Issue #112 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

Honoring openSUSE Wiki Reviewing Contributions
Michal Hrusecky: Public openSUSE 11.3 virtual machine
Jared Ottley: Alfresco PDF Toolkit
How to make Monitor refresh 120htz
Guillaume DE BURE (gdebure): A call for testers KMyMoney

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The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday February 27)  at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
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eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2.
From www.eweek.com:
You can watch the video here.

Webinar

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Speakers: Moderator: Michael Healy, Contributing Editor, InformationWeek & Fred Osborne, Solutions Architect, Virtualization, Red Hat

It's no secret that virtualization provides many benefits and although many organizations realize the advantages, virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads. Windows servers may be part of your physical server landscape, but may not be the best choice for your core virtualization platform.

This webcast will talk about the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, and (Read more...)

Webinar

Date: Wednesday, February 24
Time: Choose from two live events:

• 9am EST (GMT-5) / 14:00 GMT / 3pm CET (GMT+1)
• 2pm EST (GMT-5) / 19:00 GMT / 8pm CET (GMT+1)

Speakers: Wanja Pernath – Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Prabhakar Gopalan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

In this presentation JBoss Solutions Architect Wanja Pernath will share with you customization techniques for JBoss ON to get maximum return on your investment in the shortest possible time. Wanja will cover implementation scenarios at some our largest customers in Europe who have deployed JBoss ON.

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Community,
we previously put a lot of efforts into encouraging the community to contribute to our Wiki Usability Concept for both the English and the German Wiki, i.e. to participate in the Reviewing Process of currently existing pages in order to provide the best openSUSE documentation resources possible. That said, a lot has been done since [...]

Issue #111 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

openSUSE News: Number Two Always Tries Harder: openSUSE Milestone 2
Linux User & Developer/Kunal Deo: Another ten essential Python tips
Gabriel Burt: Banshee Community Extensions
How to Make sure I didn’t get a Virus?
Jason McDonald: Qt 4.6.2 Released

For a [...]

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday February 20 at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
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Late last month we released the first milestone of openSUSE 11.3, now we follow up with the second. Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. While milestone 1 introduced various pre-release versions of free [...]

KDE SC 4.3.5 is about to become available for openSUSE 11.2 as an online update (from 4.3.1). This release fixes many bugs, so we decided to push it as an online update instead of making it an optional update in the Build Service, and by fixing bugs we give our KDE contributors more time [...]

Issue #110 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

openSUSE News: Call for Volunteers in the German Wiki
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett: You don’t need Kopete Facebook plugin anymore
KDE SC 4.4 in the openSUSE Build Service
How to submit a Story to the openSUSE Weekly News?
h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part [...]

The openSUSE Forum Team of Administrators and Moderators has had an overhaul following a review by the openSUSE board. The new team can be reviewed here: Forum team. The forum review has brought about the establishment of a New Administrator Triad who whilst working largely as Moderators will also act as the first point of [...]

On the evening of Monday the 22nd of February, the KDE Plasma, KWin and Oxygen developers will be holding a public event at the SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany. All are welcome to come to the openSUSE Community Space to hear the KDE hackers present their vision of the state of the art in [...]

some of you have noticed, that we’re making a Cleanupsession in the German Wiki. Old Articles are to be deleted, other just to updated.
Now we have created a new QA-Set with declarations of Styles, Formatting and Templates.
All of this means many things to do. So we’re making an Call for Volunteers.
This Guys who would like [...]

Today, the openSUSE Build Service team released the latest version of the openSUSE Build Service, a tool that provides software developers with the ability to create and release software for openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other Linux distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat, Mandriva, Debian and Ubuntu. The openSUSE Build Service allows developers to create packages, [...]