Why is there no forum for SuSE?????

For the record, there is absolutely no charge to have a distro forum here at LQ. All distros are encouraged to join.

--jeremy

Oops, that wasn't meant as an insult to you and/or this site. Quite to the contrary, it is so good that I think you could charge a large corporation benefiting from your work here, IMHO. If it is not necessary, all to the better. Still it must cost to run LQ (server(s), bandwidth, manpower...)

Sorry you paid for SUSE. I got my free copy of SUSE 9.1 PRO from Novell. Kevin Rose from TSS had a dark tip about getting a copy for free.

is there maybe an update for the driver plus patch to get this thing working for me cause i'm using kernel 2.6.5-7.104.

thx in advance for your help

ähh sorry pls del this reply cause its the wrong thread

WHEN ARE WE GETTING A SUSE SUB-FORUM?

There are plenty of people using this distro worldwide, this thread has had 26500 views and counting. What the hell is the problem? Why can't they just edit the poxy html file and get us our forum?

Sort it out!

Skunk.

skunkcabbage, this isn't discworld. There's no natural law whereby popular concensus is automatically the truth...

Originally posted by skunkcabbage WHEN ARE WE GETTING A SUSE SUB-FORUM? There are plenty of people using this distro worldwide, this thread has had 26500 views and counting. What the hell is the problem? Why can't they just edit the poxy html file and get us our forum? Sort it out! Skunk.

Have you read the past 23 pages? There will not be a separate Suse forum until Suse decides to have someone actively participating in the forum. This is the way Jeremy likes to have the forums set up. The problem is Suse seems to be reluctant right now to do so the Suse forum is dead until then. You can still post Suse questions but in Linux - Distributions, not its own forum.

Discworld huh? Funny I thought popular consensus was respected more in Linuxworld, and people were motivated less by corporate ideals/greed etc - oh well nevermind.

What would it take for SuSE to come to the party? Presumably, they are restrained by the commercial nature of their outfit? If they can't participate as fully as you'd like them to, why penalise users who choose to use their distro? I.e. what's so special about "participation". I think it's more important, on a linux users forum, for visitors to be able to obtain help from other people using the same distro.

Perhaps this website should be changed to freelinuxesneedonlyapply.org ;-)

Oh - and just in case someone has written something even remotely similar in the preceeding 23 pages, I apologise, but life's too short.

Skunk.

skunkcabbage, a couple comments:

1) (and most importantly) you should not be at all dissuaded from asking Suse related questions. We have many Suse users and questions about the distro are quite welcome.
2) being commercial has nothing to do with - Red Hat, Libranet and other commercial distros participate at LQ.

FWIW, I'll try contacting Suse again.

--jeremy

Thanks for the reply - I didn't really think it was a commercial vs non-commercial issue, and I understand why it would be useful to have a SuSE person check over the mails regularly. I guess their reticence must be due to them having their own *very* active suse-linux mailing lists, which is a shame since I much prefer asking questions here. As a halfway house, why not assemble a group of experienced SuSE users who regularly use linuxquestions.org, who could regularly check on a suitable sub-forum?

I would not be a suitable person, as I seem to be breaking more installations than I am fixing these days :-( Bloody Gnome and SuSE ggrrrrrrrr!

I Jeremy just posted on Mandrake a question about Susi's forum. I just switched from man 10 because of their lack of support of amd64 - the support is included with Susi in their personnel edition. I am very impressed with Susi. I got the iso from Linux Format Mag and burned the iso from the dvd. I note that this personnel edition is being sold retail boxed at £25 and the Professional at £65 boxed .

I think that Man in retailing the amd64 version at £100, is a mistake. I have just run a boot up speed test running a amd64 faster +3200 with Man 10 rc1 amd64 against an amd+3000 using the 9.1 personnel edition of Susi on a machine with cheapest hardware I could get at the computer fairs.

Man 10 was 1 minute 55 seconds, Susi 9.1 was 1 min 20 seconds.
I would like to put my name down for the Susi forum.

Timely reminder to all posters here: don't just tell us that you want a forum. Email Novell (politely) and let them know that their user base wants this also.

Hi

I seem to be having problem with proxy settings, log on to company network, using DHCP, IP address is automatically assigned to Linux box.

Proxy Server address is 10.134.129.33 port 80, works fine in windows, but does not in SUSE 9.1, spoke to server team there is no http:// address for proxy server or an external address,

http://10.134.129.33 with port 80 does not work
and http://proxy.10.134.129.33 with port 80 does not work either

also run proxy client on one of my work computers so it does not require proxy address is there an equivalent for Linux??, work is running MS proxy server 2.0

any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanx

xerxes69, this thread is not for getting suse help. please ask in the main linux forums in your own thread.

simalar to yoper, it has it's own forum, but i like drake and yoper both, and find fixes for both here and there. suse has it's own tech support boards, isn't that why it's commercial, to provide support?