AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and is more than a simple ISO mount software.<a href="http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/acetoneiso2-a-full-feature-rich-imageiso-tool-for-opensuse/" alt="Acetoneiso2 ISO tool for openSUSE">Read at Susegeek.com</a>...

Since this blog comes with my LQ account, I think I'll use it to blog about my linux experiences.

I recently finished getting Gentoo (more or less) set up on an IBM T40 laptop. I'm using KDE 4.1 on it, and it runs pretty smoothly, given how old the hardware is.

I just updated to GCC 4.3 on that machine, which is exciting for no real good reason. GCC 4.2 isn't even listed as stable yet in Gentoo, but I wanted a more recent version that has better P6 optimization (the...

SMILE, Slideshow Maker In Linux Environnement is a free opensource slideshow creating tool for GNU/Linux, although it also works on Mac OS/X. SMILE helps to create video slideshows from images, that can be played on almost all medias. The numerous features and the simplicity of use make it possible to create dynamic and rich slideshows in just a few clicks, without having to worry about technical issues or complicated settings.<a href="http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/smile-slideshow-video-creator-for-linux-in-opensuse-110/"...

I switched (again) back to Ubuntu. The ease of installing programs and the large repository of programs to install makes the distro just so damn convenient. The only thing I really, really dislike about it is I can’t log in as root…oh and Xorg (or maybe compiz?) crashes on me more often than I would like (sometimes so bad I have to use skinny elephants). I think once I buy some DVD’s I’ll try out Fedora 9.
But on the plus side I really messed up my windows partition. Somehow when installing...

Converting a PDF file into an HTML or a XML file has been made easy by a small useful utility called PDFTOHTML. PdftoHTml is a Xpdf based tool which can convert PDF files to HTML or XML format. PDFTOHTML also supports encrypted files and support for images in the PDF file by converting to PNG images files. <a href="http://www.susegeek.com/general/how-to-convert-pdf-files-to-html-or-xml-files-in-opensuse/" alt="PDFTOHTML in openSUSE">Read at SuSEGeek.com</a>