * Parts of 11.1 branding are now in place * Amarok 2.0 beta 2 * Banshee 1.3.2 * GNOME 2.24 Installing openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 on Mac OS X machines should work fine. Previous openSUSE releases would not write the partition table correctly to the MBR, but it should now be possible to install openSUSE on Macs more easily. KVM is broken in this release due to a kernel configuration change before beta 3. It should be working in the next release. OpenOffice.org 3.0 integration continues and should be much better in this release. The most annoying bugs with missing icons, broken dialogs, Java registration, and others should be fixed. However, a few bugs remain, and new ones have been reported. Current issues include: + KDE and GNOME integration is ignored (bnc#433076) + GNOME quickstarter does not work (bnc#434778) + localized strings are not updated from extra sources + optional packages are not really optional because the registry files are not spread correctly + the user configuration includes symlinks to /usr/share/ooo3 instead of that real files; it might be a feature but it might also cause problems in the future. + pyuno components are still not registered + Suse-puzzler.xls works only partly; e.h. "Sneaky Peak" or "About" works but the "Shuffle" does nohing. Also, pieces can't be moved by mouse. + some missing hacks from ooo-build/bin/package-ooo and older OOo.spec + missing OOo-sdk compat stuff (to build voiko..., bnc#428403) See DistroWatch [http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse] for an expanded list of packages being shipped in the Factory distribution. Media and Download ================== The 11.1 beta is just one of the releases that will lead to the final 11.1 release. You can find the entire roadmap on the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap. Downloads are available here: http://software.opensuse.org/developer See http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Selection for a full list of mirrors. Note that you don't need to choose a mirror yourself, but you can use the mirror list if you want or need to select a mirror manually. Most Annoying Bugs ================== * no x86_64 LiveCDs available * no PPC ISOs available (due to Bug #431945) * Bug #432732: yast2-x11: Broken xorg.conf written during installation (GeForce 6200TC/7300LE/7300SE/Go 7300, Intel 965G/965GM, Radeon <something>, vmware). Workaround: Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to console, login as root, init 3, sax2 -r, init 5. * Bug #436949: screensaver crashes gdm * Bug #437411: su and console login do not work. Workaround: sudo vi /etc/pam.d/common-auth and remove the pam_fp line. We will release a test update. * Bug #428963: dbus-1 session bus connection policy bug / was gnomesu. We will release a test update. * Bug #436835: sbl installed and running by default * Bug #436524: GDM autologin - somewhat broken ... * XEN does not work [a huge number of bug reports] Future Release Announcements ============================ Note to openSUSE contributors: If you have any changes or features to call out for future release announcements, please send an email to Zonker (zonker(a)opensuse.org) with any information that should be in that announcement. (Preferably at least two days before the scheduled release. Thanks, and have a lot of fun! -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE project meeting - 2008/10/22 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi The next openSUSE project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) tomorrow: 2008/10/22 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&month=10&year=2… 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/Project_Meeting_2008-10-22 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 -- 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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