Posted by admin on October 22nd, 2010
In openSUSE 11.3, laptops installed with the BCM4311/BCM4312/BCM4321/BCM4322 Wireless LAN cards like the Dell Inspiron 1525 do not have drivers installed and hence do not work out of the box. In Dell this Wireless card is labelled as “Dell 1395 Wireless card”. The broadcom-wl package which contain Broadcom’s IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom’s BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware doesn’t seem to work.
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Posted in openSUSE 11.3, Wireless | 4 Comments »
Tags: b43, bcm4311, bcm4312, bcm4321, bcm4322, lspci, network controller, opensuse, Wireless
Posted by admin on June 15th, 2010
Google Chrome is the new cool faster browser that has been around and making news for a while but only on Windows until recently they finally released the Linux version of the browser. With google chrome browser slowly gaining traction and acceptance among general internet users, the browser has also evolved from being a simple raw fast browser with features like themes and extensions that made Firefox so very popular and more web app integration.
Posted in Internet & Browser | 9 Comments »
Tags: browser, firefox, Google, internet, linux, lsb, opensuse, RPM
Posted by admin on May 10th, 2010
RedNotebook is a free opensource Diary and Journal software that can help you keep track of your notes, tips, tiny information you tend to forget, images etc. RedNotebook is simple and easy to use where it has a calendar navigation, customizable templates and word clouds.
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Posted in Office & Productivity | 8 Comments »
Tags: diary, export, html, journal, linux, opensource, opensuse, rednotebook, YaST
Posted by admin on March 25th, 2010
A quick calendar on the roadmap for openSUSE 11.3 release. With the openSUSE 11.3 milestone 4 released today, the next release Milestone 5 is expected on the 5th April 2010 and the final stable release for public use is expected to be released on the 15th July, 2010.
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Posted in openSUSE 11.3 | No Comments »
Tags: linux, opensuse, roadmap
Posted by admin on March 25th, 2010
As scheduled, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 has been released. You may now download and beta test the version keeping in mind this is still in development and not ready yet to upgrade your existing stable version.
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Posted in openSUSE 11.3 | No Comments »
Tags: Amarok, conntrack, cups, GNOME, kde, linux, LXDE, mono, network-manager, openoffice, opensuse, Python, samba
