We have a new mailing list: opensuse-kernel (subscribe via lists.opensuse.org).

This list is dedicated to the discussion of the openSUSE kernel development (Factory et al) and the kernels in the openSUSE Build Service. Packaging or openSUSE-specific patches (though hopefully rare and growing more so) are on-topic; general Linux kernel development is best served by the existing public lists (LKML et al).

Just a short/last reminder … We, Seth Arnold and /me, will be at LWE in San Francisco next week (06-09.08). You can find us at the .org pavilion, booth 20. If you are interested in Enterprise solutions, visit also the Novell booth, #702. We will show the latest alpha and of course we are there to talk with you about everything you always wanted to know about openSUSE.

There will be also one talk about the openSUSE Build Service:
BOF8: OpenSUSE Build Service - Package Building Made Easy
8/07/2007 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

See you in San Francisco!

Novell Open Audio in its current episode features a retrospection of Hack Week including development site visit reports, awarded and other selected projects including this site. In the second part, Will Stephenson of the KDE Team gets interviewed about the changes and architecture of the upcoming KDE 4.0.

There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. We have now decided to open up the translation process completely and not put any restrictions on it. Therefore I invite you to create language teams for those eight languages mentioned above, join one of the existing teams or start a new language team for a language we currently do not support. If you’re interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join!

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As quickies we combine news not worthy of an own story: Next week, a public openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 will be released which previously was planned as internal Alpha 6+. SUSE veteran Markus Rex has been appointed chief technology officer of The Linux Foundation. As second site after openSUSE News, www.opensuse.org shines in our new design; all three sites it links to will see new functionality and/or design going live within the next days.

openSUSE will be present with a talk about the project and a booth.

OpenExpo Homepage

SUSE-Art.org, part of the openDesktop.org network which evolved around the original KDE-Look.org site, went online recently after the Hack Week during which Frank Karlitschek worked on setting it up. Besides some generic content which is shared with its sisters exist categories like SUSE branded wallpapers, SUSE desktop screenshots and “SUSE Brainstorming” which allow you to share, comment and vote your contributions.

Ars Technica features a four-page story about the recent Hack Week in the Novell Open Platform Solutions business unit (where most of Novell’s openSUSE contributors are employed). Together with a few invited community members the developers worked a whole week on ideas and projects on their own. The article includes a general coverage, an interview with the initiator Nat Friedman, presents some selected projects and asks their developers for their Hack Week resume.

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 has been released to the public today.

Read more about it .