Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: I installed a SuSE 6.x on a 386SX, 5Mb ram - just to prove myself it is possible. The installer would certainly not run, I know, I tried the same :-) but I simply took the HD to another computer, and installed it there. it's a good solution, if applicable. here I have

Re: [opensuse] Eclipse on openSUSE?

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:17:45PM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote: Hello, I'm new to openSUSE. Is there a place where I can see all the rpms that are included in 10.1 beta3? Is Eclipse available, and if not what development platform is in it's stead? ARCHIVES.gz should have that. If you take

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: He is thinking of image meaning photos or graphics. A language translation missunderstanding. yes and no :-). yes in the first place, I don't see a kernel as an image (for me if not a picture an image is a disk), but then no, because it's possible to have a much smaller

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread jdd
I've got a little better now. found the alt F9 console in linuxrc to test memory I did the following, monitoring the process from aF9 and aF2 unplug all what was not strictly necessary (cd, net, even mouse and floppy-all but the AC plug :-) lauch install. directly from the copied cd (no need

Re: [opensuse] Go back to default KDE install

2006-02-16 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 08:52 schrieb Liviu Damian: On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:46, Carl Hartung wrote: Out of curiosity, are you thinking of doing this because you're having problems with your system? I only ask because you might actually make things worse by doing this. If

Re: [opensuse] Communication, News etc.

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Lasarsch
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 20:16 schrieb jdd: Michael Loeffler wrote: The en page is the reference page. And of course we are intersted in french speaking people and asked jdd already (I guess 2-3 hours ago) ?? not received, may be in my spam box :-( anyway I did the translation. oops,

Re: [opensuse] Go back to default KDE install

2006-02-16 Thread Liviu Damian
On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:42, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: You should have a look at the .y2log files. There you can find, which packages you installed and when you did it: I found an easy way to do it: Open YaST - Install into directory, choose default system with KDE, detailed selection,

[opensuse] Beta 4 release status

2006-02-16 Thread Jan Karjalainen
What's the status on Beta 4? Is it going to be released today? /Jan K. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:25:58PM +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 you said: I just went over the list and commented a few entries: [..] * postfix with mysql support: Part of 10.0 already AFAIK (postfix-mysql) Can't find this anywhere, not in Yast, or with pin.

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread jdd
well. it was pretty tricky but I manage to get a functional 10.0 on my tiny box :-) even Windowmaker runs well I have still to understand why the pcmcia cdrom don't works from install, this would be much more handy, but secondary. I will also try SUPER. However it seems that there is no more

Re: [opensuse] Go back to default KDE install

2006-02-16 Thread Carl Hartung
On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:52, Liviu Damian wrote: No, I'm doing these because I need to document the procedure of installing a piece of software, including the dependences in case you have a stock KDE install. Good! That's better than having problems! :-) That's not what I want to

[opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread steve.goodey
Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm moving from Mandriva to Suse 10.0. I'm a little confused about the difference between Online Update and System Update. Am I right in thinking that System Update would be used if no net connection or if you had updates on a disc? Thanks for any help.

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Peter Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi Steve Sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm moving from Mandriva to Suse 10.0. I'm a little confused about the difference between Online Update and System Update. Am I right in thinking that System Update would be used if

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Edward Dunagin
hello pete and steve, On 2/16/06, Peter Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi Steve Sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm moving from Mandriva to Suse 10.0. I'm a little confused about the difference between Online

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:11:36PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong list. suse-linux-e should be more apropriate: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate I'm moving from Mandriva to Suse 10.0. I'm a little confused about the difference between Online Update and

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:45:03AM -0700, Edward Dunagin wrote: any suggestions? thanksed I sugest you tell us what you want a sugestion about, because I have no idea what you want. :-( houghi -- Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Peter Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:45, Edward Dunagin wrote: hello pete and steve, On 2/16/06, Peter Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi Steve Sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm moving from Mandriva to Suse 10.0.

[opensuse] Pictuire for the next realease

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
Here a picture for the next SUSE release. They are Gecko's: http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/pic2682.jpg (OK, perhaps not. ;-) houghi -- I like being single. I'm always there when I need me. -- Art Leo

[opensuse] what's a good cut off point for old rpm

2006-02-16 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi all, I got a question, it might just be OE question, but what is a good cut off point for old packages, I need Scibus, and I saw on there page 9.1 thru 9.3, I am wondering is SuSE 9 a good point or if we see packages as old as 7, can we install them we can't find an tarball or rpm. Payne --

Re: [opensuse] what's a good cut off point for old rpm

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:33:46AM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi all, I got a question, it might just be OE question, but what is a good cut off point for old packages, I need Scibus, and I saw on there page 9.1 thru 9.3, I am wondering is SuSE 9 a good point or if we see packages as old as

