Re: [opensuse] Google Earth for Linux...

2006-06-13 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 13 June 2006 13:15 samaye, J Sloan alekhiit: > >> http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth > > It appears to be native linux, and it runs quite nicely here. The instructions on the openSUSE wiki are for the non-native version - version 3, which was compiled for Windows. Version 4 (beta) is na

Re: [opensuse] KDE supplementary moved to Build Service

2006-05-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
This is a really bad move. No FTP access, no development packages -- very bad publicity. :( I was a regular updater -- even when people used to recommend the "virgin" distro for stability, I used to download the latest KDE updates eagerly. And now that's no more possible, or at least not as easy

Re: [opensuse] What will be done with bugreports in Bugzilla?

2006-05-29 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 5/30/06, Kang-Jin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am curious about what will be done with bugs listed in Bugzilla. At the moment, it shows over 900 open bugs. Are the developers working on fixing all these bugs or have they already moved to development of next release, fixing just security r

[opensuse] Incorrect version number on supplementary qt packages?

2006-05-23 Thread Shriramana Sharma
The qt(4) supplementary packages for 10.1 are: qt-4.1.2-2.i586.rpm qt-devel-4.1.2-2.i586.rpm qt-devel-doc-4.1.2-2.i586.rpm qt-qt3support-4.1.2-2.i586.rpm qt-sql-4.1.2-2.i586.rpm qt-sql-mysql-4.1.3-3.i586.rpm qt-sql-postgresql-4.1.3-3.i586.rpm qt-sql-sqlite-4.1.3-3.i586.rpm qt-sql-unixODBC-4.1.3-3.

Re: [opensuse] X.org 7.1 is out

2006-05-23 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:33 samaye, Mathias Homann alekhiit: > just read on heise that X.org 7.1 has been released... but when I look at > suse supplementary, it looks as if version considerations stopped at > 6.8.2... any particular reasons? any chance at all to get 7.1 packages for > 10.0, or even

[opensuse] Reiser4 utilities for SUSE 10.1

2006-05-13 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I checked the i586, i686 and noarch packages in the 10.1 and there were no Reiser4 utils to be found. In 10.0 we had reiser4progs-1.0.4-2.i586.rpm. 1. Do we get reiser4 in 10.1? 2. Till then can I use the 10.0 reiser4 package in 10.1? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with K

[opensuse] First impressions of SUSE 10.1

2006-05-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
l the other sprucings-up... Great work SUSE! Shriramana Sharma Linux User #395953 P.S: Please, all, share your first impressions. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Release

2006-05-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 5/11/06, Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Additionally two ftp trees are available - one with only open source packages and one with non open source packages. The open source tree contains packages build from more than 3100 source RPMs. Request. Can the package tree be split into

Re: [opensuse] Why does the GM CD1 ISO still include a README.BETA file?

2006-05-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 5/11/06, Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has only README.BETA.DOS - file that as a bugreport. It does no harm, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=174864 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse] Why does the GM CD1 ISO still include a README.BETA file?

2006-05-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Despite all that about SUSE 10.1 not having released it, I already have the ISOs ;) Had already downloaded RC1 then deltaed to RC3 and now deltaed to GM. But why does the CD1 contain a README.BETA file? Surely the GM is not a beta?

Re: [opensuse] Why is the amarok-helix package under non-OSS?

2006-05-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 5/11/06, Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: File a bugreport so that we discuss this again, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=174806 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

[opensuse] Why is the amarok-helix package under non-OSS?

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
According to https://helixcommunity.org/content/licenses Helix is available under the GPL. Why then did the amarok-helix package get put in the OSS CD? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-05-11 W19-4 UTC+0530

Re: [opensuse] makeSUSEdvd 0.30 is online

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:26 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > > http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/makesusedvd/makeSUSEdvd-0.30.t > > http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/makesusedvd/makeSUSEdvd-0.30-1 > >.noarch.rpm > > Then take another mirror. That is what mirrors are for. When I choose

Re: [opensuse] makeSUSEdvd 0.30 is online

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 11 May 2006 04:11 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > Well, the subject says it all. The links on the opensuse.org package were still pointing to 0.30... Corrected that. But the only download avail is from osdn.sf.net and that seems to be broken. Check: http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcef

