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Strategy sucks
in openSUSE News
(03/09/2010 21:48:05)
s t rategy statement from team Hi all, Over the last weeks there has been a lot of disussion, both internally and externally,?about the strategies which have been proposed. However, we also missed a lot of voices from our community. We take responsibility for leaving many of you behind by focusing on a very?corporate-management?solution to the initial question which prompted this process. A question we think still is relevant: The identity of openSUSE both as a Community and as a Project. Initially our goal was to answer:?”Who is openSUSE and what does it (want to) do?” prompted by the discussion about the default desktop?at the openSUSE conference last year.?In five years the?openSUSE?project?has evolved?from a fully company-driven project to a communty project where everybody can contribute. This has brought uncertainty and a lack of direction. The current lack of a clear ‘story behind it all’ is?hampering our ability to establish a common?identity?and sense of security. From a marketing point of view, it?becomes an uphill battle… Throughout the process, we?consulted some people and the discussion about a strategy started with the goal to solve this issue. However, many feel that ‘strategy’ and the approach to find one is not fitting our community. We lost most of you in the second paragraph of the strategy pages on the wiki – too much?talk. We would like to go back to the?start?and focus on describing who we are, as a community, instead of finding new ways to go. The input you all have given us by mail, forums,?IRC?and in person was valuable and we?will?use that. So that is what we will do: Highlight?the story behind openSUSE Identify?what users we target?and illustrate what we offer to?them, Connect it with the issues that matter most to our community And then we?will?document this story, image, direction, strategy – or however your call it . From you all – we will?continue to seek your?input on it once we post it. By mail, forum,?IRC?or in person – again. Without your help it won’t be much, so please think about that! Greetings, Your strategy team
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openSUSE Connect Beta
in openSUSE News
(03/09/2010 14:30:41)
As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘ HackMeck ‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg . Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and meet collaborators. Try it! Did we whet your appetite? Want to try it? No problem, just head over to our beta instance http://connect.opensuse.org and login as user geeko with the password opensuse to try it out. Make some friends, create a group or run a poll. This instance is regularly deployed with the newest code from our git repository so you will always get the latest and greatest. But please don’t forget that this is a beta If you encounter any problems, guess what, make a bugreport in our bugzilla ! Help out! Or how about you get your hands dirty? So far our experience with Elgg is wonderful. It’s a tidy, extensible and well designed piece of software. The community is very helpful and there is a lot (if not to say a butt-load) of functionality available. And if something is not there already we have found that we can easily add it. You could too you know? Elgg runs on a combination of Apache, MySQL and the PHP scripting language and as this is the most popular web server environment in the world we hope we can attract more people to help to fit Elgg to openSUSE’s needs. And on top of that it’s really easy to hack on it! The changes we did so far at the HackMeck and the last couple of weeks are self-contained in plugins that extend the basic functionality. The powerful data model and view system of Elgg make it possible to change it to openSUSE’s needs without ever touching the core functions. So if you are interested in helping,? get to know Elgg and then get in contact with the openSUSE Boosters. We hope you will enjoy this new openSUSE tool. And remember: Have a lot of fun…
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openSUSE Announce First 11.4 Development Milestone With Improved Package Management Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME
in openSUSE News
(02/09/2010 15:08:52)
Metalink multichannel download, so package candy melts your screen, not your internet connection. openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 is available today , Thursday, September 2?for developers, testers and community members to test and participate in the development of openSUSE 11.4. M1 starts off openSUSE 11.4 development at a cracking pace with performance improvements in the package management network layer and version updates to major components. This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. These will improve both repository refresh and package install and update performance. Metalink allows the m?ulti-channel download of packages by downloading the individual blocks of a package in parallel from multiple servers. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update. The new Curl-based zypp backend also gives libzypp and therefore zypper and YaST better support for network proxies, by using the same proxy configuration as the rest of YaST instead of its own, and adds support for HTTP BASIC password-protected repositories. And as an added bonus, MultiCurl should eliminate slow and hanging package installations that occurred due to bugs in the old MediaAria backend. Zsync efficiently downloads only the changed metadata. Sweet! Other major components that have received updates from upstream projects for Milestone 1 include XOrg 1.9, KDE 4.5 and GNOME 2.32.0 Beta 1. Automated testing and brave openSUSE Factory testers have been validating early builds to make sure that Milestone 1 is suitable for others to test, so please download Milestone 1 and report bugs – the earlier a bug is reported in the development cycle, the more likely it is that it will be fixed on release day, March 10, 2011. The next milestone is scheduled for September 30.
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Software Freedom Day is Coming!
in openSUSE News
(30/08/2010 17:00:24)
On September 18, it is international Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to celebrate Free Software and the people behind it. It wants to spread the word about Free Software and help people find each other. We, the openSUSE community, of course need to be part of this! So this is a call to you all: mark september 18 in your agenda. Check the Software Freedom Day website and find the meeting in your neighboorhood . If there is none, how about setting one up? Go to the Start Guide and get to work. You can organize your own event! Of course, openSUSE will help you. If you plan to go to an event or organize one, get in contact with us at marketing@opensuse.org ! If you mail us your information we can send you a package with openSUSE Promo DVD’s, a poster and some stickers so you can be an ambassador for openSUSE at your local event. Help us spread the word! Greetings, The openSUSE marketing team
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J-42 avant la sortie d'Ubuntu 10.10 ! Le compte ? rebours a d?marr? sur http://ubuntu-fr.org (via @ubuntuparty)
in Suivi Ubuntu-fr
(29/08/2010 19:51:56)
J-42 avant la sortie d'Ubuntu 10.10 ! Le compte ? rebours a d?marr? sur http://ubuntu-fr.org (via @ubuntuparty)
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Les forums de Fedora-Fr sous FluxBB 1.4
in Fedora-Fr - Communaut? francophone Fedora - Linux / Actualit
(29/08/2010 16:01:28)
Bonjour, la migration des forums de PunBB 1.2 vers FluxBB 1.4 c'est achev?e. Vous pouvez en voir les nouveaut?es : Nouveaut? propre ? FluxBB Mod [R?solu] Ajout de AddThis Mod sondage Ajout de reCaptcha Relooking rapide du forum Plus de BBCode !
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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 138 is out!
