A quick reminder, we have an openSUSE Project Meeting coming up on Wednesday, May 21, at 16:00 UTC, to discuss the latest developments in openSUSE.

For a listing of this week’s topics, see the agenda on the openSUSE Wiki here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-05-21. This week, the agenda includes status updates from the board, old action items, the openSUSE build service, and Q&A from the channel.

Have something to discuss that’s not listed on the agenda? Please add your topics to the agenda as soon as possible.

To join the meeting, head to #opensuse-project on the Freenode network (see instructions here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About) at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, May 21. (See here for the time in your time zone.)

See you on Wednesday!

Attention openSUSE users and contributors! It’s time to exercise your vote and help the openSUSE team identify the bugs that need to be squashed prior to the openSUSE 11.0 release. On May 22nd, we’re having a bug voting day to help ensure we identify the most troublesome issues in Bugzilla under openSUSE 11.0.

Please join us on Thursday, May 22nd from 07:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC. Check out the voting instructions on the Bugzilla and openSUSE wiki. We’ll also have live help available in the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode.

If you don’t have a Bugzilla account yet, you can sign up for one here. You know you want one! Sign up today!

By prioritizing the bugs, we can ensure that we’ve got the right bugs in our sights for the openSUSE 11.0 release.

Of course, you can help with bug voting at any time. There’s no need to wait for a bug day! Just roll up your sleeves and head over to the openSUSE Bugzilla and jump right in.

Questions or suggestions before the bug day? Drop me a note at zonker@opensuse.org.

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the last Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Over 700 bugs has been fixed since Beta 2. This means we’re on the home stretch for openSUSE 11.0 and ask you all to do final heavy testing with it and give feedback or even send us patches. And we’re not only asking for help we’d like to thank you all for the great contributions up to date! First bunch of screenshots here

Have a lot of fun!

Information and Download

Remember that this is a beta. It may not be safe to run for production systems, eg. in power plants ;-), and should be used by users interested in testing the next release of openSUSE for bugs.

Most Annoying Bugs

General

• NVIDIA driver doesn’t compile. Workaround: check here for a patch
• parallel driver grabs IRQ14 preventing legacy SFF ATA controller from working Bug #375836
• T41p shutting down due to “temperature critical” Bug #378327
• Branding not yet complete Bug #369270
• Package selector doesn’t show any patterns (Bug #390139)

GNOME

• YaST control center does not start under GNOME (Bug #389069)
• No window decoration, workaround run compiz-manager & or metacity –replace& Bug #387168)

KDE

• kdm looses keyboard when detecting an unknown previous session type Bug #389098)
• Kontact starts with sidebar splitter on right window border Bug #389141, work-around: move it to left to see components
• opensuseupdater-kde unable to start ‘yast2 piwo’ Bug #389765

See the Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev page on the wiki for an up-to-date list.

Call for Testing

If you want to help testing our standard test-cases, just take a look at openSUSE.org/Testing, and in particular the Testing:Features_11.0 sub-page which includes a definitive list of the features added into openSUSE 11.0. You can also coordinate with others and subscribe to the opensuse-testing@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list to help with our organized testing.

Media and Download

openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 for i386, x86-64 and PPC comes as different media sets, all of which can be downloaded from http://software.opensuse.org/developer. Deltas from Beta 2 are also provided. Note that you will need the latest deltarpm from Factory, or for openSUSE 10.3 you can use the home:coolo repository to grab it.

Comments, Feedback and Helping

openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 is a great time to start and continue testing-out openSUSE 11.0 before it is officially released. You can directly help and contribute to the openSUSE distribution by filing bug reports and giving feedback to the developers.

• Reporting bugs: Please report all bugs you find on in our Bugzilla as explained on bugs.openSUSE.org.
• Discussion and feedback is very welcome as well; the most appropriate place is the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list. Or in the #opensuse-factory IRC channel.

For other queries and ways to communicate with the openSUSE community take a look at the Communicate wiki page.

The next release is openSUSE 11.0 RC1 on May 29

While some are preparing their fly to Austria to attend EURO 2008, ‘People of openSUSE’ already flew but rather to meet Wolfgang Koller - founder of SuSELinuxSupport community and author of some nice KDE applications such as KTrafficAnalyzer.

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Issue #22 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• Linuxtag 2008 - latest information
• People of openSUSE: Marcus Hüwe
• Upcoming… openSUSE 11.0beta3

Meeting page

Homepage

The Novell/SUSE development offices in Prague, Czech Republic have on the 15th an event called “otevreneSUSE” which means “openSUSE” in Czech.

This event is for local people who are interested to experience how it is going in our Prague office, how developers look when they are working, what funny stuff we have done so far etc. This event is especially for people who are joining or thinking of joining the community - and like to get to talk live with some real persons that are working on openSUSE.

Detailed information are provided in Czech language only on http://www.suse.cz/akce/otevrenesuse08.html. If you need details in English or have further questions, please contact office@suse.cz.

The Novell/SUSE development offices in Prague, Czech Republic have on the 15th an event called “otevreneSUSE” which means “openSUSE” in Czech.

This event is for local people who are interested to experience how it is going in our Prague office, how developers looks when they are working, what funny stuff we have done so far etc. This event is especially for people who are joining or thinking of joining the community - and like to get to talk live with some real persons that are working on openSUSE.

Detailed information are provided in Czech language only on http://www.suse.cz/akce/otevrenesuse08.html. If you need details in English or have further questions, please contact office@suse.cz.

Despite being a openSUSE member and a platinum member of the PackMan team packaging several widely-used applications he also helps the Build Service team with osc code contributions.

With no more talk, today we nominate Marcus Hüwe as part of ‘People of openSUSE’!

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