Re: [opensuse] makeSUSEdvd 0.30 is online

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 11 May 2006 04:11 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > Once I have masterd the way of including my own *.sel I will go to 1.0, I > think. Houghi, the version of mSd that was available when SUSE 10.0 was out (or was it 9.3) caused the DVD to be displayed incorrectly in YaST Installation Sources

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.1 download GOLD Master

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday, 10 May 2006 21:34 samaye, Martin Schlander alekhiit: > The dvds have non-oss.. hence are not - and will not be - on openSUSE > mirrors. Which mirrors are *non-openSUSE* mirrors, then? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.1 download GOLD Master

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:31 samaye, jdd alekhiit: > please, at that time use only biTorrent Downloaded the RC3-GM deltas and the GM non-OSS ISO using BitTorrent. Wondering why KTorrent does not say "seeding". -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.1 download GOLD Master

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:13 samaye, Christoph Thiel alekhiit: > You never know until the announcement is out ;) OK, but remember you have promised us at http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2006-Feb/1254.html that there will be a DVD image too. I still do not see it on these (as-of-yet)

[opensuse] How to make 10.1 non-OSS i386 ISO from biarch?

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I would like to halve the size of the biarch ISO because I need only the i386 packages and already have only the i386 CD-set. I wanted to file this as a bug during the RC cycle but never got around to it. Even now if it is possible I would like to ask the developers to do it. Till then, please

Re: [opensuse] Bug with makeSUSEdvd 0.29

2006-05-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday, 09 May 2006 12:20 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > Use the create_package_descr that is availble from sourceforge. Best use > the RPM that is there. Thanks. That worked. I also updated the opensuse.org page on makeSUSEdvd to tell people to download the latest package from SF. But I still have

[opensuse] Bug with makeSUSEdvd 0.29

2006-05-08 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Please look through the attached errors and tell me how to overcome it. I used: CD_DIR="$HERE/CD_DIR" Thanks. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-05-09 W19-2 UTC+0530 linux:/home/samjnaa/dload/suse-linux-10.1-rc3 # ls . ma

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 is Done

2006-05-08 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday, 09 May 2006 11:19 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > What version would you like then? Why does it say "for RC1 this is 0.29"? Surely RC3 was the release with which 0.28 did not work and 0.29 works? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [

Re: [opensuse] RC1 torrent very slow...

2006-04-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:50 samaye, Shriramana Sharma alekhiit: > I downloaded the RC2 deltas and am now downloading the RC1 CD ISOs via > torrent, but the entire downloading is at a standstill. Strange. There are a lot of snubbed peers in the list. When I restart KTorrent, their statu

Re: [opensuse] RC1 torrent very slow...

2006-04-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 27 April 2006 00:25 samaye, jdd alekhiit: > torrent is effective on peaks, when many people share the > same dowload, so here RC2 delats. most people do no more > share RC1 I understand, but there is no RC2 torrent as such. There is only RC1 torrent and RC1-RC2 torrent. The latter I ha

Re: [opensuse] RC1 torrent very slow...

2006-04-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 27 April 2006 00:10 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > What RC1 are you downloading? 32 bit has 0(69) Seeds and 39(52) Peers. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-RC1/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-i386.torrent 12(53) leechers and 24(70) seeders -- so says KTorrent 1.2 on KDE 3.52 (What are

[opensuse] RC1 torrent very slow...

2006-04-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I downloaded the RC2 deltas and am now downloading the RC1 CD ISOs via torrent, but the entire downloading is at a standstill. I do not understand, KTorrent says there are 27 seeders and only 12 leechers so logically I should get good speeds, right? And to think that I wanted to go the "right"

[opensuse] udev in 10.1?

2006-04-07 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers, I hear that udev is the replacement for /dev and it's the latest. Do we have this in 10.1? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-07 W14-5 UTC+0530 ---

[opensuse] Why not X.org 7.0?

2006-04-07 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers, I heard 10.1 will contain X.org 6.9, but seeing as 7.0 is going to be the branch for future updates, why did we not choose to use 7.0? Fedora Core 5 uses 7.0 so that's a proof-of-possibility, right? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Lin

Re: [opensuse] dosutil in 10.x

2006-03-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:45 samaye, Flávio Moringa alekhiit: > actually I rather have this: > http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html Anything like this for ReiserFS? All I have is YaReG which seems to be updated recently but I do have to boot to Windows to check it... -- Tux #395953 resides a

[opensuse] Will SUSE 10.1 have X.org 7.0 (or 6.9)?

