'We've started building and publishing a core set of multimedia/codec related packages at Packman for openSUSE Factory again, now that 11.3 M1 has been published. Currently available packages include: MPlayer, ffmpeg, fluidsynth, lame, xine, twolame, vlc and xmms, as well as the gstreamer stack and a pile of additional libraries. We don't build all the stuff that's in our 11.2/11.1/11.0 repositories for Factory, as the frequent updates to openSUSE.org's Factory would cause havoc on our build servers. If you believe something essential is missing, please send us an email and we'll evaluate whether we'll add it or not.'

For Desktop Users 'In May 2008, Facebook announced that they were planning to add XMPP (a.k.a Jabber), the standard messaging protocol behind Google Talk and other chat programs, to their Facebook Chat solution. In May 2009, seeing that nothing happened, I announced that I was working on Facebook support for Kopete and released a prototype on github. The plugin was not perfect, and it was talking to Facebook using non-standard ways (including html scrapping!), but allowed people to see their contacts and chat.' For Commandline/Script Newbies 'Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in /.inputrc. Most of the time the default settings will work perfectly well, but there are a few you may wish to try out that will make slight changes to the way that tab-completion behaves.' 'Windowing interfaces to Linux have lots of advantages.

Once you find the programs you need, the menus and dialog boxes list your choices, and there’s often not much else to know about the interface. One big disadvantage of GUI apps, though, is that you’re mostly limited to whatever the interface lets you do — unless you want to re-code the interface yourself, that is.

For instance, how can you use a photo viewer to see all of the photos you put in various places on your disk this past Monday? If you know where the photos are stored and what their names are, you can navigate through your directories in a file browser like Nautilus, clicking on files to view them. But what a pain!' 'GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same session from more than one location at a time.'

'Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal. Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing jumped immediately to mind and a quick internet search didn't help much either. After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command and using information from the proc file system.' For System Administrators 'When running ocfs2 on cLVM, openais+pacemaker setup, you may run into something like described below. The symptoms: umount /data1 mspx1d0: # tunefs.ocfs2 –fs-features=sparse,unwritten /dev/system/data1 tunefs.ocfs2: Unable to access cluster service while opening device “/dev/system/data1″ mspx1d0: # mount /dev/system/data1 /data1 mspx1d0: # tunefs.ocfs2 –fs-features=sparse,unwritten /dev/system/data1 tunefs.ocfs2: Configuration error discovered while opening device “/dev/system/data1″ 'I had to install Xen para-virtualized openSUSE 11.2 (PVM), lucky for me 11.2 DVD iso has broken xen kernel so it does not install, the live CDs do not have any xen kernel at all so they are not useful either.

After reading up all the posts on the bugzilla and forums about the subject, found the way to get it done, here is a howto for anyone else who is looking for the solution.' 'Zimbra has published a new update for Zimbra Mail Server & Collaboration Suite, Zimbra 5.0.22 and Zimbra 6.0.5. This is the first update since VMWare acquired Zimbra.

I would like to test it to see whether status & logger problem on Zimbra 6.0.4 has been officially solved or not.' 'multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD / DVD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities. You can use it for instance to burn Gparted Live, Clonezilla and Ubuntu, all on the same multiboot DVD.

When booting the CD / DVD, you will be able to choose which Linux distribution you want to boot on.' The corner for introducing activities of sub project.inside.

openSUSE. KDE Project 'With the release of KDE SC 4.4, we're making some repository changes in the openSUSE Build Service, effective immediately.'

'The openSUSE KDE team is starting another round of KDE bug squashing. Now that openSUSE 11.2 has been out in the wild for a while and 11.3 is just around the corner, it's time to review many of the reported bugs. Many bug reports may be from obsolete versions or perhaps they are not valid anymore.

These old bugs need to be sorted out to make way for incoming bug reports for the 11.3 Milestones.' GNOME Project 'The Banshee Project released 1.5.3 on January 27th.

