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As Thomas just announced on the project mailing list the election committee has decided to extend the period for announcing candidacy by one week to November 30. Same applies to request openSUSE membership status which makes you eligible to vote. With this change the period for candidates to campaign gets shortened by one w (Read More)
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Less than one week after the release of openSUSE 11.2, the openSUSE Education team have announced the availability of openSUSE 11.2 Edu Li-f-e edition, a customised variant of openSUSE aimed at education. (Read More)
openSUSE News:
The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board.Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on the Board, and their seats are up for election. There is also a new seat available to be occupied by a non-Novell member. Henne Vogelsang (henne) and Pasc (Read More)
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The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Project meetings are always held in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode.Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:http://en.opensuse.org/Meetin (Read More)
openSUSE News:
Issue #97 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!In this week’s issue:* openSUSE 11.2 Released!* Launch Party Locations* KDE.NEWS/Will Stephenson: Introducing KDE 4 KNetworkManager* Joe Brockmeier: Microblogging with Choqok in openSUSE 11.2* h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 2) – GraphicsFor a list (Read More)
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The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2. openSUSE 11.2 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.2 you’ll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications. openSUSE also includes a full suite of s (Read More)
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Following several development releases and two release candidates, the openSUSE development team have announced the availability of the final version of openSUSE 11.2, code named Fichte. The latest openSUSE release features a number of changes, package updates and new features (Read More)
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Microsoft has been granted a patent on a privilege escalation system which appears to cover the functionality of PolicyKit, used for fine grain authorisation on Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and other Linux systems. (Read More)
openSUSE News:
With openSUSE 11.2 right around the corner, let’s take a look at what’s new and interesting in the GNOME desktop for this release. Highlights include a preview of GNOME 3.0, new applets and application updates, and the incredibly attractive Sonar theme new for 11.2.For users coming from 11.1, openSUSE 11.2 actually features (Read More)
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We’re very, very close to the final release of openSUSE 11.2!To help promote the 11.2 release, we have banners for openSUSE 11.2 available on the openSUSE wiki, courtesy of Jakub Steiner (jimmac). They’re available in most standard ad sizes for the Web, so you should be able to find one to fit your blog or site.When openSUS (Read More)
openSUSE News:
The bugtracking tool used by the openSUSE project is the Novell bugzilla and this system will be updated to a new upstream version (version 3.4) together with some changes requested by openSUSE community and Novell employees.The date for this upgrade is Saturday November 14 at 9am mountain time (that is 16:00 UTC). Both Bug (Read More)
openSUSE News:
Issue #96 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!In this week’s issue: Call for Candidates: Board Election 2009 Novell User Communities: Using the OpenSUSE Build Service to Create and Distribute Kernel Module Packages Jigish Gohil: openSUSE Edu Li-f-e at iFest Lubos Lunak (llunak): Firefox KDE Integration Linux Weekly News/Jon (Read More)
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openSUSE 11.2 is scheduled to be officially released in about a week (give or take a few hours…) and, as usual, we’re gearing up to press a bunch of media for shows and the ambassadors.Typically Novell has created the artwork for the openSUSE DVDs, but this time around we had some really interesting and creative input from (Read More)
openSUSE News:
Behind the scenes, the Wiki and Booster Teams are currently working hard to improve the Usability of the openSUSE Wiki to the openSUSE Community. The process started in early October 2009 and after some lively discussions at the opensuse-wiki mailinglist, we successfully passed our first Team-Meeting discussing the Usabilit (Read More)