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Networking,
openSuse
openSUSE and SUSE Linux sets default values for some of the network related Kernel parameters. With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system.
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Virtualization,
openSuse
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT (vmx) or AMD-V (svm). KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream.
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openSuse
When you accept the defaults for the Boot Loader in openSUSE at the time of installation, it will include the default openSUSE boot option, a failsafe boot option for openSUSE, a Floppy disk boot…
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Webserver,
openSuse
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
Read more at HowtoForge
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Software,
openSuse
aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone for Windows,Linux,Unix & Mac with features like offline messaging, voice clips, picture display, custom emoticons, webcam support, full speed file transfer, chat logs etc
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Multimedia,
openSuse
Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, [...]
Googles new free opensource browser Google Chrome took the world of Internet by surprise when it was released a few days ago. Google Chrome is currently in Beta as was many other Googles web application like GMail for a quite long time and is released only for Windows. A linux version of Google Chrome is [...]
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Software,
openSuse
Celestia is a free opensource space simulation software that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe and has become a valuable tool for education in Astronomy. Celestia is used in homes, schools, museums and planetariums around the world, it [...]
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Security,
openSuse
Sudo which is su “do” allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser [...]
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Desktop,
openSuse
Alltray is a free opensource tool to dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, evoluThunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the ‘close’ button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4, Fluxbox and WindowMaker.
Install Alltray
Packman hosts a 1-click [...]
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Software,
openSuse
OpenDJMix as the name implies is a free opensource virtual DJ system which allows you to mix MP3 files and audio CD tracks. It consists of a C++ API that manages a virtual sound bus with its I/O and a Qt GUI that enables a user to mix 4 MP3 or audio CD tracks. The [...]
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Software,
openSuse
BasKet Note Pads is a free opensource notepad/scrible pad software for Linux. BasKet can be used as a manual clipboard. This means that you can drop files of all kinds inside. They can be grouped in different tabs. BasKet is very simple to use and easy to differentiate between notes by setting tags, priorities and [...]
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Software,
openSuse
TEA is a text editor with the hundreds of features.TEA is depended on Qt 4.4 (or higher) and, optionally, on Aspell. TTEA-GTK has more features and depends on GTK+ 2.4 and GtkSourceView 2. Qt-branch is less mature, but in a more active development.
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Software,
openSuse
Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one’s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird’s eye view of your financial worth.
Money Manager includes all the basic features that 90% of users [...]
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Software,
openSuse
PDFedit is a free opensource editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
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