My goal is to provide packages for openSUSE and eventually integrate those into the OS itself (into openSUSE Factory).

Many packages are available elsewhere, but for some reason are not packaged for openSUSE. I want to fix that.

Additionally I believe in cross-compiling concept, so I will build cross-distro packages. ( since openSUSE Build Service came that very long road, I can even dream about cross-platform compiling between different OSes... but that's just me and my dreams :) ... )

-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Future packages:
(utilities)
-banner (complete)
-twin
-ipcalc (provided by some other, python version)
-VDE Virtual Distributed Ethernet
-sc - ncurses based spreadsheet
-KDE plugin: ISO Mount
-most (similar to "more" page viewer)
-tor (TOR union network)

(GUI applications)
-iperf + iperfQt (?)
-LPhoto from Linspire
-KDE KPaint (?) - for historical reasons...
-Aptana (?)
-scite

(others)
-Firefox AppArmored profile (?) (currently can be enabled/disabled via RPM installation/removal or AppArmor Control Center)
-FireFox: Extensions/Add-ons convert to RPM packages (?)
-Open Source documentation
-Zimbra mail server (?)
-Wallpapers (from SUSE Linux 10.0, kde-look, ...)
-compat-gcc-34 (like Fedora)
-OpenLINA (?)
-Vyatta Router

Other's packages, that I hope to put into Factory:
-most of my packages
-tsocks
-iperf (from jimfunk) - I must copy this because it's a dependency for iperfQt.
-dynamips
-dynagen
-putty
-xvidcap
-stardict
-httrack
-unionfs - both FUSE and kernel versions
-filelight (KDE3 app)

In Factory:
-htop (human-oriented top)

Banner fills an apparent hole in Linux - that is, that is does not provide
a "banner" program itself, while nearly all UNIX systems seem to do so.
Banner prints a "banner" on the screen that corresponds to the first 10
characters of a string entered on the command line, in a way similar to
what you might see when using Solaris or AIX. There are fancier things out
there, but this is nice and simple.

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of
various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay
jitter, datagram loss.

Packaged by "jfunk" James Oakley .

Copied over here because iperfQt has a dependency on iperf, which is not part of Factory.

iperfQt program is an IP performance benchmark, that tries to simulate Roadkil's CommTest look-and-feel in an open-source and cross-platform way.

Built upon iperf + python + pyQt4.

kvm-vanilla is an upstream KVM version, without all the extra patches from openSUSE team. I used it mainly for testing.

You may decide whatever you like to use - either openSUSE-patched KVM or a vanilla one (upstream).

Sources taken from CentOS testing repo and modified.

Twin is a text-mode windowing environment:
it draws and manages text windows on a text-mode display,
like X11 does for graphical windows. It has a built-in window manager
and terminal emulator, and can be used as server for remote clients
in the same style as X11. It can display on Linux console, on X11
and inside itself.