2006-03-20 Thread Shriramana Sharma
-- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-21 W12-2 UTC+0530 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Any official GCC 4.1 RPMs yet?

2006-03-03 Thread Shriramana Sharma
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00045.html says GCC 4.1 is out. Will there be any supplementary GCC 4.1 packages? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-04 W09-6 UTC+0530 -

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 seeks adventurous experts and their *test* systems

2006-02-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:50 samaye, houghi alekhiit: > I did and it worked. I use the iso for working in Parallels Working in parallels? > If you are going for dualboot: I am thinking of testing 10.1 beta 4 alongside 10.0 [and Win XP :(] -- is that safe? > The main thing you do is run make

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 seeks adventurous experts and their *test* systems

2006-02-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday, 18 February 2006 21:45 samaye, Andreas Jaeger alekhiit: > Download URLs for the full ISOs: Can I use houghi's makeSUSEdvd with these beta 4 iso-s or is that too upto testing? I do not have five CD-RW-s free with me. Or can I write only the first disk to a CD-RW and mount the rest from

[opensuse] Re: Where to find libqscintilla and update-desktop-files

2006-02-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:51 samaye, Shriramana Sharma alekhiit: > But it still asks for update-desktop-files I see some files at: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/noarch/i18n/update-desktop-files/ What do I do with them? > and libqscintilla.so.6 which I The qscintilla package that

[opensuse] Where to find libqscintilla and update-desktop-files

2006-02-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I am trying to install KDevelop 3.31 that came with KDE 3.51. kdelibs3-devel and python-qt are dependencies which should have been automatically selected (kdelibs3-devel-doc and kdebindings3-python were auto selected), but I did that manually anyway. But it still asks for update-desktop-files a

[opensuse] Request: MD5 for 3.51 KDE packages

2006-02-07 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers, Could we have an MD5SUMS files in the ftp tree of the KDE 3.51 packages? That way we who download can check whether we got the files safely. Since creating md5sum files is trivial in Linux, this should not be a problem, right? Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samv

Re: [opensuse] KDE 3.51 for SUSE 10.0 -- why packages so volatile?

2006-02-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 06 February 2006 22:31 samaye, Marcus Meissner alekhiit: > Its KDE 3.5.1 ... They have only been synced today, so it should catch up > in the next hours. Thanks for your patience in replying. So what build number should I look for, that is stable? Thanks again. -- Tux #395953 resides

[opensuse] KDE 3.51 for SUSE 10.0 -- why packages so volatile?

2006-02-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers, With the KDE 3.51 packages, I see build number 18 at suse.com, build 12 at gwdg.de and build 6 or 8 at oregonstate.edu. Why are KDE 3.51 packages so volatile and when can we get stable packages for download? I remember I got ready stable packages for SUSE *immediately* along w

Re: [opensuse] Re: Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 30 January 2006 20:22 samaye, Kenneth Schneider alekhiit: > Two PC's cannot mount and use the same partition at the > same time. Therefore there is nothing to work around except your logic. Hey hey, don't get angry. How should I know the internals of VMWare? I boot to Windows very rarely

Re: [opensuse] Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 30 January 2006 18:48 samaye, Johannes Kastl alekhiit: > -export them via samba Does this mean I have to install Samba on Windows? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5 --

Re: [opensuse] How is it I get Qt from SUSE under a commercial licence?

2006-01-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 30 January 2006 18:06 samaye, Sonja Krause-Harder alekhiit: > Please open a bug. Opened https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=146599 I dared not change the priority -- that you can do. But it's high priority, right? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on

Re: [opensuse] Re: Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 30 January 2006 18:43 samaye, Corne Beerse alekhiit: > For your information, VMWare is there to remove your hardware depenency. > VMware offers their own virtual hardware and they provide upwards > compatibility. Which is relative easy in a software environment. A > VMWare guest always get

[opensuse] How is it I get Qt from SUSE under a commercial licence?

