Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

For starters, please do not use your mail software's "reply" function to 
generate new topics. It causes your posting to appear to be part of 
another thread. Changing the subject is not sufficient to break this 
association in good mailers that use the pertinent header fields to 
recognize and organize topic threads.


On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:29, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
> Just a few more questions...
>
> - Anyone know if Informix V10 runs on Suse 10 ?

I would gather from the fact there's a whole mailing list 
(<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-informix/>) devoted to Informix on 
SuSE that the answer is probably "yes." Check it out (the list 
archives) to see for sure. ... On the other hand, the list appears 
rather moribund. A quick glance at the Informix site showed that it's 
supported for SLES, which suggests it might work for SuSE Linux 10, but 
it's by no means certain unless someone produces a build specifically 
for this version of Linux.

PostgreSQL 8.0 and MySQL 4.1 are included.


> - How about sound. With Fedora pretty much the sound either a) worked
> out of the box or b) your chances of ever getting sound working were
> slim to none. I have an onboard Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC'97 Audio
> Controller and It works using an out of the box configuration of
> alsa.  How difficult of a time might I have getting sound to work?

I don't know for a fact, but I would be surprised if that gave you any 
trouble.


> - Does the Vmware Workstation5 run under Suse V10 ?

Yes, though a small deviation from the normal installation procedure is 
required to make it work correctly.

Here's the modified installation and setup procedure you need to make 
VMware 5.0 work on SuSE Linux 10.0: 
<http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15963.html>.


> - Do sound apps like real player, mplayer, etc run on Suse v10 and is
> it easy to get the mplayer codecs for windows media player files ?

They all work fine.


> - Also does the boxed set come with mozilla / firefox plugins for
> java, flash and pdf ?

The commercial version includes Adobe Reader (for PDF viewing) as well 
as Sun's Java (including plug-ins). I'm pretty sure I did not have to 
do an independent installation of the Flash plug-in.


Randall Schulz