This release brings a slew of improvements to the already impressive media player that gives iTunes a run for its money, if not hype. For those not familiar with Banshee, it’s a media player written in C# on the Mono platform, started by Aaron Bockover. Since its debut in 2005, Banshee has seen contributions from nearly 100 developers.

Banshee is Free Software, licensed under the MIT/X11 license, and has been packaged for ‘all major Linux distributions' as well as recent releases for Mac OS X. The most recent Mac OS X release removes the requirement for the Mono and GTK frameworks, bundling everything in one binary for installation on Mac OS X. Note that Mac builds are beta quality and may be missing some features present in Linux releases, or may not be quite as stable.' 'I spent a little time this weekend doing one of the things I've wanted to do for years - eradicate one of the oldest files in Banshee: banshee-dialogs.glade. The vast majority of Banshee's UI is custom widgetry that is laid out dynamically at runtime. The main window and the preferences dialog hasn't been restricted by Glade for a couple of years, but all the other dialogs were defined in part in Glade.' Mono Project 'The amazing Moonlight Team lead by Chris Toshok just released Preview 2 of Moonlight 3 just in time for the Winter Olympics' broadcast:.

The player has some nice features like live streaming, Tivo-like 'jump-back', accelerated playback and slow motion and it does this using Smooth Streaming which adjusts the quality of your video feed based on your bandwidth availability. Thanks to Tom Taylor, Brian Goldfarb and the rest of the team at Microsoft for assisting us with test suites and early access to some of the technologies in use at NBC Olympics. With their help we were able to make sure that Moonlight 3 would work on time for the event (with full 24 hours and 14 minutes still to burn!).

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'Sometimes some guys are asking, how to submit a Story to the openSUSE Weekly News. In short: This Process are not magic;-) First of all i can say, that EVERYONE can submit an Story. If you have an interesting thing, you can go to:. Inside the Dashboard we have Subtitles (eg PlanetSUSE, Projects Corner,).

In the Document: we have manifested, which Section to choose. Please read this Document and then you can place your Content into your choosed Section. BTW: In the Section “Projects Corner” we place just Stuff inside openSUSE. Other not openSUSE related Stuff, like KDE/GNOME or so, we’re using the “On the Web” Section. In the Section “Planet SUSE” we place Stuff inside openSUSE. But not just Posts from PlanetSUSE.

We can place other openSUSE related Stuff there.' 'Novell and VMware are making it easier for independent software vendors (ISVs) to optimize their applications for SUSE Linux Enterprise and VMware ESX. Novell is the first operating system vendor to offer Unified Certification for ISVs with VMware. Unified Certification status means that applications tested and certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise within a virtual machine are automatically certified to run in a VMware virtualized environment with no modifications. Participating ISVs will be able to utilize each company’s partner programs, meaning expanded market opportunities through these extensive ecosystems. Ryuichi sakamoto concert.

This offering complements Novell’s VMware Ready status–a certification that ensures optimal performance for virtual appliances built through the SUSE Appliance Program, the fastest and easiest way for ISVs to create and manage software appliances–and deployed within the VMware virtualized environment.' 'Last week, another ISV announced a software appliance built as part of the SUSE Appliance Program from Novell. ROC Software has released the ROC EasySpooler SUSE-powered appliance, based on the company’s ROC EasySpooler core technology and a fully-supported version of SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell. ROC Software joins the ranks of GroundWork Open Source and Zmanda, ISVs who also recently announced SUSE-powered appliances.' 'As you might now, Zypp (the package management stack of openSUSE) uses the very powerful aria2 application to perform its downloads, both for repository metadata and RPM files.

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Before that, it used curl.Since openSUSE 11.2, the Zypp stack defaults to using aria2 (unless the environment variable ZYPPARIA2C is set to 0, in which case it falls back to curl). But currently, we have two issues with.' 'Actually involves creation of Live USB using 'dd' - I have had good success with this myself, I actually had a 64 live usb/cd booting and running in a 32 bit machine.' 'Let this be a warning to you, whatever you do, don't use the installer from within windows. I can think of some expletives that could be used here but shall refrain.