2006-01-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Open Qt Designer 4.10, open Help > About Qt Designer. It says: "This program is licenced to you under the terms of the Qt Commercial Licence agreement." Something is obviously wrong here. SUSE must have bought a commercial licence, and they must have by mistake compiled their version of Qt to p

Re: [opensuse] puppies arrived home safe.

2006-01-29 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Sunday, 29 January 2006 10:59 samaye, Shane Bryan alekhiit: > Marcia, just a note to let you know that the pups are home safe and sound. > No problems on the way home. They;re appitite is not stong, so Iwas > wondering what you do to feed them? Do you moisten their food first, or > were you stil

Re: [opensuse] Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:16 samaye, Maged Hussein alekhiit: > I dunno  if SAMBA is included but if it is there you can configure samba > and export you SUSE partitions and access it from windows like you access > any Network share. Actually the problem is the reverse. Within the virtual SUSE

Re: [opensuse] Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:44 samaye, Maged Hussein alekhiit: > Anyoune tried this version ? > I assume that openoffice is not ther (anyone has the full package selection > for this one ) I have. It's quite nice. And no OOo, though KOffice 1.42 is there. I am only wondering how to access my ac

Re: [opensuse] Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

2006-01-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:31 samaye, Maged Hussein alekhiit: > Make a vmware image of OpenSUSE with packages relevant to audience. Already done -- http://developer.kde.org/~binner/vmware/ -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5 --

Re: [opensuse] Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux?

2006-01-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 23 January 2006 19:11 samaye, Christoph Thiel alekhiit: > open source licenses that aren't listed there. The The Artistic License > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php) would be OK of > course. Would the Revised Artistic Licence: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/346.html

Re: [opensuse] How to type German estzet ß using us-intl keyboard

2006-01-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:55 samaye, David Haller alekhiit: > Or roll your own .Xmodmap. I use a US-Layout with a lot of chars on > the 3rd and 4th level (AltGr/Mode_switch (+ Shift)) I have heard of this third/fourth level etc. What are they? I do not have an AltGr key on my keyboard bought

Re: [opensuse] Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux?

2006-01-23 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday, 23 January 2006 19:11 samaye, Christoph Thiel alekhiit: > > Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux? > > Programs that are licensed under an OSI > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) compliant license... and some other > open source licenses that aren't listed ther

[opensuse] Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux?

2006-01-23 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers and other friends, I am thinking of writing a KDE-based program, and am wondering whether to base it on GPL (version 3 is available as draft at http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft) or the Artistic Licence available at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/346.html. If I use the Artistic Licence

Re: [opensuse] How to type German estzet ß using us-intl keyboard

2006-01-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Sunday, 22 January 2006 16:00 samaye, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante alekhiit: > I test in my system (KDE 3.5) and was needed to type s two times, i.e., > Alt_R + s + s. I got it with one s, but I did not realize that Alt_R meant right-Alt. -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting o

[opensuse] How to type German estzet ß using us-intl keyboard

2006-01-20 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I have the us-intl keyboard made available via the SUSE 10.0 KDE 3.5 Control Center > Regional > Keyboard Layout dialog. I can type the umlauted German characters by pressing the double quote and then the required vowel. But how do I type an estzet ß? And how do I type an ordinary single or

[opensuse] Will bug 133651 (ide-cd not loaded) be fixed in 10.1?

2006-01-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear developers, We (I, and I presume others too) would like to know whether bug 133651 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=133651) "ide-cd not loaded" be fixed in 10.1? IMHO it's a serious bug, often a serious put-off for many people trying to start on Linux or the SUSE distro with

Re: [opensuse] Votes for Codename Theme now Open

2006-01-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:47 samaye, Juergen Weigert alekhiit: > Who said 'existing lizards'? > Reality is so boring. Yeah. What is Konqi, BTW? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5 ---

Re: [opensuse] Votes for Codename Theme now Open

2006-01-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:55 samaye, Darren R. Davis alekhiit: > I think Dinosaurs sends the wrong message (old, outdated) Then why was (past tense) the logo of Mozilla a T Rex? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5 -

Re: [opensuse] Votes for Codename Theme now Open

2006-01-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:33 samaye, Aschwin Marsman alekhiit: > as a vote. What do you have to add and what's added automagically? > The preview didn't show what I expected. IIRC added should add your signature, but I prefer to manually write: -- [[User:Myname|Myname]] -MM-DD HH:MM U

[opensuse] When can we get qt-4.1-final please?

