openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 117 is out!

3. Apr 2010 | Sascha Manns | No License

news Issue #117 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

1 Editors Note
2 Announcements
- 2.1 Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrights Didn’t Go to SCO!
- 2.2 Klaas Freitag: Announce: openSUSE Beego
- 2.3 Pascal Bleser: Planet openSUSE #2
- 2.4 Pascal Bleser: Planet openSUSE #2.1
3 In the Community
- 3.1 Lenz Grimmer: Upcoming speaking engagements: Grazer Linuxtage and amoocon
- 3.2 Alexander Naumov: Russian openSUSE community
4 Status Updates
- 4.1 Distribution
  - 4.1.1 Distribution Schedule
- 4.2 Build Service
  - 4.2.1 Build Service Team Meeting
- 4.3 Wiki / Communication / Events
  - 4.3.1 Novell OpenPR/John Dragoon
5 Tips and Tricks
- 5.1 For Commandline/Script Newbies
  - 5.1.1 Holger Macht: z-shell (zsh) completion for osc and zypper
  - 5.1.2 Linux.com/Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier: Learning GNU Text Utilities
- 5.2 For Developers and Programmers
  - 5.2.1 Hans Petter Jansson: Hash Table Shootout!
- 5.3 For System Administrators
  - 5.3.1 Masim Sugianto: How To : Samba PDC+OpenLDAP on openSUSE/SLES Part 1
  - 5.3.2 Masim Sugianto: User Account Integration between Samba PDC & Zimbra Mail Server on openSUSE/SLES
  - 5.3.3 Masim Sugianto: Zimbra Mail Server with External Authentication using Samba PDC+OpenLDAP
  - 5.3.4 The Geek Stuff/Sathiya Moorthy: UNIX / Linux: 10 Netstat Command Examples
  - 5.3.5 HowtoForge/Falko Timme: Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On OpenSUSE 11.2
  - 5.3.6 nixCraft/Vivek Gite: Linux / UNIX: Encrypt Backup Tape Using Tar & OpenSSL
6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE
- 6.1 Packman: mjpegtools 1.9.0.0
- 6.2 Packman: vlc 1.0.5-2
- 6.3 Packman: gpodder 2.4
- 6.4 Packman: quvi 0.1.3
- 6.5 Packman: cclive 0.6.2
- 6.6 OBS/Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2.1 beta2 available for openSUSE
- 6.7 OBS/Gabriel Burt: Banshee 1.6!
- 6.8 OBS/Jigish Gohil: Annuncing KIWI-LTSP package updates
7 Projects Corner
- 7.1 KDE Project
  - 7.1.1 Valorie Zimmerman (valorie): The Adventure Begins!
  - 7.1.2 Milian Wolff (milianw): Profiling Rocks - KDevelop CMake Support now 20x faster
- 7.2 GNOME Project
  - 7.2.1 Fridrich Strba: ISensNetwork based network monitor for Evolution
  - 7.2.2 Vincent Untz: Enjoy GNOME 2.30!=
8 Planet SUSE
- 8.1 Robert Schweikert: Into the Cloud
- 8.2 Holger Hetterich: The future of SMB Traffic Analyzer – introducing protocol version 2
- 8.3 Andrew Wafaa: Blogged about: Community Discussion - Part 3
- 8.4 James Ogley: The N900: My experiences
- 8.5 Pascal Bleser: openSUSE FAIL page
- 8.6 Thomas Biege: SELinux and openSUSE 11.3
9 openSUSE Forums
- 9.1 Best kde4 Application?
- 9.2 User needs .wmv files
- 9.3 No Sound in Amarok
- 9.4 Milestone LiveCD on USB Flash device
10 On the Web
- 10.1 Announcements
  - 10.1.1 KDE Software Compilation 4.4.2 Out Now: Codename “Colibri”
  - 10.1.2 Sirko Kemter: Happy Birthday - RadioTux
- 10.2 Reports
  - 10.2.1 Roger Whittaker: UKUUG Conference
  - 10.2.2 OStatic/Joe Brockmeier: Motivation and Contributions in Open Source: Stop Romanticizing Unpaid Contributions
  - 10.2.3 ZDNET/Christopher Dawson: OpenSUSE Li-F-E vs. Edubuntu vs. Ubuntu
- 10.3 Reviews and Essays
  - 10.3.1 Linus Torvalds: The New Linux Is Gnu Linux
  - 10.3.2 Junauza: Linux users? Who are these people?
  - 10.3.3 Chema Martin/The Linux Experience: KDE SC 4.4.1 Review
  - 10.3.4 The ERACC Web Log/Gene: Desktop Linux: An Average User Success Story
11 Past Events & Meetings
12 Upcoming Events & Meetings
13 Security Updates
14 Statistics
- 14.1 opensuse.org
- 14.2 openFATE
- 14.3 Bugzilla
- 14.4 Localization
- 14.5 openSUSE for your ears
15 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved
16 Credits
17 Translations

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 117 is out!

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