February 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Ximian Desktop 2
by Andrea 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

What you think about it? What our add values to use it instead of single apps. (OOffice ...etc.) ? Andrea

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GPL Issues
by expatriate 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hello Everyone. I'm going to embark on a project that will require me to butt heads with some high-level kahunas regarding Linux. I work for a very very big company that has enormous clout but is not as risk-taking as I would like them to be. Anyway my question is: If we decide to use a standard distribution of Linux, are we forced to publish our own source code if we statically or dynamically link to GPL libraries, use gcc to compile and use GPL header files? I'm getting different answers from different sources. We are not planning to change the kernel in any way. Maybe create our own drivers for proprietary hardware and install them at runtime. Can anyone shed a bit more light on this? TIA

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Procmail + Maildir
by Hans du Plooy 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi all, I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I can't seem to get it right. I have this in my procmailrc :0 * ^Subject:.**SPAM** ! spambox(a)company.co.za Which works fine except that the mail loops once, so I get two of each in the spambox. I would rather like to do :0 * ^Subject:.**SPAM** /home/spambox/Maildir/ The mail gets delivered fine, except that it belongs to root instead of user spambox. How do I specify in procmail that this the ownership shouldn't change? All other users mail is fine, just this one account that gets delivered directly. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp(a)newingtoncs.co.za

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Re: Re: [SLE] Replacing MS Exchange with a SuSE solution?
by av_gill＠sympatico.ca 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

> There is also OpenGroupware.org (the product) available from, > you guessed it, http://opengroupware.org It has a long track > record commercially and was released as an open source product > last year. It may meet you needs as it one of the few that comes > with a commercial connector for Outlook clients that is a true > mapi connector (hence it cannot be released under a gpl type > license) It has a very active community behind it, and excellent > commercial or list suport. Just out of curiosity are you currently using this in a production environment? If so then what impression did you get regarding its stability and interoperability with MS Outlook?

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Re: [SLE] Replacing MS Exchange with a SuSE solution?
by Sean Akers 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

If you want something commercial you could check out a Lotus Domino/Notes solution. The Domino server will run perfectly on a SuSE system. You can use Outlook clients (yuk !) or just a standard web browser rather than Notes clients if you wish. It is MUCH more secure than Exchange. It is more than just an e-mail solution. It is a complete collaboration/calendaring/web server/you name it solution and is even programmable. Out of the box, Domino/Notes 6.5 is a great improvement over previous versions and well worth a look IMHO. Check out www.notes.net for details. Sean >My boss wants us to setup an internal email, task, and calendaring solution for our company. We had previously used our ISP for email >services. >We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? >Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some >guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details. >I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if >anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it. >Thanks for the advice! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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BadCRC ?
by Alain Barthélemy 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi, During boot-up (SuSE-8.1) I always have the two next lines: hda: dma_intr: status=0x051 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error:0x841 { DriveStatus Error BadCRC } If anybody can tell me what could be the problem? -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631

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libtiff-devel
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi. For my SuSE 8.2 I need the libtiff-devel. Where can I find it ?. It seems not to be found on the DVD ?. My libtiff is: # rpm -q libtiff libtiff-3.5.7-204 -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk. Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK. SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff. Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.

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Search.
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi. How is it, that I can search for a name in the ARCHIVE.GZ file on the SuSE 8.2 DVD ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk. Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK. SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff. Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.

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Re: [SLE] [Fwd: VMWare 4.0 & Suse 9.0]
by Alex Angerhofer 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

> ... > Good morning Alex & everyone else, > > Thank you very much for your feedbacks. > > One thing I'm learning from linux is that nothing comes easy and even with Suse v9.0 Pro I would have expected > a better product by reading this thread and all the rest of the problems. > > You have to go through hoops and loops and fine-tuning to make everything work. This is nosense since we pay > for a product like Suse or Red Hat. > > Why a regular consumer should go through a recompile of the kernel to make a $300.00 software work ? > > Anyways I'll give it a last try if not I'll switch back to Windows since VMWare runs on every (almost) version > of WIndows without recompiling source code or kernels. > > Regards, > > Luis > > > Hi Luis, well, you know you don't have to recompile the kernel in this case, simply compile the modules which have been included in 9.0 in the form of sources. Regarding your critique of SuSE, RH, and other linux distros: It is certainly true that you have to make much more of an effort to make things work. On the other hand you also gain much more freedom to do your own thing, create your own computing environment, setting up your own servers, creating your own software. Linux may not be at the point yet to compete with windows when it comes to the "regular consumer" who only expects to point and click and have everything work. However, having been such a customer at one time I very quickly found myself landlocked by windows. Trying to develop my own applications meant shelling out big bucks for compilers, trying to buy commercial packages for what I wanted to do (scientific data analysis) also meant paying big bucks and in the end having to live with whatever the particular programer thought his clients wanted... In the end for me linux was the right choice because I already knew UNIX, and because I needed the freedom to create my own software and/or to modify existing software. Having said that, I have to admit that I liked previous versions of SuSE better than 9.0. My first impression is that the games section has grown to epic proportions while the number of useful applications has shrunk quite a bit, with some applications like emacs or LaTeX even relegated to the "experienced user" corner and not even included in the default install. My gripe with 9.0 is also that it looks like quite a number of things are broken for no good reason, like k3b, or in this case vmware. However, what makes SuSE worthwhile for me is the ease of administering it with YaST. At this point I am pretty much hooked on it, and hope that it will be extended to include a lot more services. Things I'd like to see in YaST are: tripwire, ntp server, ftp server, apt, and perhaps a couple of more that I can't think of at the moment. Best regards, Alex.

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SuSE beta testing program
by Alex Angerhofer 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi List, I misplaced the link to the application form for the beta testing program. I'd like to try and get into it for the next SuSE version that is probably going to come out sometime this spring. Can someone please point me to the correct URL? Best regards, Alex.

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