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 show you how to install the said version of Wine on openSUSE Linux, 11.0 – 11.2).
Add the Wine Emulator Repository and set to Auto Refresh:
Upgrade to packages in the new repository:
If you haven’t yet installed Wine, you can [ continue reading... ]

The next development release of GNOME has been released as per it’s snapshot schedule.
Here’s an excert from their release:

You can add this using the following repos for openSUSE:

Note: I’m not 100% if you actually require the backports as in previous usage.
Upgrade using:

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing openSUSE 11.2, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.
I will try to do the same thing for each distribution, and each release of the major distributions (and possibly Arch Linux).
So here we start:
I am going to assume you know how to download [ continue reading... ]

As an addition to my previous posting of KDE 4.4 Enhancements, I thought I’d bring to the forefront, that another great feature that will be included in the release of KDE 4.4, is the ability for Solid to Auto Mount Devices and (I haven’t noticed it before, but maybe it has always been this way) is the changing of the icon after a task has [ continue reading... ]

Ok,
I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why the hell would I want that.
Then I started using it.. and found quite a few usage scenario’s for it.
The first one, I realized right after I launched my VirtualBox. I had always hated how VirtualBox had a separate [ continue reading... ]

You can upgrade to the newest version of KDE 4.3.4 using the openSUSE BuildService.
Add the KDE 4.3 Repository using:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43
Add the KDE 4.3 Community Repository using:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43\ Community
Once you’ve added those, set then to refresh by doing:
for repo in openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43\ Community openSUSE\ 11.2\ KDE43; do sudo zypper mr -r $repo; done
After that has [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4.3.3 was recently released and had many fixes to the KDE 4 Desktop Environment.

To read more about the release check out kde.org
If you’re running openSUSE 11.1 you can upgrade to the latest version by adding the repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.1/ openSUSE_111_KDE43
If you’re running openSUSE 11.2 you can upgrade to the latest version by adding the repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE_112_KDE43
Enable them to auto [ continue reading... ]

Back during the release of KDE 4.0.0, I made a decision to abandon KDE and move to GNOME as I felt that KDE 4 was not ready for my daily use production work machine and didn’t feel like staying on KDE 3.5.10 which wasn’t going to be maintained going forward. I switched to GNOME flawlessly and was working away like anyone else, but it felt [ continue reading... ]