Since openSUSE 11.1 has gone gold and GroupWise 8 has been around for a while, I decided to install openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1 on my laptop. I use GroupWise and when I tried to install the GroupWise rpm’s, it complained about missing dependancies. I had to install the following software in order for GroupWise 8 to work:
openmotif, openmotif22-libs and libstdc++33
Once that was installed the GroupWise rpm’s installed without any problems
Today I spent the best part of the morning to configure a SLES 10 SP2 server as a simple router. I googled quite a lot and could not find a nice and concise post on how to configure SLES 10 as a simple router, so I thought I’ll write up my experiences in the hopes that it will help someone. Although this was done on SLES 10 I am pretty sure it will apply to openSUSE as well.
My setup is as follows: Local lan is 192.168.0.0/24 and I want a private lan on 192.168.1.0/24 so that I can run stuff like DHCP and PXE without upsetting everyone on the network. I have a SLES 10 server with 2 network cards: eth1 connected to the local lan and eth0 connected to my private switch. The local lan is connected via ADSL to the Internet and I need my private network to also be able to connect to the Internet.
Some german teacher point me to “Scratch” a few weeks ago. This week, I tried to create a package for openSUSE.
The good news: Ubuntu people already tried to package scratch for debian – but they use a perl script, which installs scratch for each user – again, and again, and again….
Well – as Scratch runs via “Squeak”, which is available for openSUSE since a long time now, it took me just a few minutes to create a simple wrapper script calling squeak and loading the scratch image. The only things left to do:
ready.
As result, every user on a system with the scratch RPM can now run scratch without any further actions. Sometimes packaging can be so easy 😉
But, yes: that’s only packaging a binary into a RPM – normally, we want to compile the source so we have full control over the binary. If someone has a problem with this package, I might not be able to help, because I haven’t seen the source and therefore have no chance to help. But perhaps, with requests from Ubuntu and openSUSE users, the developers of scratch open their sourcecode to the public.
So: have fun, playing around with Scratch…
Coolo just announced on the opensuse-factory list:
Strictly speaking it’s not Factory, but I put the GMC live cds at the usual place: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs/
It would be good to give the 11.1 kernel some testing.
GMC stands for Goldmaster Candidate – which means that these LiveCDs might be declared next week as goldmaster – and goldmaster is another name for the final release.
Note that we currently have no full repository for openSUSE 11.1 out – the one available contains RC1 and factory is not building at all, the sources are updated but not the binaries. We use for building the distribution the 11.1 distribution in the openSUSE Build Service.
Yesterday Coolo released openSUSE 11.1 RC2 internally to fix all existing bugs marked as shipstopper. We use now the SHIP_STOPPER flag in bugzilla to mark bugs as blocking the release (see our wiki for the usage of SHIP_STOPPER) and not anymore BLOCKER (which blocks testing or development). If you want to search in bugzilla for the currently open SHIP_STOPPERS, you can use this query.
We also found one really annoying bug in our configuration that lead to the following output:
$ rpm -q –queryformat ‘%{vendor}\n’ glibc
openSUSEopenSUSE:11.1 openSUSE:11.1
Therefore, the openSUSE Build Service is currently rebuilding all 11.1 rpm packages with a corrected vendor tag. Also a couple of packages where checked in to fix bugs so that we soon get RC3.
If RC3 passes all tests, we hope to release it publicly as Goldmaster – the release date is still the 18th of December.
Due to the time it takes to release a build publicly, we are not releasing any RCs besides RC1 to the public.
I’m running RC2 on my machines now and I’m quite happy with this release.
Today i tried out the Program called: yabsc. With http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=yabsc you can install the Program with one Klick. After the Installation the Program read the hints in the “.osc” Directory, and uses your Identity and Password for Checkin to Build Service API.
After the Program-Launch you see a Image like this:
On the left side you can see the Projects on your Watchlist. In the Center you see the Packages from the selected Project or Subproject. You can see the Buildlogs and Commitlogs directly.
On the second Tab “Workers”, you can see a image like this:
Here you can see the “actual” Status in the openSUSE Buildservice. In this tab you can follow the Buildlog on the fly. This is an very good thing 🙂
The third tab, labeld as “submit requests”, you can see your Requests. But for this Function i haven’t an image, so i haven’t actually submit requests.
Now i can say, this is an very good, and very short Programm. Try it out!
This morning I realised that openSUSE appears on the hardware database smolt the first time. We are introducing smolt with openSUSE 11.1 in the installation workflow. People can choose to send up their data to the smolt database. All that is of course done anonymously, the data is stored under a unique UUID which can not be tracked back to the submitter (Privacy Policy here.)
Smolt is a project started by Fedora to collect information about the hardware that is used with computers running Linux. We at (open-)SUSE were seeing this demand as well and also were discussing a solution. But it became clear quite quickly that it does not make sense to have a per-distro solution for that – if we want to have momentum with a hardware database a combined effort promisses the most.
On Linuxtag 2007 I was first time involved in meetings were people from the Fedora project offered us to participate in smolt. It became clear that the idea behind smolt is what we also wanted. The working athmosphere was (and still is) open, friendly and productive and thus we decided to join in. With openSUSE 11.0 we first time shipped a smolt client, but not in the installation workflow.
Smolt isn’t finished yet. While it is a stable infrastructure thanks to Mike McGrath and friends who work on it there are still some things that could be improved. Maybe there is somebody in the openSUSE community interesting in joining the smolt community and help? That would be great because the contributions from our side are still limited and I think it would be great if everybody would bring something to the party.
Smolt is not limited to Fedora and openSUSE btw. Other distros are invited to participate as well. With that I think smolt is a great thing for Linux overall. Hopefully some time in the future it will help us to convince more hardware manufacturers that supporting Linux is important for them.
An interesting read is also http://www.linux.com/feature/118322
Ah – yes, of course you should not forget to actually use smolt and send up your hardware data when installing openSUSE – we can still climb up in the OS list on http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html 🙂
Hello Folks,
now i changed all. In my old Blog i haved a themed Blog- The Themes was: “Saschas Insights”, a Theme with my personal thoughts about the world, the economy, the health and many more.
The second Theme was “Saschas Backtrace”, in this Blog i write about an newly or interesting Software, and how to work with it.
The last Theme was “Sascha and SuSI”. In Germany the Name SuSI is a Shortform for Susanne. But this part of my Blog not written to a new girlfriend. This Theme is for my experience with openSUSE.
And so i’m pleased to announce, that the Themes “Saschas Backtrace” and “Sascha & SuSI” moved to this Blog.
Have a lot of fun 🙂
cu Sascha
As i annunced on marketing mailing list this 21 November, in Milan (italy) as been presentated the OpenSource ECDL version.
Yes, your red well… OPEN-SOURCE. That means, instead talk about MS Windows and MS Office, it talk about an opensource Operating System and OpenOffice.org. This free operating system is openSUSE 😉 , improved with our Education Project. I was not in Milan, because if i have to say the true i was out of money, i live 1000 Km far, and i i wasn’t able to buy train ticket 🙁 . Mr. Carugo , the DIDASCA Rector told me about a “SOLD OUT”, 650 peoples in a room where only 500 was allowed… so.. a GREAT DAY!! Oh, i forgot.. Thanks to marketing team that sent me 50 Promo DVDs. Thanks
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