[How-To] Enable Auto-Mounting of External Drives In openSUSE 11

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Due to weird-ass PolicyKit rules, you may not be able to mount external drives - such as USB Hard drives, Pen drives, or other mass storage drives. while the drive gets recognised, on trying to mount you'll end up with this error: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) This is because of a ...

Presenting openSUSE 11.0

Friday, June 20th, 2008

After a long, long wait for SUSE maniacs like me, its finally here: Presenting the latest version of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.0 The new version features a slick shiny new installer, updated KDE 4.0.4, GNOME 2.22, Kernel version 2.6.25. If you’re still hesitant to jump to KDE4.0, you can use KDE 3.5.9 ...

New Official openSUSE Forums Go Live

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The official openSUSE forums has been established and went live yesterday on June 9th, 2008, providing better support for openSUSE community. The Forums merges 3 existing openSUSE forums, suseforums.net, my personal favourite suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com. You could use single sign-on login with your Novell/openSUSE account. Your ...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback on.    For more screenshots head over to the Screenshots/openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2 wiki page Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE ...

Lenovo Delivers SUSE Linux Based Laptops

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14. Lenovo will release pre-installed SLED 10 on its Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated ...