OpenSUSE community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has been caught out spreading misinformation about the patent deal that Microsoft signed with his employer, Novell, a little over three years ago.
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Less OpenSUSE, More Microsoft Software at Novell
Microsoft focus at Novell is revisited now that SaX2 is put aside and FOSDEM gives Mono a room
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Firebird database is available in top major linux distros
All major free distro have now latest Firebird stable version (2.1.3) available in their official repositories.
Here is the list of where firebird 2.1.3 is included or can be installed
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Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.
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Choosing A Top Distro
This 13 page course features reviews and comparisons of 11 top Linux distributions examining history, category, desktop, help resources, my opinions and more for each distro. Written from a windows user perspective, this course brings Linux newbies a comparison of top Linux distributions and likely choices through numerous basic desktop videos, reviews, and a final knowledge test.
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Fedora Leaves Mono Out, OpenSUSE Has Second Thoughts, and So Should Ubuntu
Mono loses ground as it gets increasingly removed and Ubuntu should follow suit (regarding Mono inclusion), argue some of its own users
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Unrest in OpenSUSE Forums
OpenSUSE departures noted, Novell defends its OpenSUSE trademark
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Get your software into Linux the easy way
It's always been possible to port your application into any Linux distribution. All you had to do was know how to compile and link your program with each distribution's libraries and then package it up in either DEB or RPM package. Easy! Right? Right??
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xclip - Copy contents from command line to X clipboard in openSUSE
xclip is a command line interface to the X11 selections (X11 clipboard). It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup. xclip reads from Standard Input or from one or more files and copy it to the X11 clipboard making it available to the X applications.
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ntop in openSUSE to probe & monitor Network Traffic
ntop is a free opensource network traffic probe that shows the network usage. ntop is based on libpcap and can run on Linux/Unix and Windows operating system. ntop provides a very easy to use a web access to navigate through ntop traffic information and get a dump of the network status.
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Grisbi Personal Finance Manager in openSUSE
Grisbi is a freee opensource personal accounting software for Linux and Windows released under GPL. Grisbi is a simple and intuitive software for basic use, and still very powerful once setup.
Read more »Review - OpenSUSE 11.1
I decided to install OpenSUSE this weekend onto my new Maxtor 4 USB hard drive. I've used the live CD before with KDE 4.1, but didn't like not having the option to have different backgrounds on the multiple desktops. Supposedly, this option and others will be available in KDE 4.2. So, instead of waiting, I decided to install KDE 3.5.10. Here's how it went.....
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I love openSUSE
I’m a convert from Ubuntu, after several years with that distribution of Linux, and the difference between Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenSuse 11.1 is night and day.
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Why is OpenSUSE Looking for Sponsors?
OpenSUSE downloads domain is down for a long time, Novell is not exactly helping
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SUSE is Slowing Down
OpenSUSE release cycle changed from 6 months to 8 months following layoffs
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