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread houghi
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:39:06PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've obviously missed something here. I'm using Suse 10 from a cover disc. Is suse-linux-e not for the paid/boxed version? No. houghi -- Boston, n.: Ludwig van Beethoven being jeered by 50,000 sports fans for finishing

[opensuse] dhcpcd timeout

2006-02-16 Thread tim.greeningjackson
I have a laptop on which I've recently installed openSUSE 10.1 and which has two network devices: eth0 (100 Mbps Ethernet) and eth1 (802.11g 54 Mbps WLAN). Both network devices are configured to configure themselves via DHCP. If I am using eth0 for network access, it configures itself without any

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's called YOU = YaST Online Update, but also System Update. I have learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it might help to avoid confusion

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 you said: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:25:58PM +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 you said: I just went over the list and commented a few entries: [..] * postfix with mysql support: Part of 10.0 already AFAIK (postfix-mysql) Can't find

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 you said: Op woensdag 15 februari 2006 23:25, schreef Theo v. Werkhoven: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 you said: I just went over the list and commented a few entries: [..] * postfix with mysql support: Part of 10.0 already AFAIK   (postfix-mysql) Can't find this

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Peter Connolly wrote: Online update is for delivery of patches and updates from SUSE/Novell on an 'as-needed' basis. System update is for moving from say, version 10.0 to 10.1, larger version upgrades. This is very much not true. If you do use it for this, you will need to do some serious

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
houghi wrote: System Update is when you go from e.g. SUSE 9.3 to 10.0. So your complete system. No - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Thomas Hertweck wrote: I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's called YOU = YaST Online Update, but also System Update. I have learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Anders Johansson wrote: [...] Well, with these definitions, System Update is just that, a System Update. It shouldn't be used to upgrade to a completely new version of the system (e.g. moving from 10.0 to 10.1). It should be used for when you have a source of rpms and you want to mass update

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Thomas Hertweck wrote: Sorry Anders, you're wrong! Sorry, I'm not. A bunch of RPMs should be installed via Software Management - just add the Packman repository as installation source and that's it. YOU (=Update) is for bug and security fixes, and System Update is indeed for upgrading from

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Anders Johansson wrote: [...] I'm well aware of this (I work there) but what you're talking about is not System Update. You're talking about a system upgrade from CD or DVD, which is how it should be done. What the OP was asking was what the difference was between online update and system

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Thomas Hertweck wrote: ... because the System Update is no update but an upgrade (it installs completely new versions of software packages!). No, it performs a system update by doing package upgrades. That's a difference That's what I've said before and asked to change - it should be called

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: I'v installed from CDs btw, no DVD player on that machine, but I would presume that ARCHIVES.gz I copied from CD1 should list all the packages. It lists all packages (and their contents - if you're just looking for a particular package name INDEX.gz is much easier to

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Theo v. Werkhoven schrieb: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 you said: Theo v. Werkhoven schrieb: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 you said: It's on the server: opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse/i586/postfix-mysql-2.2.5-5.i586.rpm Thus *not* part of SUSE10.0, and my additions to the wishlist were

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Anders Johansson wrote: [...] I use system update all the time, to update the packages from the supplementary directories and from Packman. I find it much easier to work with for mass updates (package upgrades) than the software management module, which I mainly use for single package

[opensuse] convert rpm build for Red Hat / Fedora

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Nohl
Dear list, does anybody know how to convert a rpm to SuSE? Especially change the dependencies? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
Hi Thomas On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:40, Thomas Hertweck wrote: I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's called YOU = YaST Online Update, but also System Update. I have learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should distinguish between

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:59, Anders Johansson wrote: Peter Connolly wrote: Online update is for delivery of patches and updates from SUSE/Novell on an 'as-needed' basis. System update is for moving from say, version 10.0 to 10.1, larger version upgrades. This is very much not

Re: [opensuse] convert rpm build for Red Hat / Fedora

2006-02-16 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-02-16 23:26:46 +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote: does anybody know how to convert a rpm to SuSE? Especially change the dependencies? rebuild the source rpm? darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
Hi Anders ( Thomas) On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:48, Anders Johansson wrote: Thomas Hertweck wrote: ... because the System Update is no update but an upgrade (it installs completely new versions of software packages!). No, it performs a system update by doing package upgrades. That's a

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:59, Anders Johansson wrote: Peter Connolly wrote: Online update is for delivery of patches and updates from SUSE/Novell on an 'as-needed' basis. System update is for moving from say, version 10.0 to 10.1, larger

