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Editors Note

We are pleased to announce our 132 issue of the openSUSE Weekly News.

We hope that you will enjoy reading.

Announcements

openSUSE 11.3 is here!

"The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird.

Among these many new features, openSUSE also provides support for netbooks and the Btrfs file system support. Users can expect to see improved hardware support with the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers. And support for the next generation of interactive computing for touchscreens like the HP TouchSmart. (...)"

New wiki, what now?

"We just switched to the new wiki. So here it is. And now? Let me explain what you can do to help!

Create your user page

Every user of the wiki has a personal page and we did not transfer any of them. We wanted to use this opportunity to brush them up and standardize them. Your userpage should be your first task in the new wiki. If your username is Geeko, just go to http://en.opensuse.org/User:Geeko and press “create”. After that load the userpage teamplate by pressing on the “Load” button. Then fill out the form and you will get a nice standardized userpage! [...]"

openSUSE News: Change in openSUSE Membership handling

"Anyone can become openSUSE member after showing continued and substantial contribution to the project of any kind (bugs, support in forums, wiki edits, code contribution etc.). For those who don’t know what openSUSE Membership is or how to become a member I suggest to read this wiki article or older blogpost by Andreas.

Some time ago openSUSE Board decided to delegate the membership handling process to so-called Membership officials. They review applications and give -1, 0, +1 points depending on user’s contributions to the project. Once user receives +4 resp. -4 points, the application is accepted resp. rejected. The length of this process depends on how much you write about yourself in the application. If you make your contributions vivid in this description, it’s very easy to verify them and you can become openSUSE member in a few days.

In both cases, an email is sent automatically to the user informing about the result. If the membership is approved, additionaly admins are informed, so email/cloak/lizards account can be set up and Weekly News team can present the new members in the separate section in OWN. The officials team currently consists of 16 very active community members, who can be reached on email address membership-officials@opensuse.org and their list is in the mentioned wiki page."

Adrian Schröter: OBS Development Team Member Job Position

"SUSE GmbH has currently a job position open for an OBS Developer. Find details on the job position page at Novell.

OBS is used in the openSUSE project, but also internally at Novell and at plenty other places and companies.

The downside will be of course that you will have to work together with people like me ;)"

Status Updates

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Distribution

Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design

"In a few days openSUSE 11.3 would be released and I did last days som screenshots for the documentation in the wiki from the installation process. And I have to say it looks not what the distribution deserve. In 11.2 we had a design problem too, the boot splash was made from jimmac and looked really different from the KDE desktop. For 11.3 we tried to avoid that and jimmac made a good looking wallpaper what looked KDE-styled.

Pieces of that wallpaper are used in some other graphics for the distribution. For example in the installer. So now take a look for the installer. The black geeko looks a little bit wrong. There are so different icons and colors used in the installer so that it looks a little bit as done without love. I think we should change that and so I made some mockups how can look the installer in the future."

SUSE Studio: Plans for openSUSE 11.3 support

"openSUSE 11.3 will be released tomorrow, and some of you have already asked when you will be able to build openSUSE 11.3 based appliances in SUSE Studio. In SUSE Studio we try to always support the latest version of openSUSE, so right now we are working on the adaptations needed to support 11.3 builds. It won't be ready at release day, but we hope to be able to add it within the next two or three weeks.

You might already know the feature to upgrade an appliance from an older openSUSE version to the latest one from older openSUSE appliances. We will also add this for the transition from version 11.2 to 11.3, so don't worry about going with openSUSE 11.2 as a base system for now. You will be able to upgrade your appliance to openSUSE 11.3 with a simple click of your mouse later (...)."

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Bugzilla

The numbers for all openSUSE project products are this week:

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Team Reports

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Mono Team

Miguel de Icaza: New Mono Runtime Features

"With Mono 2.8 we want to make it very easy for developers to use the LLVM powered Mono engine and the new Mono Garbage Collector.

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Events & Meetings

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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

Javier Llorente: Workshop at Party Quijote

"Last weekend I went to Party Quijote, which is probably the biggest LAN party of Castile (Spain). It was organized by the regional government (Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha), local universities (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) and other institutions (Centro de excelencia de software libre de Castilla-La Mancha, Fundación Insula Barataria, Ayuntamiento de Azuqueca de Henares). Some of its sponsors were Cisco, Telefónica, Iberdrola and Caja Castilla-La Mancha. This year Party Quijote took place in the city of Azuqueca de Henares, which is very close to Guadalajara and Madrid. For more information, take a look at Party Quijote’s website [...]"

Vincent Untz: Back from Bordeaux: RMLL 2010

"At the end of last week (assuming it's okay to say that the end of the week starts on Wednesday ;-)), I went to Bordeaux for the RMLL 2010: this is simply the biggest community-oriented event in France. Since I've been traveling often lately and I'm going to leave for GUADEC later this month, I chose to not attend the whole event and to only be there for 3-4 days instead of the full 6 days experience.

