Free suse software for linux

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com) that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the worlds most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.
The goals of the openSUSE project are:
Make SUSE Linux the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain, and the most widely used open source platform.
Provide an environment for open source collaboration tha makes SUSE Linux the worlds best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.
Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make SUSE Linux the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.
Currently, SUSE Linux is an unsupported, open source only, preliminary edition of SUSE Linux that contains bleeding-edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot. If you intend to test for bugs or contribute patches, this version is for you...
Whats New in 10.2 Stable Release:
- After a lot of work, we proudly announce the availability of openSUSE 10.2, formerly known as SUSE Linux 10.x As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time. But we want to give a special mention to the redesigned GNOME and KDE desktop, Firefox 2.0, ext3 as the new default file system, support for internal SD card readers, new power management and, last but not least, our improved package management. Wed like to thank you all for testing heavily, reporting bugs, giving feedback on mailing lists. Have a lot of fun!
Whats New in 10.3 Beta 2 Development Release:
- Its my pleasure to announce the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta2. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release of openSUSE! Important Changes Since Beta2: kernel 2.6.22.3; glibc 2.6.1; the YaST infrastructure was improved to allow writing complete YaST modules; bootloader improvements - openSUSE 10.3 will use chainloader if it detects additional installations in other partitions, otherwise configfile sections will be used; improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE; countless bug fixes in every component.

tnftp (formerly known as lukemftp) is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems.
This project offers many enhancements over the traditional BSD FTP client, including command-line editing, command-line fetches of FTP and HTTP URLs (including via proxies), command-line uploads of FTP URLs, context-sensitive word completion, dynamic progress bar, IPv6 support, modification time preservation, paging of local and remote files, passive mode support (with fallback to active mode), SOCKS support, TIS FWTK gate-ftp server support, and transfer rate throttling.
tnftp is the default FTP client found in FreeBSD, MacOS X, NetBSD, and SuSE Linux.
Enhancements:
- The "-s srcaddr" option was implemented to set the local IP address for all connections.
- The "-q quittime" option is supported when waiting for server replies.
- The IEC 60027-2 units such as "KiB" and "MiB" are used instead of "KB", "MB", etc.
- Portability fixes were made, including for FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

Sys::Statistics::Linux is a Perl module to collect linux system statistics.

SYNOPSIS

use Sys::Statistics::Linux;

my $lxs = new Sys::Statistics::Linux;

$lxs->set(
SysInfo => 1,
CpuStats => 1,
ProcStats => 1,
MemStats => 1,
PgSwStats => 1,
NetStats => 1,
SockStats => 1,
DiskStats => 1,
DiskUsage => 1,
LoadAVG => 1,
FileStats => 1,
Processes => 1,
);

sleep 1;

my $stat = $lxs->get;

This module is the main package from the distribution Sys::Statistics::Linux and collects different linux system informations like processor workload, memory usage, network and disk statisitcs and other system informations. Refer to the documentation of the distribution modules to get more informations about all possible statistics and system informations.

TECHNICAL NOTE

This distribution collects statistics by the virtual /proc filesystem (procfs) and is developed on default vanilla kernels. It is tested on x86 hardware with the distributions SuSE (SuSE on s390 and s390x architecture as well), Red Hat, Debian, Asianux, Slackware and Mandrake on kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6 and should run on all linux kernels with a default vanilla kernel as well. It is possible that this module doesnt run on all distributions if the procfs is too much modified.

For example the linux kernel 2.4 can compiled with the option "CONFIG_BLK_STATS". It is possible to activate or deactivate the block statistics for devices with this option. These statistics doesnt exist in /proc/partitions if this option isnt activated. Since linux kernel 2.5 these statistics are in /proc/diskstats.

Further it is necessary to run it as a user with the authorization to read the /proc filesystem.

DELTAS

The options CpuStats, ProcStats, PgSwStats, NetStats, DiskStats and Processes are deltas, for this reason its necessary to initialize the statistics first, before the data be generated with get(). The statistics can be initialized with the methods new(), set() and init(). Each option that is set to TRUE (1) will be initialized by the call of new() or set(). The call of init() reinitialize all statistics that are set to 1. By the call of get() the initial statistics will be updated automatically. Please refer the METHOD section to get more information about the calls of new(), set() and get().

Another exigence is that you need to sleep for while - at least for one second - before you call get() if you want to get useful statistics. The options SysInfo, MemStats, SockStats, DiskUsage, LoadAVG and FileStats are no deltas. If you need only one of this informations you dont need to sleep before the call of get().

The get() function collects all requested informations and returns a hash reference with the statistics. The inital statistics will be updated. You can turn on and off options with set()

K Menu Gnome project is a K Menu with Gnome folder and extra icons for KDE 3.2 or later.

If you install both KDE and Gnome then K Menu will become a mess with overpopulated submenus. Some distributions try to solve this by hiding many Gnome apps in KDE and most KDE apps in Gnome. I do not like that. I want to access Gnome apps in KDE and KDE apps in Gnome. So this is my attempt to both maintain desktop interoperability and unmess the menus.

Why should one install both KDE and Gnome at all? You might share your machine with somebody who prefers the other desktop, or you might be a desktop junky like I am.

K Menu Gnome does not integrate well with the menus of heavily customized distributions such as Mandriva, SUSE, or UHU-Linux.

konvenientSUSE is a Kommander script that can add package repositories / installation sources and install multimedia codecs, Java and Flash on SUSE Linux 10.1 with pointnclick.
Only SUSE Linux 10.1 is supported. But both default packagemanagement (YaST2/Zen/Rug) and the very popular Smart Package Manager are supported.
How to Install:
Download the RPM and install it. For example like this: Right click the RPM -> Open with Install Software
The RPM depends on kdewebdev3 - so youll need the DVD/CDs or http/ftp inst-source.
How to run it:
After installation click the konvenientSUSE menu entry under System -> Configuration
If you want more information about whats going on, run konvenientSUSE from a root terminal, like this:
# kmdr-executor /usr/share/konvenientsuse/konvenientsuse.kmdr
Enhancements:
- Updated for new Nvidia packages.
- Added OpenOffice.org repo.

Kickoff QT desktop panel for KDE is the best effort effort to maximize the users experience.
Kicker QT requires less clicking to launch programs because it uses the mouse over effect which is lacking in other menu launchers. it also loads plugins and uses qtcurve which is lacking in other menu launchers for that eye candy we like. The history feature keeps track of recent programs and files/documents in an organized display which is lacking in other menu launchers. Favorites is as nearly as quick as quick launcher which is lacking in other menu launchers in that it required one click.
Note: Other menu launchers includes Vista.
You can also adjust the size of the menu unlike older menu launchers which become cluttered over time and explode all over your desktop. ;^D
WARNING this is a Force install at the time and will mutilate KDEbase, not for the faint of heart! I am working on the entire KDE 3.5.7 KDE QT which will be debugged for personal use with development on mng animation.
Use this at your own risk!!!
Reboot after installing launch button respones slowly the first few seconds.
Enhancements:
- replaced suse button with FedoraBubbles kbfx button