Archive for the ‘openSuSE’ Category
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recently, Facebook introduced Facebook chat - which allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in realtime similar to IM, as compared to post-message-on-wall-and-wait-for-replies kinda communication that Facebook users endured so far. A slight problem would be that to use this feature, users need to be logged in and be ...
Posted in Tips & How-To's, openSuSE | 5 Comments »
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a live version. The live system can be used as a productive system or rescue system. You ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
cb400f has released his popular opensuse-xgl-settings for openSUSE 10.3, it is a GUI tool for KDE that makes installing and configuring Compiz Fusion painless.
And the friendly installer :)
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
KDE Developer "beineri" writes in his blog about some misconcepts regarding openSUSE10.3:
There are some misconceptions floating around about openSUSE 10.3. Unfortunately uninformed people are still allowed to blog so let me pick up some I read:
"No Live-CD! Every hobby distro has one. Why can't a huge company like Novell ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The openSUSE community has created a number of web pages, for the specific purpose of helping newbies.It is definitely worth while for newbie SuSE users to take a look at these (below) openSUSE community URLs, which provide guidance as to how to improve one’s SuSE, to go beyond the initial ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Ahead of its October 4th release date, the ISO images of openSUSE 10.3 have been quietly released to download mirrors over the weekend. The official release announcement should follow on Thursday, but it's nice to see that the download infrastructure is being set up several days in advance to prevent ...
Posted in Novell, SUSE, linux, open source, openSuSE, operating systems | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
With this last article the Sneak Peak series comes to an end for this release. But don’t worry: it’s tightly packed with an extra share of information on the latest openSUSE 10.3 goodies! Today we’re going through all those things that either didn’t get the chance to have their own ...
Posted in linux, open source, openSuSE, operating systems, preview | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Novell's Linux business has soared 243 percent since last November when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft.
"The affect on sales year over year, for Novell's first three quarters of our fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31 -- our Linux business was up 243 percent year over year," said ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
openSUSE 10.3 will include some great improvements to the init boot scripts which will dramatically decrease the time your computer takes to boot up. These come as the result of many different tests and research (documented here, and here); the first round of improvements have already been submitted and will ...
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