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• Mar

  02

  2007

  Upgrade Notes & Thoughts, openSUSE 10.2

  Overall, I’m satisfied with the improvements in openSUSE 10.2 as compared to SuSE 10.0. A “.0” release is always a bit of a bumpy ride, and 10.2 has certainly cleaned up a lot of the problems and rough edges. I was disenchanted enough with 10.0 to load Fedora Core 6, but after a brief trial […]

  posted in SUSE, SysAdmin by Bozzie

• Feb

  28

  2007

  Active Mode FTP Blocked, openSUSE 10.2

  I believe it is a firewall within openSUSE that is blocking the ftp messages from the remote hosts. “ftp -A -d ftp.anysite.com” works fine on SuSE 10.0 but hangs under openSUSE 10.2. All efforts to find the cause within openSUSE have come to naught.

  posted in SUSE, SysAdmin by Bozzie

• Feb

  26

  2007

  KDE Checklist, openSUSE 10.2

  Configuration checklist for a newly created KDE login under openSUSE 10.2, installed with a 1600×1200 display. Personal Settings (formerly KDE Control Center): Appearance & Themes, Fonts: fonts all size 10, except Desktop, was 11 now 10. In the past, KDE has changed these on me when I plugged in a new monitor and rebooted. A […]

  posted in SUSE, SysAdmin by Bozzie

• Feb

  24

  2007

  Configuring Apache using YaST, openSUSE 10.2

  Configure Apache2 on openSUSE 10.2 with YaST instead of editing conf files. YaST is very efficient for initial Apache installation and for adding, enabling, and disabling server modules.

  posted in Apache, opensuse, Subversion, SUSE, SysAdmin, YaST by Bozzie

• Feb

  13

  2007

  Java Plugin for Firefox, AMD Athlon, openSUSE

  AMD Athlon openSUSE users get no Java Firefox plugin with the default installation. Here are instructions to install a working Firefox Java plugin combination for openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 using only YaST and “official” openSUSE repository sites.

  posted in Firefox, Java, opensuse, SysAdmin by Bozzie