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Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r2 Released
The second release for Parisix 3.0, codenamed “Kev”. This release is an update of all the packages that have been put into the APT repositories since the 3.0 release. If you don’t know much about...
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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:eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest...
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10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows
Techgage wrote an interesting article titled 10 things linux does better than windows. Here’s a quick rundown of the 10 things that the article eludes to: Partitioning Activation Customization...
View ArticleopenSUSE 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 Welcome to issue # 118 of openSUSE Weekly...
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VortexBox 1.3 Released
Today the VortexBox Development team announced the immediate release of VortexBox 1.3. VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use...
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Using sudo without a password
One of the most noticeable features of ubuntu is the common use of sudo in order to perform ‘root’ level tasks. By default the ‘root’ user is disabled leaving sudo as the most used method of running...
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PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 – Released
The PCLinuxOS Development team announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 Edition. This is the second release for the PCLinuxOS 2010 Family, which includes many bug fixes, and upgrades of many...
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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 setting up SMT repositories and the such....
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Ruby 1.8.5 on RHEL 4
browser download . florida tile . While working on deploying puppet 2.6.0 onto RHEL4, I found that the supported ruby version of 1.8.1 does not have the right support for default_argv via optparse,...
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Ubuntu 10.10 – Is it worth the hype?
As with any Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 10.10 has quite the hype train backing it, and its release. But this time, they backed it up better then most others. With the 10.10 release, they shipped a pretty...
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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 software as well as my thoughts about the current...
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Comparing CTK Arch Live and ArchBang
My name is Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog by Prashanth, where I write about open-source software and people’s freedoms relating to technology. I’ve used Openbox a bit,...
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Using juniper network connection VPN on openSUSE 12.2 x86_64
Many of you working professionals may be lucky enough to utilize the Juniper VPN Solution. If so, I congratulate you. However, if you’re a user of linux, and want to run x86_64, this typically poses a...
View ArticleInstalling Juniper VPN on 64-bit openSUSE Tumbleweed
Juniper 8.0R5 includes support for 64-bit Linux systems. However, the process is a different on Tumbleweed and openSUSE 13.1 which I wrote about previously. Juniper includes instructions via KB25230,...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed net-tools vs net-tools-deprecated
The openSUSE project has finally decided to split the deprecated net-tools binaries from the core net-tools package and moved them into net-tools-deprecated. The following tools were removed from...
View ArticleWebEx on 64-bit openSUSE Tumbleweed
For work I often require the use of WebEx for remote meetings. However, after installing openSUSE Tumbleweed I found that WebEx launched the meeting room, however, it failed to show any shared screen....
View ArticleLotus Sametime with libmeanwhile1 built with GCC5 on openSUSE Tumbleweed...
The openSUSE project updated Tumbleweed to include packages built with GCC5. Immediately after the upgrade I noticed my pidgin wouldn’t log into Lotus Sametime. When attempting I continued to get the...
View ArticleGit-Web Differences between SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 11 SP4
Note that if you’re upgrading from SLES 11 SP3 to SLES 11 SP4 and running Git-Web the /usr/share/git-web location is now /usr/share/gitweb. You’ll have to either modify your git-web apache...
View ArticleWhat I learned when installing openSUSE Tumbleweed w/ KDE 5 on Surface Pro 3
Recently I had acquired a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 for work. Until then I had run openSUSE, Fedora, RedHat, SUSE or ArchLinux on my primary work laptop. After a month running Microsoft Windows 10 I...
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Compile Linux Kernel from source on openSUSE Tumbleweed for Surface Pro 3...
Previously I wrote about running openSUSE Tumbleweed on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Within there I indicated that the camera didn’t work without applying the “Enable UVC 1.5 device detection” patch....
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