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    Issue #60 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

In this week’s issue:

• Open Letter to the openSUSE Community
• Andrew Wafaa: Ciao For Now And Bonne Chance Amigos
• Lars Vogdt: Why the Buildservice is currently not for endusers
• Miguel de Icaza: Mono Runtime Debugging
• Jonathan_R: Getting YaST to read your own community repos

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    Issue #59 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

New layout !

In this week’s issue:

• Special Edition about FOSDEM2009
• OpenOffice_org 3.0.1 final available
• Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel: Product Creation with the openSUSE Build Service
• Henne Vogelsang: Fosdem talk about collaboration features and Contrib
• kamilsok: installing 64bit Java on openSUSE 11.1

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This year Juergen and me (tom) went to FOSDEM to do the video recordings of the talks in the openSUSE developer room. Last year we had some problems with the sound quality, so this year we brought some more equipment, amongst others 2 head mics for the speakers, one mic for the audience, an 8 channel mixer and speakers for the audience.

I think the result is quite good, both the sound experience in the room and on the recordings. I am sorry for the delay of the recordings, but amongst other distractions my system harddisk decided to die during the video renderings. The recently discovered tool of choice for doing the post-processing is kdenlive which in version 0.7.2 is the best video tool I’ve used on linux.

Talks Day 1:

• Welcome – openSUSE
• Who can you trust?
• openSUSE community
• openSUSE Build Service overview
• Collaboration in the openSUSE Build Service
• Putting Cross Development Support into OBS
• Create your own Linux Distribution
• Creating customized openSUSE versions with SUSE Studio
• Legal aspects of distribution development
• Apport – Automatic Application Crash Reporting for openSUSE

Talks Day 2:

• openSUSE education
• Zypper – openSUSE’s command line software manager
• Wine – the free Windows Emulator
• MirrorBrain – Free CDN for Free Software Projects
• openSUSE on Netbooks
• YaST2 – Future Roadmap
• openFATE – How to get your most wanted features into openSUSE
• Architecture of Collaboration
• Bits from your GNOME team (with build service fun inside!)
• Putting the ‘open’ in openSUSE : Community-driven KDE development

The slides are linked from the FOSDEM09 wiki page, and the recordings are available as .ogg and flash video .

The Car crew arrived today at 01:00 in Nuremberg, except some snowstorms at Cologne it was a very smooth ride. This year we had really luck with the weather. What i heard so far there where no major incidents, nothing is missing, everybody got back somehow. In the afternoon i will have fun to unbox and sort all the equipment …

So what are my impressions on FOSDEM this year? I think it was even more crowded than last year, but i’m waiting for official numbers, and overall it was a lot of fun. Because i’m organizing it for openSUSE i had not really time to attend some talks, most of the time i was at the booth or in the devroom. But even that was a lot of stress, thanks to all the speakers and Jürgen and Tom who took care of the devroom most of the time.

Speaking of Jürgen and Tom, the recordings will rock this year. They had a lot of equipment to make proper recordings with good sound. The last years we had only the camera micro, hence more background noises and less speaker sound. You fill find them later this week on our FOSDEM page.

We gave away around 1000 PromoDVDs, and i hope everybody got the contributor shirt.

FOSDEM is not possible with the help from a lot of people, actually that are to many to mention everybody. So thanks to everybody from Novell/SUSE, the community and the FOSDEM crew!

(some pics on my flickr page)

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The openSUSE Factory distribution is our permanent development distribution. Currently used to develop openSUSE 11.2. We want to make the factory distribution better usable for everybody to get a better testing for next release.
One of the complaints we received in the last years is that the huge amount of newly built packages makes it hard for people to keep their system up to date, simply due to the time needed for downloading and installing the packages.

We have switched now to a new mechanism, which will reduce the number of packages which get published significantly.
To explain the new mechanism, we should look at the old concepts to build a distribution:

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Preparing stuff for FOSDEM, call me Sir Printalot. So we have nametags (if you didn’t added you to the list you have to live with a handwritten one), schedules and posters. I also preparing the demo systems, collecting merchandise and writing blogs about it See you on Friday in Bruxelles …

(psst, there is an obvious error in one of the printouts, if you find it (and it’s the one i mean), post a comment, the first one will get a free T-Shirt at FOSDEM. Post only if you are going to Brussels and you are not working for Novell/SUSE )