I wish I would have known how far this project was going to go in the beginning. I’ve spent the last 10 months working on THIS . It may not be a spectacular project to a lot of people, but it is monumental for me. Essentially I have to either start over or stop updating. I have no money for a pay outfit anyway as good as it probably would be.
Also, is it at least OK to add the Mozilla repo? YAST is telling me to roll back to 3.0 even though 3.6 just came out.
Add mozilla - Yes
Then do an Unconditional update in that repo
Cool… Nice site… very bright 
Well done…
Thank you very much sir. Very long boring story, but I was nominated, more like drafted, as the only tech guy in a group to learn how to build a forum site. That project never materialized, but I became very very enthralled with the whole thing.
This is an old Dell Dimension 4500s with a few muscle upgrades. Apache, mysql, php, css, APC, sphinx, web graphic design etc. Except for a bit of Apache experience this was all brand new to me in January. I’ve spent at least a couple hundred hours on this educational toybox.
I’m gonna blow my brains out if I have to do it all over again. Like I say it started as a “let’s see if I can do this” thing and wound up a consuming personal mission. Now it’s stuck on a machine that will soon be running an obsolete environment. My own fault I suppose, but still no fun.
I can’t stand KDE 4 which is my only option going forward unless I go to Gnome and God only knows what will OD if I do that. The weird thing is with all the stuff I learned I didn’t really learn that much more about Suse itself. Oh well, live and learn.
As long as you do not delete the website files you should be ok. You can always reinstall the OS and the rest ones you keep the configurations files. Moving is the easy big compared to the desigining of it…
See moving the site to a new pc as the chance to learn about SUSE lol!
Oh I back up the docroot and the database all the time, I just don’t want to be forced into KDE 4. There’s always Gnome I suppose, but there are some KDE apps I’ve gotten used to. I’ve never even seen XCFE. I’m not someone who enjoys doing things the hard way for the sake of it either. I don’t have much interest in becoming a leet cli guy. I just want to get stuff working as quickly and easily as possible.
I’ve got a little time. I’ll have to figure something out. It’s not just the web files. APC was a nightmare and Sphinx wasn’t much better, but I got them working. I don’t even remember some of the stuff now. I have lots of time and tweaks into Apache and mysql too. Wadda ya gonna do? There are worse things to be worrying about I suppose.
Why don’t you get the Gnome live CD and give it a run? There’s also a live CD for Xfce, although it’s only 11.0:
I’ll checkout the xfce live cd. I’m somewhat familiar with Gnome. I just got used to KDE. Maybe there’s a way to strip KDE 4 back. I have zero use for cute disco gui’s. I thought the Win2K interface was pretty much perfect. I killed all the eye candy in XP first thing and was outright nauseated by Vista’s 6000 pound interface. I am the ultimate pragmatist that way. I may not be a CLI guy, but I have no use for interface features that do nothing except look cool either.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:26:03 GMT, Tiribulus <Tiribulus@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>I wish I would have known how far this project was going to go in the
>beginning. I’ve spent the last 10 months working on ‘THIS’
>(http://gregnmary.gotdns.com:8080) . It may not be a spectacular project
>to a lot of people, but it is monumental for me. Essentially I have to
>either start over or stop updating. I have no money for a pay outfit
>anyway as good as it probably would be.
>
>Also, is it at least OK to add the Mozilla repo? YAST is telling me to
>roll back to 3.0 even though 3.6 just came out.
I would be thoughtful about that. The 3.0 series is very stable, i have
heard of problems with various 3.5 series installs. I could not expect
3.6 to be any better. That is why i run 3.0 series.
Be very weary of updates & uninstalls!!! I tried to remove qt4.5 on my 11.1 machine so I could install qt4.6 and yast removed most of my system: kde4.3 and the OS leaving me with gnome, qt4.5 and no ability to reboot into the OS. Your situation sounds similar but according to the posts I got when I claimed a problem over the issue. We may be posting troll because we had a problem.