December 2000 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Announcing a Beta Port of OpenOffice 609-FU for PPC Linux
by Olaf Hering 17 Dec '00

17 Dec '00

----- Forwarded message from "Kevin B . Hendricks" <kevin.hendricks(a)sympatico.ca> ----- OpenOffice 609-FU port beta for PPC Linux ----------------------------------------- Announcing the first beta release of the port of OpenOffice (formerly Star Office) to PPC Linux. This is a definitely a *beta* release port for early adopter testing ONLY! Please do not use this piece of software and then complain that you "lost everything". You have been WARNED! Please see http://www.openoffice.org for more info about the status of OpenOffice DownLoad Locations --------------- ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice http://penguinppc.org/files/pub/openoffice/ ftp://penguinppc.org/pub/openoffice http://www.linuxppc.org (coming soon) Install Instructions --------------------- This thing is huge, you need probably 250 meg free at least. tar -zxf oo609FU_installer.tar.gz chown -R YOUR_USER_NAME:YOUR_GROUP_NAME installer/ cd installer # IF and ONLY IF you have an XPRINT SERVER running # locally on your machine and want to experiment with printing # do the following mv f0_040 backup_f0_040 mv XPRINT_f0_040 f0_040 Then simply run setup and follow along with the installer ../setup Known Bugs and Issues --------------------- 1. Interface to the Blackdown JDK (any of them) is not working yet. This will work for the next release. 2. You will get debug warning messages about inability to convert some items which can safely be ignored (we hope!) 3. The Calc (spreadsheet) app will sometimes hang on Exit (if this happens to you simply open a terminal session and type: killall -9 soffice.bin 4. This is a very experimental port and printing only works if you have an XPRINT server running locally on your machine (see XFree86 docs on how to use/setup an Xprint server) Bug Reporting ------------- Please send bug reports to me (and I will forward them as appropriate to the dev(a)porting.openoffice.org list). Include as much info as possible (a gdb backtrace, strace info, complete info on which distribution you are using, and the steps needed to recreate the error. Credit ------ This port is the work of numerous people who have helped to make OpenOffice work on PPC Linux. The list of contributors includes (in no particular order) Jason Stewart, Rich Johnson, Scott Hutinger, Kevin Hendricks, Daniel Boelzle, Philipp Lohmann, Sander Vesik, Bob Meader, and many others. Especially thank the original StarOffice team for writing such great software in the first place! -- Kevin B. Hendricks, Associate Professor Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, UWO, London ON, CANADA (519) 661-3874 ----- End forwarded message ----- Please use a mirror: http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/ausland.html (Not every mirror has the ppc stuff) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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How to make and restore a backup of the whole system?
by Jorge Cambra 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Hi, I have SuSE Linux 7.0 for PPC running on my RS/6000 and I'm not very skilled on Linux. I have a tape device and I would like to know how to make a backup of the whole system (or the main part) in the tape. If I make a backup of the system and after I format the disk, What do I have to do in order to restore the old system stored in the backup? Anybody can give me some advices or any website to find information about this? Thanks in advance, Jorge

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Re: G4 - Pentium
by Teubner Claus 12 Dec '00

12 Dec '00

Hallo Thomas und auch die anderen, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Hallo Carsten! > > Carsten Umland schrieb am Montag, den 11. Dezember 2000: > > > > Ich habe einen G4/400 (SUSE 7.0) und einen PII/266 (SUSE 6.3). > > > Gefühlsmäßig ist der Mac schneller, habe aber noch kein Benchmark laufen > > > lassen. Habe gestern Abend noch die zweite Platte in meinem G4-400 getestet, das ist eine Maxtor 40GB mit 7200 upm buffer-cache reads: 130.2 MB/sec buffered disk reads: 28.89 MB/sec Dann hab ich noch den Benchmarktest bonnie mal auf meinen Rechnern laufen lassen. PI-90 bonnie File './Bonnie.21767', size: 104857600, volumes: 1 Writing with putc()... done: 898 kB/s 91.1 %CPU Rewriting... done: 1616 kB/s 82.1 %CPU Writing intelligently...done: 3801 kB/s 78.8 %CPU Reading with getc()... done: 834 kB/s 97.8 %CPU Reading intelligently...done: 2968 kB/s 94.2 %CPU Seeker 1...Seeker 3...Seeker 2...start 'em...done...done...done... ---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input----Rnd Seek- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block-----04k (03)- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 1* 100 898 91.1 3801 78.8 1616 82.1 834 97.8 2968 94.2 80.4 10.0 PII-266 bonnie File './Bonnie.2024', size: 104857600, volumes: 1 Writing with putc()...done Rewriting...done Writing intelligently...done Reading with getc()...done Reading intelligently...done Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input----Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block-----Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 1* 100 3070 72.9 3839 6.3 1774 6.0 3089 71.8 4632 6.2 83.9 2.9 G4-400 bonnie -s 200 File './Bonnie.1649', size: 209715200, volumes: 1 Writing with putc()... done: 9318 kB/s 98.1 %CPU Rewriting... done: 7781 kB/s 12.1 %CPU Writing intelligently...done: 23336 kB/s 12.9 %CPU Reading with getc()... done: 7169 kB/s 79.9 %CPU Reading intelligently...done: 18060 kB/s 16.0 %CPU Seeker 1...Seeker 3...Seeker 2...start 'em...done...done...done... ---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input----Rnd Seek- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block-----04k (03)- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 1* 200 9318 98.1 23336 12.9 7781 12.1 7169 79.9 18060 16.0 224.0 4.0 > > /dev/hdd: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.71 seconds =180.28 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.30 seconds = 27.83 MB/sec Da bin ich ja beruhigt, daß die Werte beim PPC-Linux doch stimmen können. Hatte da schon meine Zweifel, da meine getesteten PC doch recht lahm waren. Gruß Claus Teubner

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hdparm
by Teubner Claus 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Hello, I have tried the comand hdparm -Tt /dev/hda on my G4 with Suse Linux PPC 7.0 and get the following output: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in XX.X seconds =120.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in ??.?? seconds = 21.00 MB/sec On the second /dev/hdb I get aproximately 24.00 MB/sec. Is this OK? Claus Teubner

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Experiences....
by Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Great, Look like these lists are alive. Was wondering if it was too early to subscribe to them.... Anyway, We're thinking of moving a project from a Solaris solution to a mixed x86/Sparc on Linux solution. Development will be on x86 using fairly standard toolsets. Then system test will involve a recompile to Sparc and the tests to be run. Another possibility is to move the target Sparc platform to a PPC or even x86. As SuSE is one of the few distributions who support all platforms I'd be interested in your experiences with installing and using SuSE Linux for both Sparc and PPC, *especially* if you've used gcc and other development tools. TIA, RikD.

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what is the current KDE 2 status in both 6.4 and 7.0?
by Cameron Bales .:. 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

I'm also curious if there are downloadable 7.0 images so I can burn CD's for 7.0 or if I have to have an active internet connection for my SuSE machine to get the update live. Cameron .:. -- -- Isn't there some sort of medication we can prescribe kids to make them stop doing drugs? Cameron Bales .:. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada work: (506)-364-1097 http://www.tantramar.com/ home: (506) 536-3613 http://i.am/cameronbales ---- The current decade shall be known as "The Naughties" ----

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