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openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006!
by Christoph Thiel 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hello everyone, the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and booths for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is _free of charge_ (but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event). The openSUSE project will be participating at FOSDEM with an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth. This week we had a meeting to further coordinate our FOSDEM participance. The outcome is a tentative schedule for the DevRoom, which we would like to share with you. Your feedback on this would be very much appreciated! Did we miss to address a certain topic? Please note that this schedule isn't cast in stone in any way yet -- so if you would like to contribute to our DevRoom (e.g. by delivering a talk or by giving a tutorial), raise your hand NOW (or contact me off-list). I'v just updated http://www.opensuse.org/FOSDEM, which has all the information on openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006. (If any wiki god is listening: Any style improvement to that page would be very welcome!) That's it for the moment, time to proceed to the actual schedule: Saturday, February 25th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13:00 - 14:00 openSUSE--Motivation, Goals, and Opportunities (Sonja Krause-Harder, adrian? / michl? / cthiel?) Why did Novell start the openSUSE project? What is different from other projects? Get a short overview of our motivations and plans for the future of the openSUSE project as well as hear your opinions and discuss where openSUSE can go in the future with you. 14:00 - 15:00 Introducing the openSUSE Build Service (Adrian Schroeter, Cornelius Schumacher, Andreas Bauer) Learn how the openSUSE Build Service works and helps you build packages. Get an overview of the tools and functionalities that the openSUSE Build Service offers. 15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux Power Management--One Step Ahead! (Timo Hoenig, Holger Macht) Power management for SUSE Linux. Suspending the whole system was the first step. Now it is time for runtime power management to paralyze devices that shorten your battery life time on the road. 16:00 - 17:00 SUSE Linux 10.2--Quo vadis? (Michael Loeffler, Christoph Thiel) What's new and cool in SUSE Linux 10.1? What are the features and highlights? We answer these questions and discuss goals and focuses for SUSE Linux 10.2 and beyond. 17:00 - 17:30 Q & A Sunday, February 26th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:00 - 10:00 Developer Breakfast 10:00 - 11:00 Packaging Tutorial--The Bricks We Build With (Hendrik Vogelsang, Marcus Rueckert) The journey from a spec file to a distribution. An introduction to RPM packaging for openSUSE and the tasks that come with it. 11:00 - 12:00 Cross-Distribution Building with the openSUSE Build Service (Michael Schroeder) The openSUSE Build Service is not only limited to build packages for SUSE Linux, but offers the possibility to build a package for other distributions (such as Mandriva, Fedora, or even Debian). This talk presents methods to make packages built for multiple distributions. 12:00 - 12:30 "Speed Talks" (various topics) This slot is reserved to present various topics in 5-10 minute talks. 12:30 - 14:00 Writing Your Own YaST Module in a Few Hours (Stefan Hundhammer) Powerful configuration options are what set many OS projects apart from commercial software. Why not go all the way and offer an easy-to-use GUI for configuration--on top of existing configuration files? YaST provides a powerful framework to do just that and it is simple and efficient enough to write your own YaST module. 14:00 - 15:00 The SUSE Security Process (Marcus Meissner) This lecture gives an introduction into the work of the SUSE Security Team. If you ever wanted to know how SUSE approaches releasing security updates or looking at new security critical packages, this is the place to listen and ask questions. 15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial (Torsten Duwe) This tutorial introduces the SUSE Linux LiveCD script, which transforms a SUSE Linux installation source into a CD or DVD image that hosts a live version of SUSE Linux, which can be used without the need to install it onto a hard disk first. 16:00 - 17:30 Q & A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice weekend Christoph

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External disk choice
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going to give away soon . I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE. I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w development now residing on my old desktop. But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop. Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk would be fine .. I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but portable, external disk or any alternative solution. Thank you in advance. Maura

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MS Works to .DOC or .ODT conversion tools
by Mike McMullin 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I'm looking for an utility to covert MSWorks .WPS files into something that I can import into OOo. My inlaws had to get a new system and it came with OOo installed, but OOo (2.0) doesn't open works stuff, and I'd like to not have to install MSWorks.

