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Blow your cap in a day with a single file - just download planet-latest.osm.bz2 from this site (not a direct link). It's only 26 gigabytes compressed. Other huge files involve bioinformatics data.

Yeah, I used to run SuSE 7.2 on a 486DX33 with 48MB RAM and a 420 MB harddisk, create the two boot floppies, and do everything else over FTP install from a machine that it can access. I first ran 6.1 on it, when it only had 8 MB RAM. (IIRC).

Worked like a charm until a year ago, when I replaced it with a PII-350.

My guess is that even SuSE 8 or 9 would probably install and run fine if you have at least 64 MB RAM. Version 7.x will install with 16 MB RAM, version 6.x with 4 or 8 MB. The FTP install has lower requirements than the HTTP install. Put the CD/DVD in a system that can serve as FTP server and after using the two boot floppies (one for the kernel and one for the modules), it should do fine, if it can get the network card to work even on machines with 16MB RAM or less.

I can recommend SuSE, as it has extensive documentation on how to get the old hardware working that comes with those distributions, and it will run YaST in the ncurses interface, giving you a powerful setup tool even on very modest systems.

I have also ran SuSE 7.x on embedded PC104 486DX4-100/16MB RAM/4MB ROM systems without X11.

The 28 MB that the OP says is in the system will be the biggest bottleneck, but any distro from the turn of the century should do, your choices in X11 will be limited mainly due to the RAM. I'd still recommend going with SuSE though.

I've been googling a bit to see if there are still ant live repositories of those old distro's, but they seem to be hard to find. I still have the disks, for 6.1, 6.1, 7.2. 8.1. 9.3 and 10.2, but I suppose that's not going to help you. It seems they are no longer available on ftp.suse.com :-(
It seems harder to find that I would have suspected, I wish you good luck, maybe you'll need to see if someone still has some disks from a few years back.

P.S. I did find this, it goes back to SuSE 7.3: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/discontinued/i386/7.3

A similar approach for distributing updates to source packages has been around for years: The dynamic deltup server network. You can tell their servers which source archives you already have and which new version you want. The server then unpacks both archives and sends you a deltup diff that can be used to create a bit-by-bit copy of the desired source archive, using the deltup program.
An example use case for this are source based operating system distributions, like Gentoo GNU/Linux. The saved bandwidth is usually significant, often more than 90%.

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/dynamic.html

You know, almost all of those astronomical images are artificially colored and enhanced to maximize their ascetic appeal. Have a look at some of the various images of the cat's eye nebula to see. A quick Google turns up 5 different colorings:

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cats_Eye_Nebula.jpg
http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~panders/Images/AstroImages/03_CatEyeNebula.jpg
http://www.spacetoday.org/images/Hubble/HubbleBeauty/CatsEyeNebulaNASA.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/NGC6543.jpg
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cats_Eye_Nebula_2.jpg

The interpretation of the horsehead nebula is at least consistent (most of the time), but there is still plenty of artistic license being taken.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/52238main_MM_image_feature_89_jw4.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/45506main_MM_Image_Feature_73_rs4.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/scott_metz/alternity/graphics/horsehead_nebula.jpg
http://www.sidewalk-astronomy-club.com/img/horsehead-nebula.jpg
http://www.fourthdimensionastroimaging.com/sitebuilder/images/horsehead-712x571.jpg

I was sort of disappointed when I found that out...

Ahhh - that is just tooo evil. I can just imagine the worst of both worlds
But worse than that is http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~jbehren/fpx3.html. At attempt to "simplify Fortran source code development with an integrated set of macros, directives and embedded Perl/Fortran. Wow - someone has combined my two least favourite languages in an attempt to make a 'better' one!

If you are using SUSE 10 on x86 machine,

I believe you can use this RPM:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/R PMS.suse-projects/MozillaFirefox-1.4.99-3.1.i586.r pm

It may be slightly "newer" than the actual release as it is 20051120 build rather than the "official" 20051111, but I believe it is safe to use this until a final RPM comes out.

as the RPM is named 1.4.99 rather than 1.5, there would be no problem upgrading to the official build later.

apt-get is not recommended as versions of debians packages could conflict with identical versions of the rpms that are already installed or will be installed.

apt-get is available for SuSE, complete with corresponding (RPM) repositories. Although not officially supported, apt-get is even available on your CD. For more info (including repositories), e.g. look here. So the packages listed by the parent posters probably are indeed packages for SuSE 10.