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: [Yast2 System Update] I've done it before, from 9.1-9.2-9.3 but my luck ran out in the end. You have not. Yast2 does detect what you want and does inhibit it. You have to boot from an installation medium to do it. Cheers -e -- Eberhard

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:40, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: OK, maybe I've got it wrong, but what is it for? I've always understood it to be for moving from one point version to another, e.g. 9.2-9.3 etc. It's worked for me, It has

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:46, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: [Yast2 System Update] I've done it before, from 9.1-9.2-9.3 but my luck ran out in the end. You have not. Yast2 does detect what you want and does inhibit it. You have to boot

[opensuse] A remarkable Boot Splash image during 10.1b2 installation

2006-02-16 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
I've had some trouble installing 10.1b2 properly as explained in other posts. At a couple of instances however, a remarkable Boot Splas image has appeared on the screen: it looked like a Christmas card with a jumping Santa Claus on top or jumping over it. I would say it reminds me about a hack,

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:40, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: OK, maybe I've got it wrong, but what is it for? I've always understood it to be for moving from one point version to another, e.g. 9.2-9.3

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:46, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: [Yast2 System Update] I've done it before, from 9.1-9.2-9.3 but my luck ran out in the end. You have not. Yast2 does detect what you

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: [Yast2 System Update] I've done it before, from 9.1-9.2-9.3 but my luck ran out in the end. You have not. Yast2 does detect what you want and does inhibit it. No, unfortunately it doesn't. It will let you do it,

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 you said: Theo v. Werkhoven schrieb: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 you said: [..] So it *is* on the SUSE Linux 10.0 DVD. So it seems. Thanks for enlighting me. But then I wonder why pin or a search in yast didn't reveal this. I'v installed from CDs btw, no DVD player on

Re: [opensuse] Wishlist

2006-02-16 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 you said: Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: I'v installed from CDs btw, no DVD player on that machine, but I would presume that ARCHIVES.gz I copied from CD1 should list all the packages. It lists all packages (and their contents - if you're just looking for a particular

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:10, Anders Johansson wrote: Pete Connolly wrote: The question above still stands. What is System Upgrade for? When you're finished telling me about my own system, maybe you could answer it? Did you read the thread between me and Thomas? System update is

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] e.g. 9.2-9.3 etc. is a pure lie. I don't think you're right. I have a SuSE 9.2 here, and if I specify the FTP directory of 9.3 as installation source, then... [...] Surely. Your base system needs to be likely uptodate, else you get a message that you need

Re: [opensuse] convert rpm build for Red Hat / Fedora

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Nohl
Hi! does anybody know how to convert a rpm to SuSE? Especially change the dependencies? rebuild the source rpm? And how to use a prebuild binary package. Otherwise I can use tar'ed files and build my own rpm. Johannes -

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Johansson wrote: Pete Connolly wrote: The question above still stands. What is System Upgrade for? When you're finished telling me about my own system, maybe you could answer it? Did you read the thread between me and Thomas? System update is for mass

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Pete Connolly wrote: It was a rhetorical question, not mean literally. I'm fairly sure I know what system update is, having peformed the impossible a few times. Well, apparently not. It's not impossible, as you say, but it's not the intended purpose. It will not work fully, you will for

[opensuse] Playing DVD movies

2006-02-16 Thread jim tate
Will the Fedora rpm's xine-lib, libdvdcss workin Suse10.0 ? To play DVD movies? Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Thomas Hertweck wrote: Well, I won't do that because I think there is no chance to succeed. However, I think the names are really confusing (might have confused myself as well) and some improvement (whatever that is; discuss! Distinguishing between upgrade and update, as proposed, is obviously

Re: [opensuse] Playing DVD movies

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
jim tate wrote: Will the Fedora rpm's xine-lib, libdvdcss workin Suse10.0 ? To play DVD movies? Don't know. Is it an academic exercise, or will the SUSE 10.0 packages from packman.links2linux.org work for you? - To

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:00, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:40, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: OK, maybe I've got it wrong, but

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Thomas Hertweck wrote: Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] e.g. 9.2-9.3 etc. is a pure lie. I don't think you're right. I have a SuSE 9.2 here, and if I specify the FTP directory of 9.3 as installation source, then... [...] Surely. Your base system needs to be

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Anders Johansson wrote: [...] And in some cases it will fail miserably. Not too many years ago, the YaST script syntax changed, and this caused any attempt to use System Update to upgrade to the next version to fail as soon as the new version of YaST got installed (it only read the new

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] Practice. Since 4.4.1. The necessary hand-crafting steps from 5.3 to 6.0 were the difficultiest ever, and I really know only one person who did everything right to trick out Yast with success. Sorry, no hand-crafting involved here. I could do the update

