May 2007 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Repository descriptions
by Thomas Hertweck 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

A bit of feedback: The descriptions for various opensuse-related software repositories on the opensuse website[*] are rather disappointing, i.e. a user does not know what these repositories offer. Therefore, it's difficult to know and decide which repository might be worth adding as installation source. This is not such a big problem for experienced opensuse users but it is one in particular for new SuSE users. Just a few examples: - Packman: Packman offers various additional packages for openSUSE. - Guru: Guru's RPM site contains packages optimized for i686 and x86_64. - suser-jengelh: Various packages from the suser-jengelh repository. - Schiele: More packages for various SUSE releases by Robert Schiele can be found here. Some of them are new packages, some of them are just updated packages from the original SUSE ones, and some just fix bugs when SUSE does not provide these bug fixes. - Scorot: Scorot is another repository with many packages. - suser-oc2pus: Various Packages since Suse 8.2. - suser-liviudm: Various packages by Liviu Damian. Well, it's not really surprising that the repository "suser-jengelh" contains "various packages from the suser-jengelh repository", isn't it? I understand that some repositories are huge and thus it's difficult to come up with a better description without going into too much detail. However, it would be great if the maintainers of those repositories (or somebody else with knowledge what these repositories actually offer) could expand the description and at least mention the categories of software that one might expect when adding the repositories. Maybe someone else has an idea how to improve the current situation... I am not sure whether this topic belongs here (because it's about community software repositories) or on the opensuse-wiki list (because it's about the website). Anyway, it's a bit of feedback. Cheers, Th. [*]http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Does this mean OpenSUSE will be dropping Wireshark?
by Jim Pye 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

>From an announcement of Arstechnica at http://tinyurl.com/2yjqoq Does this mean OpenSUSE, SLES etc. - which I understand has a lot of engineering force in Germany - will have to drop products like Wireshark? Jim -- Jim Pye PyeNet Universal http://www.pyenet.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] LTSP on OpenSUSE
by James Tremblay 30 May '07

30 May '07

I have asked the LTSP devs to help us out, > > If it's not to imposing we would like to discuss your findings at 8am -5 > > gmt (edt) June 6 2007 in opensuse-kiwi @ irc.freenode.net would any one mind moving this to, New York (U.S.A. - New York) Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 10:00:00 AM UTC-4 hours EDT Chicago (U.S.A. - Illinois) Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 9:00:00 AM UTC-5 hours CDT Frankfurt (Germany - Hesse) Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 4:00:00 PM UTC+2 hours CEST Delhi (India) Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 7:30:00 PM UTC+5:30 hours Corresponding UTC (GMT) Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 14:00:00 --- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Novell CNE 3\4\5 CLE \ NCE in training. http://en.opensuse.org/education --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] LTSP on OpenSUSE
by jamesat＠comcast.net 29 May '07

29 May '07

Current status of LTSP5 on SUSE is: 1. We have kiwi-ltsp chroot image 2. We have packages for ltspfs 3. We have packages for LDM (ltsp display manager) and working ldm, 4. We can mount local devices on clients in the X session of the users on the server manually using ltspfs/fuse 5. To be able to use read-only nfs root we have rudimentary suse-bind-mounts script which needs a lot of improvement In the past I have asked that the ltsp devs try this and let us know where we can improve, I would like to post this request again. please visit http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP for details on how to get set up with what we have. If it's not to imposing we would like to discuss your findings at 8am -5 gmt (edt) June 6 2007 in opensuse-kiwi @ irc.freenode.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] call for joining BUG, the Barbaria Users Group
by Druid 26 May '07

26 May '07

Hi there, Im here proudly to tell you people that we, the BUG founders, just founded the Barbaria Users Group an openSUSE Users Group. Its one of a kind openSUSE group, and I believe a pioneer group. So whats BUG, what is an openSUSE users group? I will tell you, curious people. We have a mission statement in our founding page: "The BUG is an Opensuse Users Group. The goal of BUG is to help opensuse development and adoption". Straight and simple, just like we all are in BUG. We are all long time SuSE users, big fans, and we will always be here, giving support and setting things straight in the openSUSE world. We are friends with the Bavaria Users Group (BvUG) and the Sparta(aaaaaa) Users Group (S[aaaa]UG). But we are not satisfied with the current amount of members. We are growing! And we want YOU in BUG! BUG with us! Do you have the profile to join us? Well, I do hope so, because this is an invitation. An invitation to join us. We are very relaxed we have few (none?) obligations for the members. Feel free to add yourself to our members list in hour mother-site, the home of the braves: http://en.opensuse.org/BUG We are not many (yet). But we are noisy and full of energy. And we are stubborn and we fight the good fight, in a constructive way. We are real warriors. see you in openSUSE Marcio Ferreira --- aka Druid BUG Pioneer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE Guiding Principles
by linuxnoob＠wi.rr.com 26 May '07

