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
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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...
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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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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
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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?
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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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>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
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