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Anybody still into SUPER?
by houghi 30 May '06

30 May '06

Is there still movement with SLICK or SUPER. I don't see any recent progress and as far as I can see no 10.1 version. What I would be looking at is a file list for the 1 CD version and a *.sel file for 10.1 However if nobody is interested in it anymore, I am not going to put time and efford in it. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...

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Yast control center layout
by jdd 30 May '06

30 May '06

I just for an other subject launch autoyast I had nearly never used. I notice this have the interface I like so much, the one used in the install part of yast. if this interface is already maintained, this could be a good idea to make it a default for the control center. New users of SUSE Linux have to deal with this interface at install time. This makes sometimes difficult to find himself in the more windows-like control center. I will investigate this a little more. 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

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
by Marcus Meissner 30 May '06

30 May '06

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:11:35AM +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote: > * Marcus Meissner <meissner(a)suse.de> [May 30. 2006 10:56]: > > > > The most basic reason behind this is that ZMD is not integrated well with > > libzypp. > > > > The whole "hack" with the helper binaries called and passing of > > critical data via strings is badly done at this time. > > The current ZMD implementation language forced this hack. It would > be better to link the daemon directly with the library instead > of going through external helpers. > > > > > That it keeps it own data storage and does not use the zypp one (if any?) > > is not satisfying. > > Zypp is coded by YaST developers and matches well with YaST needs. > ZMDs area of application is quite different (remote control, updates of > a running system, networked environment). > Designing a system which matches both environments equally well needs > more time and experience. Ok, I understand better now. What in the end matters is speed and memory usage. Both speed and memory usage are very big problems right now and definitely need to be addressed. Ciao, Marcus

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user bug report helper
by jdd 30 May '06

30 May '06

Now that more and more little experienced users (like me on the point) are reporting bugs, we need some tools to make the reports betters. we already have save-y2logs (should be named yast2_savelogs, the present name is difficult to find). This could be enhanced. For example * having a "reset logs" (may be simply forcing the logrotate) when a bug is reproducible to have logs only of the buggy part. this will give much smaller tgz and so could be uploaded right with the bug report, not having to way for needinfo. * have some standard categorisation. It's horribly difficult to try to found if the bug one see is already in bugzilla. the categorisation should be by what is more visible for the user (Yast modules name, the first goal is to reduce duplicates, the second to help users find solutions themselves (the yast logs are sometime very clear, if you can manage to understand where is the relevant part - the time/date is not always sufficient) 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

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How to make your own distro?
by houghi 29 May '06

29 May '06

What files are to be edited or deleted so that it is clear that it is your own distribution based on the 3 or 5 CD set and no longer Novell's? As far as I can see you need to edit the following files. /COPYRIGHT* /LICENCE.txt /README* /SuSEgo.ico /autorun.inf /content /boot/*/LIESMICH* /boot/*/README* /boot/*/loader/* #Several files. Mainly removing SUSE name and change some JPGs /media.1/licence.zip /media.1/products /suse/setup/README /suse/setup/README /suse/setup/slide/* Naturaly if you want something of your own, you most likely will change /control.xml as well as *.sel and add, replace or remove RPMs. That hoever is left as an exercise of the perason making his own variation. Am I missing files? I guess it is not something that everyubody will be doing. OTOH it is nice if this is explained for people who do want to do it. I have heard a few times that you just need to remoce the SUSE and Novell references. I just have not yet seen wich ones they are exactly. So question one is what files to edit. Question 2 is if you are allowed to say that it is based on SUSE or not. Question 3 is if there are any other limitations or requirements. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...

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SPAM: [opensuse-factory] Re: VMWare and XEN
by cyberorg＠cyberorg.info 29 May '06

29 May '06

You may be able to run windows under Xen. see http://en.opensuse.org/Xen_Full_Virtualization_Example -J - Hide quoted text - On 5/29/06, René Matthäi <matthaei(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Why? Because I plan to run certain standard web services under Xen, but > use some Windows software under VMWare with Windows.

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VMWare and XEN
by Chad Groneman 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation 5.5 running on the 10.1 RC3 xen kernel. VMWare works on the regular kernel, because of the vmware-any-any-101 patch. But when I try to do the vmware-config.pl when running the xen kernel, it fails. Has anybody been able to get this to work? I don't expect EMC will be making a version that will work with XEN kernels. Thanks, Chad

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SUSE on Woodcrest processors
by Rafa Grimán 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi :) Does anybody know whether Intel's Woodcrest processors will be supported? It's a dual core Xeon processor. Would it be a x86-64? Any glitches, gotchas, advice regarding: kernel, glibc, gcc, ...? TIA Rafa -- 50% of all statistics are inaccurate. OpenWengo: rgriman

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Q: recent kernel update
by Ulrich Windl 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi, I have a question regarding the current kernel upgrade (SLES9 in this case): OLD: 2.6.5-7.252-smp NEW: 2.6.5-7.257-smp Following are some messages that differ between OLD and NEW kernel: OLD: <6>..TIMER: vector=0x21 pin1=2 pin2=-1 NEW: <6>..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 OLD: <6>GSI 16 assigned vector 0x99 and IRQ 16 <7>IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (8-16 -> 0x99 -> IRQ 16 Mode:1 Active:1) NEW: <6>GSI 16 assigned vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16 <7>IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (8-16 -> 0xa9 -> IRQ 16 Mode:1 Active:1) [...many more of same sort...] My question is: Is this type of change expected? Is that related to "patches.fixes/x86_64-vect_share_irq"? Regards, Ulrich

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Bug 177758
by Frank-Michael Fischer 29 May '06

29 May '06

Might sound a bit emotional, but the "parse-metadata" problem turns 10.1 into a virtually unusable desktop for my customers (and me) really. In certain server setups it might be acceptable that the system needs up to 30 minutes after reboot before giving full power to the users. But on a desktop? To me it smells like the end of SUSE on desktops, really. As I am using and testing other linux distros as well I know that the only difference is Zen. My wild guess: Zen architecture prevents it from performing well. Because if it would be the implementation of Zen making its performance so ridiculous, we would find some messages concering fixes and dramatic improvements and timetables. For the time being none of my customers will upgrade to 10.1 or switch to SUSE. What a pity, FMF

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