2005-12-31 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I see ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/development/ containing qt-4.1rc1-3.i586.rpm etc but since 4.1 final is released, can I please know when we can get the upgraded RPMs? I would like to download. Thank you. -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.

[opensuse] Request attention from SUSE people - HAL automount page

2005-12-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/05/dkukawka_hal_mountpoints.html tells us - Mounting to Static Mount Points Applies to: SUSE LINUX 9.3 You do not like the automatic mounting of CDs, DVDs, or USB sticks to mount poin

Re: [opensuse] KDE 3.5

2005-11-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 11/30/05, Joan Manuel Ventura Felix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whats going on with KDE 3.5? > > Tell me about the graphics? are they good? Judging by RC1 (I am only now downloading Final) they are good. But beware of some unexpected shortcut changes if you are a keyboard buff like me. Especia

[opensuse] Latest Thunderbird and Firefox for SUSE?

2005-11-30 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Firefox 1.5 Final is released. I hope we will soon have a SUSE RPM to upgrade. Thunderbird 1.07 was released long ago but the SUSE FTP folders have only the 1.06 version. I presume the SUSE developers will release a SUSE RPM soon after the 1.5 Final version is released (- currently 1.5RC1 is out

Re: [opensuse] Difference between 'Evaluation Version' and what I purchased?

2005-10-25 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 19:23 samaye Jon Nelson alekhiit: > What, if any, differences are there between the 'Evaluation Version' and > the copy of SUSE 10.0 that will (hopefully) arrive today or tomorrow? This question has been previously asked and replied to on this and other lists. See the notes t

Re: [opensuse] Where to look for SUSE 10.0 OOo 2_00 when it's available?

2005-10-25 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 17:52 samaye Ken Schneider alekhiit: > What errors do you get when trying to use YOU? Perhaps it is better to > fix the problem than dance around it. YOU freezes at "Getting a list of mirror servers" and after quite a while says: Warning Cannot fetch remote server list. Only

Re: [opensuse] Where to look for SUSE 10.0 OOo 2_00 when it's available?

2005-10-25 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 13:30 samaye Adrian Schroeter alekhiit: > It will become available via YOU I've been having problems with YOU and could never get it to work. So till today I have been downloading everything and installing myself. > after passing our testing (and maybe > adding further fix

[opensuse] Where to look for SUSE 10.0 OOo 2_00 when it's available?

2005-10-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Can the SUSE developers please tell me what place on the web I should watch to catch the SUSE 10.0 version of OOo 2_00 when it becomes available? Thank you, Shriramana Sharma. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Changes to Resetting root password in OSS10?

2005-10-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 00:12 samaye Damian Mihai Liviu alekhiit: > The GRUB screen I have a graphical GRUB boot menu with multi-OS boot (SUSE and WinXP). How do I access the text mode, since the command you seem to advise is applicable only at the GRUB prompt?/ ---

Re: [opensuse] Changes to Resetting root password in OSS10?

2005-10-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 24 Oct 2005 23:45 samaye Damian Mihai Liviu alekhiit: > Write single (without the '') There were no '' > when that nice boot screen shows up Which "nice boot screen"? You mean the GRUB screen or the one with the HDD, keyboard, PCI card and PC images? -

Re: [opensuse] Changes to Resetting root password in OSS10?

2005-10-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 24 Oct 2005 20:12 samaye Eberhard Moenkeberg alekhiit: > Even more easy: boot into runlevel 1 and call "passwd". Can you please tell me how to do this with my SUSE 10.0 installation? I mean, booting into runlevel 1? Shriramana. ---

Re: [opensuse] Probs. after Upgrading to KDE-3.4.3

2005-10-23 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Sunday 23 Oct 2005 15:22 samaye Michael Schueller alekhiit: > > My USB Harddrive is not shown up on the desktop, which was before > > on KDE 3.4.2, and mountet CD/DVD's are not shown up with it names > > but only with DVD(dev/hdd). > > ... is there really nobody out there with the same Problem ?

Re: [opensuse] KDE 3.4.3 RPMs for SuSE 10.0 ?

