At first I thought there is no way to get the GRAMPS genealogy software running on Suse 9. Apparently GNOME support by Suse sucks; the GRAMPS developers even say there are several things broken in the GNOME support of Suse. But finally there is a Suse Linux 9 RPM, that works (at least for us): http://apt.bygden.nu/SuSE/9.0-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/gramps-0.98.0-rb1.i586.rpm.
K3b seems to be the best GUI for burning CDs on Linux. But today it failed to burn an image file (bin/cue) and I don't know why. So I used:
cdrdao write --device /dev/cdrecorder --speed 8 filename.cue
I copied a bunch of preference files (those files and directories whose name starts with a dot) from my old RedHat home directory into my new Suse install. I had backed up the files being root and so all of them were owner:group root:root. In order to only change those files, that had root:root into jeltsch:users I executed from within my home directory:
sudo chown -R --from=root:root jeltsch:users .*
If you wanted to change all files on the system that belong to one user you could use:
sudo chown -R --from=username newowner /