in openSUSE News
(28/08/2010 21:01:55)
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 138! In the issue 138 you can read Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules Sebastian K?gler: Demystifying Akonadi Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 2 Rares Aioanei: openSUSE Kernel Review Wolfgang Rosenauer: Call for testing: Firefox 4.0b4 on KDE (and in general) Content: Announcements Status Updates Team Reports In the Community New Applications Security Updates Kernel Review Tips and Tricks Planet SUSE openSUSE Forums On the Web Contact us Credits Translations Editors Note We are pleased to announce our 138 issue of the openSUSE Weekly News . Now we have 138 issues full of information about our choosed System openSUSE. We are happy about that. What we’re expecting in this issue? One of the interesting Topics are the new discussed Rules from the Board Election. Then we have a interesting article about Akonadi, and new Stuff from the Mono team. We hope that you will enjoy reading. Status Updates Board Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules “Last years election of seats for the openSUSE board showed that our election rules are not complete. So, before the elections this year start, I propose that we refine the rules and like to start with this post a discussion on how to change them. I see the following situations not handled: Less candidates than seats for a category (Novell/non-Novell) Equal number of candidates and open seats for a category (Novell/non-Novell) a board member resigning a board member disappearing and not engaging in the board a board member getting hired by Novell or leaves Novell We also need to clarify when the new board constitutes.” Distribution Schedules for the next Week “2. September 2010: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 release: Milestone: snapshot release without agenda. We release it once we have several new key components in.” Maintainance Updates openSUSE-RU-2010:0531-1 (low): NetworkManager: Remove call to NFS restart openSUSE-RU-2010:0530-1 (moderate): inputattach: Fix syntax errors in the init script openSUSE-RU-2010:0535-1 (moderate): mount.cifs: Does not appear to support the (documented, preferred) credentials option. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0534-1 (important): cpio: It crashes on non existing pattern file. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0533-1 (low): smpppd: allow to control non-dialup interfaces openSUSE-RU-2010:0545-1 (important): lxdm: Collective update for lxdm openSUSE-RU-2010:0548-1 (low): pstoedit: This update fixes an crash of pstoedit when it is called from inkscape openSUSE-RU-2010:0555-1 (low): ivman: Fixed not receiving hal events (openSUSE 11.2) openSUSE-RU-2010:0554-1 (low): ivman: Fixed not receiving hal events (openSUSE 11.3) Bugzilla The numbers for all openSUSE project products are this week: All Open Reports: 5297 (+44) Blocker: 3 (+0) Critical: 338 (+11) Major: 994 (+11) Normal: 2965 (+16) Minor: 444 (+6) Enhancements: 553 (+0) Important links: Detailed Bugzilla Report Submitting Bug Reports Bug Reporting FAQ Team Reports Build Service Team Martin Mohring: OBS 2.1: Status of PowerPC and MIPS support with QEMU “Now that ARM support in the OBS is getting more mature, here a report on the Status of PowerPC and MIPS builds using QEMU. They are implemented similiar to the ARM solution, and use QEMU Usermode (to allow speedup with x86 based cross compilers like we do for ARM). First of all, PowerPC native builds do work since a long time (3+ years). At the beginning, only XEN virtualization was available for OBS, and XEN did not work on PowerPC hardware. Recently, KVM autosetup was added to OBS with release 1.8. KVM also works on PowerPC machines, so there are now fully functional PowerPC native builds with virtual machine support available.” Build Team Meeting Meeting minutes Build Service Statistics Projects: 14665 (+96) Packages: 98471 (+445) Repositories: 23907 (+126) by 24478 (+98) confirmed users. KDE Team Sebastian K?gler: Demystifying Akonadi “The exotic-sounding ?Akonadi? refers to both a mythological figure and the KDE platform?s central information framework. This article will dispel some of the mystery about how Akonadi will improve performance and integration, and how it is being rolled out into KDE applications. I?ll also provide some insight how the technology works, and what will become possible with this new PIM framework. Many people have been asking what the status of the new, Akonadi-based Kontact Groupware suite is. As I?ve been working closely with the PIM hackers, I thought I?d give my readers a heads-up on what?s going on and what to expect. In this article, I will often take KMail as an example for the port, but similar things apply to the other PIM applications that form the Kontact suite as well.” Mono Team Stephen Shaw: Mono Accessibility 2.1 Released “We just released our first 2.x series update this week. This release brings a 127 bug fixes. Over the last several months a fair amount of attention has been paid to improving at-spi2 as well. For those that don?t know what at-spi2 is its the next generation of Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface. The new at-spi2 using dbus in an effort to remove corba and bonobo from the gnome stack.” Mario Carrion: Mono Accessibility 2.1 “Last Tuesday, we presented Mono Accessibility 2.1. We worked really hard on this release. Our main goals were, among other things, to improve our UI Automation Client API implementation, polish the interaction with at-spi2, better Moonlight accessibility and to handle custom and client-side providers. The great work made by all the contributors was the reason this release accomplished those goals.” openFATE Team #310402: Driver Printer Konica Magicolor 2490 (and other) “there exist foo2lava printer drivers for several Konica Minolta magicolor printers (e.g. 2490 MF) for already some time. But they are not included in the standard Suse Distribution. It would be nice to include the drivers in the standard distribution.” #310403: DLNA Client / Service integration “Many devices and computers in the home can provide DLNA servers and client for media playback and serving. This is to propose 2 things: (…)” #310405: yast2 wagon should be a fully graphic upgrade tool “I really like it that yast2-wagon exists for users to upgrade from release to release. It effectively does a zypper dup, but via a nicer gui interface. (…)” #310406: Make /sbin and /usr/sbin accessible by sudo out-of-the-box “In current situation, /sbin and /usr/sbin are excluded from user path. If the user wants to use ‘sudo’ to run superuser tools located in sbin, the command fails. (…)” #310410: Evaluate switching to libjpeg-turbo “Quoting http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo : ==== libjpeg-turbo is fork of the original libjpeg project. It contains numerous performance related enhancements and is at least twice faster in JPEG compression/decompression than original libjpeg on platforms with MMX/SSE instruction set. It has same API/ABI like original libjpeg and also runs on non-SSE platforms where is around 25% faster. http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo ==== We should evaluate this library and see if we can replace libjpeg with it for improved performance.” #310431: Create automatic private group for new user “In Yast user management, add an option in the new user dialog to have a new, private group created for the user. The group should be named as the user. (…)” #310433: Support for apt-url “In the fact there are many webpages and articles (not only ubuntu tutorials) using apt-url feature to install software, would be nice if openSUSE implements own solution for this feature. (…)” #310442: New .desktop features “Desktop files should contains lots of information, helping for desktop software. First of enchancement should be connection with other desktop file. It means, that .desktop files should update status automatically, when used or displayed. Second would be autmatically removing broken desktop files.” #310443: Preload Improvements in openSUSE “The preload teams are doing many improvements for preloads, very few of these end in the openSUSE distribution. The improvements are bug fixes, hardware enablement and UI changes. Goal: Get all preload improvements into the next openSUSE release.” Statistics Feature statistics for openSUSE 11.4 : Total: 185 (+15) Unconfirmed: 171 (+13) New: 6 (+0) Evaluation: 6 (+0) Candidate: 0 (+0) Done: 1 (+1) Rejected: 0 (+0) Duplicate: 1 (+1) More information on openFATE Translation Team Localization Daily updated translation statistics are available on the openSUSE Localization Portal . Trunk Top-List ? Localization Guide In the Community Sirko Kemter: FrOSCon 2010 “Last weekend took FrOSCon place and openSUSE had a great presentation there. It was the 5th FroSCon and I was there since the second. FrOSCon addresses more developer and so its the best way to make a simple booth there for presenting openSUSE. FrOSCon offers projects rooms for making ther own program in there. Projects like PHP, Django, Perl, Geany and some others used the offer. After LinuxTag I said to Henne let us take an developer room too, we can make what we want in there, we have only what we do in it.” Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 2 “Back home in Nuernberg now ? Sunday has been a long day of hacking on Elgg and its plugins to shape it into a users site that knows about the social side of the openSUSE community. Our ?Hack Meck? was a little bit harder after letting loose at the legendary FrOSCon Saturday night party in the balmy August air, but we still managed to put down the glow sticks, hammer the keys and reach our goals for the weekend. These were adapting the user data to include fields that are peculiar to openSUSE such as membership status and IRC cloak, enhancing the Poll plugin to meet our info gathering needs, adapting the Elgg theming to our ubiquitous Bento theme, and working on calendaring and events so that we all know what is coming next in openSUSE world and so you can display your packaging and bug-reporting achievements to the world.” Nelson Marques: The Concept of Marketing and openSUSE Conference 2010 “Dear openSUSE contributor and enthusiast, Is Marketing important for Free Software development? I hope to reach an answer in openSUSE Conference 2010 with the community and help the openSUSE Community to develop their own concepts of Marketing. I believe this is a very sensible and important task that I could accomplish with your help and participation on my small presentation. My presentation will target ?The Concept of Marketing and FOSS Development? and it goal is to establish a Concept of Marketing that can be developed by the openSUSE Community based on a set of small concepts defined by Marketing, such as: trade, value, consumer or processes.” Welcome new Members (Corner for new acknowledged Members) “We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Members: Christophe Hoenen (oeilvert) He is very active on the forums. Kyrill Detinov (Lazy_Kent) Very active in Bugzilla, Mailinglists and BuildService Sebastian K?gler (vizzzion) Active opensuse-kde developer. Also active in Mailinglists and Bugzilla. Christian Wittmer (computersalat) He is active in the Buildservice.” Events & Meetings Past: August 21-22, 2010: FrOSCon (St. Augustin/Germany; http://www.froscon.de/) August 24, 2010: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting August 25, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting Upcoming: August 31-September 1, 2010: LinuxCon Brasil 2010 (S?o Paulo/Brazil) September 1, 2010: German Wiki Team Meeting September 2, 2010: openSUSE KDE Team Meeting September 7, 2010: VOLDAY 2 (S?o Paulo/Brazil) You can find more informations on other events at: openSUSE News/Events ? Local events openSUSE for your ears The openSUSE Weekly News are available as Livestream or Podcast in the German Language. You can hear it or download it on http://blog.radiotux.de/podcast . openSUSE in $COUNTRY “Details” Communication The mail lists have: 37674 (-8) subscribers. The openSUSE Forums ] have: 49631 (+252) registered users The most users ever online was 33435, 23-Aug-2010 at 03:27. Contributors 4947 (+18) of 12550 (+40) registered contributors in the User Directory have signed the Guiding Principles. The board has acknowledged 436 (+5) members . New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE Packman: imagination 2.1.1 “Imagination is a lightweight and simple DVD slide show maker written in C language and built with the GTK+2 toolkit. I noticed a lack on the Linux platform of a user-friendly DVD slide show maker, so I started developing Imagination. True, there are some other GUIs which do the job, but they usually require a lot of dependencies to be installed first. Imagination has been designed from the ground up to be fast, light and easy-to-use. It requires the ffmpeg encoder ONLY to produce the movie file – to be burned to DVD then with another application. Yes you don’t need any other third-party software, I like the KISS principle Imagination at present features 26 transitions effects developed as plugins loaded at startup. Exporting of the slideshow as FLV format is supported. No sound and Ken Burns effects yet but they are planned in the next release.” OMG!SUSE! team: Photographers Rejoice! digiKam 1.4 hits the streets “Professional-grade photo management app digiKam bumped to version 1.4.0 today, fixing a roll-full1 of bugs, including several crashes (full changelog). For the unfamiliar, digiKam is an aphoto management app for KDE (but you can use it on GNOME too!), which makes importing and organizing photos easy peasy.” You can find other interesting Packages at: Packman ? OBS Security Updates To view the security announcements in full, or to receive them as soon as they’re released, refer to the openSUSE Security Announce mailing list. SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:016 Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2010:016 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 +0000 Cross-References: CVE-2010-0211, CVE-2010-0212, CVE-2010-1168 CVE-2010-1447, CVE-2010-1507, CVE-2010-1797 CVE-2010-2497, CVE-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499 CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2520 CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541, CVE-2010-2548 CVE-2010-2576, CVE-2010-2783, CVE-2010-2805 CVE-2010-2806, CVE-2010-2807, CVE-2010-2808 CVE-2010-3019, CVE-2010-3020, CVE-2010-3021 openSUSE-SU-2010:0430-4 (important): MozillaThunderbird: Update to 3.0.6 security release openSUSE-SU-2010:0540-1 (important): opera: version 10.61 fixes various vulnerabilities openSUSE-SU-2010:0546-1 (moderate): openldap2: fixed MODRDN DoS, replicating inconsistencies and \0 character-DoS (openSUSE 11.2) openSUSE-SU-2010:0547-1 (moderate): openldap2: fixed MODRDN DoS, replicating inconsistencies and \0 character-DoS (openSUSE 11.1) openSUSE-SU-2010:0549-1 (critical): freetype2: security update for various bugs openSUSE-SU-2010:0553-1 (moderate): java-1_6_0-openjdk security update Kernel Review h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: New X Server, 3D drivers for Radeon 5000 and new stable kernels “While the new kernel versions mainly correct minor bugs, X.org’s next generation X Server offers a range of improvements. Various code segments released by AMD developers allow the X.org open source drivers for Radeon GPUs to utilise the 2D and 3D acceleration features available with Radeon series 5000 graphics cards.” Rares Aioanei: openSUSE Kernel Review Rares Aioanei gives a good Weekly Review about the Kernel. Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.36-rc2 “Another week, another -rc. I didn’t really ever get around to announcing -rc1 when I released it, and we had enough niggling small problems (like a memory corruptor in the HID layer that ended up causing some random problems etc) there that I never got around to fixing that lack of announcement. And hopefully -rc2 is a good point to correct the lack of earlier commentary.” Tips and Tricks For Desktop Users makeuseof.com/Justin Pot: BleachBit ? A Utility To Clean Up Your Linux System “It?s no secret: many programs fill your hard drive with well-meaning, but useless, crap. From browser caches to install leftovers to logs, computers are full of unnecessary information. Windows users can turn to CCleaner ? a program that can make your computer run faster – to systematically remove such fluff from their drive. But what about Linux users who need to wipe and clean their Linux machine?” You can find bleachbit in our Repositories: http://bit.ly/a1oiiK For Commandline/Script Newbies Linux Journal/LJ Staff: Stupid tar Tricks “One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you’re more likely to use a file to make your archive. To use a tarfile, use the command-line option -f . To create a new tarfile, use the command-line option -c. To extract files from a tarfile, use the option -x. You also can compress the resulting tarfile via two methods. To use bzip2, use the -j option, or for gzip, use the -z option. (…)” ServerWatch/Juliet Kemp: Single vs. Double Quotes in Bash “In Bash, whether to use single or double quotes depends on exactly what you want to do, and the differences can trip you up if you’re not concentrating. Here’s a quick rundown of what each does and when to use them. (…)” For Developers and Programmers IBM developerWorks/Wei Dong Xie: Avoiding memory leaks in POSIX thread programming “POSIX thread programming defines a standard set of C programming language types, functions, and constants?and pthreads provide a powerful tool for thread management. To use pthreads to the fullest, you’ll want to avoid the common mistakes. One common mistake is forgetting to join joinable threads, which can create memory leaks and cause extra work. In this tips-oriented article, learn the basics of POSIX threads, see how to identify and detect thread memory leaks, and get solid advice for avoiding them.” For System Administrators Jared Ottley: Alfresco: Permissions Web Scripts “A couple of months back I was asked to write a couple of web scripts to help one of our customers to be able to check and modify permissions for content/spaces in the Alfresco repository. I?ve finally had the chance to spend sometime testing and now writing about them. The core of the web scripts was quick to write. The fun (more time consuming) part was working with exception handling in javascipt. I know tons of fun right! There are few different ways to use exception handling based on which version of Alfresco you are using. The customer is on Enterprise 3.1 and I wanted to make sure that the web scripts also worked on the more current releases of Alfresco as well. A change (re: addition) was made in Enterprise 3.2.1 and Community 3.3 to help simplify exception handeling. I?ll talk about exception handling and these differences in a follow up post. For now let?s talk about these new web scripts.” IBMDeveloperWorks/Ian Shields: Learn Linux, 101: Maintain the integrity of filesystems “Learn how to check the integrity of your Linux? filesystems, monitor free space, and fix simple problems. Use the material in this article to study for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification?or just to check your filesystems and keep them in good working order, especially after a system crash or power loss.” Planet SUSE Wolfgang Rosenauer: Call for testing: Firefox 4.0b4 on KDE (and in general) “If you are brave enough feel free to update to Firefox 4.0b4 from the mozilla:beta repository. It will not install in parallel to previous versions but will replace your existing Firefox package. As always you want to backup your profile before so you can go back to your previous version without problems. The latest package contains the KDE integration patches we had in FF3.x which are pretty much untested. So if you run KDE and want to give it a try please report issues you find in Novell?s Bugzilla.” Holger Hetterich: SMBTA documentation improving “While we are working on getting a first release of smbtad and smbtatools out of the door, we?ve just released the ?SMB Traffic