But i agree that is far shorter to do "apt-get install firefox" than do the long way of loading yast, going to the install programs module and pick it... luckily, suse 10 have apt included, and there are a nice number of apt repositories in i.e. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i3 86/ and you can choose to do the yast way (there are yast repositories in this list) or the apt one.

Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.

In YAST, simply add an alternate download location. The link is only one of many choices. And it's been there since April, from what I can tell.

As with most mirrors, this can help download times a lot.

Now finally the community might have a chance to make and totally apt based SuSE.

Currently it is possible http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ to have apt run on top of an existing SuSE but not as the default installation medium. I feel that apt is the one thing that stand in between of SuSE and perfection.

The current (YaST/RPM) based solution is not too bad, but it is just too slow. Seaches in the package database take ages. And, iirc, it cannot do multiple downloads at the same time.

Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.

but afterall i still feel suse is the best (most polished) desktop distro arround.

im looking forward to what this move will bring us.

cies breijs.

Seems pretty easy to me:

Step One: Build a sonoluminescence apperatus using an ocilloscope, a sine generator, audio amplifier, piezo transducers and spherical flask. Details here: http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto .html

Step Two: Build a neutron supply source, problalby most easily constructed is a farnsworth-type fusor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor (makes a great science project too)

Step Three: Get some deuterium and dissolve it in acetone, place in your sonoluminescence apperatus and start tuning it to produce bubbles. Availible at your local scientific supply store.

Step Four: Build your own neutron detector and confirm the bubbles are producing fusion: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/nuc/ncount.htm

Step Five: Become the envy of the neighbourhood as the only guy on your block with a nuclear fusion device in your garage! (to avoid police suspicion call it a magical glowing bubble maker)

Step 6: Profit!

Installation sources for YaST:

http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/9 .3
http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.3

You are confusing 2 entirely different things here. One is patching an existing operating system environment and applications, the other one is upgrading software.

Yast Online Update is not for upgrading software, but for installing fixes for the installed version. They have good reasons for that. Security fixes will be backported by SUSE, that's one of the most important job of their security team. That's what I do on production systems.

Upgrading software is a whole different story. SUSE provides a lot of unsupported ugrades, and Mozilla Firefox is one of them. It's very easy to find them on their ftp mirrors. You can also use third party software packagers like packman. If you use apt4rpm, it's very easy to integrate the different repositories, both from SUSE and third parties. That's what I'm suing on my desktop, laptop etc.

Patching all of my systems is mostly done without notice, just the occasional reboot when the kernel was changed, or restarting servers.

For me, SUSE has the most convenient patching capabilities, Apple comes a close second (and only comes second because with SUSE there are more ways to do it). Windows is much more work for me.

This will fix your updating problem.

Guru's RPM Site

With Synaptic you can get/upgrade gimp, mplayer, games and all your other goodies in SuSE. I wouldn't reccommend upgrading your kernel or Video drivers from the repositories, but everything else runs just fine. I'm running 9.2 as well.

Enjoy,

If you want the LiveDVD. Looks like everyone will have to wait for the traditional network installation CDs, though.

Read this. Go here. Let me know if you need help after reading those links.

You're on crack, right? You actually bought Codeweavers to run MPlayer ? The project that bills itself as "The video player for Linux"?
So what was too difficult?
1. Googling for the MPlayer RPM?
2. Using apt to install it (apt-get install
MPlayer)
3. Untarring it and installing it the old fashioned
way.

Or.... buying Codeweavers to run a Windows port of a Linux app on Linux.
Let me help you. Install apt and apt-libs. Run apt-get update, apt-get install MPlayer. Got it?
As far as MP3s go, I have Suse 9.3 right here and Juk playing all of my music imported right off my iPod which was supported fine using ipod:/ in Konqueror just as Suse said it would be.
I know you're probably either just trolling or afraid to actually Google for something but did you know there's 4 Multimedia packs you can download and install for free in Suse 9.3 using Yast?

My understanding of why mp3 support is crippled is because GPL apps can be freely redistributed whereas mp3 playback is licensed per device (unless Novell/SuSE pays mucho doubloons to Fraunhofer). So, the only way SuSE can fix this is to put a bunch of rpms on their website containing mp3 decoder binaries and tell you that using them may be illegal in your country. I think they've already done this.

Note that mp3 playback is actually NOT crippled since RealPlayer 10 is included (I know, I know, no flames please).

As someone who switched from Fedora Core 1 to SuSE 9.1, then 9.2, my opinion is that the easiest way to add all the missing packages is via apt/synaptic for SuSE and using the gwdg mirror. For more information, please visit http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/home.html.