2005-10-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Saturday 22 Oct 2005 11:15 samaye Randall R Schulz alekhiit: > > applications > KDE application binary RPMs > > base > KDE base / core binary RPMs Yeah I understood this but what's the big need to separate the two? > > source > Source code RPMs These are only source code or application plus sou

Re: [opensuse] KDE 3.4.3 RPMs for SuSE 10.0 ?

2005-10-21 Thread Shriramana Sharma
s base source yast-source The others I don't need. Thanks, Shriramana Sharma. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Setting mount options for hotpluggable devices

2005-10-21 Thread Shriramana Sharma
t it goes into. I have one printer, one digital tablet, one UPS and sometimes one flash drive plugged randomly into my USB ports. I've never had to make any changes in configuration just because I changed the USB port I plugged the device into. HTH,

[opensuse] Does 10.1 alpha 2 have a different logo?

2005-10-21 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I was wondering whether the slick SUSE picture at the home page of DistroWatch (announcing release of 10.1a2) is some sort of new glossy logo or it's just DistroWatch's own image... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [opensuse] How can I register to get 90 days support

2005-10-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 18:33 samaye Anders Johansson alekhiit: > > What additional functionality does one get by getting a licence key? > > Installation support I know that one gets installation support with payment, but calling the payment identification as a licence key is misleading, IMO, since

Re: [opensuse] How can I register to get 90 days support

2005-10-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 12:05 samaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] alekhiit: > I bought an official version with licence key of SuSE 10.0. Neighter on Licence key? I wasn't aware that SUSE sells license keys like shareware? What additional functionality does one get by getting a licence key? --

Re: [opensuse] Searching the mailinglist(s)

2005-10-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
But are google searches of these lists as good as or better than the MARC searches? (But I see opensuse is *not* on MARC...) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] SUSE vs Ubuntu vs Mandriva

2005-10-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Friday 14 Oct 2005 20:18 samaye Thierry de Coulon alekhiit: > installation" available. So if anyone created a "SuSE-based distro thet > will fit on half a gigabyte" I would welcome it. Well why don't you just install minimum packages of SUSE 10.0? I'm sure you can do that under half a GB... Shr

Re: [opensuse] SUSE vs Ubuntu vs Mandriva

2005-10-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Friday 14 Oct 2005 17:44 samaye houghi alekhiit: > I tried Mandriva and was unable to get it running. Will try it again as it > should get my Haupauge PVR 350 running by default. FWIW I never got beyond Mandriva's installation. SUSE for me, yay! :) ---

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 automounting >>NOTTT SOLVEDDDD<<<<

2005-10-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 20:30 samaye Mathias Heier alekhiit: > I did not say that these 2 Bugs are the same, this was Shriramana Sharma. > For *MY* problem discribed in *THIS THREAD* it works. Kindly say what is the difference between the two bugs. [This is crazy - I do not see any bug re

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 08:16 samaye Shriramana Sharma alekhiit: > Exactly the same settings as yours, Randall, and my DVD automount works. In attempting to answer the question of why for some it works and for some not, I ask: Those for whom automount does not work - are you running the 32-

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 automounting SOLVED

2005-10-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 14:47 samaye Mathias Heier alekhiit: > > How did you find this out and how come the package is working for some of > > us? I wiped my root partition from RC1 and installed GM. > > Every action by hal crashed, for example lshal reported 'error: But you didn't answer my second

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Pardon for this dup of a post in another thread, but am posting it here lest people watching this thread lose it: Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 13:49 samaye Mathias Heier alekhiit: > it seems that the package 'hal-0.5.4-6.i586.rpm' from SuSE is broken. It > should contain the file 'hald-addon-usb-csr',

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 automounting SOLVED

2005-10-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 13:49 samaye Mathias Heier alekhiit: > it seems that the package 'hal-0.5.4-6.i586.rpm' from SuSE is broken. It > should contain the file 'hald-addon-usb-csr', but it doesn't. > So get the source package from a SuSE-server and rebuild it (lots of > devel-packages needed, not

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Anybody filed a bug-report yet? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 automounting

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Please join the other thread: Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD Same topic as yours. Strangely some people do not have any such problem at all. I'm one of them. Shriramana. - To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 20:42 samaye Randall R Schulz alekhiit: > Could someone whose CD / DVD auto-mounting is working properly please > show us their /etc/fstab? In particular, the lines pertaining to their > CD/DVD drive(s). Mine are: > > /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs > noauto,fs=cdfs

