-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

On 2006-07-31 14:43:24 +0200, jdd wrote:

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very nice. may be we should sort the langages alphabetically?

according to which charset?;)

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 03:04:36PM +0200, jdd wrote:

Marcus Rueckert a écrit :

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On 2006-07-31 14:43:24 +0200, jdd wrote:

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very nice. may be we should sort the langages alphabetically?

according to which charset?;)

darix

utf8 :-)

I don't know :-) but random may not be the better :-)

(in the publication order could be a possibility)

For now it is from top to bottom. With more languages the list will go up again. So just adding them in the publication order seems to be the most logical step. It is also unclear what the box at the bottom is for. It should at least have the search icons used on the 'normal' pages. My preference would still be: 1) Let the site look at the language and send you to a language. e.g. Google does that when you go to google.com the first time. (sort of) 2) As the above is not going to happen, have the splash screen insde a 'normal' page. 3) As the above is not going to happen, this one is the best alternative. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Frank Sundermeyer wrote:

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first, a big "Thank you" to Rajko for making this really cool suggestion for the splash screen. Seems that we will reach an agreement very soon with this proposal.

I polished the graphics a bit, added the openSUSE writing and a search box and put it all together with html and css:

http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/splash.html

I hope that there will be no problem adding the languages created after this splash screen into the splash screen itself... _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:52:08PM +0300, Angel Chraniotis wrote:

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http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/splash.html

I hope that there will be no problem adding the languages created after this splash screen into the splash screen itself...

Sorry, what do you mean by that? -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:31:58PM +0300, Angel Chraniotis wrote:

What I wanted to ask mainly from the person that created the splash "screen" if the outlook of the existing languages can be altered in order to add a new language during to new translations being completed...

OK. As there is still enough place available, that should not be a problem for the next 10 or so languages. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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Hello, Am Dienstag, 1. August 2006 01:41 schrieb Christian Boltz:

I'll attach both the fixed html [1] and the patch.

The HTML file was stripped off by the list manager, so I uploaded it to http://www.cboltz.de/tmp/splash.html Regards, Christian Boltz -- Wer Linux an Windows misst, misst Mist. [David Haller in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/splash.html

may be shift the openSUSE a little to the left, to avoid the blank space under it (make the right part of the "E" aligned with the chameleon tail) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

Rajko M a écrit :

jdd wrote:

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http://www.suse.de/~fs/opensuse/splash.html may be shift the openSUSE a little to the left, to avoid the blank space under it (make the right part of the "E" aligned with the chameleon tail)

Did you commented Frank's proposal or this: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/1/17/OpenSUSE-splash-003.png

I left the blank for something like article of the month or similar section, that will pull people to see en.opensuse.org, as it is by now the most complete one, in other words, the most presentable.

Franck's. the above proposal is too large for the usual screen ratio (16/9 screen are rare on desktop) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

Rajko M a écrit :

jdd wrote:

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the above proposal is too large for the usual screen ratio (16/9 screen are rare on desktop)

This made me to see what is wrong with the ratio, as I use 4:3 screen. The most of screenshots are wide because I cut out browser panels, scroll bars, window decorations.

I use a 19" display (and 8 screens :-), but try to keep the windows consistent with the H/L ratio of the screen. but think that many countries in the world uses 800x600 screens and even 640x480. from my mother computer (56k modem, 6 years old computer, 86 years old mother :-), openSUSE web site is completely unreadable. however even if she uses windows (she lives 250 kilometers away from me, I can't fix a linux machine for her), it runs still a SUSE 6.1 when I'm there :-) (I don't plan to update) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

houghi a écrit :

Is this due to the linespeed or the browser you use. This is done on purpose. If you can't see the site, you can't run the software. ;-)

not true. this particular computer have 4Gb disk and 128Mb RAM this should allow for openSUSE, using mostly/only e-mail

Sometimes you can't please everybody.

what I try to note is that these people are 80% of the world. do you want to cancel 80% of potential users? If you have an easy hack to solve

this, then please tell us, but don't tell us each and every time that some people still use XXX so we must halt.

we must halt forgetting them. they are the scope of an open source product. they are the future.

Even if SUSE won't run does not mean you must let her run outdated software. Install DSL on it or equivalent. At least now we know why you are so persistant to get SUSE working on old hardware. ;-)

she don't use Linux (only me when I go there), so, no this is not the reason. the reason is that most of the world use outdated hardware. computers built ten years ago are very good hardware, not dying easily. three years ago (not a so long time) I met a student that just wrote his thesis with text terminal and vi. And this was not is India but in a french university. stop thinking anybody can afford opteron 2 gb ram 300 gb HD computer. if openSUSE must spread the world, it must run on low end machines first. this is a market windows let alone (any way this market didn't buy windows but stole it :-), we should not do the same. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

houghi a écrit :

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:47:03AM +0200, jdd wrote:

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houghi a écrit :

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Is this due to the linespeed or the browser you use. This is done on purpose. If you can't see the site, you can't run the software. ;-) not true.