This has worked flawlessly for me. I update the mp3/mpeg2/mpeg4 packages via synaptic and the rest of the packages via YOU. In YOU, the apt/synaptic packages are marked as "Protected" so that YOU does not update them. Not ideal mind you, but it works.

I bought SuSE 9.1 Pro, paid my 100 euros, and two weeks after that SuSE 9.2 came out.

That's of course bad luck, but not really SuSE fault. The usually announce the release of new versions one month in advance (like the probably will do today or the next days for their 9.3 release in April). And with a bit of research one can find out that SuSE releases twice a year, approx. April and October. But the possibility that someone accidentially buys a product shortly before the release of a new version is a problem which is not restricted to SuSE.

The SuSE ftp and yast provided support for my old 9.1 (e.g. KDE, thunderbird, firefox) packages, but didn't upgrade them to the latest, 9.2 releases.

No, of course not (at least not automatically). They only update packages for YOU to fix bugs and security issues. That makes sense to me. AFAIK, you can point Yast to the FTP version of 9.2 and make a distro update.

Apart from that, there are plenty of other ways to install new software on a SuSE installation, among them apt-get. This includes packages provided by SuSE employes for older versions, for example new KDE versions (including the KDE 3.4 beta versions).

Copying from friends is always an option, for every OS, but it defies the entire commercial OS price argument doesn't it :)

Sure. :) But contrary to certain other OSes, it is absolutely legal to copy SuSE Linux (and always has been). You only don't get official support by SuSE and no printed books...

last I checked only Home version was available for ISO download

The DVD is here.

this is hardly an option when you're on 64k ISDN.

Sure. But again this is then true for every Linux distribution, whether commercial or non-commercial.

To be honest, the thing I found most annoying about SuSE was the 'technical support' that I specifically paid for by buying my Pro package. After an out of the box installation, firefox kept crashing whenever I was opening it. The tech support reply was alogn the lines that they don't offer support for 3rd party applications, only for their product.

On the one hand, I can understand that they don't feel the obligation to support every single of the thousands of packages they provide with their distro. I see many of them provided as convinience. I'm a bit surprised, though, that they don't want to help with Firefox issues, since that, in my opinion, is one of the 'core' programs. In any case they have released (Yast-upgradable) updates for Firefox in 9,1 (and probably have also before that date). But I have no experience with SuSE support, so I can't judge whether they are worth their money.

Bye bye SuSE.

Well, that's the good thing about choice. :)

For those who would like to make their own...

Garage Sonoluminescence

Yast should do the dependencies for you automatically. At least, it always has for me. As well, I installed apt4rpm on SuSE and actually prefer it over Yast as the packages tend to be more current.

just some examples:

http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mirrors/ftp.suse. com/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/

http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/

also check the general mirror list for the servers that serve bits with http.

http://www.suse.de/de/private/download/ftp/ausland .html

happy downloading

I was happy with this, but took SuSE's config as the basis to built a newer 2.6 kernel from www.kernel.org; it also allowed me to tune my processor and architecture and get rid of the unnecessary cruft.

And KDE3.3 had been available in their "unsupported" downloads section if you wanted to take the risk, as discussed in this forum at suselinuxsupport

I took the plunge with kde3.3, and it's been completely stable.

Yes

Is there anykind of a browser plug-in I could use to deciper steganographically enhanced JPEG images that might just come over plain old unsuspicious unencrypted http?

GIFs were evil, PNG support lacked transparency, now JPEGs can cause buffer overflows - I'd say that IE has an image problem... Excuse me while I just run away now.

Enter "deltup" a tool that looks at to tarrballs and gives you a diff between the 2 that you can use to "transform the old tarball to a exact copy of the new tarball", it even preserves MD5 checksums compatibility. Now some enterprising gentoo user create a "dynamic deltup server" that automates the creation of these delta files, and people can reuse the delta files that other people used.

Using this technique in combination with gentoo portage people can reduce there traffic with on average 75%.

Have a look at the following URL's for more information:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=215262

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/deltup-status.atim e.html

Rigolo

SuSE now has RC2 Binaries available, complete except for updated bindings and i18n. Packages are also available via apt. The page hasn't been updated, but the 3.3 RC2 RPMs are indeed there.

Still working on downloading everything, so I can't give my impression yet.

For those who were wondering, yes there was an RC1, but they intentionally didn't announce it. Apparently some major bugs were discovered after preparing the tarballs but before making the announcement, so they scrapped that and fixed the bugs to make RC2.

