A general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project.
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What should I expect if I switch from Ubuntu to openSuse
As probably most of you I have been long using Ubuntu. I'm not an expert, but I have been using different distros until I settled with Ubuntu.
I started using SuSE 5.x, Conectiva (that later became ...
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difference between Fedora's, openSUSE's, and Mandriva's initscripts?
I'm trying to figure out how the init system works for these distributions, but they seem to use different layouts... How do each of them work?
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How to write startup script for systemd
I have 2 graphics cards on my laptop, one is IGP and another discrete, I've written a shell script to to turn off discrete graphics card.
How I can convert it to systemd script, to runt at start-up?
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Add item to inittab on OpenSuse 12.1
I am currently working on a project which needs to be added to inittab so that the program loads during startup.
The program that I am trying to start is a c# mono application. I have created a ...
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How to install exactly the same packages on another computer in openSUSE?
Another computer can be as well virtual machine. I cannot make disk clone because of hardware differences and settings.
I have computer A, installed and running, I also have computer B. I will ...
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Xen on openSUSE 11.4
I have done a few installs of openSUSE to use as a Xen dom0 and have not got it working yet. These are the steps I followed:
Installed openSUSE 11.4 from Live KDE CD.
Installed all updates via ...
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What is reliable, autoconnecting wifi manager?
openSUSE 11.4, one wifi connection with static IP.
Requirements:
after autologin connection should be automatically established with defined static IP
after connection dropped, manager should try ...
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Is 32bit still preferable to 64bit? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I install 32 or 64 bit?
I want to migrate from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE, and I need to decide between the 32bit and the 64bit versions.
6 years ago, when I purchased a ...
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Easily switching over to a dynamic window manager from KDE
I've been using KDE on Opensuse for some time now and I feel like improving performance and using the most of my dual screens.
I discovered tiling window managers and thought it would be a cool thing ...
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Configure dwm to automatically open applications
I've just got dwm configured to my liking in terms of colors and tags. I'm just looking for one more thing: the ability to have certain applications automatically start with dwm on certain tags.
For ...
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Diskless workstations
For various reasons I need a setup with one server, and two diskless workstations.
The workstations are to be "fat clients", which means I want to enable them to use their own CPU, memory, etc, for ...
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How can you get console backgrounds for Arch Linux?
I have tested out openSUSE and found that the tty1 is a bit different from other systems as the tty has got a background. I know that Knoppix has a tux penguin for each core the computer has, but I'm ...
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Allow su without password for users in a particular Active Directory group when using pam_winbind
I know on my Gentoo system, the /etc/pam.d/su file comes with the following commented out:
auth sufficient pam_wheel.so use_uid trust
Which allows a user to su to root without a password as ...
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Low battery freezes laptop
I have a laptop Lenovo G575. MS Windows works without any problems on it, but with Linux, it freezes during login or up to 10 minutes after power on. I have tried Ubuntu, Fedora 15 and 16, Fedora 16 ...
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Disable loading of Touchpad
I am currently trying to fix an Advent 4211 Netbook (a rebranded MSI Wind) - and whenever I use the touchpad the mouse (even an external USB mouse) stops working - when I run xev it does not register ...
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How to make grub work again after drive reassignment?
My config: opensuse 11.4, boot partition at pendrive and hard drives with partitions sda1, sda2, sdb1.
Today I changed chassis for my computer, and by mistake I attached second drive to SATA 3 ...
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How do I install mercurial on openSUSE?
Hi
I need to install mercurial on my opensuse but I couldn't find the rpm so I just download mercurial.rpm and wanted to install it by using:
sudo zypper ...
but it said to need python 2.6 so I ...
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Yast is unable to access software repositories even though URLs are accessible in browser and system date is correct
I am using Yast on OpenSuse 12.1. When trying to install packages from the software repositories, I get an error that the repo cannot be accessed because the network is unreachable:
Download ...
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How to install patterns and packages at the same time?
How can I install package patterns (e.g. "C/C++ development tools") and packages (e.g. "mercurial") at the same time? Currently, two commands are necessary; for example, the installation instructions ...
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How to create an initrd image on OpenSuSE linux?
/usr/src/linux-3.2.1 # make install
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
sh /usr/src/linux-3.2.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.2.1-12-desktop arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
System.map ...
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btrfs on openSUSE not releasing disk space
I have an openSUSE 12.1 install on my main desktop running with btrfs filesystem for root (/boot is ext4). I started having issues today with KDE informing me that disk space is almost all gone and ...
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Custom hotkeys in dwm
I'm trying to create an array of simple hotkeys on my desktop, running OpenSuse with dwm. Things like:
Ctrl+E /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Can this be configured from within dwm? If not is there an ...
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YaST2: Command-line equivalents to GUI naviagtion
I'd like to automate some interactions with yast2. I assume I can do everything on the command line that I can do in the curses interface, but I'm not sure how to figure out what the commands are.
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Multibooting FreeBSD and other Linux distros
Long story short: Have one laptop, need to multiboot FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well as a number of Linux distros.
Which one do you think should go first? FreeBSD offers a bootMgr, but I'm not sure how it ...
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error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
anisha@linux-y3pi:~/> google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
anisha@linux-y3pi:~/> locate ...
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How can I run Yast with X and ssh?
