Installing KDE 4.6 in openSUSE 11.3

Just add the following repos into openSUSE 11.3 to get KDE 4.6 goodness:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/46/openSUSE_11.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_46_openSUSE_11.3/

LibreOffice is released

Yay LibreOffice is released...

Go get it at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

openSUSE FUD

I am really sick and tired of people spreading FUD on the future of openSUSE and SUSE Linux in light of the Attachmate/Novell merger.

Point One - Attachmate is not Oracle and openSUSE is not OpenSolaris.
Point Two - Jeff Hawn, CEO of Attachmate has already said that SUSE and openSUSE are important components of the merger and will remain.
Point Three - Goto Point One

Novell has contributed much to the FOSS universe (think OpenOffice.org, Banshee, Mono, GNOME, KDE, Linux Kernel, Moonlight etc) and on behalf of the community, bore the brunt of the SCO assault on Linux and later on UNIX. Funny some trolls just conveniently forgot that Novell literally squashed the baseless SCO litigation and scored one for the good guys.

People will always say what they want and there will always be trolls. Get your facts right before you speak mate. You obviously have an axe to grind or something. We work hard to make openSUSE successful and hey by all means help us out if you think you can do a better job than us; we'll be glad to have you on board. Otherwise just STFU.

Sniping on the side and lying and spreading your poison around is just sad and counter-productive. What do you hope to achieve? Is it another case of my distro will bitch-slap your distro? Get real and grow up or get laid, watch some pr0n or whichever pleases you mate.

If you have a commercial motive behind your poison, well that only means whatever you are dealing is just crap.

I am an openSUSE guy and as much as I love the Geeko, I have long realised that it's part of the FOSS Universe. I am just as happy to see BSD, Ubuntu or Fedora successful. Deep down I really don't give a damn about distros. I am more interested in seeing FOSS make it.

So if you think that FOSS is all about how awesome <$DISTRO_NAME> is, then you are sadly mistaken. In the mean time if you need to comment on things you are not sure of, show some humility and respect, otherwise just STFU. You don't have the right to insult and belittle the efforts of others.

SUSE Linux Administration Guide

This useful guide is slightly dated but is still relevant for the modern SUSE/openSUSE system.

Read it here.

19 hours of battery life

Heheh...sweet!!! If only it was true.

Ah well it just means that my notebook is newer than openSUSE 11.3's Power Management can work with.

Gotta see if Fedora 14 or Ubuntu 10.10 will have the same weirdness.

Firefox Pegging CPU cycles in SLED

Some users of SLED 11 SP1 have complained about Firefox consuming an inordinate amount of RAM.

From URL bar of Firefox, type about:config

1. Change 'browser.cache.memory.enable' from true to false
2. Add ‘browser.cache.memory.capacity’ as an integer, and set it to 4096.
3. Close and restart Firefox.

I have not tested the above on other distros so your mileage may vary.

Also check out this site.

Canon PIXMA MP258 with openSUSE 11.3 and Ubuntu

I bought one of those fancy all-in-one printer/scanner for my father recently. As a dyed to the core Geeko acolyte, naturally I installed openSUSE 11.3 on his new Dell Inspiron.

Goggling yielded no definitive results for openSUSE and MP258. Instead I found an excellent how-to for Ubuntu, RPM-based distros and Arch Linux (32-bit) here. I tried the excellent but lengthy instructions on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and it worked fabulously. Note, you gotta have good and stable Internet connection for Ubuntu 10.04 as it will require getting some additional packages and accessing a git repo.

For openSUSE 11.3:

1. Install libpng12 (zypper in libpng12)
   
2. Download and install the RPMs for both the scanner and printer functions. Note that each tarball has 4 files, two each for 32 and 64 bits; choose the correct one for your platform.
   
3. Goto Yast -> Hardware -> Printers to check for correct printer installed
4. Goto Yast -> Hardware -> Scanner to select the one with the word PIXMA.
5. Good to go!

Next stop, trying it on my SLED 11 SP1 64-bit.

Eric