Booths

The Mandriva people had a really great idea this year: they proposed to try to share a booth among distributions, and thanks to them, we were able to have an openSUSE presence on the first few days. So walking down the hall where all the booths were, you could see Debian, Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE all together. Of course, we shared more than just the booths: we're all friendly people after all, so we chatted a lot and enjoyed being together. I really want to thank Michael from Mandriva for pushing me to make sure openSUSE would have a place here. (...)"

openSUSE in $COUNTRY

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Communication

The mail lists have: $ML_SUBSCRIBERS ($ML_SUBSCRIBERS_DIFF) subscribers.
The openSUSE Forums] have:
- $FORUM_SUBSCRIBERS ($FORUM_SUBSCRIBERS_DIFF) registered users
- The most users ever online was 30559, 08-Jan-2010 at 13:06.

Contributors

4517 (+35) of 11664 (+63) registered contributors in the User Directory have signed the Guiding Principles. The board has acknowledged x members.

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You can find other interesting Packages at:
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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.

Kernel Review

Jon Masters/LinuxUser kernel column #89

"Last month saw the opening and subsequent closing of the 2.6.35 kernel’s merge window, the period of time during which all of the exciting new features that have been waiting in the wings (and in linux-next nightly kernels provided by Stephen Rothwell) are considered for merging into the official ‘mainline’ kernel source tree by Linus Torvalds. Recent releases have often added a new file system (or perhaps two), but 2.6.35 does not add any new file systems. It does add many other new features, including support for profiling virtual machines from the host machine using ‘kvm perf’, the KDB in-kernel debugger that has augmented the existing KGDB support for remote debugging, the memory compaction patches, and memory hotplug support in the SLAB memory allocator."

h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 2) - File systems and storage

"Direct I/O and improved out-of-space handling for Btrfs, optimisations for XFS and OCFS2, major restructuring measures for the Libata driver and extended RAID migration options are among the most important changes in Linux 2.6.35."

Tips and Tricks

For Desktop Users

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For Commandline/Script Newbies

Bruno Friedmann: ATI HD57xxx fglrx drivers under 11.3

"Hi all, just finished updating a computer with the new 11.3

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Planet SUSE

Sandy Armstrong: Time for a litl change

"Last week was my last with Novell. This week is my first with litl. Novell was a great place to work and I recommend it to anyone. I will miss the Mono Accessibility team, but the beauty of being an open source project is that I can just pop into IRC or review some code on ReviewBoard when I'm feeling nostalgic.

"11.3 is due for release and the repositories are in place, which means users can update 'dup' from their current state."

On the Web

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Call for participation

"As you all know I am a Linux Lover. If you didn't know then you do now :) I use Linux at home, at work and I will blather on about it given half of a quarter of a chance. So what! You may think. Just another pot bellied four eyed long haired geek who still wishes he had his pocket protector. True, I am one of those people, although I never had a pocket protector and my belly is quite a bit larger than a pot :) I was the same sort of person when I was just as in love with windows as I now am with Linux. The person I am has not changed, except for domestication caused by marriage. Just the operating system. [...]"

Wolfgang Rosenauer: Mozilla Summit 2010

"I’m just back from the Mozilla Summit 2010 and I’m pretty excited about the demos I’ve seen there about the future of Firefox and the open web.

HTML5/CSS3 is most likely the next big thing on the web and Firefox 4 will be there to support it.

There is a really cool demo I would like to share: (note the dynamic real time content from twitter and flickr and also that this animation is not a video)

And once Firefox 4 with WebGL support will be out we will hit again the problematic situation on Linux about X.org, OpenGL and graphics drivers. (And for this moment I still need to embed the above video as Flash object to not ignore the people using non-WebM enabled browsers ;-) )"

Andrew Wafaa: Blogged about: Goblin status update

"I thought it was about time that I enlightened people as to what the

state of play is with my efforts of getting MeeGo 1.0 for Netbooks on openSUSE.

The good news is I think I'm pretty much there :-) I believe all the

essential packages are built now, although there is a *lot* of work to be done in getting the packages into Factory. The outstanding work is mostly spec file housekeeping but non the less it will be a relatively laborious task. [...]"

LenZ Grimmer: OpenSQL Camp Europe: Time to cast your votes!

"If you wonder why there hasn't been an update from me for quite a while — I just returned from two months of paternal leave, in which I actually managed to stay away from the PC most of the time. In the meanwhile, I've officially become an Oracle employee and there is a lot of administrative things to take care of... But it feels good to be back!

During my absence, Giuseppe and Felix kicked off the Call for Papers for this year's European OpenSQL Camp, which will again take place in parallel to FrOSCon in St. Augustin (Germany) on August 21st/22nd. We've received a number of great submissions, now we would like to ask our community about your favourites!"

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saigkill ^{Talk - Contributions} Sascha Manns (Editor in Chief)
STS301 ^{Talk - Contributions} Sebastian Schöbinger (Tips/Tricks)
HeliosReds ^{Talk - Contributions} Satoru Matsumoto (Editorial Office)
Caf4926 ^{Talk - Contributions} Carl Fletcher (Main-Newsletter, Forums Sec.)
Okuro ^{Talk - Contributions} Thomas Hofstätter (Events & Meetings)
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