26 May '07

I think the Guiding Principles is lacking because it does not reference the whole of the OpenSUSE community, specifically, the various forums that serve it. Here's what the Guiding Principles WIKI pages currently says: "Communication Infrastructure Working on free software is based on effective communication on different levels. This is actively facilitated with platforms driven by the project such as the Wiki, mailinglists, IRC or Bugzilla." -- "Guiding Princples" document on the wiki, 1 PM CDT, 2007-05-25 http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de has 29,541 members as of today, http://www.suseforums.net has 19,493, and http://www.opensuse.us has 2852. That's not even mentioning the non-English speaking forums. While there is some account overlap there (I have an account on all three), I think that leaving the forums out of this cuts out a chunk of users who don't follow the OpenSUSE mailing lists or IRC. I'd like to see the following changes: 1. Refer to the forums in the Communication Infrastructure section. 2. Add the various forums in the "Appendix" section as part of the "discussed in the public community" line. Someone should post the resulting draft in each OpenSUSE forum for forum-member feedback. I would be happy to do this for SUSE Forums.net, SUSE Linux Support.de, and OpenSUSE.us. Someone else would need to tackle the non-English forums. 3. Going along with #2, once the forum members have responded, collect the data and return it to the ML, IRC, or wherever it needs to go. As long as I'm told what to do with the data, I'd also be willing to handle this for the aforementioned 3 English forums. ~~ Andrew D., aka andrewd18 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Guiding Principles
by Cornelius Schumacher 25 May '07

25 May '07

Some members of the openSUSE team at Novell sat down and tried to write down the guiding principles of the openSUSE project. A first draft of the result is attached. It can also be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles. The guiding principles include sections about what the projects is, what its goals and values are and how the project is governed. Our intent was to capture what the project actually is and what is current practice, not to invent anything new. We hope that this document can help clarifying what openSUSE is all about within the community as well as within Novell. The guiding principles contain the proposal of a board of maintainers for the openSUSE project. We see this board as another step to an open development model which includes the whole openSUSE community, inside and outside of Novell. Please take the current document as a draft and let us know what you think about it and how it can be improved. In the end we would like to come to a version which has broad acceptance and is adopted by the community and Novell. We hope that this can serve as a solid base for the future of the project. -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum(a)suse.de>

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Re: [opensuse-project] nasm | yasm
by M Harris 23 May '07

23 May '07

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 23:28, Jonathan Arsenault wrote: > Can you please leave > this one alone as you obviously do not understand its scope and have > nothing to contribute to it. And another thing... I have been monitoring this project list for two months straight... and have received *many* contradictory signals which would lead me to believe that the major players in this list do not agree as to its scope and context... in fact, one individual just a few short days ago told me that this list was the proper venue for certain social [OT]... and another individual spoke up and said, "why not," and others vehemently decried the entire attempt and were outraged that a troll had descended upon there sacred ground shod in dusty sandals. You are right of course... how could I possibly understand the scope... and who in the world is there to teach me? -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] nasm | yasm
by M Harris 23 May '07

23 May '07

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 23:28, Jonathan Arsenault wrote: > This belong to the -factory mailing list Not here. Can you please leave > this one alone as you obviously do not understand its scope and have > nothing to contribute to it. Thank you. I am learning new things every day, and I appreciate your help. > Look like out legion of troll are finding it already :( Use French. Ps... oh, I remember you... wanted in all 48 continental United States (and Quebec, and Ontario) for snotty posting... I even have your picture here somewhere.... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] nasm | yasm
by M Harris 22 May '07

22 May '07

Can we add the nasm | yasm packages to the CD distribution for 10.3 opensuse. The packages are on the DVD, but they are missing from the CDs (at least on 10.0). (if possible) Thanks. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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