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1st thing to do after installing openSUSE

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The first thing to do after installing openSUSE is to turn your install into a multimedia machine. Luckily, things have advanced so far that it only take a click of a button. (The necessary buttons are right here for your convenience.)

Enjoy!

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July 18th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

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Kernel panic after upgrading to openSUSE 11.3

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If you, too, suffer from a kernel panic after upgrading to openSUSE 11.3 adding

  • nohz=off highres=off

to your boot options will let your beloved OS come back to life.

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July 16th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

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Educational Linux distributions

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If you are looking for an educational Linux distribution, you have at least three choices:

KinderTux is especially interesting, because it isn’t aimed at pupils or teachers but at younger children to help them enjoying computers. The only alternative to KinderTux I could find was Quimo, which uses Ubuntu as base system.

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February 9th, 2010 at 10:49 am

Bitten by Metacity: Bug 555027 – autologin failure …

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I got bitten by this ugly bug (Bug 555027 – autologin failure …) and could no longer login to my lovely Gnome. With the help of the fine lads at #opensuse-gnome on Freenode and in the forum, I was able to find a patch here.

Now everything seems working again.

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January 27th, 2010 at 8:58 pm