I have an openSUSE machine which I log on to with ssh -X. I don't want to log in as root but I do want to run graphical Yast. Inside the ssh session sudo starts the console version of Yast. However, ...
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When networkmanager is used, OpenSuSe gets stuck during boot for 10 minutes
I have this problem on all machines that I every installed (different configurations, different geographical locations, even different OpenSuSe versions) and it's extremely irritating.
When I turn on ...
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Why no other distros/spins based on openSuSE?
So... I've been looking at 'returning' to openSuSE after a long absence (parted ways back in the 7.x/8x time frame). One thing that kind of jumped out at me all of a sudden was that for a relatively ...
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Cannot add ubuntu to the suse grub
I am running SuSE 11.2. I also have windows and Ubuntu on the same machine. The problem is that I cannot get Ubuntu to show as a boot option on SuSE's grub. The Ubuntu partition is on /dev/sda5. Here ...
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GDM hangs when home directory is inaccessible
I have setup a OpenSUSE 12.3 workstation with SSO through KRB5 and LDAP.
This works pretty smoothly up to the point where GDM isn't very happy about that fact that it cannot access user's home ...
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Too big delay with xscreensaver on wrong password in OpenSUSE 12.2
There is too big delay when logging in with xscreensaver in OpenSUSE 12.2
--- Actual delay is 10 seconds, but not found anywhere in configs
Already done:
checked pam timeout in login.defs (3 ...
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Plymouth keeps quitting
I'm setting up a customised single-purpose Linux image. It's based on OpenSUSE, and it uses Plymouth to display some nice graphics during startup and shutdown. The trouble is, for reasons beyond my ...
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How to repartition pendrive again?
My 8GB pendrive originally contained only a FAT partition, but I tried to install OpenSUSE 11.4 on it. I created a 200MB partition for /boot and the rest was for the root partition.
Despite the ...
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How to disable the trash can in KDE
From what I gather, the idea of a "trash can" is of Windows descent, and was to make a user's life easier. However, when I go to delete a file, I don't hit delete unless I know I don't need it and ...
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How to run my script after SuSE finished booting up?
I want my server to notify me (via growl) that the (re)booting finished. I have the php file that sends out the growl ready but I do not know what file I should add the line in.
What file I need to ...
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Unable to mount NTFS partition from user account
I'm trying to mount a Windows ntfs partition on openSuse 11.4. When I mount it using the root account (either directly or via sudo) it mounts without problems. But when I try mounting it without any ...
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Is Open LDAP meant to work with the passwd command for Linux?
I've implemented an Open LDAP server in OpenSuSE 11.2 via the YaST GUI. I'm having success logging in from the local machine and other machines via LDAP. I am able to change LDAP user passwords via
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How to check from a command line that network is reachable?
I want to send a growl to myself after SuSE server finishes the boot process. I got this message socket_sendto(): unable to write to socket [101]: Network is unreachable in.
How can I check from ...
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How to disable timeout of password prompt for partition decryption during boot?
I have a computer running OpenSUSE 12.1, 64-bit, default install.
How it works currently:
I turn on the computer
It goes through the boot process
At some point during boot, I am asked for password ...
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How to figure out the exact package name of a `.so` file, so that it can be installed through `zypper`?
anisha@linux-dopx:~/tarBalls/qtFlash/bin> ./flashscript
./flashscript: error while loading shared libraries: libqtnmedia.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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How to start plasma-desktop from SSH-console on desktop session?
I killed KDE's plasma-desktop on a openSUSE 11.2 machine, because it was eating too much CPU. How can I restart it via SSH or another tty session? On the affected computer there is only shown a ...
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Package managers Update versus Upgrade?
sudo zypper update
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
amarok bluedevil choqok cln digikam digikam-lang GeoIP gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs ...
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Focus “mouse” or “sloppy” do the same thing on gnome-shell
My problem is actually very annoying.
I am very familiar with the mouse focus but right now it's not working.
Inside gnome-tweak-tool the last option "windows" has the "windows focus mode" switch. ...
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configure dhcp client without accepting nameserver entries
I am trying to configre my openSuSE 12.1 machine as DHCP client, but especially do not want it to set the name server entries to /etc/resolv.conf it has got from DHCP server.
Can I do it on the ...
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Playing mkv files
I'm having trouble playing mkv files in Kaffeine, or any other player on openSUSE, which generally doesn't come with this type of codec.
I've already installed a mkv codec that I found in the ...
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What is the best way to restraint/secure a workstation?
I want to prevent users to copy on usb devices and some others actions.
I was thinking of using polkit. Do you think it is a good solution or does someone know some alternatives ?
EDIT:
I also need ...
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Hotmail Folders
Is there a linux mail client I can use that will let me see my folders in Hotmail and persist the changes back to the server? Kind of like the Hotmail connector for Outlook, or Windows Live Mail?
I'm ...
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How do I “fix” Flash?
I’m brand new to linux and, coming from Windows, I sometimes find it quite daunting. I managed to install openSUSE and after much trial and error I discovered how to install some software, and ...
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Can't run certain fullscreen applications
I have a dual screen setup which I've configured by running this command at startup:
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --right-of DVI-0
I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 with dwm as my window manager. I can ...
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How to disable root account on openSUSE?
Is there a way to disable the root account completely on openSUSE so you can administer your system like the way you would do in Ubuntu?
