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openSUSE 11.2: Getting Started!

Posted 11-18-2009 at 12:12 AM by ~sHyLoCk~
Updated 12-04-2009 at 07:55 AM by ~sHyLoCk~

Originally posted in my BLOG.

First things first, let me once again tell you I've become a huge fan of openSUSE. it's absolutely everything I look for in a Desktop OS.

Now I'm gonna write my experience down. A few slight quirks, which was not SUSE's fault but since I'm new to it [ well I used it a year ago, but that was only for a month], it was mainly because I wasn't aware of SUSE's way...

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Linux incompatible with HP Compaq dc7900?

Posted 11-17-2009 at 08:06 PM by Anemocracy

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Originally Posted by irishbitte

Have you thought about running linux as a Virtual Machine? It means you can mess up plenty and still start from scratch, especially if you 'need' your current windows installation. I suggest running a linux in VirtualBox and seeing how you get on. Also means someone could help you through it using logmein.com or something similar.

Thank you, I'll give that a shot and report back

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enable mp3 support in K3b - ubuntu 9.10

Posted 11-17-2009 at 07:35 PM by jkzfixme

Tags k3b, mp3, ubuntu 9.10, unsupported format

I recently took the plunge and upgraded my daily driver box to the latest greatest. There is nothing ground breaking about the install other than the speed of ext 4 so I wont bother going into that aspect. However one thing that threw me was K3b. When burning a cd for my daughter it kept coming up with

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Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format:

It has been so long since I did a fresh install in a desktop environment as opposed to a server that I totally forgot about the legal...

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bash diff2html compare differences in 2 files in html

Posted 11-17-2009 at 02:43 PM by roybal (Subjectively)

diff2html is a free and open source utility that uses the output of diff(1) to graphically compare two files in html.

diff2html

The whole thing is written in bash 3.2

/bithead

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