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Animated Grub Splash Screen

Posted 12-05-2009 at 10:49 AM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 02-09-2010 at 07:37 PM by raju.mopidevi

In a openSUSE linux system we can edit OS selection Screen with animated penguins.

Animated Penguin GRUB splash Screen

Procedure

Create a temporary new directory in your home folder. (You can create it anywhere, but for simplicity, I will say the path as the home folder and the directory name as new).
Now copy the file message from the /boot folder in this directory using the command, ‘cp /boot/message new’.
Now change into the new directory,

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Playing video's in openSUSE

Posted 12-06-2009 at 05:12 PM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 01-22-2010 at 06:38 AM by raju.mopidevi

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Default installation of DVD pack openSUSE won't able to play video's of formats *.avi, *.vob, *.flv, *.wmv .... etc.

follow this to install mplayer and play video's in it.

TO install the codecs needed to watch DVDs, handle MP3s, etc. follow this.

1. YaST -> “Software” -> “Software Repositories”
2. Click “Add”
3. Select “Community Repositories”
4. Select “Packman Repository”...

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Patch and Compile Kernel with Custom Boot Logo

Posted 12-18-2009 at 04:54 AM by ~sHyLoCk~
Updated 12-21-2009 at 11:08 AM by ~sHyLoCk~

Tags boot, compile, custom, kernel, slackware

Originally Posted in my BLOG.

Unlike every other distro, Slackware doesn't brand anything. Everything is vanilla. So when you boot, you see the original linux penguin logo at the top of your screen.

Download the latest kernel source from kernel.org. I'll be using here kernel 2.6.32 source and 2.6.32.1 patch. So you understand that you don't need to download the whole kernel source every-time a...

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Running Microsoft2007 Office in Linux

Posted 01-16-2010 at 07:59 AM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 01-17-2010 at 04:35 AM by raju.mopidevi

Tags ms office in linux, wine

Installing Microsoft Office 2007

To install Microsoft Office 2007 the first thing you will need to

get latest copy of WINE
get is a copy of CrossOver Games

After you have a copy of CrossOver Games on hand install it.
Then go to ~/cxgames/lib/wine and copy the rpcrt4.dll.so to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
you will need to re-name the pointer rpcrt4.dll that is currently in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to *.bak
Re-name the rpcrt4.dll.so to

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important directories in linux

Posted 02-20-2010 at 06:19 AM by raju.mopidevi

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Different distributions have different directory structures, despite attempts at standardization such as the the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) organization.
Important directories
/bin - essential UNIX commands such as ls, etc. Should contain all binaries needed to boot the system or run it in single-user mode

/boot - files used during booting and possibly the kernel itself are stored here

/dev - contains device files for various devices on system

/etc...

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