Re: [opensuse] Playing DVD movies

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, jim tate wrote: Will the Fedora rpm's xine-lib, libdvdcss workin Suse10.0 ? To play DVD movies? Not knowing them, my advice: you better use packman, f.e. nttp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/10.0 You can add it as additional installation source. Cheers -e

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Thomas Hertweck wrote: Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] Practice. Since 4.4.1. The necessary hand-crafting steps from 5.3 to 6.0 were the difficultiest ever, and I really know only one person who did everything right to trick out Yast with success. Sorry, no

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Siegbert Baude
Eberhard Moenkeberg schrieb: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Johansson wrote: System update is for mass updating of packages, e.g. if you want to get the latest packages from the supplementary directories in one go More abstract, you can adjust your installation source to some release

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Anders Johansson
Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Therefore I wonder, how large part of content is really changed? If it would be fairly easy adn possible to pack only the changes (upgrade part) on one single beta upgrade CD, it would have been much more attractive and saved a lot of time at downloading and

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Siegbert Baude wrote: Eberhard Moenkeberg schrieb: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Anders Johansson wrote: System update is for mass updating of packages, e.g. if you want to get the latest packages from the supplementary directories in one go More abstract, you can adjust

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
Anders Johansson wrote: Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Therefore I wonder, how large part of content is really changed? If it would be fairly easy adn possible to pack only the changes (upgrade part) on one single beta upgrade CD, it would have been much more attractive and saved a lot of time at

Re: [opensuse] Online Update/System Update.

2006-02-16 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
Anders Johansson wrote: Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Therefore I wonder, how large part of content is really changed? If it would be fairly easy adn possible to pack only the changes (upgrade part) on one single beta upgrade CD, it would have been much more attractive and saved a lot of time at

[opensuse] Packman and Open-Xchange

2006-02-16 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, Is there a problem with packman, I keep getting a error when I try to dl from any of the packman site, via yast. I am also look for Open-Xchange for SuSE10.0. Any clues? RPM please. -- Do you know why we fall Master Wayne...so we can learn to get up. Alfred - Batman Begins

Re: [opensuse] Playing DVD movies

2006-02-16 Thread Chuck Payne
On 2/16/06, Eberhard Moenkeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, jim tate wrote: Will the Fedora rpm's xine-lib, libdvdcss workin Suse10.0 ? To play DVD movies? Not knowing them, my advice: you better use packman, f.e. nttp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/10.0

Re: [opensuse] convert rpm build for Red Hat / Fedora

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:36, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2006-02-16 23:26:46 +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote: does anybody know how to convert a rpm to SuSE? Especially change the dependencies? rebuild the source rpm? darix Which is why I mentioned at the status meeting my interest in

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:12, Pascal Bleser wrote: Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote: Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: You can't have a single distro that does everything why not :-). Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable,

Re: [opensuse] Communication, News etc.

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 05:13 AM 15/02/2006, you wrote: Wasn't sure whether to put this on the general opensuse or the wiki mailing list... ?wiki mailing list details please thanks scsijon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 01:17 AM 16/02/2006, you wrote: cut +1 YaST rules but YaST is *Big_n_Fat* ;-) It makes the whole thing, each release, *far* too hangry with new hardware power to my point of view too! all my updates are done in a window set as init3 (text mode), not that fat and a lot less

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] KDE_USE_IPV6=yes

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 12:40 AM 12/02/2006, you wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:43, houghi wrote: Then why is it YES in my standard Beta 3 configuration? You misunderstood. It's supposed to be Yes by default. The workaround is that you can set it to No manually. Also perhaps having IPv6 off by default

Re: [opensuse] harware compatibility

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 10:52 PM 15/02/2006, you wrote: Pascal Bleser wrote: 10.0 is significantly faster but crashes in the same area, cut this install tools is configuring the pcmcia, but not completely so I can't read the cd and need to copy the cd

Re: [opensuse] Layout of the new mailinglist archive

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 06:04 AM 13/02/2006, you wrote: Hi, the last 2 days i was working on the new listserver trying out what we can use a archive software etc. I think im going to use MHonArc[1] with the following layout (hacked together by me influenced by macho[2]) http://lists4.opensuse.org/opensuse/ What

Re: [opensuse] RFC: New Mailinglist Layout ::plus comments

2006-02-16 Thread scsijon
At 11:43 PM 10/02/2006, you wrote: Hi, we talked in the last meeting about the language lists. This requires a new layout (or rather _a_ layout because today we dont have guidelines about it) of the lists. We thought about it and came up with the following: We need to distinguish between 3