FOLIAGE

-- An Ivy Generator (Software)

http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/

-- ngPlant (Software)

http://ngplant.sourceforge.net/

DOCUMENTATION

-- Continually updated downloadable versions of the Blender wiki manual, reference, script catalog and release logs by jesterKing (PDF)

http://www.letworyinteractive.com/b/category/blender/

I've got no clue why he was saying glibc isn't installed by default... seems more likely the program he was using was looking for an older lib. That said, I'd like to see stuff like autoconf/automake/cmake and so on in the base system. No clue on that Hercules sound card, never heard of them before. His complaints about nvidia installation are somewhat moot these days. Pisi was a bit on the unstable side in 2007.x days, I've found it much improved lately... especially glad they've got rid of that search on keypress thing in the gui front-end.

Not that abysmal a review by the standards of his other postings.

Reviews are longer, have screenshots and generally consist of more than bitching about Novell being useless. :)

Reading that techiemoe website atm, some interesting stuff on there... only one downside so far which is he/she/it admitting to not liking Slackware much. Slack was my first linux distro and whenever I see that antiquated curses installer I get a slight tingle in the bad places.

At least you've still got torrents to fall back on. :)

I'm waiting for the upcoming linux mint x86_64 release so thought I'd try out the new opensuse 11.1 for kicks. I last tried out opensuse sometime early in the 9.x series and was unhappy with the desktop performance, everything felt sluggish and bloated compared to other KDE distros. This isn't a review or anything, just a rant.

Grabbed the KDE4 x86_64 livecd, ran a successful media test and went to install it... unfortunately after the boot process X wouldn't initialize. I was left with a blank screen, hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 got me into a console (that I couldn't see) so I hit alt-ctrl-del and rebooted. This time I tried to boot with failsafe and VESA but encountered the same problem. The next time I booted in textmode, logged in as root and had a look at the xorg.conf file to see what the problem was.

I've got zero idea what autodetection stuff Novell use but I decided to just strip out everything from the Monitor section except the identifier and let X do the detection. This got me into KDE...


I went through the install (the partition manager needs serious work) and rebooted, fixed X again and got a desktop. Lasted about 30 minutes before I formatted the partition. I went to post the problem on the opensuse forum just in case anyone else had the same trouble with their monitor (or the other things I encountered and had to fix) ... but couldn't register due to a server error. Fun.

This is completely biased by the way, a distro that came from anyone but Novell I'd probably be a lot more patient with. I just keep hearing wonderful things about suse from people and everytime I try it I come away frustrated with the experience.

Relevant hardware: Samtron 76E, Nvidia 8800GTX

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You're forcing me to relieve a traumatic experience... I was beaten mercilessly once at a LUG after admitting I use nano.

The links in this thread reflect the best resources/tutes/software I've found for use with Blender.

GENERAL

-- Blender 3D Design Course by Neal Hirsig (PDF + Screencasts)

http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

  * Set User Preferences / Edit Methods / Aligned to View to on.

-- Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender by Tony Mullen (Commercial Book)

http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info.php?products_id=107

FLUID SIMULATION

-- Fluid Simulator Basics by Ci-Blender (jpg)

http://ci-blender.deviantart.com/art/Blender-Fluid-Sim-Basics-27479896

HAIR

-- Blender Hair series by DK Crame (Screencasts)

Part 1: http://vimeo.com/2504286
Part 2: http://vimeo.com/2505152
Part 3: http://vimeo.com/2505395
Part 4: http://vimeo.com/2505557
Part 5: http://vimeo.com/2505679

PROBLEMS / SOLUTIONS

-- Smoothing Problems

http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php/2007/08/13/88-how-to-solve-blenders-smoothing-problems

-- Loop Select in KDE

KDE overrides ALT-RMB, so change Tasma / Desktop / Window Behaviour / Window Actions / Modifier Key to Meta.

It's actually the 'Onur version' Willem posted Onur's msg from the pardus-devel mailing list so that a wider variety of people can test the package.

Playlist atm is The Pillows / noodles / The Breeders / Moloko / Megumi Nakajima / Guano Apes...

Yep, all fixed... marked solved. Mushi-shi is win btw...

Just upgraded smplayer to 0.6.5.1-15-6 from 0.6.4-14-5 and noticed that playback of 720p mkv files (possibly applies to other media files, haven't tested extensively) now displays in a 4:3 aspect ratio (not widescreen basically).

Haven't got time this morning to investigate it properly and file a bug report, removing ~/.smplayer & ~/.config/smplayer didn't help... using the history manager to rollback to the previous release worked fine.

Lisa, I heartily recommend inkscape if you're like me and not artistic by nature. I watched a few screencasts and found it pretty intuitive, I'd check out http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ if you do decide to investigate it.

Don't moderate me into oblivion for this... but it looks like 0.94.1rc1 (0.93.3 in repo) is the latest for clamav, whereas 0.44 (0.42 in repo) is the latest for klamav. So they're not quite that out of date.

I don't know what the cause is but I can duplicate the problem you describe. Might be worthwhile filing a bug report.

Serdar posted the following on pardus-devel:

Feel free to comment on both pardus-users and pardus-devel lists whether
there is a bug or not, or any other pardus/linux related things. Also it
would be nice to encourage world-forum-pardus users to be canalized to
these lists and share comments.

So just in case people aren't familiar with the mailing lists...

pardus-devel

subscribe: http://liste.pardus.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/pardus-devel
archives: http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-devel/

I primarily use pardus-devel to submit packages and updates, the developers are very helpful so don't be afraid of trying to contribute. It is a development list though, so for support issues try pardus-users instead.

pardus-users

subscribe: http://liste.pardus.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/pardus-users
archives: http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-users/

A complement to worldforum, pardus-users is another place to go when you're stuck on something and need advice.