There are some great news on the openSUSE front:

First of all, as you might see from other post Genesi is working on an easy way of installing different Linux distributions on Pegasos machines. It's easy with Gentoo or Debian, as they don't have an over sized legal department. On the other hand, SuSE (Novell), and other commercial Linux vendors have it, and also have EULAs, which need to be accepted during installation. The openSUSE EULA is rather confusing, so I had to exchange some e-mails with openSUSE management to make it sure, that we can legally bundle openSUSE with Pegasos machines. Finally we got a 'go ahead' from Novell: as long as we use the OSS version, we can bundle it with Pegasos without any further permissions.

Another good news is, that booting of openSUSE 10.2 on Pegasos is treated now with priority 'blocker' in the Novell bugzilla, so (at least in theory) the next alpha should not be published without some real progress on the Pegasos front. I really hope, that my lengthly 'quick guide' will become completely obsolete with 10.2

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

Great work!

EULA issues bring up a whole new discussion. The sooner we resolve these sort of issues the better it will be for the EU's. Here is a version of the End User License Agreement (current mentality):

1. You have the right to remain silent and refuse to agree by not clicking on "Agree." Do you understand?

2. Anything you do online may be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand?

3. You have the right to consult an attorney or FAQs (if you can find them) before speaking to the web-police and to have an attorney or your parents present during questioning now or in the future. Do you understand?

4. If you cannot afford an attorney or don't live with Mom and Dad, we could sue you anyway. Do you understand?

5. If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney. Do you understand? Don't worry we got you anyway!

6. Knowing and understanding your rights as we have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present and continue to live on Earth using a computer!?

YIKES!

We need something to solve this problem!

R&B

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SuSE 10.1 final - really great system! I use it one week and i am near happy With packman from czp it's come damn good!

but
most annoyning things -
1. no native support for asfs in 10.1
2. partial XGL functionality on my R9250 - slow in 2D (around 4 fps), but during cube rotating all 2D fx works well??? it seems as Xorg non-optimal-configured-by-default

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wintel free

Peter, can you at least get them to try compiling this off as a module for 10.2?

It would be nice to have.

Also squashfs 3.1 would be nice to have just from our point of view
Yes there are some options you really need to set in Xorg to get Radeons to work that little bit snappier.

I should write a small document on this, in fact it will be so quick to do, I will do it now (I am currently installing Debian Sarge 3.1r3 from CD onto my new USB key, on Pegasos. It's so much fun when it all just works! Maybe I can compile Ubuntu kernels here and provide you guys with them, then that's another stage

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Matt Sealey

The problem is, that it's not part of the 'official' kernel. While earlier SuSE was famous because of its kernel patch, which was almost as big as the kernel source, now they decided to stick to 'official' sources as close, as possible.
AFAIK, none of these are yet part of the Linus tree. As soon as they get merged, it's just an e-mail or bugzilla report, and the feature is turned on.

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CzP
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OK, I found these in 'factory', the openSUSE development tree:

./suse/ppc/squashfs-3.1-5.ppc.rpm
./suse/ppc/squashfs-kmp-default-3.1_2.6.18_rc6_git3_2-5.ppc.rpm
./suse/ppc/squashfs-kmp-iseries64-3.1_2.6.18_rc6_git3_2-5.ppc.rpm
./suse/ppc/squashfs-kmp-ppc64-3.1_2.6.18_rc6_git3_2-5.ppc.rpm

So, both kernel modules and userland utilites are there.

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/