June 2007 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] LTSP on openSUSE
by James Tremblay 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

schaefi\ cyberorg\ gwayne: > 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 Have you tried using unionfs to avoid the bind-mounts? IIRC we are using them in our upcoming 10.3 LiveCDs, generated by KIWI. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Network Proxy - Can Automatic configuration URL be used in YaST?
by Richard (MQ) 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

We had a recent thread about possible improvements to look for in YaST, but I don't remember any discussion on this topic. Is there any way that an Automatic configuration URL can be used to set up the network proxy? Similar to that implemented e.g. inside Firefox, but for system-wide application. I'm trying to push Linux - and OSL in particular - at work. The MS users are expected to set up proxy via a URL that seems to point to a piece of (java?) script which returns a string in the form "PROXY cache1:8080; PROXY cache2:8080; ". Somehow (I don't understand the details) this implements a form of load balancing between a number of proxy servers. I can extract one of the server addresses and enter it manually but (a) it's a bit clunky and (b) the load balancing is not included. I can't see any way to enter more than 1 address? Just an idea... -- Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] 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] Linuxtag 2007 - some thoughts ...
by Martin Lasarsch 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi Instead of sending a "thank you" mail, i wrote something in my blog: http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=896 But yes, thanks to all who supported us on Linuxtag this year! Now something different, let me sum up some things which went good and not that good. I would like to discuss this here on the list, not internal. Please add topics/concerns if i miss something, thanks! Of course this is also important for other events to improve our appearance. * booth setup + the concept of laptops & big LCDs showed again this is good + JackLab as an external project on the booth was nice, we should have that every year, when we have enough space on the booth. Not every year JackLab, every year a different project. - to much unused space in the middle of the booth, we should have a table with chairs next time. Henne suggested doing installations or other stuff there. I like that idea. - staffing: could be better but was not that bad. I tried to avoid a fixed schedule, maybe we should have one again. Maybe train the staff how to do the job. As i said, it was not that bad, but could be better. - "only" cboltz from the community was there helping us. It's not about that we don't want to send SUSE/Novell employees to the event, we want the community more involved and such an event is perfect for this. - no theme on the booth. One desk with "Xen for beginners" or "How to use the obs" for example would be nice next time. - booth look was pretty generic. We had only Novell/openSUSE stickers on the walls and a big Tux. Posters or Paper where people can write suggestions down would help. - softdrink situation: we had first big bottles, which was bad because most drank only a small amount of the water and let it rot. After that we had small bottles, with the same problem. Next time give drinks only out with a name written on the bottle. Yeah, we have problems ... :-) - on cebit there is a policy "no laptops on the booth, no email reading". I don't want to force that, but it is not very professional: the visitors don't want to interrupt somebody reading emails and go away ... could be better with a table. * openSUSE day - some talks were not well visited + some talks well visited find out what the visitors really want. Marcus Photomanagement and the Laptop talks were well visited. "How to work with Kontact and 10.000 mails a day" or other more user related topics would be also attract people which are usually not using openSUSE. + the idea of giving at the end of each talk t-shirts away for questions was good. - no community talk this year :-( - date: please not again on the first day of the event, it's a nightmare to get the booth running smooth and have all the talks. - idea: get more talks outside openSUSE day, like mhopf or Larry Ewing. * merchandising + we had Promo DVDs, T-shirts, 15cm Tux, Caps ... all for free - make a plan how to give away the shirts or other valuable goods. If we have them next time again for free, one plan could be: charge 5€ for a shirt and donate all the money to a OSS project or EFF, FSF or even openSUSE (travel costs for community etc.). Some other projects are not really happy that our shirts are free. * other ideas - make a live irc meeting on the event, with video streaming :-) - do an official irl meeting with the community, dinner at least, paid by Novell -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Survey on proprietary software usage
by Roger Whittaker 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Andreas sent out this announcement: > We like to know a bit more about the usage of proprietary software we > ship on some versions of our openSUSE distribution. Therefore we created > a 16 question survey and ask you to participate and give us > feedback. The survey is online till June 12. I'd like to find out more about the aims of the survey, if possible. Also why is tetex/texlive regarded as proprietary in this context? -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger(a)disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Does this mean OpenSUSE will be dropping Wireshark?
by Dennis Conrad 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

>From an announcement of Arstechnica at http://tinyurl.com/2yjqoq Welcome to my world. Since Australia passed the Cybercrime Bill 2001 it is illegal to distribute and/or possess "hacker tools". Not that anyone cares, but still... Dennis --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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