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Virtualization,
openSuse
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.2 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x
on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. [...]
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Server,
Webserver,
openSuse
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
LAMP is short for bL/binux, bA/bpache, bM/bySQL, bP/bHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
Link to the original site
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openSuse
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Repository management with zypper in Opensuse 11.1
A quick how to for using zypper to manage repositories in Opensuse.
You can specify existing repositories by their number in the list produced by zypper lr, alias, or URI. When using the numbers, make sure you always check zypper lr first, as the numbers [...]
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Virtualization,
openSuse
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Make sure proper permissions stay set for VirtualBox in OpenSuse 11.1
The problem:
running the following:
$: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
gives you this following:
$: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
/usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 1: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied.
The reason:
If SuSEconfig runs it resets the permissions of the files defined in /etc/permissions*.
The solution:
sudo chmod o+x /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
Open the file > /etc/permissions.easy < with vi, goto the [...]
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Virtualization,
openSuse
The following will install and configure DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker and Xen
on OpenSUSE 11.1 to provide highly-available virtual machines. This setup does
not utilize Xen’s live migration capabilities. Instead, VMs will be started
on the secondary node as soon as failure of the primary is detected. Xen
virtual disk images are replicated between nodes using DRBD and all services
on [...]
Nagios is a free opensource enterprise-class monitoring system released under GPL License. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Nagios is Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform with 10 years in development scaling to 100,000+ nodes. From my personal [...]
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Server,
Webserver,
openSuse
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1
server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web
server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server
with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd
FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
Read more at HowtoForge
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openSuse
This tutorial using openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4 LiveCD. You may try with another iso (Gnome as an example) or build a brand new iso by using KIWI.
Although it was not using GUI application, making openSUSE 11.1 LiveUSB is not too difficult to do. Below is a step by step tutorial about “how to make openSUSE [...]
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Desktop,
openSuse
This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.1
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the [...]
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Server,
openSuse
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1
server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web
server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND
DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota,
Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of
OpenSUSE 11.1, but should [...]
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Software,
openSuse
Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.
Read more at www.susegeek.com
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Multimedia,
openSuse
Adobe Flashplayer 10 is out now and is available for Linux x86 platforms (64 bit support is not officially available yet).
Features and enhancements include
Creative Expression
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
New Text Engine
Text Layout Components
[...]
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KDE,
Software,
openSuse
When I wrote about GNOME-Do here, one of our readers “James D” suggested Katapult application launcher for KDE. Inspired by QuickSilver for Mac OS X, Katapult is an application launcher for KDE designed to allow faster access to applications, bookmarks, and other items. It is plugin-based, so it can launch anything that is has a [...]
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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.
Read more at www.susegeek.com
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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.
Read more at www.susegeek.com