Category: openSUSE & SUSE

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... ]

openSUSE Weekly News 118 Released
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openSUSE Weekly News 118 Released

The openSUSE team has released affective immediatly their weekly news release labels #118. In the release notes you can find the following from their site [ continue reading... ]

openSUSE 11.2 Video – eWEEK Labs
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openSUSE 11.2 Video – eWEEK Labs

eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2. From www.eweek.com: You can watch the video here.

Jeff Jaffe – Novell CTO Leaving
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Jeff Jaffe – Novell CTO Leaving

A few days after the news from Zonker, we get the news that Jeff Jaffe, Novells CTO, is also leaving the company for new ventures [ continue reading... ]

Installing Wine Development 1.1.37 on openSUSE Linux
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Installing Wine Development 1.1.37 on openSUSE Linux

Recently the Wine HQ team announced that Wine Development Branch 1.1.37 has been released. You can read more about the release here This tutorial will [ continue reading... ]

Installing KDE 4.4 RC2 on openSUSE and Kubuntu Linux
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Installing KDE 4.4 RC2 on openSUSE and Kubuntu Linux

Today was the announcement of the release of KDE 4.4 RC2 which provides you, the user, with the ability to try out this great release [ continue reading... ]

openSUSE Weekly Ners, Issue 106 is out!
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openSUSE Weekly Ners, Issue 106 is out!

Issue #106 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

openSUSE News: OBS supports new branch and merge handling
Unixmen/srlinuxx: Five useful extensions for Openoffice
Jussi Kekkonen (Tm_T): KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC1 Codename “Cornelius” released
Sirko Kemter: Building an openSUSE Art-Team
TuxRadar: The best Linux desktop search tools

For [...]

Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting
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Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday January 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode.
Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current
We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands.
Please [...]

MSI and Novell Team Together to release Moblin Netbook
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MSI and Novell Team Together to release Moblin Netbook

Recently announced was news that netbook maker MSI and Novell would be working together in addressing a growing demand for Notebooks. The new netbook will [ continue reading... ]

Setting Password Complexity SLES 11
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Setting Password Complexity SLES 11

Recently I got a copy of SLES 11, that I decided to setup to compare against the RHEL I’m running in the enterprise space (for [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4.4 RC1 Released – openSUSE 11.2 Build Service
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KDE 4.4 RC1 Released – openSUSE 11.2 Build Service

Here’s an excerpt from KDE’s release notes for KDE 4.4 RC1: To install on openSUSE, we’ll use the openSUSE KDE Factory Build Service. To add [ continue reading... ]

openSUSE KDE 4 Repositories Explained
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openSUSE KDE 4 Repositories Explained

Thanks to Tejas Guruswamy for a very good write up on build service repositories for KDE. The following is from the kde mailing list

Installing Google Chrome – openSUSE Fedora Repository RPM
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Installing Google Chrome – openSUSE Fedora Repository RPM

Recently someone emailed me and said they couldn’t get Google Chrome installed on their openSUSE 11 box. So I decided to write up a little [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4 Windows Switching Preview – openSUSE
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KDE 4 Windows Switching Preview – openSUSE

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods [ continue reading... ]

Amarok 2.2.1.90 KDE 4.4 – Track Progressions
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Amarok 2.2.1.90 KDE 4.4 – Track Progressions

Recently I upgraded to Amarok 2.2.1.90 from 2.2.0 while testing out some KDE 4.4. However, when I first started listening to the music I realized [ continue reading... ]