Suse

why is ubuntu, kubuntu and many others still not open like suse?
i dont understand these people they force me to a kubuntu which is not open like suse, and run even from a usb pendrive and i dont even need to trust anybody suse, which is open, want me to trust what is goen on here? ... 10 Apr 2008 05:21

what on earth is opensuse, as opposite from what?
i dont undrstand my suse anymore they are forcing me to do my daily suse on a microsoft linux 11.0 instead of suse 10.4, which is the next suse i should excpect what is goen on here? what did they paid paid for? is linux not open anymore? why is suse open? why do am i forced to register and to tru... 11 Apr 2008 11:53

Lenovo x300
An update regarding my progress with the x300. Most things work out of the box (opensuse 10.3 Live KDE). The install went fine. The laptop is very responsive and feels "snappy". The downside is that sound doesn't work (there is a thread about that http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=58916&start=0&postd... 6 Apr 2008 11:59

Amarok and signatures
On 2008-04-05, houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: OK. There are several ways of steering Amarok via a website and can even be used to play music over the intertubes. Now for the realy importand and fun stuff. CLI and signatures. Imagine I would like the world to know what I am listening to. Someth... 5 Apr 2008 15:27

Amarok filling of the database
I have configured Amarok so that it uses MySQL. Setiing it up was pretty easy. I just followed the instructions. As you might know it can look up the lyrics. The neat part when connecting it to MySQL is that it fetches the lyrics and places them in the database as well, so they are localy available. My questio... 11 Apr 2008 10:17

Recommend a simple database...
Greetings, Anyone have a recommendation for a database application that I'll have to design (a few text fields and a photo or jpeg field) for cataloging costume jewelry? Need something that has a reasonably low learning curve and able to output to delimited text of some kind. Open to ideas. THX. -- Canada ... 7 Apr 2008 15:42

10.3 to an HDTV with an Nvidia card?
I recently bought a used SONY KD-34XBR960 HDTV which I hooked up my little ASUS Pundit P1-AH2 with a GeForce 6150 video card via a DVI to HDMI cable. It's running relatively well under XP, but I'd like to get my openSuse 10.3 boot to use it. when I boot Suse, it indeed detects the card and throws up error messa... 6 Apr 2008 00:26

Screensaver not starting on 10.3
I'm running KDE2, SuSE 10.3, nvidia video and the screensaver won't start. None of the screensavers will kick on automatically when the time has expired, set at 5 minutes. I can run the setup / test for all of them and they work fine there. I can even lock the screen and the selected screensaver will start just ... 7 Apr 2008 15:09

How to measure the memory usage of a program?
I asked this same question in alt.os.linux, but got no good answers. I have got very helpful answers in this group in the past, so maybe this time will also be so?-) I want to measure how much memory a program allocates for itself. The program only runs for a few seconds (constantly allocating more and more ... 6 Apr 2008 11:09

ChessDB not installing on Suse
I'm trying to install ChessDB on Suse 10.3. The configure and make output looks good (quoted below), but it isn't getting installed. Tcl/ Tk and zlib seem to be installed and found by the configure file. I don't see any obvious errors. Any ideas would be appreciated. -------------------------------- linux-4cod:/ho... 5 Apr 2008 20:31