Re: [opensuse] Open suse 10 GM still copyright Novell and distribution restricted

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 20:06 samaye Berni Elbourn alekhiit: > Now that Suse is supposed to be open I beg your indulgence to have this > clarified in the open as it were. The "open" in openSUSE refers to that now the community can participate in the development of the software, which was not the cas

Re: [opensuse] Open suse 10 GM still copyright Novell and distribution restricted

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 19:31 samaye Berni Elbourn alekhiit: > You may make and distribute unlimited copies of > the Software outside Your organization provided that: 1) You receive > no consideration; and, 2) you do not bundle or combine the Software > with another offering (e.g., software, hardware,

Re: [opensuse] Open suse 10 GM still copyright Novell and distribution restricted

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 16:47 samaye Berni Elbourn alekhiit: > Ok, so after everything that was previously said I thought I would check > again back in Open Suse land to see if the Novell software license had > been reviewed. > I have downloaded both flavours of 10.0 I still find that OpenSuse and > S

Re: [opensuse] Iso doesn`t work

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 13:24 samaye Ben alekhiit: > When i want to burn a download, K3B only wants to accept DVD doudle layer > and nothing else. Donno if this will help but I've found that it is better to use "Burn DVD Image" from the menu of k3b rather than opening an ISO file using right-click

Re: [opensuse] Where is the Live-DVD for Suse Linux 10??

2005-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 12:35 samaye houghi alekhiit: > > > Sorry. So who is going to inform the people from Novell to geth their > > > > I just did it :-) Now let's wait for the answer... > > Me as well, on friday. Of Novell a big mistake out-of-date being it is. :) Look at the websites of other di

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE packagers (was: SUSE, openSUSE, GM, ...)

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 10:49 samaye Pascal Bleser alekhiit: > > Stop growing, because people expect SUSE to be humongous. It is as if > > SUSE as a distro goes to eleven with the number of included packages. > > Stop growing ? Are you kidding me ? In numbers of packagers, we're near 0, I think Dazzl

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
My /etc/fstab line is: /dev/dvdram /media/dvdramsubfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 And I have no problem whatsoever accessing the DVD from either /media/dvdram or media:/ --

Re: [opensuse] THE HELL: mounted, almost mounted or UMOUNTED DVD !!!!

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
? -- Shriramana Sharma wrote: -- I am running SUSE 10 Gold (not OSS) and am perfectly able to handle data from my DVD. -- Randall

Re: [opensuse] Eval version of Suse Linux 10.0

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 22:16 samaye jdd alekhiit: > to be sure it's read, give it an other name, unusal on ftp, > like "Important notice!" My dad makes it a point to read the readme of all software he installs newly. He learns things that way and potentially avoids problems. Ever since I starting c

Re: [opensuse] Re: SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 22:34 samaye Nicola -kOoLiNuS- Losito alekhiit: > "When delivered on a single DVD ISO, SUSE Linux 10.0 required one download > of 4.5 GB" > but when you actually download the iso, or click on the mirror location, > you have: > * DVD ISO image (32bit, 3,6 GB) > So, what's mi

[opensuse] Do we get a SUPER Live CD soon?

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Anybody know whether we get a SUPER Live CD soon? Based on SUSE 10.0 GM I mean? Shriramana. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Eval version of Suse Linux 10.0

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 14:39 samaye houghi alekhiit: > It could possibly be put on somewhere and then it won't be OSS anymore and > can't be put online. I don't understand. acroread are not OSS, but if SUSE hosts that on their server what's wrong? If it were wrong, SUSE won't be doing it. Of that I

Re: [opensuse] Eval version of Suse Linux 10.0

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 14:54 samaye jdd alekhiit: > don't you think it's time to stop wasting bandwith with > questions on this subject? That's already done, jdd - houghi and I are talking about how Novell can improve the distribution for next version onwards. Granted, it's slightly off the OP's t

Re: [opensuse] Eval version of Suse Linux 10.0

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 13:41 samaye houghi alekhiit: > Why should I download the OSS instead of the Eval? My opnion is that the > Eval and the OSS are so close together that you should drop one. Hear hear. I also strongly vote for no more Eval versions. The OSS downloadable version is enough. Give

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