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My OpenSUSE Configuration Articles about how I have configured my OpenSUSE Linux instance to run on MacBook Pro under Parallels.

Setting up Aptana Studio

Posted 11-06-2010 at 02:07 PM by Focused4Success

Aptana Studio comes packaged in two different ways:

An standalone executable
An Eclipse plug-in

I tried the Eclipse plug-in because I plan to use Eclipse for C/C++ development. But I didn't like the way it worked as much as using Aptana Studio standalone. I also plan to run OpenSUSE in the background and access it using X-Windows from the Mac.

I used the following procedure to install Aptana Studio:

Download the .zip from the Aptana website: Aptana's website
Unzip it.
Start

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Setting up my Web Development Environment based on Aptana Studio

Posted 11-06-2010 at 01:14 PM by Focused4Success

I really like using Aptana Studio for web development. I started using Aptana in 2008 when I wrote a web application for the original iPhone. Later I used it at work when I converted the embedded web server in our product from a traditional architecture to and Ajax architecture. That's when I learned about jQuery.... very, very cool. Something to write about later.

The reason I need a Web Development Environment is because I'm designing a website for my wife's art work. First, I went...

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Setting up my Webserver using LAMP

Posted 11-06-2010 at 10:16 AM by Focused4Success
Updated 11-07-2010 at 07:04 AM by Focused4Success (fixed error in php.ini)

The reason I started running OpenSUSE is to setup a development environment to build a LAMP based website. I installed OpenSUSE and setup Aptana Studio. Then I setup LAMP.

OpenSUSE has a pretty nice software installation manager. I wasn't aware of it until I read this article: SDB:Linux Apache MySQL PHP. It has a really nice description of how to install everything required to setup a PHP based Webserver with a MySQL backend. That what LAMP means: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
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Time Synchronization

Posted 11-06-2010 at 08:55 AM by Focused4Success
Updated 11-06-2010 at 08:58 AM by Focused4Success

I use NTP to keep my clock synchronized. The method employed works only if the computer has access to the Internet on a consistent basis, which is usually the case for my computer, so this method works fine.

Two steps are required:

Configuring the NTP client to keep the clock up to date
Making sure the system time is set properly

NTP is configured via the following procedure:

Click on the Application Launcher
Click on the Applications tab
Click on the System tab
Scroll

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Full Screen Mode on a MacBook Pro

Posted 11-06-2010 at 08:09 AM by Focused4Success
Updated 11-12-2010 at 09:35 PM by Focused4Success (changed video mode.)

I use VGA Mode 0x377 to run OpenSUSE in full screen mode on my MacBook Pro. This is not ideal, because the Linux screen resolution is 1200x900x16, but, it pretty close to the LCD resolution which is 1440x900x32. This avoids the scroll bar that Parallels will create when using higher resolution than the monitor can handle.

After changing my video memory to 16MB, I am able to select 0x33d: 1440x900, 16 bits. (24-bit modes cause the X Server to crash).

The screen mode is configured...

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