I must type a bigger smiley and explain it is a joke, next time. It was a joke.

I see it, but others may not :-)

If they hold back the development of SUSE, yes. I am not interested in one distribution for everybody. If that is 80%, then so be it. I am not intersted in becoming the largest OS, or be a replacement of Windows or whatever. I just want the best distribution for me.

here, I think, you should write a smiley. because the best distribution for anyone alone he must have to make it himself. opensource software like openSUSE is a collective effort. it's an evidence for many that opensource being free if right fitted for poor countries, the opensourceness giving confidence on not having backdoors can be a very thought plus also. Not anybody trust america when america is written Microsoft.

are other distribution specialized in older or lowerend hardware.

I think this is a great mistake. I don't know for sure where will be Africa in the next ten years, but I'm pretty sure China and India will be in the first place. I read somewhere than Idians are already the very first programmers in the hole world (indians originally from india, may be true french or american citizens). I see all days products of China built under the ISO9000 standards, the best one. In thouse countries, of course the first grade people work as we do with moderns hardware, but most of the population don't and I'm sure they will appreciate our collaboration. just look at the list of the new wikis. the majority today is for countries not really in the top ten.

that fits you. That solution must not always be Novell.

why? one of the strengh of Linux is that with little effort, the same distribution can fit an enormous variety of hardware. and as long as the ncurse version of yast will exist, openSUSE is one of the best fitted distribution for lowend hardware. this mean we should probably have a small subset of the wiki on a simpler html site don't forget today 56k users are to be tomorrow adsl users... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

houghi a écrit :

And you believe that the people will still have old hardware? I don't think so.

I think people will keep using the same products after changing hardware. if, say, thery begin to be confident with debian, they will continue. if they begin with SUSE, they will also keep SUSE.

Sure they will apreciate the work. That does not mean that we should focus on haveing SUSE work on all hardware, especially not older hardware and especially not if it takes away labour from SUSE development.

SUSE already works on this hardware we must only keep it running, not always asking for more memory if not strictly mandatory.

The hardware you keep talking about and what you are pushing is not able to do the installation, because of e.g. memory problems.

it was able to install 10.0, but not 10.1 alpha (I was saif final is better). We should not let people alone that used our product. two years support don't mean two years computers are too old for us. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:08:15PM +0200, jdd wrote:

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The hardware you keep talking about and what you are pushing is not able to do the installation, because of e.g. memory problems.

it was able to install 10.0, but not 10.1 alpha (I was saif final is better). We should not let people alone that used our product. two years support don't mean two years computers are too old for us.

It also does not mean that a computer that you had two years ago was a recent one then. I would be very surprised if the PC you bought 2 years ago won't install 10.1 because of specifications.

That is unless you bought an even for that time machine with way too low specifications. As you know the most limiting factor is the installation itself. If you have taken that hurdle, then you can run SUSE just fine with e.g. Windowmaker.

The limiting factor is memory.

The limiting factor is memory and swap space. I run SUSE Linux 10.1 on 3 667 MHz 128 MB Memory computers. They key is having 1.0-1.5 GB swap space. I have to run /etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop 10 minutes after the machine is up or there are times when the machine is un-useable. I run these computer's with 4-8 xterms 3-6 SeaMonkey windows and on OpenOffice.org writer. I have found that the best way to updates these is with smart. I have a 35 GB / and 25 GB home on two machines and one with everything else in / (see below). # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 56G 50G 5.3G 91% / udev 62M 236K 62M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 60G 53G 6.8G 89% /windows/C # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda5 partition 923696 106532 42 So the only real problem is the installation. I am unable to do a partition on a new HD with 10.1. So I boot into recovery mode and do a quick partition on the HD and then an installation. On all these systems I have almost everything installed. I found the installation is best done from a local inst-source and non-oss-inst-source with update/10.1 added. Then all I have to do is take the time to select everything and resolve the conflicts and then let it run till it is installed with the updates. I have used this to install over 15 SUSE 10.1 installations without problems. So jdd is not the only one use sub-optimal new computers. I am very happy with the results after the installation. Thanks, - -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFE0lplVtBjDid73eYRAlFZAJ9Mjz15nn/AGVuT2Do7Zf6DB6BKegCfcAgF 7WliWWVcVN7O9IRgtM18pDY= =AvG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org

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Boyd Lynn Gerber a écrit :

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So jdd is not the only one use sub-optimal new computers. I have right on my inbox a mail from this list (or a sister) giving me the syntax to use swap right from the beginning

I will try this on the next system. All my current systems are at 10.1. What I have been doing is setting it up ahead of time and during the installation it prompts me to activate swap before I partition or choose packages. I just have to do the manual partition before trying to install on a new HD. Good Luck, - -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFE0mKVVtBjDid73eYRAqtRAJ4n+vF5y//RzUYagZE9DR9TfQmGnwCfZAsZ zMQwv4bSeas3B/SX30nLrkw= =GQXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org