November 2008 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-edu] Desktop wiki page refactoring
by Kirill Kirillov 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi! 1. Current status of development: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications/Desktop_Temp 2. The list of dropped packages in comparison with old page (why?): bc (Math) calctool (Math) fraqtive (Math) dosbox (Emulator) dosemu (Emulator) quanta (WebDevelopment) enigma (LogicGame) kmahjongg (LogicGame) kmines (LogicGame) kpat (LogicGame) kreversi (LogicGame) lincity-ng (Simulation) anagramarama (Languages) rekall (DBMS) kile (Publishing) scribus (Publishing) audacity (AudioVideoEditing) FreqTweak (AudioVideoEditing) Stopmotion (AudioVideoEditing) dia (FlowChart) xFig (FlowChart) kolorpaint (2DGraphics) GIMP (2DGraphics) Inkscape (2DGraphics) Skencil (2DGraphics) blender (3DGraphics) GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) TaskJuggler (project management tool) PythonCAD (Engineering) 3. The list of packages to define their categories in new page: KLogic iTalc kiosktool kde-kids-theme sabayon childplay eXelearning gcompris GRAMPS KDissert KSociograma vym semantik Feel free to define (redefine) categories and to add missing packages. Any comments about new wiki page concept are welcome. 1. Program name is the same as package name 2. Level one categories are from RPM GROUPS (for easy installing) 3. Level two categories are from http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html (for easy and consistent browsing and finding installed application) Also, good icons representing ages are needed to support visual age differentiation. And the last, should wiki page include educational-related software from the official repo and if so, how to differ them? Kirill. <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Re: opensuse education CD cover design
by Aishwarya Raja 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi all, How is this cd cover design for opensuse edu? http://picasaweb.google.com/raja.aishwarya/Events#5273946502844976402 -- Aishwarya Raja (shona at irc.freenode.net) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Status-Blogging :-)
by Lars Vogdt 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi It's late again here in germany - but I want to share some details of my work on openSUSE-Education with you. I hope some information could be useful ;-) * Branched openSUSE_11.1 build target in OBS, as Factory/11.1 is splitted up now. * adapted READMEs to our new OBS layout * adapted content file of the add-on to the new format, so YaST can detect it again * Found an old bug in the solver, which prevents me from using scripts for creating the 11.1 add-on: currently the solver isn't able to handle whitespaces in directory names. So I have to walk through the generated packages.* files and remove lines containing whitespaces manually, re-zip them, re-generate checksums and re-sign everything. :-( bnc#450286 ) * fixed fbreader (just missing libexpat-devel) * trying to fix LabPlot (first some gcc-errors, now filelist) * fixing bibletime * preparing netbeans update * find and package missing perl-modules for koha (currently I'm at >30 new perl packages building in devel:languages:perl and see a light at the end of the tunnel). I will _aggregate all needed perl-packages into the education repository later. This way, everybody finds what he expects in "his" repo and we avoid double builds of the same source. * we've over 210 succeeded packages, but still 26 build failures. Any help is welcome! * packaged a first version of "scratch" (http://scratch.mit.edu/) - needs a small rework to use the already available Squeak package (I noticed to late, that this package already exists) * don't be surprised about the "images" repository in the education project. We already have a "_product:openSUSE-Education-Addon-dvd5-DVD-i586_x86_64" package now - and this package produces a "openSUSE-Education-Addon-dvd5-DVD-i586_x86_64.kiwi" file which can be used for building openSUSE-Education with one single kiwi call! (see http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Product_Definition/Handling for details ) * after the discussion in the last meeting, I added all maintainers of the isv:hp:education project also as maintainers of the education project, so their fixes can be integrated directly in our sourcepackages. * cleaned up the "education" projects in OBS: now only "education" and "isv:hp:education" are listed as "real" projects. (beside the home projects - I've written emails to some people having interesting packages in their home projects - everybody on this list feel free to invite any OBS-user to join this list and the openSUSE-Education Team if you find interesting packages in his home-project :) * worked together with Peter Varkoly on a first set of Open School Server packages in the home:openschoolserver project. These packages will be the base for the Open School Server based on SLES 11. This includes the YaST-Module to setup the OSS, the Webfrontend and base-scripts as well as preconfigured Joomla, Moodle, openXchange and egroupware packages. Extis will give support for these packages, later. * tried to download the second Live-CD from anubisg1 - but it looks like the server doesn't like me... Andrea: I've setup a rsync-server on opensuse-education. Perhaps it's better if you can upload new ISO images yourself... :-) Account details later via PM * added a public rsync module, so people can also download our official repositories on www.opensuse-education.org via rsync. If we're making use of the update-channels for 11.0 and 11.1, this would perhaps be very useful. Just try something like "rsync -n edu-user@www.opensuse-education.org::download/" to check. With kind regards, Lars PS: rsync from OBS is still running, so I will finish the Beta2 Release for 11.1 tomorrow. With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Linux and support for Active Directoy
by Matthew W. Ross 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Greetings, List. We are a school district which uses MS windows and Mac OS X for all of its' workstations. I am considering using a Linux distro for some desktops, but there are requirements which must be met in order for use inside our district. In particular, the Active Directory supplied Home Folder must be used for all logins. In our case, we have a home folder server for each building. All users are assigned a server via the Active Directory Home Folder entry, and this directory should be the one used for the user's home folder, no matter what server they are connecting to. I am looking for a Linux distribution that does this correctly, and without much re-writing of the PAM scripts. From the looks of things, OpenSUSE might be the right choice. Would somebody be so kind to point me in the direction of documentation on how to do this? Also, I'm curious on how others on this list are imaging their computers. What software are you using? Thanks for any input. --Matt Ross -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] openSUSE-Edu Meeting transcript
by Lars Vogdt 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi @ll I didn't find the time to write a summary until now. But the transcript of the meeting is available here: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education_Meeting_2008-11-18/tran… Hope, this is already useful... Regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] testing
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

-- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District 213 S. Main st Newmarket NH, 03857 603-659-3271 *318 CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Todays Meeting
by James Tremblay 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

I have been tryiing for an hour to connect to Freenode , i keep getting connection refused. Am I the only one? JT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Lenmus rpm creation problems
by Joop Boonen 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

All, I have a question. I found Lenmus on the Edu whish list. http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Education I think it's quiet en an interesting program. Therefore I desired to package it. I found out that is a small problem. The program is build in Codeblocks because of the it doesn't have a configure script of makefiles. This makes packaging very difficult. And it also looks like there are still a few problems using the installed dynamic libraries. I've tried to build in Codeblocks Lenmus in Linux but it fails when the linking starts. Now i wonder if there is someone in the Edu group who wants to help to make Lenmus work so a package can be created. The problem s that I have not much configure knowledge. I'm willing to learn. Regards, Joop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] openSUSE-Education for SLE10: RC1 is ready
by Lars Vogdt 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Good Evening everyone! The openSUSE-Education 1.0 for SUSE Linux Enterprise is nearly ready and therefore reached Release Candidate 1! Now even the pattern files should work (only the education-desktop is preselected) if you use the "Add-on Media" registration in YaST. The Online-Repository is here: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/SLE10/ And the ISO image here: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-… Both are identical (the ISO image just doesn't contain the sources, they are on a separate media) and contain KDE3 updates and LTSP packages. If you find a new bug, please enter it in our new bugzilla: http://devzilla.novell.com/education/enter_bug.cgi (Please login with your normal Novell-Bugzilla/openSUSE-Wiki credentials.) Next in timeline: 11.1 Beta1 this weekend! The repository is already set-up - but not tested yet. Therefore I don't give anything for the 11.1 repository until the preliminary tests are finished. ;-) With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] New package - openSIS
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hello everyone, I have been really quiet for a long time now. It is because I have been working hard to get a new package ready for the project. I have been working with http://www.os4ed.com to build a new Student information System. It isn't perfect , It is very usable, we could use some development help, we are at eduforge. https://eduforge.org/projects/opensis/ I've put the package "openSIS" in the Education project , since this is only my second package upload to the Build Service, I welcome any suggestions or fixes to the spec file. As always, I am more than grateful to Novell and it's employee's for their help. In particular Lars Vogdt, who's dedication to this project has kept everything moving. THANKS Lars ;) The SLEducator -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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