opensuse – Just another Linux geek

12 February, 2010FOSS

The Greatest KDE Distro Ever: An Early Look at openSUSE 11.3

This week the first milestone release of openSUSE was made available. Together with the KDE 4.4 release candidate and excellent integration of GTK applications such as Firefox, openSUSE simply provides […]

1 February, 2010FOSS

Zypper “download only” option

Sometimes on an openSUSE box I want to be able to pre-download the packages and install at a later date. By default, it downloads each package and installs it before […]

31 January, 201031 January, 2010FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 web links don’t work in Thunderbird under KDE fix

My mum’s machine runs openSUSE 11.2, with KDE 4. She continues to use Thunderbird as her mail client as it is familiar. Naturally she also uses Firefox for web browsing. […]

15 December, 200915 December, 2009FOSS

The best KDE based distro

TuxRadar has put together a review of eight of the top KDE-focused Linux distros. Not all distros are made equal, particularly if you’re a KDE user. KDE has had something […]

16 November, 200916 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – how to keep Mono, remove Windows.Forms

The new release of openSUSE ships Mono with Windows.Forms by default. For users who don’t mind Mono but would rather not have Windows.Forms installed, there are other options. You could […]

16 November, 200916 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – Mono with Windows.Forms by default, in GNOME

I was pleased to see (although not too surprised) that the KDE desktop in openSUSE 11.2 does not ship Mono by default. With GNOME, however it’s a different story. The […]

13 November, 200913 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – no Mono by default, in KDE

I’ve just installed the latest release of openSUSE (version 11.2), which now defaults to the KDE desktop. I was pleased to see that this does not install Mono by default […]

8 October, 2008FOSS

Security, ahh, update?

This morning I turned on my openSUSE work machine and was greeted (as I often am) with a message to update the system. Today’s message was special however, and perhaps […]