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Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages
by Maged Hussein 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi list, I'm currently thinking of a way to make OpenSUSE available to much more audience (specially windows users). My target is to attract more users and developers to Linux platform (making it easy for them to make the switch). Upon testing many distros, I found that SUSE has the most windows like experience to Windows users PLUS a very intuitive admin interface for linux power users. The easiest way is to distribute it within a Computer magazine that all PC users can access. I thought of three approached to accompish this tasks (given that I have only one CD to include): 1- One CD with just necessary packages to start with (SLICK does a good job in this) [This way will bring many hassles to windows user [installation with windows- hardware not detected - modems support,...etc] 2- Make a live CD for OpenSUSE [I found only a DVD version of it + I Found that you can use it as a READ ONLY [not like debizn based Live CDs]] 3- Make a vmware image of OpenSUSE with packages relevant to audience. [This approach will eliminate HW support, modem support [vmware can use NATing to hadle this], installation support] There is some packages that essential to Windows user but I don't know what is the obligation if I included them within the vmware image namely: - RealPlayer - Acrobat Reader - Flash - Java - All dependednt parts on them. Of course one can update from yast repositories once installed but Internet Connectivity will not be available to some users. I am looking for your help to make the right path. -- Regards, Maged Hussein

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gcc 4.1 for SuSE 10.0
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi, Someone can tell me where I can get gcc 4.1 RPMs for SuSE 10.0? I have looked in /projects/gcc/m and they are not here. BTW, what else needs to be updated along with gcc 4.1 and corresponding cpp, libgcc? libstdc++?

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unsuscribe
by Linda Miller 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

unsuscribe

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Converting my son - printing
by Bob S 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hello SuSE people, Hope you can help with the final conversion. After many crashes, worms, virii, etc. in Windows I finally convinced my son to allow me to install SuSE 9.2 on his machine. All went well and he is learning the Linux way. Except !! that he cannot print! Unfortunately, during the Windoz period, he purchased one of those all-in-one Brother printer/scanner/copier things. I think the model is MFC 4230C or 3240C or something close. I don't think it it is supported. Yast does see it though. Just hoping someone on this list has run across this and successfully installed this beast in SuSE. I need to keep my son converted!! Any help appreciated. Bob S.

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grub can't load windows - error 12: Invalid Device Requested (hd0,9)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Good morning, friends! I have windows 98se at /dev/hda9 (it is called unit F: by Windows). As we know windows 98 put its initialization files on C: (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, etc.), but I formated C: to NTFS in order to install Windows XP. Grub is restored and SuSE, Slackware and Windows XP can boot, but Windows 98 couldn't. I don't want to use C: in FAT, could I use GRUB to boot Windows 98 from /dev/hda9 (F:), directly? My Grub file contains these lines for Win98 partition: title Windows 98SE rootnoverify (hd0,8) makeactive chainloader +1 The following error occurs: Error 12: Invalid Device Requested (hd0,8) Is there any chance to maintain Windows 98 bootable on /dev/hda9 (F:)? Do I need the erased files from unit C:? Thanks for any help. adagilson

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Spam
by Peter Collier 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I'm getting hammered by a lot of emails which have different subject lines and a different sender. Kmail displays it in plain text, does not say that it is a html message which can be viewed if you click here but there is html view available if scroll down to the description box, below the email. Clamav does not pick any virus. Spamassassin and bogofilter although set to learn, do not pick them up. (All uptodate). The message of the email starts with something on the lines of: "ListPrice: $550.00 OurPrice: $69.95 YouSave: $480.05 ( 87%) Availability: Available for INSTANT download!" followed by several references to microsoft type products, no links, so I assume you contact the sender (which suggests the email address is valid and not one from a compromised machine). I'm running suse 10.0 OSS on a standalone machine. Using Kmail. (Direct access via kmail to pop and stmp from my isp). Do I set a filter on body or message, containing the listprice etc quote from above, to mark as spam? Or could that compromise some valid emails where I have requested details on say holidays etc from somewhere else? Peter C

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Session management error
by Brian Green 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi New to Linux: SuSE 10.0, GNOME 2.12.2, Kernel 2.6.13, single user 32bit desktop Ran a System Update (after installing SynCE rpm as part of a project to sync Thunderbird/Sunbird with my iPAQ) and now, on boot, "gnome-volume-manager" always quits unexpectedly. Similarly, I now cannot run several routines from the desktop that require root privilege e.g. yast or many in GNOME control centre. I can run, and have run, yast2 as su in a terminal even though I get a "Session management error: ...". If I try to log in as root I get: 'Xlib ":0.0" refused by server ... ' (and then the dreaded) 'Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key' message [Note: this is an improvement, for at least now the system will not allow me log in as any user when using the root password ... (which it did until now)] I've Googled "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1" but a workable solution eludes me ... Can anbody help me with a fix for this problem (... other than a complete rebuild)? Thanks Brian

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