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[opensuse-web] Updating the front page to reflect opensuse.Asia
by Manu Gupta 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi Can anyone point me to the URL so that I can update the landing page to reflect openSUSE.Asia instead of the conference? -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-web] Re: [Evergreen] Evergreen 13.1 kernel - revisited
by Bruno Friedmann 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

On Saturday 15 August 2015 11.22:09 Michal Kubecek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently rethinking the decision to base Evergreen 13.1 kernel on > SLE12 one; I would like to discuss the option to base it on SLE12-SP1 > kernel instead. > > When I started planning the kernel for Evergreen 13.1, using SLE12 for > it was a natural choice: expected end of 13.1 regular support was about > half a year after SLE12 release and SLE12 had 3.12 kernel which was > close enough to 3.11 we present in 13.1. This kernel is already > available for anyone wishing to use it in home:mkubecek:evergreen-13.1 > OBS repository and AFAIK some people are running it on their 13.1 > systems (me, for instance). Thanks to restate where we can find it. Actually I've a couple of 13.1 that I want to keep fresh and run with kernel:stable repo. which is great except the pace of one new kernel per week. (Most are servers) > > However, a few things changed since the original decision and now it > looks like 13.1 is going to be supported until shortly after SLE12 SP1 > is released. As SLE12-SP1 kernel is also 3.12 (but with many additional > backports), basing Evergreen 13.1 kernel on SLE12-SP1 would have some > advantages while the transition would be less demanding than moving to > a new base version. > > I tried to gather the pros and cons of the transition: > > + more backports, mostly drivers but also some "core" functionality > + some non-critical fixes that were too intrusive for a maintenance > update > + longer regular support > - current users might encounter some problems (like need to rebuild > 3rd party modules) > - SLE12 is more mature after more than year, SLE12-SP1 will be > relatively fresh > > If it was only up to me, I would probably go on with the transition to > SLE12-SP1. But I would like to hear from current evergreen-13.1 kernel > users and users planning to use Evergreen 13.1 when 13.1 regular support > finishes. > > Michal Kubeček I hardly believe, that could be a nice step forward to think and try to get it (if you believe it could do the job) inside the already official update repo for 13.1 or at least advertise the changes so people can test it from the update-oss-test repo? We (once we is defined ;-) can then check if vbox, vmware, nvidia, fglrx builds and work with. It has been months since the last update, and I fear that some of the last security issues were not really covered in the actual 3.11.10-29 ( beside the fact I can be 100% wrong :-) ) I will try your build kernel and report if I found any issue with it. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-web] Re: [Evergreen] Evergreen 13.1 kernel - revisited
by Bruno Friedmann 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

On Saturday 15 August 2015 14.40:12 Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2015-08-15 12:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Michal Kubecek <> [08-15-15 05:24]: [...] > > > >> + longer regular support - current users might encounter some > >> problems (like need to rebuild 3rd party modules) - SLE12 is more > >> mature after more than year, SLE12-SP1 will be relatively fresh > >> > >> If it was only up to me, I would probably go on with the > >> transition to SLE12-SP1. But I would like to hear from current > >> evergreen-13.1 kernel users and users planning to use Evergreen > >> 13.1 when 13.1 regular support finishes. > > > > Go with SLE12-SP1. > > Yes, I agree. > > Although I have another machine which I haven't decided yet whether to > keep on 13.1 or go to Leap; and this one uses Nvidia and Vmware blobs. > I wonder whether the people that maintain those rpms (sp the nvidia > one) could rebase them on new kernel, or would we need to use the > "hard way" (ie, nvidia.run). I'm not sure how the nvidia official repo will be handle but at least all recent version can be builded up to 4.1.5 kernel so for 3.12+ it should be easy to be done. We just have to convince either Stephan in charge of nvidia to build them for evergreen or host them somewhere else. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-web] My comments regarding the landing page
by Manu Gupta 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Hi First of all, the design of the landing page is awesome!!!! Kudos to everyone who worked on it. However, I have issues with how the content was placed. I have always believed that the openSUSE Project is different from the openSUSE Distro. By calling openSUSE as a Linux OS, we are ignoring the fact that the we are not just a distro. One may argue that Tools describe other projects but then we come off more strongly as a distro rather than a community. Second, the contributions corner. It is uninviting for non-technical contributors. There is no mention of it and it does not help at all with the issues we are already facing or not talking about. I hope the people who are working on it give thought about it. -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner(a)opensuse.org

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