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Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1
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Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1

As many of you know, SUSE decided to drop Oracle Java starting with openSUSE 12.1. This decision was due to licensing changes, that we all [ continue reading... ]

In-Depth Chakra “Ashoc” 0.3.0 Review and Impressions
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In-Depth Chakra “Ashoc” 0.3.0 Review and Impressions

This is guest blogger Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog by Prashanth, where I post reviews of Linux distributions and [ continue reading... ]

Voice recognition software – Be patient, because it can do a lot for you
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Voice recognition software – Be patient, because it can do a lot for you

Voice recognition software is an extremely productive tool for people who produce a lot of text. This software can write as fast as you can [ continue reading... ]

Fluxbox on openSUSE 11.3
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Fluxbox on openSUSE 11.3

Are you sick of Gnome? KDE? or XFCE? Do you have a very old machine that you want to run Linux on, but the newer [ continue reading... ]

Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04
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Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04

This walkthrough takes you through creating a virtual machine on Virtualbox and installing Ubuntu 10.04 on it. This is a fairly thorough walkthrough, but by [ continue reading... ]

Puppet 2.6.0 on SLES 11 SP1
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Puppet 2.6.0 on SLES 11 SP1

Recently my orginization signed a contract with Novell to implement some SLES. With this I decided to start implementing puppet (learning it first) along with [ continue reading... ]

Install KDE 4.4.3 on Kubuntu 10.04
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Install KDE 4.4.3 on Kubuntu 10.04

The KDE Developers today announced the release of KDE SC 4.4.3. With the immediate release of KDE 4.4.3 is the possibility of upgrading your Kubuntu [ continue reading... ]

Things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
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Things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

Previously (in 2008) I wrote about “Things to do after installing openSUSE 11.0“. Well I felt like it was time to start this up again, [ continue reading... ]

Adding Users in openSUSE Linux 11.2
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Adding Users in openSUSE Linux 11.2

Users can be managed several ways in openSUSE. One of these methods uses YaST, the management and configuration platform that openSUSE, SLES and SLED use [ continue reading... ]

5 helpful vi and vim (vi improved) cheat sheets and quick reference cards
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5 helpful vi and vim (vi improved) cheat sheets and quick reference cards

Have you used vi or vim just to be frustrated or confused with its key strokes and usage? Well, these 5 VI and VIM Cheat [ continue reading... ]

Installing Sun Java on Fedora 12 RedHat RHEL CentOS
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Installing Sun Java on Fedora 12 RedHat RHEL CentOS

If you’re new to Fedora you’ll notice there are a few special cases with Fedora. #1, they do not ship any packages that are not [ continue reading... ]

Installing LXDE Light Weight Desktop Environment on openSUSE 11.2
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Installing LXDE Light Weight Desktop Environment on openSUSE 11.2

Recently the openSUSE team announced that LXDE (Lightweight Desktop Environment) would be included as an option in the installer on openSUSE 11.3. In the openSUSE [ continue reading... ]

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu or Kubuntu Debian Linux deb
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Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu or Kubuntu Debian Linux deb

Goolge Chrome is a kick ass browser that is taking the browsing industry by storm. Its stunning speed has been winning users over since it’s [ continue reading... ]

Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login
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Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login

Here’s a quick how to on setting user x to auto login under KDE 4. You may want to do this if it’s your machine [ continue reading... ]

Installing KDE 4.3.5 on openSUSE 11.2
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Installing KDE 4.3.5 on openSUSE 11.2

The KDE Team release KDE 4.3.5 which is available for openSUSE in its ever functional and friendly build service. ryan . This guide will help [ continue reading... ]