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
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>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
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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
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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
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http://en.opensuse.org/education
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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
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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
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BUG Pioneer
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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
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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.
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Cornelius Schumacher <cschum(a)suse.de>
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?
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Kind regards,
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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....
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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.
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