There's a nice Case study of upgrading from Suse 8.2 -> 9.0 using APT. Didn't quite work as cleanly as a major Debian upgrade, but sure as hell beats re-installing the whold OS (as redhat and suse's yast installer seem to enjoy)

I've heard a lot about them open sourcing YaST, though, and I can't find it anywhere. There's no obvious download on Novell's site. It's not on forge.novell.com, their open source site. It's not on Sourceforge.

On the other hand though, you can get the source from a pretty obvious place: their ftp servers (this is one of the mirrors; I imagine their main server is getting pretty hard right now and I don't want to add to that). Look for the yast* packages. And since they're on the servers, I'm pretty sure you can also get them through the YaST interface. Talk about recursion... ;)

Everyone's individual mileage varies, of course, but I am running SuSE 9.0 with apt4rpm installed on top of it, and it simply works like a charm. I don't ever use YAST anymore to upgrade my system. There are lots of inofficial apt repositories available, many of them maintained by SuSE employees. Only very occasionally I run across an application that's not included in some apt repository.

I am not being trite when I say read the US Bill of Rights.

Why? It's not like it's being respected by lawmakers.

the USA has substantial advantages in the Ownership of Property

Except that the police can just confiscate your property and you have to sue (if you still have enough money left to do so) to get it back. In the majority of seizures, the people whose property gets taken do not even get charged with a crime. Here is a good essay on this issue. Some cases where money was taken without good grounds. And no, they can't do this where I live.

rights to political dissent

A US kid got suspended for wearing a T-shirt with "Anarchy." The government actively tries to prevent people from advertising messages that go against government policy. An anti-war community organization was infiltrated by the police.

These involve a vast improvement in the rights to relief from problems with the government via a court system that despite all its flaws is orders of magnitude more likely to answer to the interests of ordinary people when they dispute with the strong and powerful than in EU or elsewhere.

The US legal system has incarcerated an extremely large part of its population. Many of those are victim of the war on drugs. However, while drug use is no lower among caucasians, three quarter of the people convicted for these crimes are black or latino. The same goes for the death penalty. Black & latino see the needle far more than caucasians. In short, your legal system certainly seems to take it out on the lower class.

As for Europe trodding on the ordinary man, do you have any evidence to back that up? Because I don't see too much of that happening here.

In the USA most people take for granted that the Police and Courts actually will deal with problems and redress without bribery.

I never had to bribe the police or the courts. What parts of the EU are you talking about? Nigeria?

EU types have been raised under a system where they delt with a thousand years of entrenched bureaucracy with its systematic and embedded corruption at a level beyond any American Imagination.

In my country (The Netherlands), 10% of the workers are government employees. In the US, it is 14%. 'Nough said.

As for corruption and bribery: according to the 2003 Corruption Perceptions Index, my EU country is ranked 7th (with a 8.9/10). The US is ranked 18 (with a 7.5/10). The Bribe Payers Index 2002 ranked The Netherlands 6th (with a 7.8/10), while the US was ranked 13th (with a 5.3/10).

Much of the current Economic troubles in the USA and Social Discord are the result of this trend towards EU solutions and methods.

An important reason for social discord in the US seems to be that a small part of the population is screwing the rest. The only reason why many people have to work two jobs, while others have more money than they can spend in two lives, is because they believe the bullshit of "what is good for business is good for you."

In synopsis, the EU is a Bureacratic Super State where Citizens have no particular rights except those granted by PERMIT.

Do you know that the Union has a really low number of bureaucrats (~30.000) and that the nations have very strong control over what the Union does? NO, of COURSE you DIDN'T know, did you? Shouting hard is much easier than providing proof, isn't it?

The Brussels system will further dominate the area by an Oligarchy and the delivery of individual freedom in

Not so on Linux... typing "apt-get install foo" is propably the most user-friendly method around, but it requires configuring and using apt from commandline (bad), and it's only avaible on Debian (which I personally don't like... but that's just my taste).

I don't disagree with you about install methods, but you're mistaken about apt. I have used apt on both SuSE http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ and RedHat http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ with great success. It's still not perfect, but it's better than tracking down each and every rpm by hand.

Next time, do a quick search on google, and you should find just about anything you need for Linux. You should also join the Redhat Yahoo group which I am a moderator on. We answer every question with no nasty attitude toward new Linux users. You can also check out the Linux Yahoo group for all things Linux. We have the same attitude as the Redhat Yahoo group and have a few 1,000 members.

