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 11.3 Milestone 1 Release, they tout LXDE as
You can find more about LXDE in general at http://lxde.org.
Being as impatient as I am, I decided to give LXDE a shot prior to waiting for openSUSE 11.3. The LXDE team makes [ continue reading... ]

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 initial launch.
Linux enthusiasts have also been adapting to the ever updated Google Chrome, which recently was put into official “Beta” natively for Linux. I’ve previously wrote how to install the rpm on openSUSE and Fedora but now it’s time [ continue reading... ]

Recently in the VMware Communities lamw posted a good tutorial on one of the methods available to remove the VMware ESXi Landing Welcome Page.
You can see the posting here:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11864
He also links to 2 other methods of removing the landing page which can be found here and here

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... ]

Today the Mozilla Developers released Firefox 3.6, which has been promptly added to the openSUSE Mozilla Stable Repository.
You can read more about the release in a previous blog post.
To install this new version Firefox on openSUSE 11.2, we’ll have to add the Mozilla repository, then upgrade. Here’s a guide on how to do just that:.
Add the Mozilla Repository which includes the new [ continue reading... ]

Recently an associate of mine asked me to burn him a CD since his computer was “out of service”. I put in the CD and started hammering at my console to get him the CD he requested. He thought it was pretty cool that I could do it from the command line (he is a non technical user).
So I figured, there are some people [ continue reading... ]

Now that you’ve installed Arch Linux following some of my previous blog enteries, it’s time to install 3 of the major components when it comes to browsing the internet.
#1 Firefox (there are other browsers, but this is the most commonly used browser in the Linux realm).
To install do
#2 Our favortie thing of all.. Java (/sarcasm)
To install lets do:
#3 the thing that crashes [ continue reading... ]

I had someone email me saying they were having a hard time installing Arch Linux over an existing installation because they wanted to maintain their /home partition, which happened to be created as an LVM.
First this document isn’t the whole installation process, but only the bits which are required for using LVM support (let it be a new LVM or to install over an [ continue reading... ]

As I promised in an earlier blog entry, here are the steps to installing Xorg and KDE on Arch Linux.
I am making the assumption that you have just completed your installation of Arch Linux
When you boot up your machine, you’ll be brought into the login screen. Login as root.

The first thing you should do is sync all your pacman software lists. This is accomplished [ continue reading... ]

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 the repository do:
I also recommend adding the community repository by doinig:
If you wish, you can set both repositories to refresh automatically by doing:
Now you can update your installation by doing:
You’ll now have KDE 4.4 RC1, and best of all, [ continue reading... ]

Here’s another visual walkthrough of an installation. This time of Arch Linux Core (Core has all the base packages on CD and you have the option for a network, or cd install), which is typically for the more advanced Linux users.
I’m not going to commentate per screenshot because well, it’d take me FOREVER. I’ll do a few though, and hope I don’t get [ continue reading... ]

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing Ubuntu 9.10, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.
So here we start:
I am going to assume you know how to download and burn an ISO to a CD, so I will not walk through that process. Once you insert the CD into the drive, [ continue reading... ]

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... ]

So with the 2.6.28 kernel branch was mainstream experimental support for ext4. So how can you get this on your openSUSE 11.1 installation?
First download the newest version of the 2.6.28 kernel from kernel.org which at the time of my writing was 2.6.28.7
so I did:
cd ~/download/kernel
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.28.7.tar.bz2
After it downloaded, I uncompressed it and moved to /usr/src
tar -xvf linux-2.6.28.7.tar.bz2
sudo mv linux-2.6.28.7 /usr/src
I then installed some [ continue reading... ]

Have you ever wanted more speed dials in your opera browser?
Well here you have the solution. Just add the following lines into speeddial.ini (be sure you close opera before doing this):
[Size]
Rows=3
Columns=4
You can change the Rows and Columns to whatever you would like. I have set Rows and Columns both to 4 to get a total of 16 speed dials (boy I love this).