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Pique-nique sur Paris
in Fedora-Fr - Communaut? francophone Fedora - Linux / Actualit
(28/08/2010 13:17:41)
Je me permets de signaler que Parinux (le groupe d'utilisateurs de Linux de Paris) organise un pique-nique demain au Parc Andr? Citro?n ? Paris. ?a commence ? midi (m?me si vous pouvez venir quand vous voulez) et c'est parti pour durer une bonne partie de la journ?e. Pour plus d'infos : http://www.parinux.org/content/pique-ni ? mois-daout
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Pique-nique sur Paris
in L'actualit? de Fedora-Fr
(28/08/2010 13:17:41)
Je me permets de signaler que Parinux (le groupe d'utilisateurs de Linux de Paris) organise un pique-nique demain au Parc Andr? Citro?n ? Paris. ?a commence ? midi (m?me si vous pouvez venir quand vous voulez) et c'est parti pour durer une bonne partie de la journ?e. Pour plus d'infos : http://www.parinux.org/content/pique-ni … mois-daout
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Fedora 14 Alpha disponible
in Fedora-Fr - Communaut? francophone Fedora - Linux / Actualit
(25/08/2010 10:12:28)
Le Projet Fedora a rendu disponible hier soir la premi?re version officielle de test de Fedora 14. Pour la t?l?charger et la tester d?s maintenant, rendez-vous sur http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Nous avons besoin de votre aide afin de faire de Fedora 14 la meilleure version jamais produite, il est important pour nous que vous testiez les fonctionnalit?s qui sont importantes pour VOUS. Si vous trouvez un bug, signalez-le ! Chaque bug rapport? am?liore potentiellement l'exp?rience de millions d'autres utilisateurs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com Au niveau des nouveaut?s de Fedora 14 pour les utilisateurs finaux, citons : Better System and Session Management Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Desktop Virtualization Faster JPEG Compression/Decompression New and Updated Programming Languages Simpler, Faster Debugging Better Tools For Developers KDE Plasma Desktop 4.5.0 Sugar 0.90 Improved Netbook Experience With MeeGo? Fedora on the Cloud IPMI Server Management Made Simple Support for SCAP Perl 6 support with Rakudo More Powerful Data Analysis D?sol?, de si bon matin, je n'avais pas le courage de traduire cette liste en anglais :) Le d?tail est disponible ici : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14 ? own_Issues Le calendrier de sortie des prochaines versions de test et de la version finale est disponible ici : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
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Fedora 14 Alpha disponible
in L'actualit? de Fedora-Fr
(25/08/2010 10:12:28)
Le Projet Fedora a rendu disponible hier soir la premi?re version officielle de test de Fedora 14. Pour la t?l?charger et la tester d?s maintenant, rendez-vous sur http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Nous avons besoin de votre aide afin de faire de Fedora 14 la meilleure version jamais produite, il est important pour nous que vous testiez les fonctionnalit?s qui sont importantes pour VOUS. Si vous trouvez un bug, signalez-le ! Chaque bug rapport? am?liore potentiellement l'exp?rience de millions d'autres utilisateurs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com Au niveau des nouveaut?s de Fedora 14 pour les utilisateurs finaux, citons : Better System and Session Management Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Desktop Virtualization Faster JPEG Compression/Decompression New and Updated Programming Languages Simpler, Faster Debugging Better Tools For Developers KDE Plasma Desktop 4.5.0 Sugar 0.90 Improved Netbook Experience With MeeGo? Fedora on the Cloud IPMI Server Management Made Simple Support for SCAP Perl 6 support with Rakudo More Powerful Data Analysis D?sol?, de si bon matin, je n'avais pas le courage de traduire cette liste en anglais :) Le d?tail est disponible ici : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14 … own_Issues Le calendrier de sortie des prochaines versions de test et de la version finale est disponible ici : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
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Les forums de Fedora-fr en lecture seule ce week-end
in Fedora-Fr - Communaut? francophone Fedora - Linux / Actualit
(23/08/2010 21:59:18)
Les forums de Fedora-Fr seront en lecture seule durant une demi-journ?e le week-end (Samedi ou Dimanche) prochain. La raison en est la migration de nos frums de FluxBB 1.2 vers FluxBB 1.4. Lors de cette migration, la fonction messages priv?s ne sera pas maintenu. Pensez donc ? r?cup?rer vos MP importants. Mais d'autres nouveaut?s seront l? pour vous faire oublier les MP : - mode r?solu ! - sondages - captcha - etc...
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Les forums de Fedora-Fr en lecure seule ce week-end
in L'actualit? de Fedora-Fr
(23/08/2010 21:59:18)
Les forums de Fedora-Fr seront en lecture seule durant une demi-journ?e le week-end (Samedi ou Dimanche) prochain. La raison en est la migration de nos frums de FluxBB 1.2 vers FluxBB 1.4. Lors de cette migration, la fonction messages priv?s ne sera pas maintenu. Pensez donc ? r?cup?rer vos MP importants. Mais d'autres nouveaut?s seront l? pour vous faire oublier les MP : - mode r?solu ! - sondages - captcha - etc...
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YoBoy n'?tait pas sur le Planet ? Il y est maintenant http://blog.yoboy.fr
in Suivi Ubuntu-fr
(22/08/2010 10:46:14)
YoBoy n'?tait pas sur le Planet ? Il y est maintenant http://blog.yoboy.fr
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Clapico est maintenant sur le Planet http://www.clapico.com
in Suivi Ubuntu-fr
(22/08/2010 10:44:49)
Clapico est maintenant sur le Planet http://www.clapico.com
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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137 is out!
in openSUSE News
(22/08/2010 09:56:23)
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137. We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137. In the issue 137 you can read Sirko Kemter: Improve artwork openSUSE 11.4 Javier Llorente: KDE Release Party in Madrid Softpedia/Lucian Constantin: Critical Vulnerability Silently Patched in Linux Kernel Tips4Linux.com: Convert eBooks in Linux opensource.com/Ruth Suehle: Ready to be an open source contributor but don’t know where to start? Content: Announcements Status Updates Team Reports In the Community New Applications Security Updates Kernel Review Tips and Tricks Planet SUSE openSUSE Forums On the Web Contact us Credits Translations Announcements Status Updates Distribution Maintainance Updates openSUSE-RU-2010:0507-1 (low): xmms2-devel: It does not install xmms runtime libraries. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0508-1 (important): anjuta: This update fixes a crash on start caused through a missing package dependency openSUSE-RU-2010:0509-1 (moderate): lxsession: Logout doesn’t work properly without hal. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0510-1 (low): mdadm: This update fixes a invalid command syntax in /etc/init.d/boot.md openSUSE-RU-2010:0511-1 (moderate): cheese: Starting cheese results in a segmentation fault. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0512-1 (moderate): jedit: It refuses to start due wrong bsh2 version. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0513-1 (low): tomoe: “Handwriting recognation” doesn’t work. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0514-1 (low): dhcp: This update fixes the ldap-support for dhcp-server and fixes the NetworkManager dhcp-client classless route option compatibility openSUSE-RU-2010:0515-1 (low): xaw3d: xterm doesn’t use the right xaw3d libs. This is fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0524-1 (low): lvm2: “lvcreate –snapshot” results in scary error messages. Fixed by this update openSUSE-RU-2010:0525-1 (low): cups-drivers-splix: splix should not contain PPDs for printers which require JBIG. Fixed by this update Bugzilla The numbers for all openSUSE project products are this week: All Open Reports: 5253 (-47) Blocker: 3 (+0) Critical: 327 (-3) Major: 983 (-11) Normal: 2949 (-16) Minor: 438 (-9) Enhancements: 553 (-8) Important links: Detailed Bugzilla Report Submitting Bug Reports Bug Reporting FAQ Team Reports Art Team Sirko Kemter: Improve artwork openSUSE 11.4 “It was a little bit quiet about that topic last days, thats because I had a little bit other work to do. The only thing I did now for the installer is, to make deliberations which pages are needed and helpful in the slideshow. More I cant do at this time. A generally background is needed first. I did some wallpaper but I found no really idea, one of them looke like a commercial for lemonade, there was some the liked it but me self not.” Sirko Kemter: Graphical improvements for 11.4 “Some days ago, I showed some of the wallpaper proposals they Ivan Cukic made for openSUSE 11.4. I think they are not the final version but we got good feedback for them and I think they will happen in 11.4. So I played a little bit with them how it could look in generally with the installer, splash and so on. I choosed the grey version because grey is neutral color. And when u come from splash to the windowmanager there changes not the green and it looks very different. So look and tell me what u think. And of course its not final and I have, to make some things better.” Boosters Team Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 1 “After long drives from Nuernberg, Prague and Darmstadt hitting every traffic jam on the A3 (the Czechs won the race), the openSUSE Boosters met up in the little rhenish town of Sankt Augustin near Bonn to attend FrOSCon. Last night we reacquainted ourselves with each other and the odd glass of K?lsch or two over steak and chips. Suitably fortified, we are now occupied our project room upstairs at FrOSCon (room C125) and are now hacking like crazy on our team project, a new site for openSUSE users and contributors. This is based on the Elgg free software social networking platform, so we?re dusting off our PHP and looking at all the integration points with the rest of the openSUSE platform: the Build Service, Bugzilla, the wiki, Lizards, and so on. So if you?re more of a web monkey than a distro gibbon and would like to help, drop by tomorrow or just get in touch with the ?????? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Boosters_team .” Build Service Team Martin Mohring: OBS 2.1: ACL Feature and Status “One and a half year is now gone since I posted about my work for ARM support in the OBS and the work for a port of openSUSE to ARM. Lots of things had happened in the meantime that are related, from my limited view most notably Nokia and Intel joining Moblin and Maemo to MeeGo (MeeGo is currently working on a number of Atom and ARM based devices), chosing to use OBS as build system and last but not least myself joining The Linuxfoundation (you will be not surprised to hear that I work at LF on OBS). In the meantime there had also been a major new OBS release 1.8/2.0 with a bunch of new features.” Build Service Statistics Projects: 14569 (-199) Packages: 98026 (-3249) Repositories: 23791 (+569) by 24380 (+121) confirmed users. KDE Team KDE at openSUSE: KDE: Week 26-32 “It?s been a while without post, simply because I did not have any issues with my openSUSE or KDE that I could have written about. Meanwhile enough small things have accumulated. The openSUSE and thus KDE update from 11.2 with KDE from the KDE:Factory repo to 11.3 and its stock KDE packages went smoothly via zypper dup. The most annoying issues are that the not threadsafe dbus makes dolphin crash and thus look bad. Akonadi is crashing on logout sometimes, yet I could not get a backtrace yet because drkonqi is shut down while collecting it. And using desktop effects locks-up my Intel driven netbook from time to time because of buggy drivers/Xorg/Kernel (three more bugs: 1 ? 2 ? 3), i.e. not KDE. I wonder how often KDE gets blamed for bugs that are actually due to e.g. buggy graphics drivers or packages not part of KDE.” Raymond Wooninck: Still alive and kicking !! New snapshots and reorganization for openSUSE?s KDE4:Unstable repository “I guess that maybe some people were wondering how come that it was so silence around the Unstable repository for openSUSE. There are two reasons for it. First one is that I have been on holidays and I promised my family that I would stay away from a computer as much as possible. Secondly in August the KDE repositories were changes and optimized. This meant not only a new name and/or location, but also we had a good look at what was provided by each repo. For the KDE4:Unstable repo it was agreed that the new repo name would be KDE:Unstable:SC and that it should only provide the standard KDE:SC packages with the build-required libraries. This means that application like Amarok, choqok, konversation, etc are no longer provided through this KDE:Unstable:SC repository. SVN snapshot versions of these applications can be found in the new playground (KDE:Unstable:Playground) repo or released version can be retrieved directly from either the openSUSE:Factory repository or in case of an older distribution from the KDE:UpdatedApps repository.” openFATE Team #310338: Always create /root/autoyast.xml for every installation “Distributions such as RHEL (and any of its blood line) always leave a file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg which can be used to repeat the installation via their anaconda/kickstart process. The parallel to this with openSUSE is YaST2 and AutoYaST. The feature request is asking that at the end of every installation in the home directory of the root user the necessary file or files are created to allow the user to repeat the installation with the same options. (…)” #310339: Improved KDE integration for GIMP & Inkscape “GIMP and Inkscape need better integration into KDE, namely its “Open file” dialogue is stuck in GNOME look. Firefox and OpenOffice have their own wrappers, which integrate their corresponding action into KDE. GIMP and Inkscape are programs which would benefit greatly from native KDE image thumbnails.” #310346: java developer “Since opensolaris “died” I’m looking for a platform perfectly suitable for java development. I’d need the last versions of netbeans, mysql + workbench, mercurial + android + open jdk + ORACLE JDK. All of these components can be installed separately, but I’d like a distribution “one click developer”. Possibly with self – update of the last issues.” #310357: user settings on installation “on during the installation process on step “create new user” is doing “Automatic Login” per default on. Even its a laptop and the laptop pattern is choosed from yast automaticly. it would be a little bit more secure for new user who not know what that means to make that not as default.” #310364: Add DVD’s of each DE “In openSUSE 10.3, there were CD’s that you could use to install openSUSE KDE or GNOME alone. I think it would be great to create individual DVDs for each Deskltop Environment, in addition to the current media, so you can install GNOME and loads of software with it. A KDE user could have 4.7 GB of KDE software that they would use, rather than XFCE, GNOME, and LXDE software they wouldn’t use. Same for GNOME users. I would imagine that they had to drop some packes from the distribution to make room for LXDE in 11.3 and KDE 3 in 11.1 and 11.0. This would make installing software convenient for computers without an internet connection.” #310365: Light CD for older computers “A “Light CD” of openSUSE would be excellent for older computers. It would be a CD with LXDE, OpenOffice, the SUSE Base system, Test-Install YaST, and some basic tools. With this CD, older computers would be able to run openSUSE at a reasonable speed, have YaST and openSUSE community support\updates, legacy drivers, and some basic tools. With this CD edition avalible for download, you could have openSUSE on every old computer.” #310377: Make Python 3 the default “Python 3.0 was released nearly 2 years ago now and has been included in the last two releases of openSUSE. Currently in openSUSE we have a python package which installs Python 2.6 and a python3 package which installs Python 3.1. (…)” #310379: SUSE Application Center “Ubuntu 9.10 had one great new feature in it: the Ubuntu Software Center. It’s radically dumped down, clean and uncluttered version of Synaptic. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter for throughout description. It is not intended to replace Synaptic, but to make installing software more accessible. This is definitely something openSUSE needs. YaST is even more powerful than Synaptic, but it’s also more cluttered (at least in KDE). Thus, the demand for clearly presented centralized software installation and removal is also larger. I’m proposing, that we bluntly copy Ubuntu Software Center principles and create a native Qt interface for KDE. (…)” #310380: grub2 bootonce or bootnext command “With the possibility of Grub2 being implemented soon as a default boot manager, it would be useful to add to the Grub2 packaging a small script that fully emulates the older grubonce that is provided with openSUSE-11.3 and earlier. (…)” #310398: e4defrag “is necessary that a file system to have a defragmenter, even e4defrag is not finished yet. is a kernel patch which do not affect the users who do not want use it. fedora has it and it is the time to have it opensuse too.” Statistics Feature statistics for openSUSE 11.4 : Total: 170 (+17) Unconfirmed: 158 (+15) New: 6 (+0) Evaluation: 6 (+2) Candidate: 0 (+0) Done: 0 (+0) Rejected: 0 (+0) Duplicate: 0 (+0) More information on openFATE Translation Team Localization Daily updated translation statistics are available on the openSUSE Localization Portal . Trunk Top-List ? Localization Guide In the Community Events & Meetings Past: August 18, 2010: German Wiki Team Meeting August 19, 2010: ?openSUSE KDE Team meeting Upcoming: August 21-22, 2010: FrOSCon (St. Augustin/Germany; http://www.froscon.de/) August 24, 2010: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting August 25, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting You can find more informations on other events at: openSUSE News/Events ? Local events openSUSE for your ears The openSUSE Weekly News are