openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 115 is out!

Issue #115 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

Contents

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• 1 Editors Note

• 2 Announcements

  • 2.1 openSUSE News: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out!

• 3 Status Updates

  • 3.1 Distribution

    • 3.1.1 Andrea Florio: openSUSE-LXDE Live CDs

    • 3.1.2 Pavol Rusnak: openSUSE Xfce Live CDs

  • 3.2 Boosters Team

    • 3.2.1 Michal Hrušecký: openSUSE Search

    • 3.2.2 Boosters Standup 2010-03-16

  • 3.3 Build Service

    • 3.3.1 Build Team Meeting

    • 3.3.2 Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters update: build.opensuse.org improvements

  • 3.4 Wiki / Communication / Events

    • 3.4.1 Jan Weber: 800 DVDs left in Chemnitz :-)

    • 3.4.2 Sirko Kemter: A few things about last weekend

    • 3.4.3 Petr Uzel: openSUSE @ Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2010

    • 3.4.4 Alex Barrios: FLISOL 2010 in Venezuela

• 4 Tips and Tricks

  • 4.1 For Desktop Users

    • 4.1.1 Worldlabel.com/Dmitri Popov: Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool

  • 4.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies

    • 4.2.1 nixCraft/Vivek Gite: Bash History: Display Date And Time For Each Command

    • 4.2.2 ServerWatch/Juliet Kemp: Get the Most Out of Your Open-Source Software With Redirection in Bash

  • 4.3 For System Administrators

    • 4.3.1 Ghacks/Jack Wallen: Understanding Samba security modes

• 5 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE

  • 5.1 Packman: sockso 1.2.3

  • 5.2 Packman: kmediafactory 0.7.5

  • 5.3 OBS/Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 beta1 available for openSUSE

  • 5.4 OBS/Klaas Freitag (dragotin): Kraft 0.40 Beta 2 available

• 6 Projects Corner

  • 6.1 KDE Project

    • 6.1.1 openSUSE KDE meeting 20100318

• 7 Planet SUSE

  • 7.1 Andrew Wafaa: Bugging Bugs - A Call For Help

  • 7.2 Klaas Freitag (dragotin): The KDE Plasma Reference

• 8 openSUSE Forums

  • 8.1 Can’t Install Thunderbird

  • 8.2 Numpad Issue

  • 8.3 Wireless Problem

  • 8.4 Virtual Box USB Issue

• 9 On the Web

  • 9.1 Announcements

    • 9.1.1 Frank Karlitschek (karli): ownCloud - development started

    • 9.1.2 Advances in audio

    • 9.1.3 Eclipse 3.6 M6 (Helios) available for download

    • 9.1.4 Gustavo Noronha: WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90 is out!

  • 9.2 Call for participation

    • 9.2.1 Linux.com/Jennifer Cloer: One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com?

  • 9.3 Reports

    • 9.3.1 Aaron Reichman (areichman): ownCloud features + screenshots

    • 9.3.2 Aaron Seigo: The Plasma Netbook Reference Platform

    • 9.3.3 Mario Carrion: Comparing Ruby and C#: Equality

    • 9.3.4 THINQ.co.uk/Paul Hales: Linux powers 9 out of 10 top supercomputers

    • 9.3.5 ZDNet/Zack Whittaker: Top 100 sites in 2010: Search giants, shopping, Facebook and a bit of porn

    • 9.3.6 Computerworld/Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux on the cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat

    • 9.3.7 The Register/Timothy Prickett Morgan: Novell, Ingres partner for appliances

    • 9.3.8 Techworld/Paul Krill: Novell Mono project bringing Silverlight to Apple iPhone

  • 9.4 Reviews and Essays

    • 9.4.1 TuxRadar: Reviewed: OpenOffice.org 3.2

    • 9.4.2 Ars Technica/Ryan Paul: Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs

  • 9.5 LOL

    • 9.5.1 handlewithlinux.com: Linux coolness: Linux Cooler, Linux serves you beer

• 10 Past Events & Meetings

• 11 Upcoming Events & Meetings

• 12 Security Updates

  • 12.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:006

  • 12.2 SUSE Security Announcement: OpenOffice.org (SUSE-SA:2010:017)

• 13 Statistics

  • 13.1 opensuse.org

  • 13.2 openFATE

  • 13.3 Bugzilla

  • 13.4 Localization

  • 13.5 openSUSE for your ears

• 14 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved

• 15 Credits

• 16 Translations

For a list of available translations see this page:

//en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/115/Translations.