Overview

Kernel gurus Kurt Garloff and Hannes Reinecke share some of the work that they have been involved in regarding scaling features in the Linux kernel for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. And Randy and Dave return for another edition of News from Support. (Can Randy outdo Dave’s Xming tip?)

Time: 45:16

Size: 30 MB

Segment Times

Kernel scaling: 4:07-20:33

News from Support: 21:23-43:47

Links for this Episode:

Kurt Garloff at openSUSE.org

Dr. Hannes Reinecke at openSUSE.org

News from Support links below

News from Support Links

These are the TIDs for the 11/14 recording:

3711041: Kernel boot problems with ZENworks Imaging when Zip drive is present

3525303: Support for SD card readers

3301593: Linux system hangs or is unstable

(Really a TID about how to prepare to work with support with system hangs.)

3496175: Security vulnerability: evtFilteredMonitorEventsRequest Heap Overflow

3936018: Security vulnerability: evtFilteredMonitorEventsRequest Invalid Free

3924657: Security Vulnerability: NCP Fragment Denial of Service

3817217: YaST Online Update (YOU) fails to give warning that /boot might be too small

3060783: Possible file corruption with OpenOffice on SLED 10 – Really a NetWare CIFS issue

Funny Little (Wo)Men Behind the Curtain:

Several listeners have requested the return of “Funny Little Men,” our oft-overlooked meta data section on some of the old episode files. Maybe we’ll start hiding them here.

Hannes believes his accent to be pure Scottish. Dave Mair begs to differ, but admits that Hannes speaks English better than either Erin or Ted.

We never actually intended to bleep out the part that we suggested might need a bleepin’. Said Ted: “While your hosts may not always be the utmost professionals, we vow at least that we shall keep our language squeaky clean. But guests must be allowed to be who they are.” Somehow Ted manages to keep his job.

The interview was from June…can you believe that we took so long? (Ted blames it on Erin.)

Overview

Product manager Jason Williams comes in to share the iFolder 3.6 goodness. Then, our favorite Scottsman returns to tell us the latest News from Support, including a cool tip on how to use tunnel X over SSH with…Windows?

Time: 41:38

Size: 29 MB

Segment Times

iFolder: 2:07-21:53

News from Support: 23:09-40:50

Links for this Episode:

iFolder

News from Support

Xming

Overview

After announcing the establishment of an agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian and Novell General Counsel Joe LaSala respond to some questions from Novell’s customers and the free software community.

Time: 17:55

Size: 12.5 MB

Links for this Episode:

Novell and Microsoft – Additional details

Press Release: Details of Agreement with Microsoft (Nov 7)

FAQ: Novell Answers Community Questions (Nov 7)

Overview

After announcing the establishment of an agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian and Novell General Counsel Joe LaSala respond to some questions from Novell’s customers and the free software community.

Segment Times

News: SUSE Linux 10.1 Reloaded: 1:26

openSUSE wiki as Training: 2:37-5:05

Cool Solutions Interview: 6:08-14:30

Novell Training Interview: 15:14-34:14

Links for this Episode:

openSUSE wiki

Example: Setting up VMware on SUSE Linux

Cool Solutions

Tom “Stomfi” Russell’s Linux basics articles

Cool Solutions wiki: How-to for installing MediaWiki on SLES9

Novell Training Services

CBT (discounted 30%)

Free Training Options

Training locator tool

NOA Odeo Claim (odeo/7659cdeaca0e3658)

Overview

Michael Matz (SUSE team lead for the GNU Tool Chain) and Richard Guenther (GCC software engineer) explain their work with SUSE Labs. We learn about how Novell helps fund advancements of GNU/Linux infrastructure outside of the standard SUSE Linux product development cycle. Also, we finally get a proper introduction to Erin Quill.

Segment Times

Intro to Erin Quill: 2:29-14:35

Interview on gcc: 14:40-23:31

Links for this Episode:

GNU Toolchain

GNU Compiler Collection

Reporting GCC Bugs

GCC home page

Free Software Foundation

With the announcement of Novell Access Manager, we interview product manager Lee Howarth about the new product's capabilities

Compiz is the compositing window manager that works on top of Xgl or AIGLX to enable Desktop Effects. Recently, a community developer named Quinn Storm announced that she would start a compiz-based fork project called “Beryl,” citing frustration with Novell regarding getting her code fixes accepted into the Compiz upstream source tree. We called Compiz/Xgl maintainer David Reveman to get his side of the story.

Resources and Links for this Show

Compiz lists, bugzilla and source

Reveman reply to community inquiry

Beryl early announcement

Beryl full announcement

Compiz.net Repository on openSUSE.org

SUSE's "Team Mobile" are continually making improvements in using Linux on laptops and connecting mobile devices to Linux systems. Team Mobile developers Timo Hoenig and Holger Macht demonstrate...by taking us to a Nuremberg beer garden.

Markus Kraft and Hannes Reineke explain technologies that form a foundation for data center Linux, and provide a cool tip for how you can set up your a miniature data center demo using…an iPod?! Erin sounds like he dialed in on a phone, and Ted shares what he learned about SUSE Labs during his recent trip to the Czech Republic.

Resources and Links for this Show

Novell Data Center

Overview

Samba hacker Lars Mueller explains new capabilities that he and Guenther Deschner team have been working on, allowing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 to integrate into an Active Directory environment. From joining the Active Directory domain to initial login and Kerberos provisioning, this stuff is too cool. And Dave Mair and Randy Goddard are back for News from Support, so cue the bagpipes!

Resources and Links for this Show

en.opensuse.org/Samba

Samba.org

Lars Müller’s home page

Günther Deschner’s home page

News from Support