Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The release KDE4 brought in the new kickoff menu, the slab-style menu which was first introduced in openSUSE 10.2. The premise is simple - instead of unfolding menu after menu, the submenu opens within the menu itself. What makes the Kickoff a killer is the inclusion of search.
While I love ...
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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 ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
One of the heavily improved aspects of openSUSE 11 is the package manager and the way packages and repositories are handled. Although YaST [Yet Another Setup Tool, openSUSE's system admin/configuration tool] is no longer the slow poke that it used to be, its still no match in terms of speed ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk configuration. The survey contains some basic questions and its results will directly influence the redesign for the partitioner module.
The survey ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release candidates and final release. If you’re wondering where to start, Holger Sickenberg has put together an excellent resouce to help guide ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Last week, the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Some of the many enhancements and features in the new release include the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, live CDs and much more.
What’s New
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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.
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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 ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
openSUSE 11 Roadmap overview
Dec 6 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0
Jan 17 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
Feb 07 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2
March 18 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3
April 17 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
May 2 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2
May 13 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
May 29 openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1
June ...
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