available as Livestream or Podcast in the German Language. You can hear it or download it on http://blog.radiotux.de/podcast . From Ambassadors Vincent Untz: More GUADEC tidbits Vincent give us Impressions from the GUADEC Marc Christensen: SLLUG meeting: Research, Writing, Typography, and Design using Linux: Wed. Aug 18, 2010 “The August 2010 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Research, Writing, Typography, and Design using Linux and presented by Rob Oaks. Topic: A big picture introduction to research, writing, typography, and design using Linux. Why open source options are the best available and you really should be using them. Technologies Covered: Zotero, BibTeX, LaTeX, LyX, DocBook, Inkscape, Scribus.” Javier Llorente: KDE Release Party in Madrid “The other day I met afiestas in the tram. He had a KDE sticker on his laptop and I thought perhaps this guy is interested in the KDE bug squashing party we have organized? I talked to him about it and he told me that he was a KDE developer. Quite a surprise! So we?re going to celebrate the release of KDE SC 4.5.0 at Sigland (San Bernardo 118) next Saturday (21st) at 14:00. ” openSUSE Launch Party – Peru 2010 “I hope it’s not late to tell you about it, I’d like to comment you about openSUSE Launch Party we made here in Lima, Peru. As it was announced, it took part on Beeznest Latino offices and we could meet some people interested on the openSUSE Project. We could also spread the word about the openSUSE distribution, as a replacement for closed source OS’s and other known Linux distros. Here in my country, openSUSE isn’t well known yet, so we’re making the necessary to change this.” openSUSE in $COUNTRY “Details” Communication The mail lists have: 37682 (-13) subscribers. The openSUSE Forums ] have: 49379 (+354) registered users The most users ever online was 30559, 08-Jan-2010 at 13:06. Contributors 4929 (+32) of 12510 (+58) registered contributors in the User Directory have signed the Guiding Principles. The board has acknowledged 431 (+0) members . Security Updates To view the security announcements in full, or to receive them as soon as they’re released, refer to the openSUSE Security Announce mailing list. SUSE Security Announcement: flash-player (SUSE-SA:2010:034) Package: flash-player Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:034 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE 11.2 openSUSE 11.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:015 Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2010:015 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000 Cross-References: CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-2663, CVE-2009-3560 CVE-2009-3700, CVE-2009-3720, CVE-2009-3826 CVE-2009-4270, CVE-2009-4901, CVE-2009-4902 CVE-2010-0407, CVE-2010-1321, CVE-2010-1386 CVE-2010-1392, CVE-2010-1405, CVE-2010-1407 CVE-2010-1416, CVE-2010-1417, CVE-2010-1418 CVE-2010-1421, CVE-2010-1422, CVE-2010-1501 CVE-2010-1628, CVE-2010-1664, CVE-2010-1665 CVE-2010-1758, CVE-2010-1759, CVE-2010-1760 CVE-2010-1761, CVE-2010-1762, CVE-2010-1767 CVE-2010-1770, CVE-2010-1771, CVE-2010-1772 CVE-2010-1773, CVE-2010-1774, CVE-2010-1869 CVE-2010-2547, CVE-2010-2628, CVE-2010-2785 SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:2010:035) Package: kernel Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:035 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: SLE SDK 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 Vulnerability Type: remote denial of service CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) openSUSE-SU-2010:0518-1 (moderate): perl: Fixed two Safe.pm security issues and some bugs (openSUSE 11.2) openSUSE-SU-2010:0519-1 (moderate): perl: Fixed two Safe.pm security issues and some bugs (openSUSE 11.1) Kernel Review Rares Aioanei: openSUSE kernel news ? 21.08.2010 Rares Aioanai gives a new Issue about his Kernel Insights. Softpedia/Lucian Constantin: Critical Vulnerability Silently Patched in Linux Kernel “A highly dangerous privilege escalation vulnerability, which can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as root from any GUI application, has been patched in the Linux kernel. (…)” Tips and Tricks For Desktop Users Tips4Linux.com: Convert eBooks in Linux “Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format. For this, install Calibre. The application not only provides you with a graphical way to manage your eBook collection, but also comes with a set of useful command-line tools. One of these is ebook-convert. (…)” Tips4Linux.com: Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle?s ebooks using Linux “When you buy an ebook using your Kindle, there?s a 99% chance it?s a DRM file. That means you won?t be able to read it anywhere else but on your Kindle. And we won?t accept that. To be able to convert that file and remove its DRM protection, you need a set of Python scripts called MobiDeDRM . (…)” For System Administrators The Geek Stuff/Ramesh Natarajan: UNIX / Linux: 2 Ways to Add Swap Space Using dd, mkswap and swapon “ Question : I would like to add more swap space to my Linux system. Can you explain with clear examples on how to increase the swap space? Answer : You can either use a dedicated hard drive partition to add new swap space, or create a swap file on an existing filesystem and use it as swap space.” Planet SUSE James Ots: Making a VCDS inferface work “While I’m in the mood for posting solutions to technical problems, here’s another. I have a OBD interface cable for my VW Bora so that I can run a piece of software called VCDS (sometimes known as VAG-COM) and read the error codes from my car’s ECU. However, when I plug in the cable (it’s the USB version), it is usually assigned to COM7. Unfortunately, the VCDS programme only supports COM1-4.” James Ots: Disabling the buzz “I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my desktop computer, and I have to say it’s pretty much awesome. Almost everything has worked straight out of the box, including my Wacom graphics tablet and my wireless card. One thing that’s been annoying me is that whenever I make a mistake (such as trying to delete some text that isn’t there), my computer makes the most almighty buzz. Or maybe it could be described as a belch. It’s pretty horrible, however you describe it, and makes me jump out of my skin every time. I think it’s supposed to be the System Bell.” Michael Meeks: Why Oracle’s Java Copyrights Might Matter “What Copyrights: By now so many, apparently well informed, commentators have noticed and written off the Oracle Java Copyright claims as applying to the open-source implementation, documentation etc. That of course seems weak: how likely is it that Google would have cut/pasted code or documentation into their Davlik implementation, given the intense scrutiny they knew would come eventually. Page 2, Clause 11 of the complaint gives some background: …” Vincent Untz: Want to join Novell? “I’ve been at Novell for two years and a half now, and it’s been an interesting ride. I must say I’ve had two amazing bosses who understand the way I work and who have been really supportive, so that definitely helps! I don’t know if Klaas will stand me much longer, though In addition to that, being part of the Boosters is a good way to be with people as crazy as I am, working on weird stuff like me. Of course, it has been hard to see good people leave the company in the past few months ? they are generally still involved upstream, though, so that’s positive But recently, we’ve been joined by two friends: Fr?d?ric, who’s working on SUSE Meego, and Jos, the new openSUSE community manager. And guess what? We expect more! Because we’re still hiring: …” Jos Poortvliet: And what has that dude been doing lately… “First of all, thanks for the great welcome to the community! I’ve received many constructive and nice comments which made me very happy. I really look forward to working with you all over the next months/years/centuries/eons/etc. As I don’t yet have much insight in our community, I am spending the first month on getting to know you all, getting input on what is needed, what is going on etcetera. Besides of course reading up on mail, following discussions on IRC and playing with openSUSE myself I went to the Novell headquarters for a week and spoke with my colleagues there. It was an interesting week – Novell has a deep commitment to openSUSE but there is still a lot to learn from both sides. I hope to be able to bring the parts of Novell which work on and with openSUSE technology a bit closer to the community and will start with the marketing. The marketing team at Novell has a lot of experience talking to corporate partners and I hope we can use their experience for openSUSE. The other way around I think we can help them a lot in spreading the word about the work Novell is doing in the free software area.” Danny Kukawka: Hacking osc (4) “Here’s what some of the major stuff I did on osc in the last weeks: * changed ‘osc request revoke’ (and also reopen, accept, decline, wipe, revoke) to check the actual state and ask the user to prevent set
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Server maintenance next Saturday, the 21 August
in openSUSE News
(18/08/2010 15:54:47)
We will have a service outage this saturday (21 August) due to work on power supply in one of our server rooms. This means the following services will not be accessable on that day: build.opensuse.org api.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org stage.opensuse.org hermes.opensuse.org users.opensuse.org board.opensuse.org The content on download.opensuse.org will come from a fall back system and will not get updated during saturday.
