Posted by admin on 9th August 2008
1-click Install feature simplifies installing packages in openSUSE. The Yast Metapackages (.ymp) can be simply clicked from websites to download and automatically start with YaST Package Manager and automatically download required repositories and the packages and dependencies.
openSUSE 11.0 and openSUSE 10.3 by default support 1-click install to install packages using the YaST2 Metapackage handler. To add the 1-click install functionality in openSUSE 10.2 try the following:
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Posted by admin on 21st June 2008
The long awaited openSUSE 11.0 has finally arrived. Here we can see a step by step installation procedure for openSUSE 11.0 with the KDE 4.0 desktop environment. The openSUSE 11.0 installation wizard is completely re-written with simple and nice graphics along with an improved and enhanced YAST2 intsaller.
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Posted by admin on 21st June 2008
Just back from holidays in India and there you go the heat is still ON. OpenSUSE 11.0 is finally released with great new features bulit-in. openSUSE 11.0 sports a great new look and packs a punch with latest updated packages of all the known famous opensource software.
openSUSE 11.0 offers the choice of GNOME2.2, KDE 4.0, KDE 3.5 and Xfce desktop. With more than 200 new features and a lot of enhancement improvements lets have a quick look at the features in openSUSE,
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Posted by admin on 13th May 2008
As most of us know, Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL and Unix. Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator for Linux which acts as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux thereby eliminating the need for Windows and allows users to run Windows based applications on Linux. Wine is completely comprises of non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris and other UNIX versions.
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