February 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Is there a version of KMail available for Win XP?
by Doug McGarrett 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

The title says it all. Since I'm used to KMail, I'd like to have it on the Wind machine also. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Making the installer less chatty?
by Dan Stromberg 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

We're installing both openSUSE and SLES systems. Some of these systems are installed via a console that is effectively a 57.6Kbps serial link - so not blazingly fast console I/O. These installs are taking over an hour to complete on pretty fast hardware - probably due to the slow serial console. We're moving the packages to install over gigabit ethernet, not from a DVD or CD, and definitely not via the serial link :) So my question is: "Is there a way of making the openSUSE 10.3 and SLES 10.1 installers less chatty, so the installs can move along faster when done via a serial console?" (When I say "effectively a 57.6Kbps serial link" I mean IPMI v2.0 Serial Over LAN - IE a rather modern server technology, not some old Wyse 50 hooked up to a PC :) Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Banning personal attacks
by Banning someone out of personal spite is uncalled for fascism 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Tony Alfrey wrote: > Banning someone out of personal spite is uncalled for fascism wrote: >> Tony Alfrey wrote: >>> Stefan Hundhammer wrote: >>>> On Friday 29 February 2008 13:49, Banning someone out of personal >>>> spite is uncalled for fascism wrote: >>>>> NOBODY noticed before when I went through numerous >>>>> accounts... >>> >>> Not true; I noticed immediately (along with Randall). We just have >>> better things to do than spend a lot of time with this. But this >>> time, I'm hoping that you might *hear* this feedback. >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>>> >>>> You are a knowledgeable person. You are also an intelligent person. >>>> But clearly, the way you treat other people just sucks. >>> >>> I agree with this. You simply don't understand (or want to >>> understand) that a lot of your remarks are simply mean-spirited. >> >> Yet another personal attack on me. >> >> No, I do not write on this list with any meanness of spirit. >> >> Since when did you become a mind-reader? >> >> > > Sigh. Another filter entry. Translation: I, Tony Alfrey, cannot refute what Aaron wrote. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] New opensuse and having a few problems
by James Pifer 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hi all. I'm fairly new to opensuse, although I'm not new to linux. In the past I've always used redhat flavors. So lately that's been fedora for personal and centos for work computers. Our company uses Novell products heavily so I'm trying to run opensuse on my laptop. I'm not running SLED or SLES because my wireless NIC doesn't work with those, but does with opensuse 10.3 out of the box. I'm having a few issues though. Hoping to get some help. (I have googled for many if not all of these issues, but have not found solutions) I'm not using wireless at the moment. 1) In general the system seems slugish. It's new laptop with Centrino Duo processor and 4 gig of RAM. I'm running SMP kernal: 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp When I do a top it only shows 1 CPU (maybe that's correct). If I look at gnome system monitor it shows two processors. I'm only using 21% of the RAM right now and no swap. The system fan seems to be running constantly. I also run VMWare Player. When I suspend an OS by clicking on the X it takes a long time for vmplayer to write everything to the disk. I also ran WMWare Player when Vista was installed and it was much faster at this process. (and it's hard for me to say Vista is faster than anything!!!) Hard drives statistic are: # hdparm -tT /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: Timing cached reads: 5596 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2803.83 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.03 seconds = 53.47 MB/sec Those seem pretty good IIRC. 2) Bluetooth. I have bluetooth enabled and running but I can't figure out how to get my bluetooth mouse to attach. On fedora I'm used to running hidd commands, but those aren't available. I also have other problems specific to other applications, such as firefox, but those issues could be related to #1. Anyone have any suggestions? I appreciate the help. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] remote update and house keeping
by jdd 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

There are more and more hosting services that gives the possibility to manage a computer in professional environment for affordable price For example, I loan at http://www.kimsuffi.com a 250Mb ram, 160Gb Hdd computer for as little as euros 20 a month. there are a large bunch of windows and Linux systems available here, including openSUSE 10.2 My question is how will I be allowed to update this distribution when official update will be over in a year or so. I asked the same thing on they forum and will follow here the answer. But we can already think about it. openSUSE is offered there pré-installed with basics settings and all the other work is done remotely. There is a "recovery console" that allows nearly what allow the opensuse recovery cd and allow to reset the system. As you see, the problem here is "remotely". I have no possibility to go there and insert a dvd in a slot. I have no choice to use SLES. If, by example, I managed to update to 10.3, or if the 10.3 basic cd was made available in the recovery console (or simply the mini cd), how can I update? is it possible without too many risks? we could eventually think at what kind of tools we could provide to ease such thing, I beg, seing the price, that more and more customers are going to use this. Of course I can backup and reinstall, but installing such things like mail is still not simple for me, and if I happened to have to upload again more than 100Mb, this is not easy (my link from my house to the net is only 1Mb, my dl is 12Mb, kimsuffi is 100Mb symetric) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://clairedodin.voices.com/ http://www.clairedodin.com/ http://claire.dodin.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] spell check in joe
by Carlos E. R. 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, joe can spell check using ispell or aspell if found. Mine defaults to ispell in English and aspell in Spanish. How can I tell it to use aspell always? Or to change the speller? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHxrMOtTMYHG2NR9URAvkoAJ4tzWKFO8veoP4EAJXr0lQPrpGQdACfTmaZ RO9x58tbxLNYeRxTDEqV58A= =w/1i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] opensuse 10.x w/o lib32 on x64 platform possible?
by Tommy Pham 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hi, Was wondering if it's possible or has anyone successfully attempted opensuse 10.x w/o lib32 on x64 platform? I tried installing from DVD and from internet repository w/o success. Thanks, Tommy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Is there a version of KMail available for Win XP?
by Will Stephenson 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

On Friday 29 February 2008 03:04:41 Doug McGarrett wrote: > The title says it all. Since I'm used to KMail, I'd like to have it on > the Wind machine also. The KDE project thought so too. KDE 4 makes Win and Mac target platforms for KDE applications (not the desktop shell though). For KDE 4.0 only the libraries are really available. Expect to see significant KDE applications becoming available on these platforms for KDE 4.1 Kontact and therefore KMail is being actively ported at the moment, expect more news on dot.kde.org as 4.1 gets nearer. It's scheduled for release in July. Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE vs. SLED
by Kai Ponte 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Just curious. I went with some of my staff today to the Microsoft launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 (yeah!) and Visual Studio 2008. Ballmer was there, Tom Brokaw (an American television news reporter) was there and so was... ...Novell. Not only did Ballmer mention "swoosie" three times in his keynote, but I talked to the Novell folks who were running Win2003 in a Xen session under SLES. Chatting with them, I mentioned how I run openSUSE on several desktops and my laptop. They suggested SLED for my laptop. However, they could not tell me what equivelant to openSUSE SLED was. For example, it it something like 10.1? I'm curious how far behind SLED is compared to openSUSE. (On an aside, I mentioned how I use KDE and want to keep it that way. They mentioned that the US folks are more KDE-oriented and the EU folks tend to be more Gnome oriented.) -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] howto - Read Data from Serial Port?
by David C. Rankin 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Banning someone out of personal spite is uncalled for fascism wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> A linux question. I have a phone system that will output call logs >> through an rs-232 cable. I would like to write a script that will read >> the data from the serial port and input it into a mysql table. > > cat /dev/ttyS_ | data_storing_program > Thanks Theo, and Mr. fascism, I will look at the python interface and definitely see if I can make the cat script work. Another question, If I write a small script and "sleep" for 30 seconds or so during the loop to cut down on racing the loop, will that have any unintended consequences I should look out for? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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