March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Five steps for bringing Linux to your desktop
by Fred A. Miller 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

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Re: [SLE] Suse 6.4 and ReiserFS
by Ron Sinclair 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Anyone know the current conversion rate for US/Pounds? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corvin Russell" <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca> To: "Ron Sinclair" <sinclair(a)zma.attmil.ne.jp> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 6.4 and ReiserFS > PS if no luck elsewhere, amazon.co.uk might be just as cheap. (I see .jp) When > you click through, you are finally charged 42 pounds + shipping, not > the 49 listed on the website. > > C > > -- > Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca> > >

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Configuring a vt100 on a serial line.
by Pascal MiQUET 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

This should be very tricky, but actually I wonder how to configure and which package is needed to make it works. Into the man page of mingetty, we're told to use mgetty for serial lines. So I've installed the mgetty package; unfortunately into the mgetty man page, we're told of modems. Should it works with a VT 100 or any kind of console directly connected to the serial line. If this will do the should what is the right parameters for ttyS0 to be added into the file /etc/inittab Thanks for your help. Best Pascal MiQUET

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Getting windows fonts in Linux
by Dan The Man 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

I seem to recall reading somewhere that SuSE-Linux 7.1 can access the complete set of installed Windows fonts. In my word processing apps. however, Kwrite, StarWrite, WP8, only the rather more limited Linux fonts appear to be available. How do I gain access to these windows fonts, or is it not possible.

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Linksys LNE100TX NIC
by tleck＠mindspring.com 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Hello, I noticed in the SuSE hardware database a NIC called Linksys EtherPIC is listed as supported. Does anyone know if the LNE100TX is also supported. The card I'm considering is version 2 which has Wakeup on Lan Support. I do not plan to use this feature. Will this be a problem with the tulip driver. I'm running SuSE 7.1 Linux. Thanks Terry Eck

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Web access to port 631
by Morten Christensen 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

The server on my little home-network is running SuSE 7.1 pro. The personal forewall is installed, but not active. I want to administrate CUPS over the web. CUPS is on port 631, and I can reach it from a browser under X on the server. But when I try to reach it from the browser on a windows98 workstation the answer is: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server." Where can the config-error be hiding? mvh... Morten Christensen

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tulip help
by Landy Roman 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

trying to get my new eth card to be recognize by suse 7.0 i got new-tulip drivers from suse page ad even if i have kernel sources install it is asking me to install package lx_suse this is the advice given at suse db under keyword tulip is there a way around this package lx_suse is not installed The Linux source package is not installed. Please install the package lx_suse.rpm from the Development series. -- SuSe 7.0 Linux 2.4.2 i686 Sat Mar 24 11:05:00 EST 2001

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backup solution for linux .....
by Christian Klippel 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

hi all, does anybody know of a backup solution that works with linux, is payable and maybe has a tape autoloader function ?? storage size should be around 16 GB per tape ...... greets and thanks, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de

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Linux and Pegasus mail..
by James Hatridge 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Hi all,,, I found this at www.pmail.com I thought you all might like to comment on it. _________________________________________________________________ Pegasus Mail and Linux As discontent with Microsoft's "business practices" grows, we have seen unprecedented interest in alternative solutions for operating systems and applications. As a natural consequence of this, I have received numerous, or maybe even innumerable requests for a Linux version of Pegasus Mail. Although I would love to produce such a version, there are some practical difficulties associated with the project. Firstly, it's important to understand that I cannot port the Windows version of Pegasus Mail to Linux - in computer terms, a "port" is a process of taking an existing program to another platform, making minimal changes, then recompiling it; this is not possible in this case, because the differences between the two operating systems are too great. I would have to rewrite the bulk of the program in order to produce a Linux version, and that's too great a job for the resources available to me. When I explain this to people, the immediate reaction I usually get is "go open source"... If you are unfamiliar with this term, it means taking the original human-readable program as I wrote it and making it publicly available, inviting other people to work on it. Now, while I'm quite enthusiastic about the idea of a Linux version of Pegasus Mail, I'm much less enthusiastic about the idea of open source. To me it is an unproven concept, with the obvious potential to produce low-quality applications - this is not to demean existing open source initiatives, many of which are quite good; it's merely an observation about team programming in general, especially when the team members are widely-spread, and constantly changing. At this point, I am not willing to consider making Pegasus Mail an open source project, but I am willing to keep an open mind about the idea. At present (February 2000), we see two possible ways of producing a version of Pegasus Mail for Linux: 1: Via a porting layer A porting layer is a piece of software that takes Windows function calls and translates them into equivalent Linux calls: this allows a Windows application to remain largely unchanged at the source code level, which speeds the development process. There are some porting layers available for Linux - most notably one called WINE - but they are still rather incomplete. I am watching developments in this area with considerable interest - I believe that in the long run, using a good porting layer when one is available will give me the greatest likelihood of realizing a Linux version of Pegasus Mail. 2: Via a private licensing arrangement While I am not willing to make Pegasus Mail an open source project, I would be willing to license the source code at no cost to a suitably-constituted development team who would be willing to take on the redevelopment process. This would have to be done under well-defined non-disclosure terms, by a competent, sincere and dedicated team, and I would have to retain ownership of the source code and the Linux version derived from it. I do not know if an initiative like this is possible, but welcome approaches from anyone interested in discussing it with me. David Harris Owner/Author, Pegasus Mail and Mercury Systems, February 18th 2000. _________________________________________________________________ -- Jim Hatridge Proud Linux User #88484 Owner -- beowulf-newbie list I didn't vote for his daddy either! Libertarian Party www.lp.org ------------------------------------------------------- BayerWulf Jim's Beowulf Project Looking for giveaway computers and parts Email Jim for details on how you can help build a poor man's super computer.

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Sorry: masquerading timeouts set 5DAYS/2MINS/60SECS
by Alex Daniloff 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody tell me please what means this message in /var/log/warn Sorry: masquerading timeouts set 5DAYS/2MINS/60SECS How to fix it? Thanks in advance. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act! --------------> Try Linux and you'll understand why <--------------

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