KDE 4.6 RC2 released! (Final RC)

KDE team announced the FINAL RC for KDE4.6 and is available for download.

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Enable mod_rewrite on openSUSE 11.3 [Linux]

Last night i installed vanilla forum the latest version(2.0.16), but before that i got into trouble like ‘cannot install vanilla forum because the database host provided is wrong’ some thing like that type of error. Which was basically by .htaccess file. I finally installed it but after some time figuring out the mod_rewrite ghost. Actually it’s quite easy to enable it, there was one thing missing, which took some of my time to figure it out. Lets start how to enable the ghost.

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My Desktop Screen Shots [KDE4.5.3 with openSUSE 11.3]

Nothing new except some minor changes here and there.

OS: openSUSE 11.3 64bit kernel 2.6.34.7-0.5

Desktop theme: Glassified

Taskbar: Smooth tasks

Checkout the screen shots here.

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LibreOffice -An Alternative to OpenOffice-

Most of you may already read about the forking of OpenOffice.org into the Document Foundation and LibreOffice. As it’s still fresh and new in the market, so i guess not many many users are using it. A week ago i give it a try and was impressed. Not much new things over OpenOffice, but still things are quite new ATM.

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KDE4.5.3 is here…

KDE team announced the 4.5.3 release, which comes with bug fixes and translation updates.

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KDE4.5 Stable Repos for openSUSE Available NOW!

Great news from openSUSE team, stable repositories for KDE4.5 are announced.

openSUSE have now Stable Repositories for KDE 4.5 . Previously if one were using Factory Repositories for KDE 4.5, can disable/delete all that repositories like main and extra.

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Screens of KDE 4.5.1 and openSUSE 11.3

My current desktop screen shots with spec listed below.

OS : openSUSE 11.3 64bit

Desktop : KDE 4.5.1

Desktop Theme : Glassified

Color Scheme : Oxygen Platinum

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KDE4.5.1 released, Upgrade in openSUSE 11.3

1st day of September, 22nd of Ramadan and here we are with the 1st post for the month. KDE team proudly announced the new release of KDE4.5 (4.5.1). There are a lot of bugs fixes since 4.5.0 release. One can read the changelog for more details.

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Google: Gmail Video chat plugin for Linux + Realtime Search

I think, you all maybe already know about the Google recent updates which are/were rolled out to Gmail, search engine and some others.

The main focus is on Gmail, the hot news is the Google Voice integration to Gmail and now you can call from Gmail to any Landline or mobile service any time from your pc with great voice quality. You didn't check it yet, give it a try then..

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Backup and Restore MySQL database in Linux via terminal

Personally i think, that Linux terminal is the strongest application/tool whatever you name it. Yesterday i was restoring a MySQL database size of 5MB via MySQL Administrator application, and it crashed several times. Actually i use it because the easy way to have GUI with few clicks, but that doesn’t mean i never used terminal for such things. But this crashing made me think of this powerful tool to use and use it forever..

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KDE4.5.0 released, install/upgrade in openSUSE 11.3

KDE4.5.0 is released with some major 16,022 bug fixes and 172,3 new features.

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How to install Firefox 4 beta(s) in openSUSE 11.3

Firefox 4 is in beta stage at the moment. Beta 2 is available for use. There are some good new features available and more to come, i hope you guys already heard about it if not read this page. Here i am going to guide you how to install it in openSUSE 11.3.

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Screen shots of openSUSE 11.3 and KDE4.5

Some of the fresh screen shots from my desktop system using KDE4.5 as main desktop environment on openSUSE 11.3.

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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.

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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.

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