That's not entirely true. You are right about YOU, but you can add additional install sources (Change Source of Installation) which can be used by the Install and Remove Software module in YaST.

Try to add ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse /i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/ to the sources (replace with your closest mirror and correct distribution), and YaST will update your KDE install.

The source directory must contain extra information sources for YaST (like a yast-source directory), so it does not work for all software updates provided by SUSE. AFAIK, it works for KDE; but not for GNOME or projects like Mozilla, unfortunately. You might try to use apt4rpm instead.

The answer to the orginal question: No, if they have not changed something for the new 9.1 Live CD's, it should not be possible to do a Knoppix-like upgrade from a Live CD.

You can do it via apt: it is not for the prime time user, but I did it for previous releases. Have a look at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ for more details.

There actually is a town called Lederhose in Germany ??

It's not just sustainability, it's getting it to react. You need intense pressures, and the only ways to do this previously, require very large (read: industrial) bits of equipment, just for the proof-of-concept.

If you mean "fusion in general", I'll accept that.

If you only mean to refer to sonoluminescence, then no, you do not nead large and expensive industrial equipment - You can do it in your basement with roughly $100 in equipment (though having a low-end oscilliscope helps, you don't absolutely need it, you could get away with a simple analog meter).

Check out the Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO for a nice, detailed example of a functional experimental setup.

Not exactly rocked science - As the basic idea, you make a flask of degassed water resonate at roughly 25khz. Insert a tiny air bubble, and bingo, with a bit of trial and error, you have sonoluminescence.


Of course, I agree that getting energy out of such a system may take some doing, but as a proof of concept (and just a really cool experiment in general), any advanced-amateur EE geek would already have all the parts they need.

Sonoluminescence: an Introduction

Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO

Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is /.) -- here it is:

Hmm .. I wonder if the /. lameness filter was designed so that people couldn't post whole mirror lists themselves. Telling me that I don't have enough characters per line. I think I'll just ask the KDE people to create a static fast-serving no-css page full of mirrors for KDE whenever a release happens. That way, at least some amount of trouble would be saved. Goes off to mail KDE team ...

(pulled from KDE Mirror List)

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ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/ http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/ http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/ ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/ http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/ ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp / ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/ http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/ ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror / http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/ ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ ftp://ftp.hun.edu.tr/pub/linux/gimp/ ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gi mp/ ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/X/gimp/gimp/

Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / Netherlands http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/

Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / Netherlands http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/

JPHS for Linux and Windows.

Perhaps I'm simply spoiled by the FreeBSD ports collection (any good package manager really) where I run cvsup to get the ports collection current, then I can either build from source or pkg_add -r pkgname and install the binary quickly across a network.

Don't take this a knock though, SuSE was the *nix that I learned on, and it's still awesome. Just seems somewhat unwieldy to bundle so much software in that is going to go out of date so quickly.

This is why I love APT for SuSE. A simple

sudo 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'

and I have the current versions of everything -- just like using the ports tree in FreeBSD. Check it out, you might find it interesting. And it respects the RPM database, so you can still use YaST or install/remove RPMs manually if you want.

Here is a WORKING mirror (not ftp.mozilla.org):

http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/samba/windows/MozillaFirebi rd-0.7-win32.zip

Here's a direct link to a Firebird 7.0 Mirror of the zip file.
MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip

Seems rather complicated. Why not port the REXX script to the Linux box? There are some free REXX interpreters available for Linux.

OpenBSD (vn* devices) and Linux (crypto-loop) have this for years. NetBSD also has it. Windows XP also has it.

No, cryptoloop in linux can not do the same. Cryptoloop can encrypt, but you can not change password. Luckily there are other ways to do that, PPDD which appears to be using the same princip of storing the real key on the disk, though encrypted with the password. The same princip a friend and me is using in our development of a device-mapper target, deadline is 1. october.
Not having any more knowledge of GEOM, than what i read in the .pdf's of the presentationslides, then i would state that GEOM appears to be very much what device-mapper is in Linux.

This is great, but what about interoperability? Right now, all operating systems I can use encrypted partitions, but the way they do it is different on every system. If I encrypt my USB memory key on FreeBSD, I won't be able to use it on Linux. Even if the actual file system is the same, even if the encryption algorithm is the same.

Very valid point. I hope someone addresses this. I supose it would be rather easy to write a device-mapper target that behaves like GBDE-GEOM

However, there are several (at least 8 plus 3 MIA) Forth operating systems afoot. Including one which is implemented as a Linux kernel thread.