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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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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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.
Note: Before doing this upgrade, ensure that your current system is completely update with latest packages from update repo. And also backup your DATA.
This how to will cover two main steps, one to update current system and another to upgrade the system. STEP-I is not mandatory, its just to check the update repo and system, if you are sure about update repo and updates, jump directly to STEP-II.
STEP-I:
1- You can check whether update repo is enabled or not by this command:
zypper repos --uri
2- If it is enabled, you are fine to proceed and jump to step 4, if not enable it by this command:
Home
zypper modifyrepo --enable repo-update-11.2
Where repo-update-11.2 represents the repo name.
3- If it is not present, add it this way, (but normally it will be there):
zypper addrepo --check --name 'openSUSE-11.2-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/ update/11.2/ repo-update-11.2
Replace 11.2 with your version.
4- Now lets update the system:
zypper refresh
zypper update
Until here we are done with the update process, now is time to upgrade and start the FUN. I assume you are on 11.2 and want to upgrade to 11.3.
STEP-II:
1- The 1st thing we need to do is to disable all 11.2 repos.
zypper modifyrepo --all --disable
2- Now lets add 11.3 repos.
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.3 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/ distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-11.3-oss zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.3 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/ distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/ repo-11.3-non-oss zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.3 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/ update/11.3/ repo-11.3-update
3- You can add more repos which you used for other things, but the possibility of doing that is to break the upgrade process. Lets avoid that for the moment. Later you can add when installation/upgrading is finished. Now lets refresh the repos:
zypper ref
4- Now time to do upgrade process, there are two ways to do this. One is to use dup command which will download and install the packages. Another one is to download 1st and install later. This is your choice here.
4a- To download and install at the same time:
zypper dup
4b- To download 1st and install later:
zypper dup --download "in-advance"
Just run one command from above either 4a OR 4b. And you are done. Congratulation! and have FUN!.
NOTE: Personally i will do fresh installation either from Live CD or DVD. But its your choice here, which way you feel comfortable with, go ahead with it.
Best of luck.
Arif
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Hi all,
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.
If you are interested to upgrade to KDE4.5, follow this post and in a while you will be enjoying KDE4.5.
In the mean time, i will search for new repos for KDE4.4.5, but if any one have information about KDE4.4.5 for openSUSE 11.3, please let us know via comment section.
Note: This post will be updated from time to time if there are any news about KDE4.5 and KDE4.4.5. Because the above mentioned link to post was written for KDE4.4.5.
Arif
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