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La doc est de nouveau ouverte aux contributions. Prochaine coupure ? pr?voir, vendredi. http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org
in Suivi Ubuntu-fr
(16/08/2010 23:51:54)
La doc est de nouveau ouverte aux contributions. Prochaine coupure ? pr?voir, vendredi. http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org
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La doc ubuntu-fr passe en lecture seule le temps d'un changement de serveur. (4 jours de travaux ?lectriques)
in Suivi Ubuntu-fr
(16/08/2010 22:00:57)
La doc ubuntu-fr passe en lecture seule le temps d'un changement de serveur. (4 jours de travaux ?lectriques)
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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 136 is out!
in openSUSE News
(14/08/2010 19:47:18)
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 136! In the issue 136 you can read KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th Andrew Wafaa: oSC10 ? Conference Update h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: 2.6.36 development and new stable kernels and drivers IBMDeveloperWorks/Roderick W. Smith:Resizing Linux partitions, Part 1: Basics Novell Now Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11 on Amazon Web Services Content: Announcements Status Updates Team Reports In the Community New Applications Security Updates Kernel Review Tips and Tricks Planet SUSE openSUSE Forums On the Web Contact us Credits Translations Announcements openSUSE Connect hacking session at FrOSCon 2010 “HackMeck is the weekend hack retreat of the openSUSE Boosters team in the openSUSE development room @ FrosCON. The aim of HackMeck is to advance Connect, the social networking framework the project is using to connect its users with each other. This is a great opportunity for new contributors to participate together with experienced members on some specific objective. Connect is built on top of the Elgg plattform and most of the features we want are already available as Elgg plugins. We will evaluate and enhance those in order to match our expectations. However, some additional features will also require the creation of new plugins. Connect runs on a combination of a web server and the MySQL database and is written in the PHP scripting language. If you already posses knowledge about this very popular web server environment we encourage you to join HackMeck! But even if you don?t there are plenty of cool things to do and this weekend will give you the opportunity to learn and further yourself.” New German Language Forums “Discussions were held. Feasibility tested. The result is we now have our own German language forums together with 11 new German language forum moderators. I would personally like to welcome erikro, caerdu, pistazienfresser, Kaiserhg, Fruchtratte, Lehmama, HRGargi, Esvau008, lOtz1009, johest, and Linuxsusefan as our newest forum staff working in the German language forums. Also buckesfeld deserves a pat on the back for putting in all the work needed to make this happen.” KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th “Javier sent us the following announcement: It?s my pleasure to announce the next KDE Bug triage It will begin next Friday (13th) and end on Monday (16th). …” Status Updates Distribution Maintainance Updates openSUSE-RU-2010:0482-1 (low): kdeartwork4: fixed xscreensaver-based screensavers not working in KDE4 openSUSE-RU-2010:0483-1 (moderate): star: This updates fixes a buffer overflow in star. openSUSE-RU-2010:0484-1 (critical): NetworkManager: Fixed no longer connecting after machine crashed during suspend openSUSE-RU-2010:0485-1 (low): ImageMagick: It cannot compress grayscale TIFF images with JPEG. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0486-1 (moderate): apparmor-utils: It is totally broken – can’t find their perl module. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0487-1 (low): beaver: Update from 0.4.0rc1 to the stable release 0.4.0 openSUSE-RU-2010:0488-1 (low): xpdf-poppler: This update fixes a crash in xpdf-poppler. openSUSE-RU-2010:0489-1 (low): build: Distribution default is wrong. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0497-1 (low): sysvinit: “startproc/checkproc/killproc” do not work with scripts. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0498-1 (low): yast2-add-on-creator: Yast Add-on Creator build broken addons when multiple addons at one time are created. Fixed by this update. openSUSE-RU-2010:0504-1 (low): hal: This update fixes a hald-probe-input crash openSUSE-RU-2010:0506-1 (low): release-notes-openSUSE: Enhancements and translation update Bugzilla The numbers for all openSUSE project products are this week: All Open Reports: 5300 (+1) Blocker: 3 (+0) Critical: 330 (-1) Major: 994 (-7) Normal: 2965 (+10) Minor: 447 (-1) Enhancements: 561 (+0) Important links: Detailed Bugzilla Report Submitting Bug Reports Bug Reporting FAQ Team Reports Build Service Team Build Service Statistics Projects: 14370 (+151) Packages: 101275 (+274) Repositories: 23222 (+508) by 24259 (+102) confirmed users. Marketing Team Team Meeting Minutes “Minutes from the Meeting” Mono Team Jeffrey Stedfast: Using Git “Now that Mono has moved to GitHub , a number of contributors (including myself) have been somewhat lost, not knowing how to properly use Git. So today, I’m recommending a book to help all the lost souls out there get comfortable with using Git. As many long-time programmers probably know, O’Reilly books are top notch. Most probably also would not be surprised that O’Reilly has a book covering Git: Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development.” openFATE Team #310307: Amarok – sorting files in media library by Artist/Albumedit “It could be very useful, when Amarok could sort my files in my “Music library” (directory with all music), like Banshee or iTunes. (…)” #310310: Installer partition layout to allow “Whole Disk Usage” “Currently the installer doesn’t provide any option for Whole Disk Usage for a single purpose (such as rootfs or swap or /home etc…). Whole disk usage means there is no partition table and that file-system or swap is formatted directly. (…)” #310311: Unify default PATH “The default PATH settings for root and normal users are inconsistent at various places in the distribution: (…)” #310320: documentation on howto set up wireless on opensuse “Add to documentation a chapter on howto set up wireless on opensuse covering (…)” #310321: Integrate Bastille Linux and security options of drakconf in the YaST “erence the options of the Mandriva control center in the seccion of security and Bastille Linux might be useful to integrate them into Yast and enable end-users productive, non-technical users and users with technical conocmientos to better configure more options OpenSuse single or a test response questions as if you use p2p sharing applications like ktorrent and amule (which may also cause the system to check the configuration of ktorrent and amule, as the firewall ports to open suse firewall automatically with no configuration by the user ) a few end users and productive users and know about Bastille Linux Bastille Linux and know how to use. And in the Mandriva security check I’ve seen some options that are not in Yast, local security firewall and perhaps there is something useful.” #310322: Install, uninstall and change desktop environments easier “Some people use and prefer a single desk and others prefer to use multiple. It would be good for non-technical users can make installations and removals of each desktop environments and change KDM – GDM – etc. so most easy.” #310323: Create browser based Open Source Chromium in distributions “Browser based Open Source Chromium It would be interesting, useful and educational (for some) if you can take the open source Chromium and create or modify it to have a final version google chrome browser alternative to all users with different expertise (different knowledge) can be used. Perhaps to create an opensource project collaboration between various Free and Open Source communities (distributions and applications) that is an alternative to Google Browser without the closed source, may also be taken up ideas and code of Mozilla Firefox. Some friends like the idea of fusion Chromium and Firefox code. (…)” #310327: use systemd session manager instead of SysVinit/upstart “ systemd is a system and session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. ” Statistics Feature statistics for openSUSE 11.4 : Total: 153 (+75) Unconfirmed: 143 (+73) New: 6 (+1) Evaluation: 4 (+1) Candidate: 0 (+0) Done: 0 (+0) Rejected: 0 (+0) Duplicate: 0 (+0) More information on openFATE Translation Team Localization Daily updated translation statistics are available on the openSUSE Localization Portal . Trunk Top-List ? Localization Guide Wiki-Team Matthew Ehle: Fun with the openSUSE Wiki “The last couple of weeks have kept me pretty busy with the openSUSE wikis, but the results have been well worth the effort. Here?s a quick rundown of the improvements made since the 11.3 release: * Set up Google Custom Search as an alternative to the default MediaWiki search * Submitted a site map to Google * Set up a cron to regenerate the site map daily, so new articles can get indexed more quickly * Fixed the issue with the new login form * Set up protection against spambots * Set up a 301 (Permanent) redirect from wiki.opensuse.org to en.opensuse.org * Created languages.opensuse.org” In the Community Andrew Wafaa: oSC10 ? Conference Update “So Stage 1 of the next openSUSE Conference is complete (submission deadline), and we are moving forward with Stage 2 (scheduling talks). I personally wasn?t privvy to last year?s submissions, but we have well over 80 submissions covering a huge range of topics this year which is brilliant. One of the nice things this year is we have submissions from other distributions and projects, which is great The submissions from all parties cover a wide variety of topics from very technical to very fun, and it