Programming and Linux

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Upgrade to 11.3 via zypper dup through Terminal - openSUSE -

If you want to install from scratch (new and fresh installation), this guide is for you. In this post, i will guide how to upgrade to 11.3 from previous versions mainly like 11.2 through zypper dup command.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Install/Upgrade to KDE4.5 in openSUSE 11.3

Few days back i had written a post for KDE4.4.5 in openSUSE 11.3 and mentioned that KDE4.5 will be pushed to factory later, and it just happened. Now factory repos have KDE4.5 instead of KDE4.4.5.

For more read this post.

MMA

Monday, July 19, 2010

openSUSE 11.3 installation (dual boot with windows 7)

openSUSE 11.3 is released and many new users will be looking for some simple guide to have a dual boot. I am going to guide you in this article step by step with images showing the executed step that how to install openSUSE with windows 7.

Full guide...

MMA

Thursday, July 15, 2010

openSUSE 11.3 is OUT!

openSUSE 11.3 is released a while ago. Release announcement:

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Some features of 11.3:

* Kernel 2.6.34
* KDE4.4.4
* Gnome 2.30.1

For more check out this post.

MMA

Monday, July 12, 2010

Zypper usage

openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and going to release in couple of days. So why not lets our hands dirty a little by learning some thing and try out these on a testing system. What is zypper?

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

MySQL: create user and database, assign privileges and user to database

Do you want to create a separate user for a database which only some users/user can access. Want to create user who can only have access to databases you assign them. Then this tutorial is for you.

Friday, June 11, 2010

KDE4.5 Beta 2 Screen Shots -openSUSE 11.2-

Desktop-with-widgets

Konqueror-view

Dolphin

Change-wallpaper-new-look

Terminal-with-top-running

System-settings-new-look

Network-names-missing

After-logout-wallpaper-and-widgets-missing

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Install urdu fonts in Linux (Ubuntu & openSUSE)

Ok, this was not that easy stuff if you don’t know how to do it and where to find it. I mean 1st fonts, then installation or copying to the right directory. Websites like bbcurdu.com and urdupoint.com are common Urdu news sites which i am sure most of the Urdu reading people will read for the latest news and articles. These two websites use different fonts for rendering for browsers like Firefox and Chrome. I am not using any Urdu keyboard here and not using translation for the whole system, its just how to read Urdu websites in Linux, so please this tutorial is just for installing fonts system wide for browsers in Linux not a language pack etc. I will focus on two distros at the moment, Ubuntu and openSUSE. Ubuntu 9.04 and openSUSE 11.2(KDE4.4.3) will be used for the installation with Firefox 3.6.3, Firefox 3.0.19, Chrome 6.0.400.0.