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' 'If you can load the test update repo and bring in the new kernel and try your nvidia driver it would be much appreciated. Only do this if you know what you are doing though, please.'

'This ranked among the very odd/strange in my book and even though we found a solution, I don't know why it solved the problem. But an interesting one.' Announcements 'The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers. Keep reading to gain some insight into the people and processes behind the retooling.' Call for participation 'We all knowing, that on 14.

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February this Year we celebrating the Valentine’s Day. This is an goog Day to share you Love for Free Software with your Friends, This Campain is started by Free Software Foundation Europe. All Details of this Campain you can see under: Have alot of Fun:-)' 'Lantronix announced a based on its recently introduced, touted as the 'world's smallest Linux networking server.' Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design, plus a separate $3,000 prize for the Best Student Linux Design, says the company.' Reports 'Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable.

Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do a lot to win users. Lanikai will focus on making the upgrade from Thunderbird 2 more gradual, and improving on the Thunderbird 3 platform. This means fixes for IMAP, stability and memory improvements, interface enhancements, and improvements to message filters and Smart Folders.

The 3.1 release is avoiding disruptive changes and the team is shooting for a May release. The bigger challenge ahead for Moz Messaging is how to pay for itself.'

'Several changes to the X86 and KVM code will speed up the kernel's own hypervisor. The kernel developers once again revised and considerably extended the still emerging tracing infrastructure. The Power and PowerPC code now also supports the Gamecube and Wii games consoles' 'If you look back on the history of OpenOffice.org, it makes the 3.2 release that came out on Thursday the 11th even more impressive. Nearly 10 years in the making, OpenOffice.org has evolved from a clunky proprietary offering that struggled to import Microsoft Office documents to a productivity powerhouse that is faster, supports a fully open document format (ODF) and handles most proprietary formats with grace. Originally StarOffice, Sun purchased StarDivision in 1999 and released the first code for OpenOffice.org in July of 2000.

The open source office suite has improved by leaps and bounds since its inception and is now good enough to satisfy millions of users around the world who prefer a free (in all senses of the word) office suite to paying hundreds of dollars for a proprietary suite.' 'From the ' Buy One Get One Free' files: As the economy is headed (hopefully) for recovery, I'd expect that the market for Linux jobs will also pick up momentum. While experience is always the key, some employers (you know who you are) like certifications. Now thanks to a new partnership between Novell Inc. And The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) getting those certifications might be a bit easier.'

'Feb 09, 2010 At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, software that was declared dead was resurrected (Hurd), known combatants sat down at the same table (openSUSE, Fedora and Debian) and almost forgotten entities raised their hands again (openSUSE for PowerPC).' 'Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project to think about the future of a11y efforts in GNOME.' Reviews and Essays 'We've seen plenty of 'Best of the Decade' lists around, but not one is related to Linux distribution.

So it's only fitting that we will give credit to the best Linux distros that dominated the last decade (2000-2009), or most part of it.' 'Adobe has released two security bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player. The first bulletin, APSB10-06, is a security update for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR that addresses a critical vulnerability. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to make unauthorized cross-domain requests. The bulletin indicates that the update also addresses a potential denial-of-service issue.' 'A vulnerability in the creation of symbolic links (symlinks) in the free Samba file and printer server can be exploited to attain access to files outside of predefined paths. Attackers can even get access to the system's root directory (/).

To exploit the flaw (directory traversing), attackers first have to have an account on the Samba server that includes write access to at least one share. However, if a share is defined as writeable for guests, the hole can even be exploited remotely without such an account on the server. Under standard settings, no shares are writeable for guests. LOL A bit OT, since it's not directly related to openSUSE, but the picture of Geeko relaxing on a couch is quite funny:-). To view the security announcements in full, or to receive them as soon as they're released, refer to the mailing list.

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