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
Icons : H2O
Style : Oxygen
Fonts : Droid Sans and DejaVu Sans
Desktop Effects : Kwin
Window Decorations : Oxygen
Wallpaper : Green Tea
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openSUSE team announced the new release of openSUSE distro tagged openSUSE 11.4.
This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update.
Some of the features:
Next Milestone due date is 30th September.
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Hi all,
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.
Today, KDE updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1, a new releases bringing a number of important bugfixes on top of 4.5.0. 4.5.0 was released only three weeks ago and receives monthly service updates. 4.5.1 is the first in this series of bugfix and translation updates. Those releases improve stability and the user experience further, while not bringing major new features or bigger changes to the user interface. 4.5.1 is a safe upgrade for anybody running 4.5.0 or earlier versions. 4.5.1 has been dubbed “Cronjob” as it is one of the regular releases published by KDE, just like a cronjob does.
The next KDE SC 4.5 update is scheduled for 30th September. The next major release, 4.6.0 is planned for January, 26th 2011.
Are you on openSUSE 11.3? and haven’t updated to latest 4.5.1 yet, no worries, one can install/upgrade using this previous install/upgrade post which i wrote when 4.5.0 was released in early August.
Install/upgrade to KDE4.5.1 via KDE4.5.0 Factory repos.
Note: While following the above post, it was written for KDE4.5.0 that time so don’t worry factory repos of 11.3 are updated with 4.5.1 few hours back. Just follow the exact steps in the tutorial and you will be fine with the install/upgrade process.
Have something to say, use the comment form.
Good luck!
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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..
Another hot recent news is the realtime search updates within Google search page. You may not miss this post.
A week ago, they released voice/video plugin for Linux, this is really a great news for we Linux geeks… But some of us still have to wait for a while, because they didn’t rolled out the RPM(Fedora, openSUSE etc etc) yet, it is available in the form of DEB(Debain, Ubuntu,Linux mint etc etc) at the moment and some users who tested it commented positive about it, that means it works well.
Some other news one can find on their respective blogs. One can read reviews on different sites like ZdNet etc.
Update-1 (31-08-2010): Are you using openSUSE, an RPM is available for this plugin. Read this thread for more details and installation steps. Download the RPM from the link provided in the thread.
Update-2 (02-09-2010): RPM’s are available for fedora/openSUSE etc distros now, Download page .
Happy reading!
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Hi,
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..
So lets have backup our database 1st via terminal.
1- The 1st thing you need to do is open terminal(konsole).
2- mysqldump will be used to backup the database we want to.
mysqldump -u Username -p databasename > backup.sql
Username = this is your database username
databasename = the name of your database which you want to backup
backup.sql = the filename for your database backup
The text in red should be changed according to your specific MySQL/database details. You can also give path to the filename where you want to save the backup file like: /home/mian/backup.sql.
Now lets run it in real form:
mysqldump -u admin -p storedb > /home/mian/storedb.sql
By entering this command and hitting Enter key will ask you MySQL password for user admin. By doing so will backup storedb database to the path given.
Now lets restore storedb database.
1- I assume that terminal is open.
2- Run this command in terminal:
mysql -u admin -p storedb < /home/mian/storedb.sql
This command is not much different except we don’t have mysqldump this time. Which means we are not dumping any database, just to restore one. It will also ask for the password for user admin to proceed.
If you want to run bash script to do the job for you by cron at specific times, i had written this script in past, but didn’t get time to update it regularly, but still is enough to do the backup archives with no manual running from command line.
Have fun!
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Hi all,
KDE4.5.0 is released with some major 16,022 bug fixes and 172,3 new features.
KDE today celebrates its semi-annual release event, making available new releases of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Development Platform and a large number of applications available in their 4.5.0 versions.
KDE4.5.0 announcement and features.
It is available in Factory repo for openSUSE. This post will cover it for openSUSE 11.3.
1- Open YaST and go to software repositories and add the following repos with any name you want.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory/
After adding the above repos, close software repositories module.
2-Two type of upgrades options you have.
a- Open Software management in YaST, and choose Repositories tab. Select the newly added repo and click on ‘switch system packages‘.
Note: If you want to install and use plasmoid networkmanagement instead of Knetworkmanager, search for the keyword ‘plasmoid-networkmanagement’ without quotes in the search box and choose it for installation. It will ask for the deinstallation of Knetworkmanager, choose to deinstall it. If you don’t want to install this plasmoid then simply skip this.
Do the same for community/Extra repo, and click Accept.
b- If you wana do it the terminal way, here you go. Open terminal, and become root by typing su – and enter your root password. Now type:
zypper dup
This will upgrade the whole system wide packages. If you don’t want that, refer to step a above.
If you want to install and use plasmoid networkmanagement instead of Knetworkmanager:
zypper in plasmoid-networkmanagement
3- After upgrading, reboot your PC and you are there with KDE4.5.0 latest packages.
Good Luck!
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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. openSUSE has its own repo for it, which updates from time to time upon new packages. So lets start with YaST.
1- Open YaST and click on software repositories, add the following repo.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/beta/openSUSE_11.3
Give it a name(any name) and save it. Close software repositories.
2- Now open software management and search for firefox and select firefox4 for installation, and there you go.
Note: If you have Firefox 3.6.x installed, please close it and then open Firefox 4 to start browsing.
Have fun!
Arif
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Some of the fresh screen shots from my desktop system using KDE4.5 as main desktop environment on openSUSE 11.3.
Default desktop with two panels and some widgets on the desktop with waiting for spring wallpaper.
Dolphin file manager.
Konqueror showing My Computer items.
Here is Firefox 4 beta 2 in action which is quite stable for me.
Folder widget expanding sub folders inside it.
Our beloved kicker menu.
Konsole(terminal) showing KDE version and kernel details.
A very useful widget for quickly accessing folders.
And KFind, more powerful and better search application. Nepomuk is not working on vast number of systems, so lets use KFind. A handful application.
May be you guys will be wondering where can you find the theme, color scheme and wallpaper. You can find all these stuffs in suse-art.org.
Arif
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