isn?t going to be easy to select which ones to accept.” Events & Meetings Past: August 09, 2010: Birthday of openSUSE Project August 10, 2010: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting August 11, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting August 13, 2010: KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th (to Monday 16th) August 14, 2010: openSUSE Community & Ambassadors in Brasilia Meeting Upcoming: August 18, 2010: German Wiki Team Meeting August 19, 2010: ?openSUSE KDE Team meeting August 21-22, 2010: FrOSCon (St. Augustin/Germany; http://www.froscon.de/) August 24, 2010: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting August 25, 2010: openSUSE Board Meeting You can find more informations on other events at: openSUSE News/Events ? Local events openSUSE for your ears The openSUSE Weekly News are available as Livestream or Podcast in the German Language. You can hear it or download it on http://blog.radiotux.de/podcast . From Ambassadors Alex Barrios: openSUSE LaunchParty in M?rida, Venezuela “Well, finally and happily I was able to make my LaunchParty for 11.3 here in my city. It was a simple setup: The place with the help of a local FOSS Academy that let me use his installations, Some media that I burn to giveaway, one of my laptops and my sister laptop to place two machines for desktop demonstrations, and just the desire to speak the word of the Geeko ?” Sirko Kemter: Launch Party openSUSE 11.3 “Yesterday, we had the Launch Party for 11.3 here in Chemnitz. It was interesting, how we do it we do it wron. For the last Launch Party we rented a room in a near cultural center, after that we thaught we can do it in the conference rooms of my company. And this time it was filled up We had a lot of guests. Some of them came really early and so it was time for an coffee and smalltalk. This time we prepared 3 talks, I started with the ?openSUSE A-Z contribution guide? after that Tobias Koenig followed with ?KDE yesterday – today and tomorrow, that was a really intersting presentation. He talked about how KDE started and he showed how KDE looked in earlier versions and on the end how showed some things what comes in future. Michl send me some books and I gived them away for the first questions (in Tobias case it was a nasty question about backuping akonadi). The last talk was a special topic, we had Kai-Uwe he talked about his Oyranos project, thats a server for color managment.” K?lm?n K?m?nczy: Budapest release party from ambassador pov “Short report from the openSUSE 11.3 release party Budapest, Hungary from an ambassador point of view. (…)” Sirko Kemter: Launch party Vienna “I have only a few words to this event. The pic is taken at Museumsquartier downtown Vienna at Launch Party. Thx go to Michl for helping me find a speaker for the event, Gerald Pfeifer for be that speaker and make the journey to Vienna and thx goes to quintessenz e.V. for organizing the rooms and the party himself.” openSUSE in $COUNTRY “Details” Communication The mail lists have: 37695 (-1) subscribers. The openSUSE Forums ] have: 49025 (+324) registered users The most users ever online was 30559, 08-Jan-2010 at 13:06. Contributors 4897 (+14) of 12452 (+34) registered contributors in the User Directory have signed the Guiding Principles. The board has acknowledged 431 members . New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE Packman: kmediafactory 0.8.0-2 “KMediafactory is easy to use template based dvd authoring tool. You can quickly create DVD menus for home videos and TV recordings in three simple steps.” Packman: mythtv-0_23 0.23.1-0 “MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording and viewing television programs. Refer to the mythtv package for more information. There are also several add-ons and themes available. In order to facilitate installations with smart/apt-get/yum and other related package resolvers this meta-package can be used to install all in one sweep.” Packman: lightspark 0.4.3-0 “Lightspark is a FLOSS Flash player entirely rewritten from scratch based on Adobe’s released SWF documentation. Lightspark features: * JIT compilation of Actionscript to native x86 bytecode using LLVM. * Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shaders (GLSL). * Very good and robust support for current-generation Actionscript3. * A new, clean, codebase exploiting multithreading and optimized for modern hardware. Designed from scratch after the official Flash documentation was released.” OMG!SUSE! team: A few fresh packages for your weekend “Over the past week so many great new updates were committed to the Factory, I just had to write about it. The openSUSE Factory the staging ground for the next release of openSUSE, but fortunately most app updates make their way into repositories for openSUSE 11.3 such as GNOME:Apps/openSUSE_11.3. Adding these repos in YaST can be an awesome way to get the absolute latest app updates for your openSUSE install, the downside of these bleeding edge repos however, is that the packages have undergone less rigorous testing than a formal openSUSE release. All disclaimers aside, onto the new fancy stuff!” You can find other interesting Packages at: Packman ? OBS Security Updates To view the security announcements in full, or to receive them as soon as they’re released, refer to the openSUSE Security Announce mailing list. SUSE Security Announcement: flash-player (SUSE-SA:2010:034) Package: flash-player Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:034 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE 11.2 openSUSE 11.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 openSUSE-SU-2010:0481-1 (important): Linux Kernel: Regression bugfix update openSUSE-SU-2010:0496-1 (important): strongswan: fixing snprintf overflows openSUSE-SU-2010:0500-1 (low): pcsc-lite: fix for CVE-2009-4901 and CVE-2009-4902 Kernel Review h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: 2.6.36 development and new stable kernels and drivers “While Linux 2.6.36 development continues apace, a number of new stable releases iron out various quirks in previous versions. New versions of PowerTop and graphics drivers for AMD and NVIDIA graphics chips offer numerous enhancements and bug fixes.” Tips and Tricks For Desktop Users Abhishek: Enabling the Ctrl Alt Backspace combo in KDE 4+ “Today, while toying around with the system settings menu in KDE 4.5, I noticed an option to enable the good old Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combo. It?s been a while since I?ve used that combination thanks to the stability KDE offers these days and, it wasn?t until I discovered it in the settings that I remembered using it a few years back. The combo, which allowed killing the X server is now disabled by default in many major Linux distributions.” Worldlabel.com/Nathan Willis: Getting started with gLabels: Labels & Cards GNU/Linux “In the world of label creation software for Linux, gLabels is the long-standing market leader. It offers a convenient graphical interface in which you can design labels with the same tools you are used to finding in image editing software, but it also supports business-friendly advanced features like ?mail merge? and barcode generation. In addition to that, its focus on label creation offers some advantages in printing over general office or graphics alternatives, like simple control over printing partial sheets.” For Developers and Programmers Packt/Dusty Phillips: Python 3 Object Oriented Programming: Managing objects “In the previous article on Python 3: When to Use Object-oriented Programming , the focus was on objects and their attributes and methods. In this article by Dusty Phillips, author of Python 3 Object Oriented Programming, we’ll take a look at designing higher-level objects; the kind of objects that manage other objects. The objects that tie everything together.” IBMDeveloperWorks/M. Tim Jones: User space memory access from the Linux kernel “As the kernel and user space exist in different virtual address spaces, there are special considerations for moving data between them. Explore the ideas behind virtual address spaces and the kernel APIs for data movement to and from user space, and learn some of the other mapping techniques used to map memory.” PlanetQT/Alan Alpert: A Guide to Writing Games with QML “My last post on QML had a lot of people asking for an example, as opposed to a general discourse. In my opinion, if you want concrete examples you need to move from blogs into real code. Given that I have written a, hopefully simple, application demonstrating the points in my last post (designing C++ code for QML use), this post (writing games with QML), and the next QML post I plan to write (QML?s versioning system, when I?ll use version 2 of this example). It?s a C++ module containing word-game related logic designed for use from QML, plus a QML game using it, and they can be found in the qt-qml-demo-playground repository in the wordgame and longwords folders, respectively. They are merely intended to provide some concrete examples, and you don?t have to play with them before reading the rest of this post (but it is a game, so you can ). Now onto the topic of this post, writing games with QML.” For System Administrators Alex Barrios: Somethings to do after an openSUSE Installation (Part 2) “So, continuing with my last post about things to do after an openSUSE installation, now its the time for ?Adding Games?, but first, some clarifications about two things: One: You can add Codecs and other stuff with a 1-click-package, avoiding to use Zypper, I just expose the zypper method because I think its a bit more short , but that its just matter of taste. So, if you are running openSUSE 11.3 with KDE use this ymp, and if you are using GNOME use this other. If you are on a older version of openSUSE, just go to this page and select your version. Two: The broadcom-wl package its on Packman, so you have to add that repo (Via YaST -> Repositories), before you can install that package.”
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