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• openSUSE Project Announces csync "Andreas Schneider has unleashed the first public release candidate ofcsync 0.42, which is now available as source from the csync Website, or via one-click for openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1.As mobile computing becomes more and more important, filesynchronization is more important than ever. Our jobs often requireworking not only on multiple computers, but in multiple locations, anddisconnected from our networks. To help solve this problem, we needeffective strategies for replication of user data and files."
• Novell Bugzilla Update to 3.2 and a Guided Report Mode "To make bug reporting easier, we will be updating Novellâs Bugzilla to the latest stable release (Bugzilla 3.2) with some additional features added by Novell. This update will take place on Saturday, January 10th,and Bugzilla will be unavailable from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MST (that's 13:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC).One significant change is that we will have a new guided mode for reporting of bugs that is default for non-Novell accounts.The guided report mode is a feature of bugzilla itself that we just enable."
  

In the Community

• Contributor Gifts "Today we had two posts that contributors received the Box and a very special gift. Again Salid was one of the first who got it. If you are not from Germany, you have to wait a little bit longer, but the packages should arrive soon. Thanks again to all contributors!"
  

Planet SUSE

• Stanislav Visnovsky: Webpin search in YaST for openSUSE 11.1"This is just a short reminder that in openSUSE 11.1, it is possible to search online for packages in YaST as described in this blog (thanks to Lukas and Bubli for making this reality!). In short, just type on command line: ..."
• Miguel de Icaza: Mono goes Accessible!"Brad Taylor has announced the first release of the Mono Accessibility stack: UI Automation provides programmatic access to most user interface (UI) elements on the desktop, enabling assistive technology products such as screen readers to provide information about the UI to end users and to manipulate the UI by means other than standard input. UI Automation also allows automated test scripts to interact with the UI."
• Masim Sugianto: Tutorial-VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 1 "VirtualBox is free open source virtualization utility to run another (or similar) operating system on top our current operating system. In this case, I may run another copies of openSUSE, Windows or another Linux distro on my openSUSE box. Part 2 here."
  

openSUSE Forums

• Weevil: The Kdenlive 0.7.1-SVN installation HOWTO for OpenSUSE 11.1 "Excited about video-editing with Kdenlive? Forum member Weevil explains how to get the current development version running in openSUSE 11.1 utilizing the Kdenlive Builder Wizard."
• LuisC-SM: Mini HOWTO for WEBCAMS (gspcav driver) "Do you encounter problems with your webcam in openSUSE 11.1 that formerly used to work with the gspcav driver? Forum member LuisC-SM suggests to use the libv4l library instead and explains how to install and actually use it."
• lowobu: Since when do you use (open)SuSE? "Have a look at this frequented survey started by forums member lowobo, participate and tell the community when and why you found your way to (open)SUSE."
  

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