openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 119 is Out!

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We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 119!

In this week:

Contents

  • 1 Editors Note
  • 2 Announcements

    • 2.1 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back
    • 2.2 Andrew Wafaa: oSC09 videos
  • 3 Status Updates

    • 3.1 Distribution

      • 3.1.1 Schedules for the next Week
      • 3.1.2 Bugzilla
  • 4 Team Reports

    • 4.1 Build Service Team

      • 4.1.1 Build Team Meeting
      • 4.1.2 Build Service Statistics
    • 4.2 GNOME Team

      • 4.2.1 Marcus Meissner: libgphoto2 2.4.9
      • 4.2.2 Vincent Untz: GSettings Hackfest: Day 1
    • 4.3 KDE Team

      • 4.3.1 Will Stephenson: File Transfers in KDE 4
    • 4.4 Mono Team

      • 4.4.1 Moonlight 3 Preview 6
      • 4.4.2 MonoTouch 3.0
    • 4.5 openFATE Team

      • 4.5.1 New: openFATE 309343 Support release number in (rp-md) repositories
      • 4.5.2 New: openFATE 309342 Do not loose Hermes events ever.
      • 4.5.3 New: openFATE 309341 Make new status for “unsigned”
      • 4.5.4 Statistics
    • 4.6 Testing Team

      • 4.6.1 openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2010-04-19 17:00 UTC
    • 4.7 Translation Team

      • 4.7.1 Bug report against webyast files
      • 4.7.2 Localization
    • 4.8 Wiki-Team

      • 4.8.1 German Wiki & Multi-Language Concept
  • 5 In the Community

    • 5.1 Andrew Wafaa: Community Discussion – Part 5
    • 5.2 Events
    • 5.3 openSUSE for your ears
    • 5.4 From Ambassadors

      • 5.4.1 Agustin Chavarria: Conference in FLISOL Nicaragua 2010
      • 5.4.2 Chuck Payne: Texas Linux Fest
    • 5.5 openSUSE in $COUNTRY
    • 5.6 Communication
    • 5.7 Contributors
  • 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE

    • 6.1 Packman: KDoodle 0.2.3-0.pm.1.25
    • 6.2 OBS: Barrage
    • 6.3 OBS: New Package for openSUSE: assuma (Association Subscribers Manager)
    • 6.4 OBS: new openSUSE Package: bleachbit 0.7.4
    • 6.5 KDE-Apps: KDropbox 0.1.0
  • 7 Security Updates

    • 7.1 SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:009
    • 7.2 SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9 (SUSE-SA:2010:021)
  • 8 Kernel Review

    • 8.1 KernelTrap: Linux: 2.6.34-rc4, “Hunting A Really Annoying VM Regression”
    • 8.2 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 1) – Network Support
    • 8.3 LinuxWeeklyNews/Corbet: Kernel prepatch 2.6.34-rc4
    • 8.4 Rares Aioanei: Weekly Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor 15th Week
  • 9 Tips and Tricks

    • 9.1 For Desktop Users

      • 9.1.1 Stefan Seyfried: Rearranging Accounts in Claws-Mail
      • 9.1.2 Free Software Magazine/Daniel Escasa: New-line search & replace in OpenOffice.org Writer — the lazy way
    • 9.2 For Commandline/Script Newbies

      • 9.2.1 Joe Shaw: avchd to mp4/h264/aac conversion
      • 9.2.2 The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Unix Bash Alias Tutorial – Handle Alias Command Like Jennifer Garner
    • 9.3 For Developers and Programmers

      • 9.3.1 IBM developerWorks/Roderick W. Smith: Migrate to GRUB 2 – Transitioning to a new boot loader
    • 9.4 For System Administrators

      • 9.4.1 Ghacks.net/Jack Wallen: Luckybackup: Linux backup made easy
      • 9.4.2 MakeTechEasier/Joshua Price: Choosing The Best Linux Filesystem For Your PC
      • 9.4.3 Linux.com/Joe Brockmeier: Ncat: The Network Swiss Army Knife
  • 10 Planet SUSE

    • 10.1 Mike McCallister: Reminder: Speaking to Milwaukee PHP User Group
    • 10.2 Frank Karlitschek (karli): ownCloud status
  • 11 openSUSE Forums

    • 11.1 su or su – which?
    • 11.2 Browsers won’t play Flash sound!?
    • 11.3 Configure Xen Virtualization
    • 11.4 What You do not like about openSUSE?
  • 12 On the Web

    • 12.1 Announcements

      • 12.1.1 Aaron Seigo: 2010 Plasma Javascript Jam Session Winners Announced
    • 12.2 Call for participation

      • 12.2.1 GNOME 3.0 cleanup: Call to module developers
    • 12.3 Reports

      • 12.3.1 Security Blanket Technical Blog: File Systems
      • 12.3.2 CNET News/Dave Rosenberg: Linux: Strong and getting stronger
      • 12.3.3 LinuxPlanet/Sean Michael Kerner: Linux Kernel Devs: We Need New Blood
    • 12.4 Reviews and Essays

      • 12.4.1 TechRadar/Graham Morrison: How to switch your small or home office to Linux – Save time and money with free, open source software
    • 12.5 Warnings

      • 12.5.1 US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA10-103C — Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities
    • 12.6 LOL

      • 12.6.1 Datamation/Oliver Widder: Tech Comics: “A Day in the Life of a Coder”
  • 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved
  • 14 Credits
  • 15 Translations

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